VIETNAM: Vietnam evacuated thousands of people from central and northern provinces today as Typhoon Bualoi raced toward the country faster than expected with landfall forecast later in the day.

Bualoi had left at least 20 people dead in the central Philippines since Friday, and knocked out power in several towns and cities, officials said. The storm forced about 23,000 families to evacuate to more than 1,400 emergency shelters.

INDIA: The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state’s health minister said today, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals.

Ma Subramanian said 36 victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital on Saturday night and four more died later. 

ARGENTINA: Clashes erupted between thousands of demonstrators and police on Saturday in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, as protesters demanded justice over the live-streamed torture and killing of two young women and a teenager on social media.

The bodies of Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo and teenager Lara Gutierrez were found buried last Wednesday in the yard of a house in the suburbs of the capital, five days after the trio went missing.

UNITED STATES: The FBI has fired a group of agents who were pictured kneeling at a 2020 racial justice protest over the killing of George Floyd, the US media reported on Saturday.

The sacking of the 15 to 20 agents was slammed by the FBI Agents Association which said the agents’ rights had been violated.