‘It felt like being in a disaster movie’: uncertainty after evacuation from France’s Gironde wildfire
Residents describe their fear as they were forced to leave their homes because of the ‘extremely intense’ blazeSitting in their suburban apartment in ...
RAF Chinook crash victims’ families ask Andy Burnham for review of disaster
PM urged to end ‘cover-up culture’ and order independent review taking in evidence that has emerged on 1994 crashThe families of those killed in an RA...
Why is Trump risking midterm disaster by resuming an already unpopular war with Iran?
Less than a month after hailing a ceasefire, Trump resumed strikes on Iran, a move experts warn could prolong the war and hurt Republicans ahead of mi...
Search continues for three people missing after Alcatraz boating disaster
One person dead after pontoon boat involved in memorial service capsized in San Francisco Bay on TuesdayRescuers were still searching for three missin...
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Is There Anyone Alive? 12 Hours With Venezuelan Doctors in the Disaster Zone.
A medical team set out from the capital to rescue people in the hardest-hit part of the disaster zone, La Guaira. They found silence in the ruins inst...
Rome airports threaten to suspend new EU passport system to avoid summer ‘disaster’
Airports CEO says letting non-EU passengers skip entry-exit system was only way to avoid peak season travel chaosRome’s airports will have to suspend ...
‘Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office operators
Government should not be involved in providing redress to victims of Horizon IT scandal, campaigner tells MPsSir Alan Bates has said that the schemes ...
As Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Sites, an Environmental Disaster Unfolds
After invading more than four years ago, Moscow has usually been the one causing ecological disaster. But Kyiv’s strikes, intended to cut into the Kre...
Trump taps former FEMA director to lead the disaster agency again
Cameron Hamilton led FEMA briefly in 2025. He was removed by the Trump administration after telling Congress that the agency should continue to exist....
Trump renominates Cameron Hamilton to lead disaster response agency Fema
Hamilton was fired as acting administrator last year after he opposed plans to abolish the agency at a House hearingDonald Trump has once again nomina...
Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and an ‘embarrassment’
Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaedi...
