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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Hundreds of families on New Zealand’s South Island were forced to leave their homes on Thursday after flooding caused a state of emergency to be declared in three regions.

KABUL, Afghanistan – A blast ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday night, killing at least three people and wounding two dozen others, a hospital and officials said.

BEIJING, China – Four people were killed and 27 others are missing after flash flooding hit northwest China on Thursday, local authorities said.

Filipino fast-food giant Jollibee’s flagship store in New York City’s Times Square was officially opened on Thursday, Aug. 18.

Former Filipino-American US House of Representatives member Terrance John “TJ” Cox was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents for fraud earlier this week in California.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday branded the “man-made catastrophe” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region the “worst disaster on Earth” — and slammed global leaders for overlooking the humanitarian crisis.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission.

ORJAIS, Portugal – Firefighters in Spain and Portugal were battling on Wednesday to control multiple forest fires across the Iberian Peninsula with blazes in the Serra da Estrela park resuming just days after being brought under control.

KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s president has condemned a Russian strike that the region’s governor said killed at least six people and wounded 16 in Ukraine’s Kharkiv on Wednesday as “despicable and cynical”.

RABAT, Morocco – A bus crash east of Morocco’s economic capital Casablanca on Wednesday left 23 people dead, a health official said, marking one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years.

GENEVA, Switzerland – Studies are under way to see whether genetic changes in the monkeypox virus are driving the rapid spread of the disease, the World Health Organization told AFP on Wednesday.

ALGIERS, Algeria – At least 26 people died and dozens of others were injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria on Wednesday, the interior minister said.

HUALIEN, Taiwan — Taiwan displayed on Wednesday its most advanced fighter jet, the missile-equipped F-16V, in a rare nighttime demonstration in the wake of China’s unprecedented military drills around the island.

LONDON, United Kingdom — A man appeared in court Wednesday after allegedly entering Windsor Castle grounds armed with a crossbow, declaring he planned to kill Queen Elizabeth II.

BEIJING, China — More than five million people in southwest China were facing rolling power cuts Wednesday as a heatwave creates an electricity supply crunch that has forced factories to stop work.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Wednesday that it remained unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to their homes in Myanmar, nearly five years after a crackdown there sparked an exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh.

MARSEILLE, France — The French weather service warned Wednesday of flash flooding risks across much of the south, where a historic drought has parched the rugged Mediterranean hills, a day after fierce rainstorms lashed much of the country.

SEPAKU, Indonesia — Indonesia celebrated its first independence day at its future capital in the ancient rainforests of eastern Borneo on Wednesday as the nation plans a move away from slowly sinking, traffic-clogged Jakarta.