Typhoon Dolphin is set to make landfall on China’s ​east coast on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and powerful winds, as authorities brace for flooding and landslides across a broad ‌swathe of eastern China.

British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, wedding Sunni ​Muslim U.S. allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has brought Iranian missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.

When a shot rang out at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School on ​the outskirts of Bangkok on Friday morning, 14-year-old Khim and her classmates peered over a balcony to see if the noise had come from ‌a construction site.

Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japan’s ​southern Okinawa prefecture on Saturday, injuring six people and cutting power to more than 50,000 buildings, while China shut ports ‌and halted ferries ahead of the storm’s expected arrival on its east coast.

U.S. House Democrats preparing for a possible return to power are developing a broad investigative strategy targeting companies and financial firms surrounding President Donald Trump, instead of trying to impeach him immediately, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te oversaw coastal strike drills during annual war games, boarding a fast attack ​missile boat and watching the deployment of low-flying attack drones to simulate beating off a Chinese assault.

The boy shot his grandparents dead at dawn on Friday in their two-storey house bordering rice ​fields on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Russian drones killed a three-year-old boy and his ​grandparents in a village in the Kyiv region, and another person was killed during an overnight ballistic attack on the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

A U.S. official reported progress between Iran and Oman that could soon reopen the Strait ​of Hormuz, potentially restoring oil exports that have been disrupted by the five-month-old U.S. war with Iran.

Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture, injuring six people ‌and cutting power to more than 50,000 buildings, while China shut ports and halted ferries ahead of the storm’s expected arrival on its east coast.

Pacific Island foreign ministers failed to agree on Friday to a joint response to China’s missile launch in July, with further discussions expected at the Pacific leaders meeting at the end of August, ​New Zealand’s foreign minister said.