GREECE: The death toll from a migrant boat sinking last week off the resort island of Mykonos has tripled to nine after more bodies were found today.

The bodies of four women and a man were discovered by divers inside the sunken speedboat that had departed from Turkey, and one 18-year-old woman’s remains washed up to the shore. Six people are still missing.

NORTH KOREA: President Kim Jong Un will be launching his country’s first military spy satellite next month in order to monitor the United States’ “reckless” military exercises with South Korea.

The official statement came a day after North Korea notified Japan’s coastguard that the launch might affect waters in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and east of the Philippines’ Luzon Island.

KASHMIR: A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Vaishno Devi in Katra shrine skidded off a bridge into a Himalayan gorge today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55 others.

The bus, which police have said was overloaded, was on the way to Katra town from the northern state of Punjab’s Amritsar city.

GHANA: The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (Jusag) has called off its indefinite nationwide strike for two weeks after meeting government officials to allow for engagement.

Court activities came to a halt last week, with all judicial service staff directed not to report to work until President Nana Akufo-Addo approved their demand for new salaries and payment of arrears since January.