At least six people have lost their lives and eight others sustained injuries in recent torrential rains and flooding in Afghanistan, a local TV channel reported Thursday.
Two police officers were killed and four others wounded when an armed group ambushed a police car in the southern Philippines, the police said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe had recorded a cumulative 2,460 suspected cases of cholera, including 16 confirmed deaths and 47 suspected deaths as of Tuesday, a cabinet minister said Wednesday.
A fishing boat from Libya carrying migrants capsized and sank off southeastern Greece on Wednesday. Reuters and other news organizations report 78 people have been confirmed dead.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 rocked Batangas province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
A 56-year-old worker has died with two others sustaining light injuries following an explosion at a chemical plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture on Wednesday, local media reported.
