Democrats seized control of both the US Senate and House on Tuesday, scoring sweeping victories in Republican strongholds for the first time in generations as tens of millions of voters, mostly in conservative bastions who had propelled President Donald Trump to his second term in office just two years ago swung dramatically toward his rivals,
At least 64 people have been killed, officials say, after a Spanish high-speed train collided with another train south of the capital Madrid. With more than 500 passengers travelling on the trains involved in the collision, the death toll is likely to rise, said media reports.
Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline temporarily after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war, threatening to send energy prices even higher, said media reports. This 1,200-km pipeline had helped the kingdom bypass a shipping logjam in the Strait of Hormuz.
More than 900 workers at hydropower projects remain trapped or unaccounted for in Nepal after a devastating flash flood and debris flow swept through the country's Himalayan valleys, turning the disaster into a major humanitarian crisis as well as a threat to its fast-growing power sector.
Nearly 362 people were killed and over 1,300 missing - including 700 foreigners - after flash flooding hit China and Nepal, destroying villages and infrastructure, said media reports. Rescue operations are on but officials said lack of connectivity, power and resources was posing a big challenge.
Iran called on the US to accept defeat while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as 'very evil' and told Americans to brace for continued high fuel prices as progress toward peace talks and oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz gateway remained halted, said a report.
The Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management", the recently appointed head of Iran's Basij paramilitary unit said on Thursday, a day after US President Donald Trump said the United States had "total control" of the strategic waterway.
At least 132 people have been killed and more than 570 injured after a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia, triggering widespread destruction, collapsing buildings and a major rescue operation across parts of the country.
The US and Israel are planning 'one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date' against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, multiple sources told CBS News, with strikes possible throughout the weekend in a move that would mark a further escalation of regional tensions.
The Iran war broadened over the weekend despite a pause in US strikes, as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting one of its vessels in the Caspian Sea resulting in the death of a sailor.
