Asia

Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people died in flooding after a tropical storm dumped heavy rainfall, as Taiwan and China’s east coast prepared for a typhoon expected to make landfall in the coming days.

They called themselves the “German driving school for experts,” but prosecutors say the true purpose of their Telegram chats was to brag about the women they raped and share tips about how to drug them.

A southern Chinese region on Wednesday was reeling from the destruction and widespread flooding caused by record-breaking rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Maysak.

The storm also affected the Northern Mariana Islands as the area was still recovering from a destructive cyclone that struck in April.

The Philippine Senate, acting as an impeachment court, will open the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday in a politically volatile event that will unfold with the backdrop of her bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian security forces Friday recovered the body of an American pilot who was killed after armed separatist attacked and burned a small aircraft in the restive Papua region, a military commander said.

BEIJING — Trade tensions between China and Europe are heating up, even as Europeans turn to China for help cooling down.

Police in New York City said Thursday that a man died from severe burns near the United Nations headquarters, and activists and a media outlet of exiled Tibetans identified him as a Tibetan who set himself on fire in an appeal for independence.

A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.

A fire tore through a commercial building in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Monday, killing at least 14 people, most of them students, officials said.