2018-08-05

Switzerland

Investigators try to find why Swiss plane crashed

Investigators do not yet know why a plane crashed in Switzerland on Saturday claiming the lives of all 20 people on board

05/08/2018

Greece

Greece replaces emergency chiefs over deadly wildfires

Greece has appointed new heads of key emergency services following last month's deadly wildfires near Athens.

05/08/2018

World News

Civil war destroyed their homes. These refugees are learning how to rebuild them.

"If we're not doing it, if we're not going to do it, I don't think anyone else will."

05/08/2018

Sport

Andrea Dovizioso wins Czech MotoGP thriller

Italian Andrea Dovizioso won a Czech Grand Prix thriller in a Ducati one-two on Sunday while Honda's Marc Marquez finished third in his 100th MotoGP race to stretch his championship lead to 49 points.

05/08/2018

Portugal

Fires rage for third day in Spain and Portugal

The temperatures may have started to ease from their near- record highs in Portugal but fires has raged for a third day in the south of the country.

05/08/2018

Afghanistan

Taliban kill three Czech Nato forces in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed three NATO service members on a foot patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, and Taliban militants claimed responsibility.

05/08/2018

Greece

Greek fire claims 90th victim

An 85-year-old man has died in hospital after being burned in last months fire in the coastal town of Mati in Greece, bringing the number of fatalities to 90

05/08/2018

Iran

Rush to fill orders ahead of new US sanctions

Rush to fill orders ahead of new US sanctions

05/08/2018

World News

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after 7.0 quake

The quake comes a week after a magnitude 6.4 quake killed 14 people on the island and prompted a large-scale evacuation of a volcano popular with hikers

05/08/2018

Portugal

Extreme temperatures set to drop in Portugal

By Tuesday, temperature should fall below 40C

05/08/2018

World News

Vintage plane crash in Swiss Alps kills 20, police say

"The aircraft plunged almost vertically at high speed into the ground," said Daniel Knecht, an official from the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board.

05/08/2018

Ireland

How a heatwave helped uncover a piece of Irish history

A wildfire on the coast of eastern Ireland killed off some vegetation but resurrected a World War II relic.

05/08/2018

World News

Earthquake strikes Indonesia's tourist islands killing at least 98

A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has hit the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing at least 98 people.

05/08/2018

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Tornado rips through Canada's Manitoba, killing one

A destructive tornado ripped through western Ontario on Friday, causing at least one death, local media reported.

05/08/2018

Switzerland

Swiss vintage plane crash 'kills all 20 people on board'

A vintage plane crash in Switzerland killed all 20 people on board, police confirmed on Sunday.

05/08/2018

USA

Right-wing and anti-fascist demonstrators square-off in Portland

Scuffles broke out as scores of right-wing and anti-fascist demonstrators squared off on in Portland, Oregon. Riot police tried to keep the two sides apart as protesters chanted and hurled insults at each other.

05/08/2018

Nicaragua

Calls for Nicaraguan president to resign

Rival rallies have been held in Nicaragua after a recent wave of violence that has left hundreds dead

05/08/2018

World News

New role? Russia tasks actor Steven Seagal with improving U.S. ties

Moscow said Seagal's role would be to develop Russian-U.S. "humanitarian" relations, including in the fields of culture and art.

05/08/2018

South Korea

Thousands march against spycam epidemic in South Korea

Tens of thousands of South Korean women have been taking part in a mass protest in Seoul against secretly-filmed spycam pornography.

05/08/2018

World News

New leader of terror-torn Pakistan plans to plant 10 billion trees

The violence-plagued country is one of the most vulnerable in the world to climate change.

05/08/2018

World News

Brazil's Workers Party names jailed leader as presidential nominee

Lula has been jailed since April on a corruption conviction that will almost certainly bar him from running.

05/08/2018

Venezuela

Nicolas Maduro ‘survived assassination attempt involving exploding drones’

Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has claimed he has survived an assassination attempt involving exploding drones.

05/08/2018

Israel

Critics say new nationality law will make Israel an apartheid state

Thousands of Israel's minority Druze community held a rally in Tel Aviv to protest against a new nationality law that they say will sideline non-Jewish Israelis

05/08/2018

World News

Bangladesh protesters are injured

The protests began Sunday after two college students were struck and killed by a pair of buses racing to pick up passengers.

05/08/2018