UK’s Johnson plans G7 meeting on Afghanistan, steps up evacuation effort
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to host a virtual meeting of G7 leaders to tackle the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and has stepped up...
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Family court bomb threat was hoax, police say (Updated)
The Nicosia family court was evacuated on Wednesday after a bomb threat was later found to be a hoax. The police and bomb squad went...
Tourists fly out of Bali at last as wind blows volcanic ash away
Airlines laid on extra flights to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Thursday to allow thousands of passengers stranded for days by an erupting...
Syrian rebels resume withdrawal from last Homs bastion – monitor
Hundreds of rebels left their last bastion in Syria‘s Homs city on Monday, resuming an evacuation expected to be among the largest of its kind...
Greek city set for biggest peacetime evacuation over WW2 bomb
Up to 72,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in Greece‘s second-biggest city of Thessaloniki on Sunday so experts can defuse and remove a World...
Syrians in rebel Damascus suburb start to evacuate in deal
Hundreds of civilians in the Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya began to leave the rebel-held area on Friday in what the government described as an amnesty,...
Southern California orders 82,000 people to evacuate over wildfire
By Dan Whitcomb and Alex Dobuzinskis Authorities in southern California ordered the evacuation of 82,000 people on Tuesday, after a wildfire broke out in a...
Two floors evacuated during Napa hotel fire
THE third and fourth floors of an Ayia Napa hotel were evacuated Friday night after fire broke out in the rabbet between the corridor walls....
Floods kill woman in Paris region, Seine river rises
A woman was killed and thousands of homes were evacuated in the central French regions along the Loire and Seine rivers after days of almost...
First phase of annual Argonaftis exercise begins Monday
Civil Defence, in cooperation with the foreign ministry, National Guard and other state agencies are organising the first phase of the annual exercise Argonaftis 2016...
