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.
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday condemned the U.S. bombing in Iraq and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the National News Agency reported.
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.