TEHRAN, February 15 - International aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Wednesday it had dealt with 24 cases of sexual harassment or abuse among its 40,000 staff last year, and dismissed 19 people as a result.
TEHRAN, February 6 - An eight-storey office building on Valiasr St. downtown Tehran is still ablaze and there is a possibility for the collapse of a part or the whole structure, Tehran mayor said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, February 1 - A fire engulfed a group home for welfare recipients in northern Japan, killing 11 people and injuring three, police and fire officials said Thursday.
TEHRAN, February 1 - A blaze raged through a 20-storey office block in Zhengzhou, capital of China’s central province of Henan, on Thursday, sending heavy smoke into the sky, but no one was believed to have been killed.
TEHRAN, January 30 - Some workers suffered slight suffocation when a fire broke out in some of offices near the eastern courtyard of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, January 27 - An estimated 2,400 people have been displaced after fire s spread through residential areas in Krukut, in west Jakarta's Taman Sari district, on Saturday.
TEHRAN, January 9 -Flames tore through a paint factory in north London on Monday night. London Fire Brigade told local people to stay indoors with their windows shut as thick black smoke poured from the building in the Staples Corner area.
TEHRAN, December 29 -At least 12 people died and three were critically injured in a late night fire at a multi-story building in India’s financial capital Mumbai, local authorities said on Friday.
TEHRAN, December 26 - South Korean police have arrested the owner and the manager of a building where 29 people died in a fire last week, accusing the pair of multiple safety lapses, including blocked exits and malfunctioning sprinkler systems.
TEHRAN, December 21 - A fire in an eight-storey fitness center in the scenic South Korean city of Jecheon on Thursday killed at least 29 people, most of them as they were taking a sauna, officials said.
TEHRAN, December 15 - A memorial service has been held to pay tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire which happened six months ago. However, the gesture by the British government to honor the victims of the disaster doesn’t seem to impress hundreds who remain homeless. Press TV correspondent Camilia Shambayati reports from London.
TEHRAN, December 12 - One of the largest single wild fire s California has ever had to deal with is choking a number of communities with ash after it exploded in size, leaving many gasping for air.
TEHRAN, December 8 - Firefighters battled several intense wind-driven wild fire s early on Friday across densely populated Southern California that have destroyed at least 500 structures and chased tens of thousands of people from their homes over the past five days.
TEHRAN, December 7 - Hundreds of Los Angeles area schools shut their doors on Thursday as raging wild fire s wreaked havoc on Southern California, forcing about 200,000 people to flee and destroying hundreds of houses.
TEHRAN, October 13 - Local US officials have confirmed that the death toll from this week’s wild fire s in the state of California has climbed to 31, making it the deadliest series of blazes in the state's history.