TURKEY: New wildfires broke out on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast yesterday, as the government declared two western provinces in the country to be disaster zones.

Images showed flames and smoke billowing into the sky close to high-rise apartment buildings in Antalya.

PHILIPPINES: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an impeachment case filed against Vice-President Sara Duterte violated the country’s constitution due to a key technicality, a decision that blocks her upcoming trial over a raft of criminal allegations including her threat to have the president assassinated.

The House of Representatives, which impeached Ms Duterte in February and sent the case to the Senate for trial, violated a rule that only one impeachment case could be processed by the lower chamber against an impeachable official in a single year, court spokesperson Camille Ting said.

CANADA: Three workers who were trapped at a gold and copper mine in Western Canada have been rescued after more than 60 hours underground.

Red Chris mine operator Newmont Corporation said the three men were safely brought to the surface late on Thursday after being trapped underground by two rockfalls on Tuesday morning.

Kevin Coumbs, Darien Maduke and Jesse Chubaty, contractors for Canada based Hy-Tech Drilling, were reportedly in good health.

PAKISTAN: Rescue teams in northern Pakistan expanded their search yesterday for at least a dozen tourists who went missing earlier this week after being swept away by flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains, officials said.

At least 12 missing tourists are believed to be buried under a massive pile of boulders and mud along a damaged stretch of highway in Pakistan’s mountainous north.