European leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama said they would consider a "strong reaction" if the Feb. 12 Minsk agreement was not respected, according to an official statement from the French president's office on Tuesday.
Death toll in snowstorm and avalanche that occurred in Mustang and Manang districts have continued to rise Wednesday, according to authorities.
Haiti is keeping a close eye on two tropical waves in the Caribbean Basin after heavy rains killed three people last week, the National Meteorological Center (CNM) said Tuesday.
A series of powerful explosions wrecked the northern part of Gaza city after Israeli war jets struck a 14-floor residential tower with four heavy missiles, the pro-Hamas al-Aqsa Television reported.
The season's eighth typhoon Neoguri made landfall near Akune city in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan's southwest Kyushu area early Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Rainstorms battering south China since June 18 have left 26 people dead and three missing in nine provincial-level regions, according to latest official figures.
Explosion caused by vehicle collisions occurred around 8 a.m. Thursday at an open market in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, witnesses said.
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) on Friday announced that many cities were hit by heavy air pollution on the eve of the Spring Festival due to unfavorable weather conditions and fireworks.
The ICAC has called for advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) about charging the official and five applicants.
Traffic and schools have been hit in northeast China's Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces as a blizzard closed expressways and schools and delayed flights.
At least 23 people were killed in a powerful tropical cyclone which hit the eastern Indian state of Odisha and the neighboring southern state of Andhra Pradesh late Saturday night, causing heavy rainfall and sending seawater surging inland, the authorities said Monday.
Plunging temperatures and heavy rain will hit China's southern provinces over the next few days as a strong cold front moves southward, the country's national observatory forecast on Wednesday.
A section of the Burnett River bank has collapsed due to overnight heavy rain, washing away part of a marine store in Bundaberg in southern state of Queensland, local media reported on Tuesday.
Thirty percent of official cars in Beijing should not be used when there is "extremely bad" pollution, traffic authorities confirmed Tuesday.
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