Evacuees are being allowed to make brief visits to their homes in Atami, central Japan, for the first time since the city was hit by mudslides earlier this month.
The Philippine military said Monday 47 people perished in an aircraft crash in the south of the nation a day earlier, according to Reuters, with three victims on the ground taking the total death toll to 50.
Britain's Princes William and Harry have attended a ceremony to unveil a statue of their mother, the late Princess Diana, at Kensington Palace in central London.
Vietnam attracted an estimated foreign investment of 15.27 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, down 2.6 percent year on year, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Thursday.
The southern Pacific island nation of Samoa has decided not to send athletes to the Tokyo Olympics later this month due to the coronavirus pandemic, Radio New Zealand reported online Thursday.
