World Conflict & Tragedy News

Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah...

The death toll following a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China that killed 42 workers and left 66 miners trapped underground on Saturday was expected to rise, local media reported. The explosion occurred at 2:30 am in...

Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said during a Free Patriotic Movement dinner in Beit Mari on Friday that Interior Minister Ziad Baroud’s orders should be respected within his ministry. He commented on the recent controversy in the Internal...

Amanda Knox , the U.S. college student charged with killing her housemate, deserves a life sentence, an Italian prosecutor said Saturday. Giuliano Mignini called Knox "narcissistic, aggressive, manipulative and theatrical" in his closing argument to the court in Perugia, The...

Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least...

Under the current sectarian system , the president is a Maronite Christian, the speaker of parliament a Shiite Muslim and the prime minister a Sunni Muslim. In addition all the parliament members and key government position are based on religious...

A police officer testified November 18th that Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone." October 21st,...

Sergievsky district court in the Samara region convicted Sergey Gavrilov, a local resident, who murdered and ate his own mother. The criminal had been eating the corpse for a month since he had no means of sustenance after her death....