An airstrike hit a center for migrants late Tuesday in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli, leaving at least 40 people dead, according to health authorities.
Some 800,000 residents of three cities in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan were instructed Wednesday to evacuate, as torrential rain raised the risk of floods and mudslides.
Six people were killed and 22 others missing when a small dam located at Chiplun in Ratnagiri district of India's western state of Maharashtra breached on Tuesday night.
Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday condemned "the extreme use of violence" by masked protesters who stormed and ransacked the city's legislature in an unprecedented challenge to Beijing's authority.
