A stabbing spree in Wuxi, China, left 8 dead and 17 injured. Authorities are investigating the motive behind the attack by a 21-year-old student.
Haiti has been reeling from a worsening conflict for years, where armed gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince and other regions where they indulge in kidnappings, rapes, murders and more. The gang shot people and set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles on Thursday.
It has not been confirmed how many people were on the boat, although witnesses said over 100 people were present. Congo has witnessed several fatal boat accidents primarily due to overcrowding and non-compliance with maritime regulations.
This follows a series of attacks by Israel that killed over 1,000 people in less than two weeks, including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and other commanders. Despite its biggest successes against Hezbollah in decades, Israel seems determined to launch a full-fledged invasion of Lebanon.
A total of 3,060 police personnel have been mobilised in Kathmandu for rescue and relief operations as the country continues to experience inclement weather. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal on Friday cancelled all domestic flights till Saturday morning in light of the weather conditions.
Helene had intensified into a Category 4 storm as it moved towards Florida's northwest coast and made landfall on Thursday. It left millions of homes without power, triggered mudslides, snapped trees and inundated entire households during its trail of destruction on Friday.
There were 25 people at the mine digging for gold when the landslide struck, killing 15 and injuring three people, according to an official. Mineral resources in Indonesia are located in remote areas in conditions difficult for authorities to regulate.
Israel's attack on Beirut comes after two days of attacks that dealt a critical blow to Hezbollah in which communication devices like pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded. It was the deadliest strike targeting the Lebanese capital since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Vietnam's local media reported that 197 people have been killed so far in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, while 800 are wounded and 128 are missing. Several areas in Hanoi are still inundated, prompting people to wade through the streets in small boats.
This is the second Ukrainian drone attack on Russia in September - Kyiv launched 158 drones targeting a dozen areas earlier this month. Ukraine has been increasingly launching drone attacks deep inside Russia as Moscow advances in the eastern part of the country.
Biden called on Republicans to collaborate with Democrats to end rampant gun violence in the US. This came after a 14-year-old boy opened fire at a high school in Georgia, killing two teachers and fellow students, on Wednesday.
Most of the people were killed in a stampede as inmates attempted to escape Congo's overcrowded Makala Central Prison, which holds over 12,000 inmates. Congo's justice minister Constant Mutamba called it a 'premediated act of sabotage' and promised a stern response.
The 'glide bombs' are fitted with a navigation system telling them where to strike and are hard to intercept, making it a dangerous weapon in the ongoing war. The attack wounded at least 77 people, of whom 20 are in serious condition.
The US Central Command said the ISIS terrorists were armed with "numerous weapons, grenades and suicide belts" on Thursday when the raids took place, adding that there were no civilian casualties. The US continues to fight the terrorist group after dislodging it from Iraq and Syria.
Typhoon Shanshan is moving slowly towards the Shikoku island, bringing heavy rain and floods that have killed six people so far and cut off power to 250,000 households. Travel services have been suspended and factories also shut down operations on Friday.
Lynch, 59, had invited friends to join him on the yacht to celebrate his recent acquittal in a major US fraud trial. His 18-year-old daughter Hannah also failed to escape the boat when it sank off the coast of Sicily while his wife was rescued on Monday.
Fortunately, the school had not yet reopened from the summer holidays so no children were involved. The shooter was locally identified as Mehemed Vukalić, who killed the school dean, the secretary and a teacher over alleged differences before trying to kill himself.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian missile strike hit a supermarket and a post office in the Kostiantynivka in the front-line Donetsk region. This came as Ukraine launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Russia's Kursk region.
Around 1,000 Ukrainian troops supported by tanks and armoured combat vehicles crossed into Russia's southwwestern Kursk region on August 6. This is among Ukraine's largest attacks on Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022 and unprecedented for its military.
Five individuals were aboard the Rasuwa-bound helicopter including four Chinese nationals flying to Rasuwa. This came after a plane crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport on July 24, killing 18 people. Aviation accidents are highly common in Nepal due to poor management.
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