An earthquake of magnitude 7 struck China’s southwestern region of Tibet at around 10:33 p.m. (1433 ​GMT) on Thursday, killing 16 people and injuring 32 others, state ‌news agency Xinhua reported, citing Nagqu City’s emergency management bureau.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the country’s ​army companies to be turned into ‌elite, self-sufficient combat units during a two-day meeting of company commanders in Pyongyang, state media ​KCNA said on Saturday.

The US Justice Department on Thursday sued to preemptively block Alaska from certifying the results of its US Senate race if the Republican ‌incumbent candidate loses by a narrow margin, saying voters could be confused because two Republicans on the ballot have almost identical names.

An Australian television reporter who rescued a man from a car as it was engulfed ​by floodwaters said on Friday it was terrifying to ‌watch someone almost drown but added “there are few better feelings” than saving a person’s life.

France reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus.

US airlines are entering the final quarter of the year with ​a central problem: resilient passenger traffic and sharply higher fares have not been enough to fully offset soaring fuel costs.

Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday as powerful Typhoon Champi approached, prompting more than 200 flight cancellations in the region ​and forcing changes to a major US-Japan military exercise.

Russia pounded Kyiv with ballistic missiles and Ukraine sent hundreds of drones towards Moscow on Thursday, as the warring sides kept up ​a barrage of attacks despite the latest US push to end the conflict.

Global firms and governments rushed ​to patch critical flaws in the PHP programming language that underpins much of the internet, as a cloud firm reported millions of hacking attempts after vulnerabilities were disclosed.

Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets on Thursday in the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years, as ​demonstrators demanded free elections and other political changes.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit ​against the BBC, which has accused the US president of stalling to ‌avoid answering questions under oath.

Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday ahead of the arrival of powerful Typhoon Champi and cancelled more than 100 flights, ​with the storm expected to brush past the island’s northeastern coast and gradually ‌weaken on approach.