PAKISTAN: Nearly a week of heavy monsoon rains and flash floods across Pakistan have killed at least 46 people and injured dozens as continuing severe weather — similar to past emergencies — remains possible, officials said today. The fatalities caused by abnormally strong downpours since Tuesday include 22 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 13 in eastern Punjab province, seven in southern Sindh and four in southwestern Balochistan, National Disaster Management Authority and provincial emergency officials said.

UKRAINE: German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul made an unannounced visit to Kiev today, in a show of continuing support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion as United States-led international peace efforts fail to make progress.

Mr Wadephul said in a statement that Germany will help Ukraine “continue to defend itself successfully — with modern air defence and other weapons, with humanitarian and economic aid.”

SUDAN: A gold mine partly collapsed in eastern Sudan, killing 11 miners, the state-run company in charge of the project said Sunday. The collapse of the Kersh al-Feel mine happened over the weekend in the desert town of Houeid, in the eastern Nile River province, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Limited Company said in a statement. Another seven workers were injured and transferred to a hospital, it said.

INDIA: An explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in India’s southern state of Telangana killed at least eight people and injured several others, authorities said today.

The fire department recovered the charred bodies of six workers in an industrial area about 31 miles from the state capital Hyderabad, the state’s fire services director GV Narayana Rao told reporters.