International from Monday, September 18th, 2023

At least 24 people were killed in a passenger bus accident in Peru on Monday, according to the company operating the vehicle.

A spring heat wave across large parts of Australia's southeast, including Sydney, will intensify on Monday, the weather bureau said, with temperatures expected to peak up to 16 degrees Celsius above the September average.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his forces had recaptured an eastern village on the southern flank of Bakhmut, in what would be Ukraine's second significant gain in three days in its grueling counteroffensive against the Russian army.

People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya's eastern city of Derna a week ago faced the dilemma on Sunday of whether to stay and risk infection or flee through areas where landmines have been displaced by the torrents.

Thousands of protesters kicked off "Climate Week" and filled the streets of Midtown, Manhattan, on Sunday ahead of the UN General Assembly this week, calling for President Joe Biden and world leaders to end fossil fuel use.

Lee made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds in Canada's Nova Scotia province, flooding roads, downing trees and cutting out power for tens of thousands of people along the North Atlantic coast.