At least 900 miners who were trapped in a South African gold mine for more than 24 hours after a power outage have been safely evacuated.

A strong magnitude-7.1 earthquake has struck the coast of southern Peru.

Hundreds of thousands of children are at imminent risk of being hit by mines and other explosive weapons in war-torn eastern Ukraine, a UN report says.

Eight miners were killed and at least three more were missing following a landslide on the slopes of a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java.

The number of the casualties -- which were mostly recorded in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and Yemen -- showed a 30% surge compared to 2015.

Christian militiamen have killed a Mauritanian UN peacekeeper in an attack on a camp for displaced people in Central African Republic.

A coal mine collapse in Turkey's southeastern province of Sirnak has left seven miners killed and another missing.

Myanmar has been accused of planting landmines across an area of its border with Bangladesh as thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a bloody crackdown to take refuge in neighboring Bangladesh.

Russian officials say 17 people are missing inside a flooded diamond mine in Siberia.

Collapse of an illegal gold mine has caused missing of at least 14 miners in western Ghana.