SYDNEY -- Two people were killed and four more injured following a multi-vehicle crash in the northeast of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday.
NSW Police said that an SUV and a four-wheel drive towing a caravan crashed on a major highway near the town of Nabiac, 220 km northeast of Sydney, at about 9:50 a.m. before the SUV hit a heavy-duty truck. (Australia-Car Crash-Death)
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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks plunged Monday, with the benchmark Nikkei index suffering its third-largest point drop on record, amid a global market rout as fears of an all-out trade war and a global economic recession triggered by the U.S. tariffs hike intensified.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended down 2,644.00 points, or 7.83 percent, from Friday at 31,136.58, its lowest closing level since Oct. 31, 2023. (Japan-Tokyo Stocks)
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SANAA -- The U.S. military conducted six airstrikes on Yemen's northern provinces of Saada and Hajjah on Monday before dawn, with no casualties reported so far, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said.
The strikes, targeting locations in the Safra district in Saada and the Abs district in Hajjah, came a few hours after a separate wave of intensive airstrikes that targeted the western and eastern parts of the capital Sanaa. (Yemen-U.S. Airstrikes-Casualty)
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MANILA -- Four people were killed after a fire engulfed a small house in a crowded residential area in the Philippine capital on early Monday morning, the Bureau of Fire Protection said.
Firefighter Josephus Franco Alburo said the victims were a couple and their two daughters, aged three and 17, who were trapped inside the house when the fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. local time in Las Pinas City. (Philippines-Fire-Death) ■
