Dozens of rescuers were scrambling in Vietnam yesterday to trace four missing people after retrieving the bodies of dozens killed when a thunderstorm capsized a boat in the top tourist destination of Halong Bay, authorities said.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to build migrant tent camps nationwide after receiving $45 billion in new funding, aiming to expand detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year-end, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Iran has replaced the air defence systems damaged during its 12-day war with Israel last month, a senior army general said yesterday according to state media.

Residents reported calm in the Syrian city of Sweida yesterday after the Islamist-led government declared that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city and the United States stepped up calls for an end to fighting.

Russia’s defence ministry and the mayor of Moscow said it had downed 142 drones early yesterday, including 27 over the Moscow region.

Gaza's health ministry said yesterday that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes across the enclave had risen to 88, while the death toll from Israeli fire on civilians waiting for UN aid trucks in northern Gaza climbed to 67.

Iranian authorities have urged residents to limit water consumption as the country grapples with severe shortages amid an ongoing heatwave, local media said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s independent regulator has sacked a senior police officer for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners.

Say medics as hunger worsens in the war-torn region

It said the tsunami alert zone applied for coastal areas within a radius of 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre

He had been in a coma for nearly 20 years following a traffic accident in 2005

Reuters reporters heard gunfire from inside the city of Sweida and saw shells land in nearby villages. There were no immediate, confirmed reports of casualties.

The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court names Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp NWSA.O and its Chief Executive Robert Thomson, and two Wall Street Journal reporters as defendants

During a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, the jumbotron zoomed in on a man and a woman embracing in the stands.

Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida yesterday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday up to five jets were shot down during recent India-Pakistan hostilities.

China started building a mega-dam yesterday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said.

US President Donald Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $10 billion Friday over publication of a bombshell article on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that has devastated the country’s mineral-rich but conflict-torn east.

Three people died Friday in an explosion at a police training facility in Los Angeles, in what one local official called an accident.