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A landslide on Sunday which hit Vietnam's central province of Quang Tri has killed 11 soldiers while 11 others remain missing even as frantic search is under way. The landslide hit the barracks of a unit of Vietnam’s 4th Military Region, the government said in a statement on its website, days after another landslide killed 13 people, mostly soldiers, in the neighbouring province of Thua Thien Hue. “We had another sleepless night,” a visibly emotional Phan Van Giang, Vietnam’s deputy defence minister, told reporters on Sunday. Heavy rain has pounded the region for more than a week even as the country battles its worst flooding in years. At least 64 people have been killed in floods and landslides, according to Vietnam’s disaster management authority, with concerns mounting that waters could rise further. Rocks rained down on the barracks of a military station in Quang Tri province, with 22 soldiers believed to have been buried underneath thick mud, an official government website said.

A gas pipeline explosion near a mosque in Bangladesh has killed some worshippers. Dozens of worshipers suffered severe burns while praying in a mosque, in Narayanganj district, outside of Dhaka when an apparent gas explosion hit the building. According to reports, the blast claimed the life of a seven-year-old boy. The death toll from the blast has risen to 16, police and doctors said on Saturday. At least 50 people were injured in the explosion. The mosque's imam and another senior cleric were among those with severe injuries being treated at the hospital, according to The Dhaka Tribune newspaper.

The United States consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu officially closed Monday morning, amid deteriorating relations between Beijing and Washington. American diplomatic staff vacated the consulate, following the expiration of a 72-hour deadline issued by the Chinese.

A study has shown that global crash in children being born due to falling fertility rate will have extensive adverse impact on many societies. The study, published in the Lancet projects that global fertility rate will fall below 1.7 by year 2100 as against 2.4 in 2017.

The U.S. dollar was on course for its biggest daily percentage decline against the safe-haven yen in more than three months on Tuesday on concern about North Korea’s largest nuclear test and a Federal Reserve official’s comments about low U.S. inflation, according to Reuters. The dollar fell as much as 1 percent against the Japanese currency to 108.65 yen, its lowest since Aug. 29 after North Korea conducted its sixth and biggest nuclear test two days ago.

A security alert released by the UK government claiming Ghana faces an imminent terrorist attack has seated on the minds of Ghanaians.