Despite ongoing state and local efforts, California's homeless population grew to nearly 186,000 people, according to the latest point-in-time count data analysed by CalMatters, highlighting the persistent challenges faced by the Golden State of the United States.

In a report published by CalMatters on Tuesday, the 2024 count revealed a slight uptick from last year's tally of about 181,000 and an 8 per cent increase from 2022. However, the growth rate appeared to be slowing compared to previous years, which saw increases of 13 per cent between 2019 and 2022, and 16 per cent between 2015 and 2017.

The Israeli military released video footage showing a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, where it says the bodies of six hostages shot dead by Hamas were found.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Daniel Hagari presented the video at a press conference after touring the tunnel on Tuesday. He said a shaft hidden in a residential home in Rafah, southern Gaza, led to the tunnel buried 20 meters underground.

The video shows a low, narrow passageway with no bathroom and poor ventilation, according to news agency.

Hagari added that the tunnel was extremely humid, saying, "There is no air to breathe."

Two men died and two men were injured after a wing van truck and a cement mixer truck collided in Iloilo province in the central Philippines, police said on Wednesday.

Police said that a head-on crash, which happened around 11 a.m. local time on Tuesday in Leganes, a town north of the provincial capital, Iloilo City, killed the 45-year-old commercial truck helper and the 40-year-old driver of the concrete mixer truck.

Typhoon Yagi and the consequent landslides and floods had left 141 dead and 59 missing in Vietnam's region, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced on Wednesday.

Among the fatalities, 29 were from Cao Bang Province, 45 from Lao Cai Province and 37 were from Yen Bai Province.

Local authorities of Tuyen Quang province confirmed on Tuesday that the dyke of Lo River running through Quyet Thang commune has broken due to rising river water, reports, quoting Vietnam News Agency.

Flood levels on the Red River in the capital Hanoi have surpassed warning level 2 out of three levels and are forecast to reach the highest level on Wednesday at noon, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting on early Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris said that former President Donald Trump was “fired by 81 million voters” in the 2024 election during an exchange in the debate on the latter's continuing refusal to acknowledge he lost.

“I got almost 75 million votes, the most votes any sitting President has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63 which was what I got in 2016 you can't be beaten in the election. People should never be thinking that an election is fraudulent,” Trump said when asked by moderators to explain his recent statements in which he had seemingly acknowledged losing the 2024 election.

An unprecedented autumn heat wave in South Korea is set to reach its peak on Wednesday, the state weather agency said, as the daytime high is forecast to rise to a record 35 degrees Celsius in Seoul amid a heat wave advisory issued for almost all regions of the country.

The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said overnight temperatures in the capital again stayed above 25 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, marking the latest tropical night since modern meteorological observation began, news agency reported.

The southern island of Jeju experienced the tropical night phenomenon for a record 65 consecutive days.

Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump traded charges on his legal challenges and conviction.

To Trump’s charge that the Biden administration was allowing criminals to come into the country through the southern border, Harris said, “I think this is so rich coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference has been found liable for sexual assault, and his next big court appearance is in November at his own criminal sentencing.”

In the first US presidential debate, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris accused her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, of aligning with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

When the discussion shifted to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Trump refrained from answering directly whether he wanted Ukraine to win the war. Instead, he said, "I think it's in the US' best interest to get this war finished."

Harris responded sharply, taunting Trump for his "friendship" with Putin. She suggested that Trump would cave under pressure from the Russian leader.

"Putin would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland," Harris said. "How quickly you would give up for the sake of favour and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch."

Bangladesh has cleared 1.37 billion US dollars in bimonthly payments with the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), an arrangement for settling payments for intra-regional transactions among its members.

After the ACU payment, Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves reached 19.46 billion dollars as per calculations based on the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payment Manual 6 as of September 8, according to the latest data of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank.

According to a central bank official, Bangladesh forex reserves usually go down when the country clears ACU payments every two months.

Bangladesh reported 534 new dengue cases and five new deaths on Tuesday, taking the tally to 16,819 and the death toll to 102 so far this year, the Ministry of Health said.

According to the data, 3,978 dengue cases were recorded in September, after 6,521 in August and 2,669 in July.

Of the total deaths, 19 were recorded in September, 27 in August and 12 in July, news agency reported.

The June-September monsoon period is the season of dengue fever in Bangladesh, which is considered a high-risk country prone to the mosquito-borne disease.