The death toll from floods and landslides that struck three provinces on Indonesia's Sumatra Island has exceeded 1,003, with 218 people still missing, according to the latest data released Saturday by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).
The disasters have caused extensive infrastructure damage.
BNPB data listed damage to about 1,200 public facilities, as well as 219 health facilities, 581 educational facilities, 434 houses of worship, 290 office buildings and 145 bridges.
Syrian forces seize major oil, gas fields in eastern Syria
Syrian troops fighting US-backed Kurdish-led forces seized the Omar oil field, the country’s largest, and the Conoco gas field in the eastern Deir Zor province as allied Arab tribal forces advanced in the oil-rich area along the border with Iraq, officials and security sources said on Sunday.
EU warns of downward spiral after Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland
European Union leaders on Saturday warned of a "dangerous downward spiral" over US President Donald Trump's vow to implement increasing tariffs on European allies until the US is allowed to buy Greenland.
Massive fire kills 6 in Karachi, destroys shopping centre
Firefighters in Pakistan's largest city were fighting to extinguish a massive blaze on Sunday that has killed six people and reduced parts of a shopping mall to rubble in Karachi's historic downtown.
Two killed in mass Russian drone attack on Ukraine
Two people were killed and dozens more wounded in a mass Russian drone attack across Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, as US and Ukrainian negotiators hashed out a post-war plan in the latest round of peace talks.
NASA rolls giant SLS rocket to launchpad for second Artemis moon mission
NASA rolled its massive Space Launch System rocket to its launchpad in Florida on Saturday, kicking off a final phase of preparations for the agency's Artemis II mission that is poised to send four astronauts around the moon and back as soon as next month.
