Incidents

Two Japanese men were diagnosed with pneumonia Wednesday while 11 others are showing symptoms including a fever and cough after they were evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the center of a deadly virus outbreak, authorities said.

The death toll from the powerful earthquake in Turkey has risen to 41, the country's disaster relief agency said Monday.

As many as 2,857 people in China are infected with a new coronavirus as of Monday evening, China’s Wangyi news portal reports, referring to official data from Chinese regions.

A U.S. man in Seattle has been diagnosed with a new coronavirus from China after traveling to the country, in what has become the first confirmed case in the United States and the first outside of Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

The network of seismic stations of the Kazakh Education and Science Ministry recorded on January 21, 2020, an earthquake at 12:31:36 p.m. Almaty time.

At least nine people were killed and one remained missing after a flash flood made a crowded hanging bridge over a river in Indonesia collapse.

Kazakhstani seismologists registered the fourth quake within the last 24 hours in Central Asia.

Iranian and Ukrainian foreign ministers discussed the latest situation surrounding the air disaster during a telephone conversation late on Thursday.

25-year-old Zhiger Teleukhanov from Aktau was recognized as the world’s best chemistry teacher.

The activity of Taal volcano in the Philippines, which began spewing lava early Monday, has forced the evacuation of around 24,500 people in the surrounding municipalities while ashfall reached the capital Manila, located about 70 kilometers (43 miles) away.