Five gold mining workers were killed after being buried by a landslide when extracting gold on the banks of a river in central Bolivia, local authorities said Thursday.
South Korea reported 16,584 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,053,287, the health authorities said on Friday.
With monkeypox cases rising in Europe, European health authorities are urging countries to take extra steps to bring the spread of the virus under control.
Floods and other natural disasters triggered by heavy downpours have killed four people and left four others injured in northern and central Vietnam over the past few days, the country's Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said Wednesday.
