More than 150,000 people took shelter in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday as powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in a region hit by some of the country’s deadliest storms. The typhoon, with winds of 150km/h (93 mph) and gusts of up to 205km/h, made first contact in Dinagat Islands province, part of the Visayas island chain, before 11pm local time, the national weather service said. Barely an hour earlier, 34-year-old Miriam Vargas sat in the darkness with her two children after...

Hong Kong reported its third locally acquired chikungunya infection on Monday, with health authorities saying that there could be a second source of the disease as this case was not related to the two detected earlier. Authorities said they would conduct health assessments on about 1,500 households near the patient’s home in Tsing Yi, but believed the transmission risk was not high due to its early detection and weather conditions that were unfavourable to mosquito breeding. The Centre for...

Mexicans stormed a local government building to call for justice over the murder of a mayor who’d declared war on drug c

Thailand and Cambodia have begun withdrawing heavy weapons and conducting demining operations along their contested border as part of steps to de-escalate tensions following last week’s signing of an extended truce, Thai officials said on Monday. The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia signed an enhanced ceasefire deal last week in Kuala Lumpur in the presence of US President Donald Trump, three months after border tensions between the two countries exploded into a deadly five-day...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 260, authorities said, with the death toll likely to rise. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit at a depth of 28km (17.4 miles) near Mazar-e Sharif, which has a population of about 523,000. “A total of 150 people injured and seven martyred have been reported and transferred to health centres as of this morning,” said Samim Joyanda, the...

Hundreds of riot police separated opponents and loyalists of Serbia’s autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic in central Belgrade on Sunday as political tensions boiled after a year of persistent anti-government protests. Several thousand people faced off on both sides of the police cordons with officers in full gear standing in several rows between the shouting crowds who threw bottles, flares and stun grenades. Tensions in Belgrade soared a day after tens of thousands of people joined a huge...

The death toll from a deadly landslide in western Kenya has risen to 26 after four more bodies were retrieved.

PM Andrew Holness warns of reports of possible fatalities still to be verified - suggesting the figure may yet rise.

Two people have been arrested after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train in the UK.

Heavy rain has pummelled coastal provinces since last weekend, submerging homes and sweeping away poultry and livestock.