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The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan has exceeded 500, as heavy seasonal monsoon rains bloat rivers, submerge villages and trigger landslides.

More than a million of people have been affected by the floods in the country's northwestern sector and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Chinese authorities have said that heavy rains in the country's northeast caused floods, leaving at least 37 people dead.

The natural disaster has also left a further 35 missing in Jilin province, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

China has once again felt the effects of its poor coal mining safety measures in the wake of an explosion, which killed at least 15 people in a northern mine.

The explosion occurred at a coal mine near the town of Linfen in the northern province of Shanxi on Saturday.

Raging forest fires sweeping across central Russia have left 25 people dead and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes for safe places.

Accompanied by an unprecedented heat wave and strong winds, the huge fire on Friday continued to consume more lands and homes.

Over 400 people have lost their lives in Pakistan's flash floods and landslides caused by heavy seasonal monsoon rains.

Around 300,000 people have been affected by the floods in the country's northwest and the Pakistani-administered Kashmir, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed more than 200 people and rendered thousands homeless in northwestern Pakistan.

Rivers having burst their banks after two days of heavy rain -- the worst in 80 years -- have gone on to destroy whole communities of mud brick huts, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.

140 people have lost their lives in a boat accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo when an overloaded vessel capsized on a river in the west of the country.

Officials say the boat -- carrying passengers and goods -- overturned on the Kasai River in Bandundu province, AFP reported.

The United States is hit with another oil spill in the northern state of Michigan, as Washington is yet to deal with the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The new leak sent more than one million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, officials said Wednesday, AFP reported.

Torrential rains in eastern Afghanistan have caused flash floods, killing at least 40 people and leaving hundreds more homeless, a report says.

The incident also left 15 more Afghans injured on Wednesday, the country's Tolo television channel reported.

China's worst flooding in more than a decade has killed nearly 1,000 people across the country and stranded tens of thousands in the northeast without power.

The state-run flood control office said 928 people have been killed since the rainy season began in May and 477 others are missing.