PHILIPPINES: A storm set off landslides and unleashed pounding rains that flooded many northern Philippine areas today, leaving at least nine people dead and prompting authorities to suspend classes and government work in the densely populated capital region.

Tropical Storm Yagi was blowing 71 miles north-east of Infanta town in Quezon province, south-east of Manila, by midday on Monday with sustained winds of up to 47mph and gusts of up to 56mph, according to the weather bureau.

DR CONGO: Heavy gunfire rang out early this morning from DR Congo’s largest prison in the capital Kinshasa as inmates tried to break out from the overcrowded facility, authorities said.

Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya confirmed on X that there was an “an attempted escape.” Local media reported security forces killed some of those who tried to flee.

LEBANON: An Israeli strike Monday in southern Lebanon killed two people in a car, including a contract worker for the United Nations peacekeeping mission near the border.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the two people had been killed in an Israeli strike on a car in the southern coastal town of Naqoura, but did not give further details.

The UN peacekeeping mission, known as Unifil, said one of the victims was an employee at a cleaning company contracted with the agency.

RUSSIA: Russian emergency officials said Monday they had recovered the bodies of all 22 people from a helicopter that crashed in Russia’s far east, leaving no survivors.

The crash occurred in Kamchatka after a Mi-8 helicopter with 19 tourists and three crew members on board, took off close to the Vachkazhets volcano on Saturday.