More than 100 people were missing and feared drowned after a tourist boat sank in Russia's Volga river on Sunday, said emergency services officials and survivors.

At least 26 people were killed and more than 150 injured in northern India when nearly a dozen coaches of a passenger train were derailed, officials said Sunday.

A military official on Sunday said that 17 people, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed during a military and police operation against a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria's restive northeast.

Dozens of Iraqi farmers on Sunday blocked a border crossing with Iran in protest at its diversion of a river which helps to irrigate one of their country's main agricultural regions.

Malaysian authorities cracked down on protesters demanding free and fair elections on July 9, firing tear gas and arresting more than 1,6000 people.  

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1 off north-eastern Japan has triggered a tsunami warning, reports say.

Colombian rebels waged multiple attacks on Saturday, setting off a car bomb and detonating a bus packed with explosives, killing three people in a volatile southwestern province of the Andean nation, officials said.

An agent from Afghanistan's intelligence unit opened fire at a foreign base on Saturday, killing a soldier and a civilian from the NATO-led coalition and wounding a third, NATO and the police chief of normally peaceful northern Panjshir province said.

South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.

Gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican city of Monterrey and shot dead at least 20 people on July 8, the latest massacre in the city battered by drug-gang violence, El Universal newspaper reported.