As many as 23 of the 35 students injured in an explosion inside a school in the Chilean capital, Santiago on Wednesday are still hospitalised, said the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

The ministry said in a news bulletin that two of the injured remain in a state of "extreme gravity" and eight are in "critical condition," news agency reported.

The ministry said there were no deaths in connection with the detonation.

Nicolas Cataldo, the minister of education, told the local press that 12 students were discharged on Friday.

Underscoring the commitment to foster cutting-edge research that will drive innovation and address global challenges, India and Germany have signed a joint declaration to boost research and development in advanced materials.

The exchange was held in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and German Federal Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger.

Dr Singh highlighted recent collaborative successes, such as the launch of 2+2 joint projects in areas like “Waste to Wealth” and sustainable packaging, as well as a new call for proposals in ‘AI for Sustainability’.

The death toll from tropical storm Trami that slammed into the Philippines this week has risen to 46, with at least 20 other people still missing, authorities said on Friday.

In a report, Office of Civil Defence administrator Ariel Nepomuceno said nine regions across the country have reported deaths related to Trami.

Bicol, a region southeast of Manila that bore the brunt of the storm, reported most of the deaths, at 28, followed by Calabarzon region with 15.

Other regions in the Philippines also reported Trami-related deaths, news agency reported.

At least 50 suspected gang members have been killed in an attack on Haiti's western coastal city of Arcahaie.

While the majority were shot by police, at least a dozen drowned on Wednesday when their boat, carrying ammunition for gangs attacking the city, struck a reef and capsized, news agency reported Wilner Rene, an official from Haiti's Civil Protection Agency, as telling the local Radio Caraibes.

The assault on Arcahaie, located about 50 km northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince, began on October 21. Armed assailants initially hid in nearby areas before being discovered by police, Rene said, adding that the assault is ongoing and the police are in urgent need of reinforcements.

Two people were killed after a truck crashed into a house west of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria on Friday.

Victoria Police said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports that a truck veered from a highway and crashed into a house in the small town of Tower Hill -- 230 kilometres west of Melbourne -- just after 7 a.m. local time on Friday.

Both people who were inside the house at the time of the crash died. They were not yet formally identified.

The male driver and sole occupant of the truck were taken to hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, news agency reported quoting Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Sixteen people were killed in a gang clash in Mexican state of Guerrero, authorities said.

A group of armed men entered the municipality of Tecpan de Galeana around 4 a.m. local time (1000 GMT) in multiple vehicles, attempting to take control of the town and triggering the confrontation, according to residents' posts shared on social media on Thursday

Local police were caught up in the attack later with two officers killed and four others injured, Mexico's Defense Ministry said in a statement, news agency reported.

At least three bodies have been recovered after a helicopter carrying six oil workers and two crew members crashed in Nigeria's oil-rich state of Rivers.

The helicopter, operated by a private firm and hired by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, lost contact while flying from Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, to an oil production and storage facility, said Olufemi Soneye, the spokesman for the national oil company, in a statement on Thursday.

Aviation authorities said no emergency locator transmitter signal was received from the helicopter while confirming that manual efforts to plot the location of the accident were underway.

Georgia will hold its parliamentary elections under a fully proportional system for the first time on October 26, and the winning party will govern for the next four years.

There is a high probability that Georgia will see its first coalition government instead of one-party rule for the first time in Georgian history, according to media reports.

These are the first fully proportional parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia and the parliament will be composed of 150 members, news agency reported.

For the first time in the history of the country, Georgia will hold electronic voting with the use of counting and verification machines where almost 90 per cent of voters will vote via electronic devices installed at the polling stations.

Kenyan President William Ruto urged private investors to fully explore the country's geothermal energy potential, noting that only 10 per cent of it has been investigated.

Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the 35 megawatt (MW) Orpower 22 geothermal power plant in Menengai, Nakuru County, northwest Kenya, Ruto highlighted the untapped opportunities within the sector, news agency reported.

"So far, we have tapped only 950 MW, a small fraction of our geothermal potential of nearly 10,000 MW, leaving immense opportunities still untapped," he said.

Current immigration levels will keep Finland's population growing until 2070, according to the latest population forecast by Statistics Finland.

However, the number of children and working-age individuals will decline after mid-century, contributing to an ageing population, news agency reported.

Finland's population is expected to reach 6.5 million by 2070, but the number of children under 15 will drop from 832,000 to 700,000. The working-age population, currently around 3.46 million, will peak at 3.84 million in the 2050s before declining.

Markus Rapo, senior statistician at Statistics Finland, noted that high immigration is key to this growth, but it will not stop the rising demographic support ratio. This measures the ratio of non-working individuals to workers and currently stands at 62. However, the ratio is set to increase to 72 by 2070 as the elderly population grows.