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A tornado killed at least six people and injured around 750 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said.The twister flipped cars like toys and wrecked buildings in Rio Bonito do Iguacu, a town of 14,000 people in Parana state, officials said.The storm lasted only minutes but hit with ferocious winds swirling at up to 250km per hour. Aerial photos showed the town largely obliterated, with wrecked buildings and debris everywhere.Traumatised residents sifted through the rubble of their homes as they tried to salvage some belongingsNereu Sabadini was working outside of town when the tornado hit."I arrived home and found myself without a roof over my head," the 51-year-old said. "I'm homeless and rebuilding will take some time."Authorities said 90% of the town suffered damage."It destroyed everything. It destroyed the town, houses, schools. What will become of us?" Roselei Dalcandon said as she stood by a pile of rubble that used to be her shop.The tornado killed at least six people, the Parana state government said. Firefighters and medical personnel treated 750 injured people, including nine who were seriously hurt.One person was missing but the number could rise as rescue efforts continue.Rescue teams searched through piles of rubble looking for survivors or bodies. A shelter was set up in a nearby town."It is a war scene," Fernando Schunig, head of the Parana Civil Defence agency, told the news outlet G1.He said the likelihood of more fatalities is high because the twister hit the centre of the town."When these events hit an urban area, the damage is major. It is very lethal," Schunig said.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said a team of ministers and disaster relief experts were in town, as he expressed "solidarity" with those affected.Other cities in Parana and neighbouring states were also hit by strong winds, storms and hail from a violent weather pattern sweeping through the region.Last year southern Brazil suffered severe flooding that left more than 200 people dead and two million displaced in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.It was one of the worst natural disasters in the recent history of Brazil and experts say global warming played a role in the floods.

Rescue work was suspended and preemptive evacuations began Saturday as Typhoon Fung-wong bore down on the Philippines, days after another storm killed at least 204 people. Fung-wong, expected to be a "super typhoon" before making landfall, bears a huge footprint, with a radius that could cover "almost the entire country," a government meteorologist said. "Apart from the strong winds, we can also expect heavy rains ... 200 mm (eight inches) or higher rainfall, which can cause widespread flooding, not just in low-lying areas," meteorologist Benison Estareja told a press briefing Saturday. "It's also possible that our major river basins will overflow." As of 11am, the typhoon was moving westward toward the Philippines' main island of Luzon, with wind speeds of 140km per hour and gusts of 170kph. In coastal Aurora province, where Fung-wong is expected to make landfall by late Sunday or early Monday morning, rescuers were going door to door encouraging residents to head for higher ground. "We are preemptively evacuating people in areas that may be high-risk for flooding," provincial rescuer Elson Egargue told AFP by phone. **media[378990]** Farther south, on Catanduanes, a small island the state weather service said could take a "direct hit", residents were tying down their houses and putting weights on their roofs. "They decided to do our tradition of strapping down the roofs with big ropes and anchoring them on the ground, so they won't be blown away by the wind," provincial rescue official Roberto Monterola told AFP. Earlier this week, Typhoon Kalmaegi sent floodwaters rushing through the towns and cities of Cebu province, sweeping away cars, riverside shanties and massive shipping containers. The typhoon, the deadliest of 2025 according to disaster database EM-DAT, killed at least 204 people and left 109 missing, according to the latest government figures. At least five more people were killed as it churned across Vietnam on Friday. On Saturday, rescue official Myrra Daven told AFP the approaching storm had forced the suspension of search and rescue activities in the province, home to nearly 70% of Kalmaegi's deaths. "We were ordered to temporarily stop the search, rescue and retrieval at 3pm today," she said. **media[378991]** "We cannot risk the safety of our rescuers. We don't want them to be the next casualties." The government tally of 57 missing in the hard-hit province, meanwhile, would likely rise, Daven said. "We're expecting this number to increase, because there are still areas we cannot penetrate. Some access routes are still blocked by soil and other things," she said. Farther north, provincial officials in Typhoon Fung-wong's path are focused on preventing similar loss of life. "We are hoping that there will be no casualties," said Monterola, the Catanduanes rescuer. "The Philippines has faced a lot of disasters already."

One person was killed and six others were injured in the past 24 hours as a result of a Russian attack on Ukraine’s Donetsk region.The Ukrainian News Agency (Ukrinform) reported that a girl was injured in the town of Kramatorsk when a Russian drone crashed into a residential building.Since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, Russia and Ukraine have continued to exchange claims of repelling each other’s attacks, though these reports have not been independently verified due to the ongoing conflict.

The Nigerian army announced that 19 militants and two soldiers were killed during a gunfire exchange between the armed forces and militants in northwest Nigeria. The Nigerian army explained in a statement that its forces exchanged fire with an armed group in Kano State, resulting in the death of 19 militants. Two soldiers and a local guard were also killed during the operation.The statement added that the operation came as part of a major military campaign to reduce the escalating insecurity in northern Nigeria, explaining that a number of soldiers and members of the Joint Task Force sustained minor injuries and were immediately evacuated for treatment.The northeastern states of Nigeria are subject to occasional attacks by armed groups that began an insurgency in 2009 that has killed about 40,000 people and forced about two million Nigerians to flee their homes.

At least three people were killed, and 11 others were injured when a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville International Airport in Kentucky. The US Federal Aviation Administration explained that the aircraft, an MD-11 model, crashed after taking off from Louisville en route to Honolulu, noting that the aircraft was carrying three crew members.Emergency services in Louisville reported that they issued an order to stay indoors within a five-mile radius of the airport, due to fires breaking out in industrial buildings adjacent to the crash site and the closure of several roads, while local reports indicated the formation of a large fire and the rising of thick columns of smoke.The airspace at Louisville airport was temporarily closed following the incident, amid expectations of impacts on cargo operations, given that the airport houses UPS's Worldport Center, the company's largest parcel processing facility.

At least 24 people were killed, and 18 others injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Indian police said the accident occurred as the bus, carrying about 70 passengers, was traveling to Hyderabad, the state capital.Reports indicate that the truck, which was transporting gravel, collided with the bus at high force, trapping several passengers inside. Initial investigations suggest that excessive speed and loss of control by the truck driver were the likely causes of the accident.Police said the dead included the drivers of the bus and the truck, as well as a 10-month-old baby and its mother. Authorities have launched an investigation into the accident.Traffic accidents are common in India as a result of overloading, poor infrastructure and reckless driving.

Four people were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted southern Lebanon. According to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA), citing the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) of the Ministry of Public Health, the strike hit the town of Kafr Rumman in the Nabatieh District late Saturday, resulting in four fatalities and several injuries.Earlier, Lebanese authorities reported that one person had been injured in a separate Israeli attack on southern Lebanon. The PHEOC also said in a press release that an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Sir in the Nabatieh District injured one person.Lebanon has been under Israeli aggression since October 2023. In recent days, Israel has intensified air and artillery strikes at an unprecedented pace, expanding the scope of its attacks to include the capital, Beirut. This escalation has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries and displaced more than one million people from their homes.

Twenty-three people, including children, were killed late Saturday in a fire that broke out at a store in the city of Hermosillo, in northwestern Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her condolences to the families of the victims in a post on the X platform, noting that she had ordered the immediate deployment of support teams to assist the victims' families and those injured in the incident.The city's fire chief said that the cause of the blaze has not yet been determined, as investigations continue.In a similar incident last September, at least three people were killed and 70 others were injured when a tanker truck overturned, caught fire, and exploded on a highway southeast of Mexico City.

Two Palestinians were killed, and a third wounded by Israeli occupation forces in various areas of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat had received the body of a martyr recovered by civilians from the city of Al-Zahra. The hospital also received a wounded person injured by Israeli fire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. In the same context, another person died from wounds sustained yesterday when he was shot by Israeli forces in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, according to medical sources. The Israeli occupation continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which came into effect on October 10. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, it carried out intensive airstrikes and shelling targeting Palestinian homes and tents in various parts of the Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians, including more than 46 children and 20 women.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced that more than 21,000 students and teachers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on Oct. 7, 2023.In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said that the number of students killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression has reached 19,932, while 30,102 have been injured. In the occupied West Bank, 148 students were killed, 1,045 injured, and 846 arrested.The ministry added that 1,037 teachers and administrators were killed and 4,757 injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while more than 228 were arrested in the West Bank.It noted that 179 government schools were completely destroyed in the Gaza Strip, along with 63 university buildings.The ministry explained that 118 government schools and more than 100 schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized.The aggression led to the removal of a total of 30 schools, along with their students and teachers, from the educational register.Meanwhile, the occupation destroyed three schools in the West Bank, while eight universities and colleges were subjected to repeated raids and vandalism.

Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinian young men at dawn on Tuesday and seized their bodies in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin.Local sources told the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town with military reinforcements, surrounded an area of agricultural land, and opened live fire at the three young men—whose identities have yet to be determined—killing them and seizing their bodies.Cities, towns, and refugee camps across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem witness daily raids and incursions by occupation forces and settlers, often accompanied by clashes, arrests, live and rubber bullet fire, as well as the use of tear gas and other toxic gas grenades against Palestinians.

One person was killed, and six others injured on Sunday when a turbine exploded at an oil depot in the Al-Zubair district of Basra Governorate, southern Iraq. An Iraqi security source said the explosion occurred in a tank in Al-Barjisia, causing a temporary drop in crude oil exports. He explained that Basra Civil Defense teams are working to extinguish the fire with support from oil firefighting teams. He noted that the head of the Zubair 2 Warehouses Division was killed, and six oil workers were injured in the incident. In a similar incident, an explosion occurred in June at an oil field in Salah Al-Din Governorate, central Iraq, injuring five workers.