Powerful explosions rocked the Spegazzini Industrial Park in Ezeiza, south of Buenos Aires, on Friday night, igniting a large fire and sending at least 22 people to local hospitals. The blasts affected multiple factories, including chemical and plastics plants, causing chaos and widespread damage in the area. TV footage and social media videos showed towering […]
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Female singers pushing boundaries in changing Afghanistan
Soria Hussaini was not sure what would happen when she decided to perform the first Kabul street concert by a woman in recent memory. The 20-year-old, whose family fled civil war in Afghanistan for Iran during the 1990s, worried about her safety. But nearly 50 people watched the unadvertised concert by Hussaini’s rock group, Azadi, […]
At least 99 dead as Guatemala volcano threatens new eruptions
Explosions boomed from Guatemala’s fearsome Fuego volcano Wednesday, unleashing fresh torrents of mud and ash down slopes, as the death toll from a previous eruption rose to at least 99. Fears of a new blowup of the 3,763-meter (12,346-foot) volcano have stalked rescue workers since Sunday’s eruption buried entire villages on its southern flank. The […]