Firefighters battled with the aid of Dutch helicopters on Sunday to contain Belgium’s biggest wildfire, which has already burned 3,000 hectares of land and which local authorities said was heading towards the German border.

Iran’s parliament approved on Sunday the general principles of a bill that would criminalise interviews and other communications with media deemed hostile to the Islamic Republic, including U.S. or Israeli media and outlets financed by either country.

The Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday, seeking to portray their government as ​in control even as aid and rights groups warned of escalating crises.

Moroccan police arrested at ​least 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of ‌the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing.

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck the ‌southern Spanish city of Granada in the early hours of Saturday, with the ​regional government saying houses and ​cars were damaged but no injuries ⁠had been reported.

At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese ‌health ministry said, some of the deadliest in the weeks since the country agreed to a U.S.-mediated peace framework with neighbouring Israel.

At least 47 people were killed after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake and dozens of aftershocks struck off ​eastern Indonesia, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in its latest statement.

Australia’s New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, part ​of the national response to a shooting spree that killed 15 ‌at a Jewish festival in Sydney, the state capital.

At least 38 people died after an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 and ​dozens of aftershocks struck off eastern Indonesia on Saturday, officials said, as rescue workers rushed to reach areas closest to ‌the epicentre.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for improving the country’s ability to prevent, mitigate and respond to natural disasters, after a string ​of deadly floods and landslides this summer.

Mourners gathered in Australia’s Northern Territory capital Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a five-year-old ​Indigenous girl whose death in April shocked the nation ‌and sparked violent clashes in the outback town.

Mexico is scrambling to contain a record surge of foul-smelling sargassum along its Caribbean coast, as the brown seaweed swamps beaches in the heart of ​the country’s tourism belt.
Officials in Quintana Roo, home to resort destinations including Cancun, ‌Playa del Carmen and Tulum, have cleared more than 105,000 metric tons of sargassum so far this year, according to data released this week, a figure that already exceeds last year’s record 92,783 tons.