Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia. Valencia saw a year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours, with floods […]

The death toll following severe storms in Spain has risen to 205 after more bodies were recovered, with 202 victims from the eastern region of Valencia alone, the regional government’s emergency services posted on X on Friday. The authorities have stated that two more people lost their lives in the region of Castile-La Mancha, and […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to travel to Malta for a foreign ministers’ meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), despite EU sanctions on him, the Vedomosti business daily reported on Friday. The report cited Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The trip would be the first by Lavrov to

Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) – in power since independence in 1966 – had won only one parliamentary seat as of early Friday morning, preliminary election results show. The Umbr

Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles (two followed by 36 zeros) after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion […]