South Korea reported 9,528 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday, raising the total number of infections to 18,368,857, the health authorities said Friday.
An elementary school in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa has held a memorial service for the people who were killed when a US fighter jet crashed 63 years ago.
At least 22 people were killed and eight others injured due to lightning and rain-related incidents on Tuesday in India's eastern state of Bihar, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) reported Wednesday.
At least 51 people died and 24 others were injured on Tuesday in a blaze at a prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, after inmates rioted and set fire to mattresses, local authorities said.
Cambodia reported new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday after having recorded zero cases for 52 consecutive days, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Tuesday night.
