A fire has broken out on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked at an eastern Chinese port, causing significant casualties, according to state media. President Xi Jinping called for urgent search and rescue efforts and a swift investigation. Premier Li Qiang called for “trapped” people to be rescued and stressed the need to “prevent secondary disasters”.
Updated September 8, 2026 — 1:56pm,first published 10:47am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The eastern suburbs skyline would be dramatically transformed with high-rise towers as tall as 34 storeys under NSW government plans to add 9400 new homes. Draft plans
Germany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream arrivals, exit polls say. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern. The far-right party is projected
Germany is holding its breath this weekend as there is a seismic election in the country’s east. The Alternative für Deutschland party is aiming to secure a majority in the regional parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. An outright win would mark the first time a far-right party has held state-level power in the nation’s post-war era. For
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The start of August 2026 saw ongoing and new wildland fires burning in eastern Washington. West of Chelan, the Little Giant fire continued to produce heavy smoke, while a cluster of smaller fires farther east near Spokane affected tens of thousands of people. The smoke from these and other fires poured east-northeast across the state
