A chartered helicopter crashed in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday afternoon, killing six people on board while injuring 10 others, police officials said.

The incident happened at about 1 pm local time when a helicopter chartered by a private oil exploration and production company Mari Petroleum crashed in the Shewa area of North Waziristan district of the province, District Police Officer Rokhanzeb Khan news agency.

Six people, including two Russian pilots of the aircraft, were killed in the unfortunate incident, said the official, adding that 10 others sustained injuries, including staff of the private company.

The incident occurred due to a technical fault in the aircraft immediately after it took off, according to local government officials. The engine of the helicopter caught fire before it hit the ground and crashed, officials added.

The cause of the technical fault is still unknown and is being investigated by the relevant authorities.

Following the incident, rescue teams and security personnel reached the area and cordoned it off.

At least nine people have died and 48 went missing after an illegal migrant boat capsized off the island of El Hierro, Spain's maritime rescue service confirmed on Saturday.

Another 27 people were rescued, according to the maritime rescue's X account.

The rescue is still going on with several vessels and a helicopter searching for the missing.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in Nepal have claimed at least 59 lives and injured 36 others by Saturday afternoon, local police said.

A total of 44 others had gone missing in the disasters sparked by rainfalls since Friday evening, and the police had rescued 1,252 people from different parts of Nepal, said Dan Bahadur Karki, Nepali Police spokesperson.

"Of the total casualties, 34 deaths were from the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley,"

"At least 17 people were missing while 16 others were injured in the valley."

The Philippines recorded 354 rabies cases and deaths from January to September 14 this year, a 23 per cent increase from the 287 cases tallied in the same period last year, according to data from the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH).

"All confirmed rabies cases are fatal," the agency said on Friday, adding that this year's number "may still vary with incoming reports."

In August, the agency said that at least 10 regions across the country, including Metro Manila, have shown a spike in rabies cases,news agency reported.

As many as 12 miners were killed and 11 others injured following a landslide at a traditional mine in Solok regency of Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

The landslide, which occurred during heavy downpours on Thursday afternoon, has severely hampered rescue operations due to a lack of communication access and challenging terrain, a senior rescuer said on Saturday.

Abdul Malik, head of the provincial search and rescue office, said that efforts to locate two remaining miners were ongoing, although their condition remains unknown,news agency reported.

"The latest data shows that 12 people have lost their lives, and 11 others are receiving medical treatment for their injuries. Rescuers have identified the location of the two remaining miners and are working to retrieve them from the mine shaft," Malik said.

Ten people were killed and seven others went missing on Saturday in floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in Nepal.

The casualties occurred in Kavrepalanchowk, Lalitpur, and Dhankuta districts, with houses collapsed or swept away by landslides following days of continuous rain.

"Over 175 incidents of floods and landslides have been reported since Friday, leading to loss of lives and properties," said Nepal Police spokesperson Dan Bahadur Karki.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday announced that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has been eliminated following a deadly strike on the headquarters of the Lebanese militant group in the southern suburbs of Beirut late Friday.

It also confirmed that, along with Nasrallah, several other commanders of the terrorist organisation - including Ali Karchi, the commander of Hezbollah's southern front - have been eliminated in the strikes by the fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force "under the precise intelligence guidance of the intelligence wing and the defence system", at the underground central headquarters of Hezbollah, located under a residential building, in the Daha area of Beirut.

Four people, including two young men aged 18 and 19, died in a two-vehicle crash in the rural area of Australia's New South Wales (NSW), NSW police said in a statement on Saturday.

The police said that emergency services were called to the scene at about 9.20 p.m. local time on Friday on Newell Highway, approximately 35 km south of NSW's city Dubbo, following reports of a multi-vehicle crash.

Officers attended the scene and found that a Toyota Hilux and a Toyota Hiace van had collided.

At least 11 people were killed in a road accident, with 21 others injured after a truck overturned in the Mbeya region in Tanzania's southern highlands.

Mbeya regional commissioner Juma Homera on Friday said that the accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. local time (0345 GMT). The truck, carrying 11 people from Mbalizi to Ilembo some 60 km away, plunged into a gorge, Homera told in a telephone interview.

According to Homera, the 11 people, after being informed that the truck was defective, pressed the driver to drive on to attend an auction on time, news agency reported.

Norway will grant collective protection to fewer Ukrainians arriving from six areas deemed safe by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, the government said.

If no individual need for protection exists, applications from new asylum seekers from these areas will be rejected, it said.

For the past two and a half years, most Ukrainians fleeing to Norway have been given temporary protection without individual assessment, but now applications from safe regions of Ukraine will be evaluated under regular asylum regulations, news agency reported.