South Korea has been hit by the strongest cold wave in more than a decade, stranding tens of thousands of tourists in the southern resort island of Jeju and killing at least six people from hypothermia.
As many as 1,505 people have taken shelters at higher grounds as floods hit Aceh Utara district of Indonesia's Aceh province, a government spokesman said here Monday.
At least two people were killed and 37 were injured when an earthquake measuring 8.1 at Richter Scale hit Pakistan on Monday, local media and met office said.
The Ministry of Finance announced Wednesday that it has allocated 860 million yuan (136.5 million U.S. dollars) to fight flood and drought.
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired on Saturday night a rocket at southern Israel, a second such attack from the Palestinian enclave that hit the Jewish state in less than one week, Israeli officials said.
Nepali government said on Wednesday that more than 6,000 injured people are receiving treatment in 18 districts following Saturday's major earthquake.
At least 14 people were injured in a cloudburst in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Sunday.
The Palestinian driver who struck three Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank Wednesday night probably did so in a road accident, not as a terror attack believed by the Israeli authorities, a security official said on Thursday.
The number of people left homeless by the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit southern Peru on Sunday has climbed to 128, the National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI) said Monday.
Moldy bread that was sent to typhoon-hit villagers in Hainan has been sealed and sent away for analysis, authorities told a press conference on Monday.
At least 13 people were wounded in a series of bomb blasts believed perpetrated by leftist rebels in southern Philippines on Sunday, the military said on Monday.
Egypt's new Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab urged on Sunday the Egyptian people to stop strikes and protests in order for the production process to continue in a country hit by a three year turmoil.
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted the western Greece island of Cephalonia on Sunday caused no casualties but just material damages, according to initial information issued by local authorities.
China's navy hospital ship Peace Ark returned to a navy port on Zhoushan island in east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday, concluding a humanitarian medical aid mission in typhoon-hit areas in the Philippines.
There have so far been 12 reports of injuries after two earthquakes shook Songyuan City in northeast China's Jilin Province on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
A key gas line that feeds electricity stations south of Syria's capital Damascus was hit Wednesday evening, resulting in a major electricity blackout that engulfed Damascus as well as other provinces.
To Abdul Qadir, 53, there is nothing to live for after he pulled out the bodies of his family members from the rubbles of their one-storey brick house that collapsed in a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province earlier this week.
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