Jakarta [Indonesia], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Rescuers have found 24 bodies and kept searching for 31 other missing persons after 18 ships were hit by a storm in waters off West Kalimantan province in central Indonesia days ago, the top rescuer of the province said on Wednesday.
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): One person was killed and six others slightly injured when a boat caught fire and sank off the coast of Preah Sihanouk Province in southwest Cambodia on Wednesday, according to the National Police.
Vientiane [Laos], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Seven people are missing in northern Laos' Xieng Khuang province after the ground collapsed while they were drilling for gold on Sunday.
Seoul [South Korea], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea's daily COVID-19 cases hit a new record high amid the continued resurgence caused by cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, the health authorities said Wednesday.
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil has registered 1,424 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 544,180, the health ministry said Tuesday.
Moscow [Russia], July 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia registered 23,770 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 6,006,536, the official monitoring and response center said Tuesday.
Havana [Cuba], July 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Cuba reported on Monday 6,505 new COVID-19 infections and 61 more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 288,392 cases and 1,966 deaths.
Baghdad [Iraq], July 20 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 19 civilians were killed and 54 were wounded in a bomb explosion in a marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Monday, a source with the Iraqi interior ministry said.
Manila [Philippines], July 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday 5,651 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,513,396.
Jakarta (Indonesia) July 19 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 61 km SSE of Gorontalo, Indonesia at 00:55:43 GMT on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.
California [US], July 19 (ANI/Xinhua): One person died and three others were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning in Walnut Creek, Northern California of the United States, police said.