Powerful storms have moved through the US Midwest on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and nearly a million without power, officials said.
The casualties include a 4-year-old child who died after a tree fell on his home in Geneva Township in Indiana, according to Jennings County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Cody Low.
Meanwhile, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated that one person died after flooding obstructed first responders from reaching the individual in Roseville.
Local media also reported that one person died in a home explosion and fire that occurred after storms moved through Portage, Indiana. Police said the cause of the explosion remained under investigation.
Over 800,000 electricity customers across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky were without power as of midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, the poweroutage.us website showed.
"Even after the storms exit the state, flooding will remain a serious concern," Ohio's governor noted.
Four crew members and two rescuers have been killed in an attack by Houthis on a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, Yemen's transport ministry said, while the US military said it struck a container ship attempting to sail toward an Iranian port.
Indonesian authorities rescued 172 people on Wednesday after a ferry travelling from the tourist island of Bali caught fire in waters off Lombok, officials said,as the search continued for any other missing passengers.
Rescue crews dug through mountains of shattered concrete in western Colombia on Tuesday, racing to find survivors after a powerful earthquake killed more than 250 people, according to estimates from local authorities.
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days ahead of major joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington long denounced by Pyongyang.
A Syrian court sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest during the country's nearly 14-year war.