South Korea reported 85,540 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 23,791,961, the health authorities said Wednesday.
A total of 65 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, local authorities said Tuesday.
At least 11 people were killed in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
The Taliban's interior ministry in Afghanistan says an apparent suicide attack on Monday in front of the Russian Embassy in the capital Kabul killed two people and injured 11 others.
Seven people were seriously injured in a gas station explosion in Sen Sok district in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, a firefighting police chief said on Sunday.
