A 5.8-magnitude earthquake at the scale of Richter hit Sangan town in Iran's northeastern Khorasan Razavi province on Thursday morning, according to the Iranian Seismological Center.
Eight people have been confirmed dead as the result of bushfires in southeast Australia this week, with several others still missing and hundreds of homes lost.
Demonstrators at the US Embassy in Baghdad withdrew on Wednesday after two days of violent protests. They were angry at US air strikes against an Iranian-backed militant group.
