PHILIPPINES: Tropical Storm Trami blew away from the country’s north-west today, leaving at least 65 people dead in landslides and extensive flooding as authorities scramble for more rescue boats to save thousands of people who were trapped, some on their roofs.

A provincial police chief said that 33 people had been killed, mostly in landslides set off by Trami in Batangas province, south of Manila. That brought the overall death toll from the storm to at least 65.

HUNGARY: Prime Minister Viktor Orban suggested today that the Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk had been installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing leadership.

Mr Orban provided no evidence to substantiate his claims about Mr Tusk’s government, which was elected last year.

INDIA: Tropical Storm Dana brought strong winds and heavy rain to the east coast today, uprooting trees and raising a risk of floods after nearly 600,000 people were evacuated.

The storm made landfall on Thursday night in the state of Odisha, with maximum sustained winds of around 68mph and gusts up to 75mph, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. 

IRAN: Authorities have sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to an extra six months in prison, according to a group campaigning for the activist.

The Free Narges Coalition said in a statement on Thursday that Ms Mohammadi had received the extension to her sentence on October 19  after she staged a protest against the execution of another political prisoner in the women’s ward of Evin prison on August 6.