GEORGETOWN—A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after her phone was…

At least 20 people died in a fire at the Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana, AFP news agency reported on Monday citing a government official. The Guyanese government has mobilized a “full-scale medical evacuation-supported response.” Five planes have departed for Mahdia to support regional health officials with additional medical supplies and medivacs, the government said…

The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s megacity Shanghai continues to spread in different parts of the city, causing major hospitals to suspend medical services since March 18. Major universities are also under lockdown. In one university, the virus continues to spread within. Students are panicking, criticizing the university for negligence and attracting wide attention. Xinhua Hospital…

BEIJING—At least four people have died in the partial collapse of a workers’ dormitory in the southern Chinese Province of Jiangxi, regime media report. Part of the six-story building in the Province’s Ganjiang New District tumbled down Monday evening, they said. The building housed workers who had originally worked at a pharmaceutical plant and most…

City officials have put a halt to the dormitory-style construction projects plaguing neighborhoods in Orange, California. The Orange City Council unanimously passed an urgency ordinance prohibiting the addition of three or more bedrooms or bathrooms to qualifying residences. “[This] is the first of multiple fronts the city is opening to ensure the long-term stability of…