The death toll from major floods in India's tourist hotspot Kerala jumps to 164: state head

KCNA: "HE Kim Jong Un is the defender of peace in the Korean Peninsula and the world, the mayor of the city said, adding that all citizens regard it as their greatest honor to have him as an honorary citizen."

KCNA: "Guaranda City, Bolivar Province of Ecuador, decided to award the title of honorary citizen to the respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK"

China's stock market hits 2.5-year low.

KCNA: "He called upon everybody to build the sea park without an equal in the world by keeping fortitude and strong courage and present it to the people as a gift on the occasion of Oct. 10 next year."

KCNA: "He also gave instructions to providefirst-aid stations at the sections of sea-bathing on the white sandy shore. It ishis long-desired job to build wonderful recreational resorts on the scenicshores of our country to let the people enjoy themselves to the full."

KCNA: "Noting that buildings look separated and are little different from each other in height, he gave instructions to make the height of the buildings different, plan more hotels30 and 25 storeys high and ensure that the connection between buildings are morepeculiar."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, inspected with his wife Ri Sol Ju the construction site of the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area."

[email protected]: How can "Senator" Richard Blumenthal, who went around for twenty years as a Connecticut politician bragging that he was a great Marine war hero in Vietnam (then got caught and sobbingly admitted he was neither a Marine nor ever in Vietnam), pass judgement on anyone? Loser.

KCNA: "Going round hot spring valleys in Onjong-ri area of Yangdok County despite high and low mountain ranges and steep passes, he learned about the amount of hot spring water gushing out and environment around them."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to hot spring area in Yangdok County, South Phyongan."

Looks like there's some tension off the coast of Malaysia, at the South Luconia Shoals. China Coast Guard ship 3401 is operating dangerously close to Indonesia-flagged offshore support ship Java Imperia. Apparently trying to disrupt operations. (file photos)

The Kochi airport in the Indian state of Kerala has suspended operations till Saturday due to heavy flooding

Washington doesn't understand how dangerous persistent policy toward maximum pressure on Pyongyang is - Russian foreign ministry

New U.S. sanctions against Russia over DPRK situation will only complicate peace process - Russian foreign ministry

Malayalees in Nashik skip Onam festival as Kerala battles floods

Woman police officer commits suicide in Haridwar

A Xiamen Air Boeing 737-800 has been involved in a runway excursion at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport Airport, in the Philippines.

UK expat killed in Sylhet.

Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737-800 MF8667 crash landed at Manila Airport

IS Khurasan claimed another attack yesterday in Kabul with IED on police

Ghazni - heavy fighting has resumed in Ghazni City in Pashtun Abad area, gunshots and sound of heavy artillery heard. Helicopters reported over city, TOLOnews journalist reports

Heavy downpour caused gutter-deep flood in Taytay, Rizal. Expect heavy traffic.

[email protected] asked to brief the cabinet on North Korea talks-says they are ongoing.

VIDEO: Metro Manila police chief Guillermo Eleazar and Southern Police District chief Tomas Apolinario led the Times Bar raid this morning where the 3 lawyers were arrested.

Lawyers Lenie Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Alarcon were arrested earlier today for monitoring the police raid of Times Bar in Makati.

Dhruv copter from the IAF's Sarang aerobatics team has joined rescue ops on Kerala. This happened during the Chennai and Uttarakhand floods too.

Robbers in police uniform rob currency exchange in Karachi

View of Cochin Airport from ATC. Its like the mighty Brahmaputra river has descended over it.

Valparai landslide kills TNEB assistant engineer

Aligarh police books man for burning National flag

Khabarovsk region closes a section of highway to let Russian military pilots practice their landing skills.

Puducherry police nab two men on charges of murdering AINRC cadre, hunt on for other accused

Vietnam mobilizes troops, warns of floods as tropical storm nears

PM Narendra Modi condoles the death of Atal Bihari Vajpayee after AIIMS in a press release declared that the former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away at 5.05pm on Thursday

Former India PM Vajpayee dies after illness at age 93

Maritime patrol aircraft US Navy P-8A Poseidon LX-N90459

Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 54km NE of Mawlaik, Burma

Kerala: 45 persons stranded due to incessant rains were rescued from Machilipatnam by three teams of Indian Navy deployed at Perumbavoor, yesterday. #KeralaFloods

According to local journos (and there are not many) Taliban are attacking Almar district of Faryab They already conquered several villages. Pro govt. militia is slowly retreating towards provincial capital Maymana

Vietnam: WHRD and freelance journalist PhamDoanTrang was arrested, detained, beaten up by police in HCMC last night when she and others attended a mini musical show at a cafe. Her cash, ATM, laptop, cell phone, and ID card were taken. The lawlessness by the police continues.

Chinese police use scanners that can break into smartphones and extract contact lists, photos, videos, social media posts and email.

Taliban: Enemy base overrun and reinforcements ambushed in Haji Jang Agha area of Nawa Helmand, total 35 police and Sangori militiamen killed (corpses left behind), 2 APCs and vehicle destroyed, sizable amount weapons seized

ISKP IS is behind yesterday's attack on Educational Center in Kabul Attack targeted Shia students from Hazara community

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 154km SSW of Mohean, India

Video: a large number of fish jump out of the water due to a suspected sea tornado in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei province on Wednesday.

Kabul - Hashmat Stanekzai, Kabul police chief's spokesman, said at about 10am an unknown number of gunmen entered a building close to a security forces training center in Qala-e-Wazir, PD5. Security forces are in the area and trying to evacuate local residents

VP Leni Robredo's lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Malacanang saying Duterte will resign if BBM wins VP protest: Insofar as we are concerned, President Duterte's resignation will never happen because Mr. Marcos will never win his electoral protest.

First local election at Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh ended with ½ chosen representatives being women.

The Hui poet @ismaelan Anran Ismael was paid a visit by the Chinese police over his social media activism about China's Muslim persecution, especially the Uyghurs of East Turkistan.

Police in Shandong province try to detain Hui Muslim activist @ismaelan after he tweets about "re-education" internment camps in Xinjiang. He has also called attention to a recent standoff between authorities and Hui over the "de-Arabization" of a mosque in Ningxia.

Kabul - Security forces have closed off all roads around the military training center in Qala-e-Wazir in PD5 as complex attack continues. Residents in area have reported at least one explosion but say gunfire continues to be heard. Afghanistan

Gunmen attack intelligence service center in Afghan capital Kabul

Hong Kong police is interested in billionaire in exile Guo Wengui

KCNA: "Kim Il Sung was a commander without an equal in the world, who declared a war against the Japanese invaders and put forward the line of armed struggle with guerilla war as its main contentThe line could be advanced only by him, a peerlessly great man."

KCNA: "Foreign media carried special write-ups with the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and art pieces depicting his imageto mark the 73rd anniversary of Korea's liberationThe anti-Japanese armed struggleled by him was an unprecedented hard-fought bloody war."

Two women could face the death penalty if they are found guilty of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader

Suspect dead in Manila buy-bust op

#KeralaFloods Baby memorial hospital in Kozhikode has flooded, with people reportedly stranded inside. The Kerala Floods have claimed 52 lives over the last two days, with 22 more deaths recorded up till 9:30am today.

Kerala: Visuals of waterlogging from Chengannur following heavy and incessant rain. #KeralaFloods

Mt. Shindake on the island of Kuchinoerabu, Kagoshima Prefecture, showing intense seismic activity as volcanic eruptions expected.

KeralaFloods: Rescue operations in Kondotty, Malappuram.

Karnataka: Three members of a family dead, one injured in house collapse in Kalaburagi district's Hithal Shiroor village, in early morning hours; Case registered

Heavy rains with lightning and strong winds due to thunderstorms are expected over Pampanga, Tarlac, Laguna, and Batangas within the next 2 hours.

Caloocan City policemen and their informant are charged with murder and violation of the Dangerous Drugs Act for planting evidence

The National Bureau of Investigation says it is 'very evident' that Caloocan City policemen intended to kill the 17-year-old boy

After the Caloocan police chief admitted that they only found the supposed drug links of Kian delos Santos after he was killed, online users took to social media to air their outrage.

Family, friends of Kian delos Santos commemorate his first death anniversary at their house in Libis Baesa, Caloocan. Present are Sister Patricia Fox, CHR chair Chito Gascon, Father Flavie Villanueva

Four people were killed when a mass of earth fell on a house at Erattupetta in Kottayam district on Thursday. Two were killed in a house collapse at Thrissur. #KeralaFloods

Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 167km SE of Kuril'sk, Russia

Pakistan strongly condemns terrorist attack at educational institute in Kabul

The Kochi Metro stopped services this morning after its yard in Muttom near Aluva was submerged in the flood waters #KeralaFloods

Senator Risa Hontiveros files resolution to declare August 16 as a "National Day of Remembrance" for all the victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) under the Duterte government's war on drugs.

#KeralaFloods; Water level in Achankoil river at Alappuzha's Kollakadavu rises as heavy rainfall continues to lash the state.

GilgitBaltistan authorities arrest 22 people allegedly involved in arson of girls' schools in Diamer district

Four persons of a family including 3-year-old boy injured after wall of their house collapsed at Dhijiput village in Cuttack Odisha

Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 154km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia

Rain continues to lash Kerala; Visuals from Alappuzha district's Mavelikara. Till 67 people have lost their lives caused by flooding due to heavy and incessant rains in the state. #KeralaFloods

THE PRIME MINISTER has ordered police stations to join the integrated efforts to ease Bangkok's severe road congestion problems within three months.

Taiwan 'strongly protests' illegal drugs supplier tag

Madhya Pradesh: Police confirms that 45 people have been rescued from Sultan Garh Waterfalls in Shivpuri after water level increased due to a sudden release of water from a dam

[email protected]: Mark Levin "When they had power they didn't stop the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, they funded the Iranians and are responsible for the greatest scandal in American history by interfering with our election and trying to undermine the Trump Campaign and Trump Presidency."

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu arrives at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is admitted. Vajpayee's condition is critical and he is on life support system. Delhi

Several ares in Bulacan still flooded

Philippine President Duterte beefs up defense spending as he seeks to double the salaries of military, police personnel

Former Prime Minister AtalBihariVajpayee's condition is critical and is on life support system

City man held for making hoax bomb threat call to control room in Chennai