Wildfires fanned by the winds of a distant hurricane killed at least six people and caused extensive damage on Hawaii’s Maui island on Wednesday, forcing some people to jump into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames, officials said.

Flights were cancelled and trains halted on Wednesday as heavy rain from Typhoon Khanun pounded southern regions of Japan and South Korea.

Ethiopia’s military has pushed local militiamen out of two towns in the Amhara region, residents said.

The U.S. special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president’s Twitter account in January and the company delayed complying, according to a U.S. appeals court opinion.

A dam on a Norwegian river partly collapsed, sending water gushing through a gaping hole in the structure after days of heavy flooding, TV images showed.

Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the state constitution, an initiative aimed at helping defeat a November referendum that would protect abortion access in the state.

The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation.

A federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election has ordered his attorneys and federal prosecutors to appear in court on Friday for a hearing to help determine how evidence can be used and shared in the case.

At least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say.

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is “taking advantage” of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC.

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth with abnormally high temperatures recorded on both land and sea.

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been barred from holding public office for five years by the country’s electoral authorities.