Incidents

Oleg Sokolov, a lecturer of St. Petersburg State University and a historian, who has actually confessed to the murder of a young woman by signing a plea bargain deal, on Monday refused to testify and tell the investigators the details of the crime.

The government of the state of New South Wales, the region most affected by bushfires raging in eastern Australia, declared on Monday a state of emergency ahead of dangerous weather conditions that could worsen the blazes.

The Vietnamese Ministry for Public Security has confirmed that all 39 people found dead in a container truck in southeast England last month were Vietnamese.

Fifteen vigilantes were killed by a group of gunmen in Yala province in southern Thailand on Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.

Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in connection to the discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry container in Essex, England on Oct. 23.

The main building of an Okinawa castle listed as a World Heritage site has burned down in a predawn fire, with authorities working to control the blaze that has also engulfed other buildings in the castle complex, police said.

At least seven people have been killed and some 400 injured by a recent 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Mindanao island in the southern Philippines.

Wildlife officials said Wednesday that hundreds of koalas are feared dead or injured in a severe bushfire burning on Australia's east coast.

Eight migrants, including four children, were discovered in a refrigerated lorry in Calais in northern France, local media reported on Monday.

The bodies of 39 people found inside a refrigerated lorry container on an industrial estate in southern England are believed to be Chinese nationals, police said Thursday.