The death toll in India's northern state Uttar Pradesh and its adjoining state Bihar due to the prevailing extreme heatwave conditions rose to 98 over the past three days, local officials said Sunday.
From U.S. south central state of Texas to southeastern Florida, about 35 million people are bracing for a widespread heat wave which is expected to last for days, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecast on Thursday.
At least three people were killed and dozens of others injured Thursday after multiple tornadoes battered Perryton, a small city in south central U.S. state Texas, local authorities said.
About 30 people were injured in a rear-end collision accident involving eight vehicles that occurred in the South Korean eastern province of Gangwon, Yonhap news agency said on Friday.
The extremely severe cyclonic storm Biparjoy made landfall on Thursday evening in India's western coastal state of Gujarat, causing uprooted trees, hoardings and electric poles with wind speeds over 100 km per hour.
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.