Category: 4. World

Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and…

A vessel carrying African migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing dozens, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday.   

What do we know so far?

Sixty-eight of some 154 migrants on board the boat died when…

All five trapped workers who were missing in a collapsed shaft in the world’s biggest underground copper mine have been found dead, an official said on Sunday.

Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile’s O’Higgins region, said the body…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “pushing for the release the hostages through decisive military victory,” according to a diplomatic source quoted Sunday by Hebrew media,

The source’s comments came as captives’ relatives slammed…

One of five miners trapped after a partial collapse at the world’s largest underground copper mine has been found dead, Chile’s state-owned Codelco group announced on Saturday, as rescuers continued their search for survivors.

The collapse…