
Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines
Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday.
TUESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2025, 15:00

Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday.

The Syrian leader will meet the US President at the White House on Monday for security talks.

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The government wants to make it easier for employers to fire people and to limit some compassionate leave.

Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, dead after she was shot on the front porch of a home in an Indianapolis suburb.

In interviews in villages on Venezuela’s northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.

On the surface, the Hungarian PM’s trip was exactly what he wanted, but the full picture is more complex, writes the BBC’s Nick Thorpe.

Overnight, 25 locations including Kyiv were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating.

At least six people were killed and 437 injured in the twister, authorities said.

Filipinos are bracing for the arrival of a new typhoon after one earlier this week left more than 200 people dead.
A tornado killed at least five people and injured more than 400 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said on Saturday.

Trump says no US official will be sent to the summit over discredited claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted.

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlet, about recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa struck last week.

A Israeli military court will weigh the fate of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.

Authorities are investigating the blaze.

The pair were reportedly bundled into a car by masked men after attending an event to support Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine.

In the most recent release, Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. He was identified as Lior Rudaeff, who was 61 when he was killed.

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Pirates boarded the Hellas Aphrodite, a Malta-flagged vessel carrying gasoline, as it was headed from India to South Africa. The EU’s naval force said one of its vessels was near the incident and closing in.

Indonesian authorities said they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspected perpetrator of an attack that shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta.