RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Navy said on Friday that it has found the body of the 13th victim from a bridge collapse last month in the country’s north. Four people remain missing. The body, which is still to be identified, was found by drones in the depths of the Tocantins River. A section […]

Hundreds of people in a rural part of Ethiopia, 165km (100 miles) northeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, have been leaving their homes in panic as a nearby volcano has been showing signs of a possible eruption, a local chief told the BBC’s English service. The smoke coming from Mount Dofan that began around 17:00 […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Interior Ministry is drawing up rules and regulations for evacuating civilians and national culture treasures in the event of a natural disaster or military threat. The draft is to be ready within three months, a government communique said Thursday. It stems from a bill on protecting civilians that took effect [&helli

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has cancelled all travel plans for the next two weeks as she is suffering from a severe case of pneumonia, dpa has learnt. “The president has cancelled her external appointments for the first two weeks of January,” a commission spokesman said upon request. Among the cancelled appointmen

Authorities in Germany are trying to figure out what triggered a blast at a police station in Berlin late on Thursday evening, but do not believe the explosion was part of an intentional attack. A policeman suffered injuries to his face and eye and underwent an operation in hospital overnight, a police spokesman said. A […]