The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at health agencies in the US, according to multiple sources, with security guards barring entry to some workers just hours after they received dismissal notices.

Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the UN have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN officials say.

Signs of life have been detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok and people have been freed from collapsed buildings in Myanmar after a strong in Southeast Asia.

Remnants of an ex-cyclone are set to bring more wet weather to a sodden Queensland, triggering fears flooding could worsen.

US President Donald Trump says he is "pissed off" at Russian leader Vladimir Putin and will impose secondary tariffs on buyers of Russian oil if he feels Moscow's blocking efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

Aftershocks are continuing to rattle Tonga after an early-morning magnitude 7 quake - the biggest felt in a decade.

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