At least 70 people have died in a blast at the Bandar Abbas port in southern Iran and more than 1000 people are injured. The blast which is said to have affected 3700 acres (1500 hectares) in the area around the port warehouse, damaging glass windows in houses and cars in a much larger radius. Negligence in handling sodium perchlorate – a chemical widely used in jet fuels and ballistic missiles is said to have been the reason for the…

11 people, including a 5-year old girl, were killed in Saturday night’s attack in Vancouver, Canada. The 30-year old man, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, drove his car through the streets which were packed with nearly 100,000 people mostly from the Filipino community, who were celebrating their ‘Lapu Lapu day’ festival. Authorities have detained the man and have ruled out any act of terrorism and are leaning towards mental health issues with the culprit, who has had previous encounters with the law.…

The roof of a nightclub collapsed on Tuesday in Santo Domingo, in the capital of the Caribbean country, killing at least 124 people. With still more people stuck under the rubble of the collapse, rescuers are in a battle against the clock. More than 150 people also have been injured in this tragedy, with the exact number of people at the time of the collapse unknown and estimates put it anywhere between 500-1000 people. Let’s Pray: Father, we pray asking…

The death toll from Friday afternoon’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake has quickly risen to 1600 in the south-eastern nation of Myanmar, which borders India. Majority of the country lies at a fault-line between the Indian-Australian plate and Eurasian plate, and the built-up pressure release of these tectonic plates causes earthquakes. The death toll is only expected to go up as widescale rescue efforts are underway to save people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings and other structures. Myanmar has been…

Historically unprecedented wildfires being carried forward by fast-winds, ravaged 42,000 acres of land in the south-east part of the nation of South Korea. 24 people, mostly over 60 years, have been reported to have lost their lives in these fires – with 12 more admitted in hospitals with critical burn injuries. The fire which is the third-largest in terms of land area in the nation’s history, started last Friday-afternoon, and has been spreading too rapidly for the firefighters to contain…

As the civil war, between Sudan’s army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), raged on since April 2023. More than a 100 people, almost all civilians, died in the latest air strike of a civilian market in the country’s western region – Darfur. The war has displaced more than 12 million Sudanese from their homes and killed more than an estimated 150,000 people, in the nearly 2 years since it erupted. Reports of Islamic-inspired ethnic cleansing and mass massacre of innocent…

40 people have died from tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms in the American Midwest and south states. Deadly tornadoes struck the states of Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, leaving many homes and other buildings as pile of debris in its wake. Down south in the states of Texas and Kansas, high-winds measuring over 100km/h (62mph) raised dust storms, which resulted in massive pile-ups of vehicles resulting in more than 12 deaths. While in Oklahoma, nearly 150 deadly wildfires burnt through 170,000…

59 people, mostly in the age group of 18-21 died in Kocani, North Macedonia, when the makeshift nightclub went up in flames. At around 0230 local time, as the famous hip-hop duo DNK was playing to a crowd of about 500 people in a carpet warehouse turned nightclub. With corruption and evident flouting of safety laws, the people were left with only one emergency exit, when a spark from the pyrotechnics hit the ceiling and started the deadly fire. With…

As Syria’s past cruel leader, Bashar al-Assad, was ousted. This has made way only for another leader to rise in his stead, Ahmad al-Sharaa. Since taking over as interim President of Syria from 29th of January this year, the nation has plunged into deeper darkness and violence’s. Factions of fighters raided villages in the Alawite neighborhood, gunning down more than 700 civilians and 300 fighters, many families completely wiped out in their very homes. In what is touted to be…

With an estimated number of more than 148,000 people killed (military and civilians), the Ukraine-Russia war is quickly becoming the bloodiest war of the 21st century and the deadliest in Europe since WW2, 80 years ago. This toll is said to be a conservative estimate, with the actual number being much higher than this reported figure. Russia continued its aggression against Ukraine in this week, launching an attack on Dobropillya, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, killing 11. This unrelenting attack comes…