South Korean emergency officials say at least 120 people were killed during a stampede in a party-going district in South Korea’s capital, where young people had gathered for Halloween celebrations.
BEIJING -- Xi Jinping was elected general secretary of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the committee's first plenary session held on Sunday, Oct. 23, according to a communique.
DAMASCUS -- Israel launched on Friday night, Oct. 21, a missile attack against military sites around Syria's capital Damascus, a statement from the Syrian military said.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture in Japan's northeast on Friday, the weather agency said, although no tsunami warning has been issued.
The WHO's International Health Regulations Emergency Committee said after its quarterly assessment meeting last week that despite a decline in severe cases and the falling number of weekly deaths, deaths from COVID-19 nevertheless remain high compared with other respiratory viruses.
BUENOS AIRES -- Inflation in Argentina reached 83 percent in September year-on-year, the highest in 30 years, said the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) on Friday, Oct. 15.
