Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions.

At least 56 people have been killed and 21 are missing in Sri Lanka after floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains wreaked havoc this week, in one of its worst weather related disasters the country has seen in recent years.

The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France’s Institut Pasteur respiratory infections centre said.

The Trump administration has said it will re-examine green cards issued to individuals who immigrated to the US from 19 countries.

Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Friday over the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members on Wednesday, worked alongside the CIA in Afghanistan before coming to the US four years ago, officials have said.

Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed.

The FBI searched multiple properties in Washington state and San Diego on Thursday in what officials said was a terrorism probe into an Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard members, who remained in critical condition.

Guinea-Bissau’s military said it installed General Horta Nta Na Man as transitional president, a day after soldiers toppled the civilian leadership in a swift power grab that followed a fiercely contested presidential vote.

Pope Leo lamented that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader, and he warned that a third world war was being “fought piecemeal” with humanity’s future at risk.

Hong Kong firefighters brought under control a huge blaze in an apartment complex that killed at least 65 people and left nearly 300 missing, while police said a “grossly negligent” construction firm using unsafe materials may have caused the fire.

Flood rescue teams in Thailand readied drones to deliver aid and helicopters dropped supplies to people marooned on rooftops.