BBC: The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia has risen to 54, authorities said, with rescuers still searching for more than a dozen missing people. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday while […]
NDTV: Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal have killed at least 42 people, a disaster official said Sunday. Parts of the country have been inundated since Friday, prompting disaster authorities to warn of floods in multiple rivers. “So far, 42 people have died in rain-triggered disasters and five are missing,” Shanti Mahat, […]
BBC: Japanese stocks have hit a record high after the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) named Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, positioning the pro-business politician to be Japan’s next prime minister. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumped by more than 4% on Monday morning in Tokyo as it rose above 47,000 for the first […]
BBC: Rescue efforts are under way in the remote Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest where a snowstorm has trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mountain, according to Chinese state media. Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to clear out snow blocking access to the area […]
Reuters: JAKARTA, Oct 5 – The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing […]
Reuters: SHANGHAI, Oct 5- Typhoon Matmo hit southern China on Sunday, the state broadcaster said, after flights and many events had been cancelled in the island province of Hainan, causing disruption in a peak holiday season. Matmo, which caused flooding in the Philippines last week, made landfall on the east coast of Xuwen in Guangdong […]
Reuters: SHANGHAI, Oct 5 – Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports. Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to help […]
Reuters: KATHMANDU, Oct 5 – Heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods blocking roads, washing away bridges and killing at least 47 people since Friday in Nepal, officials said on Sunday. Thirty-five people were killed in separate landslides in the Ilam district in the east bordering India, said Kalidas Dhauboji, a spokesperson for the Armed […]
BBC: Five people have died and tens of thousands have been left without power in Ukraine after intense Russian missile and drone attacks overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Ukraine’s neighbour Poland scrambled fighter jets in order to ensure the safety of Polish airspace, the Polish military confirmed. Allied Nato aircraft were also deployed. […]
Reuters: LVIV, Ukraine, Oct 5 – NATO member Poland said it scrambled aircraft early on Sunday to ensure its air safety after Russia launched airstrikes on Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials reporting missiles and drones raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border. “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based […]