9 killed in car crash into crowd at Vancouver festival

Nine people have been confirmed dead after a car plowed into the crowd at a street festival in Canada's Vancouver on Saturday evening, local police said Sunday.

The Vancouver police said in an X post that they believe this incident was not an act of terrorism. The suspect, a 30-year-old Vancouver man, was arrested at the scene and an investigation is underway.

Local media reported that a black SUV struck individuals who were either walking or waiting near food trucks, leaving multiple victims lying on the ground.

Death toll from Iran's southern port blast reaches 40, over 1,000 wounded

The death toll from a massive explosion at a port in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday has reached 40, and the government has announced one day of national mourning, Iran's IRIB news agency reported on Sunday.

The explosion and the subsequent fire left more than 1,000 people wounded, of whom 197 were hospitalized, the IRIB quoted Hormozgan's Governor Mohammad Ashouri Taziani as saying.

At least 8 killed in new U.S. airstrikes on Yemeni capital

At least eight people were killed on Sunday night in U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa, Houthi-run health authorities said in a statement.

Dozens of people were wounded, according to initial estimates, as rescuers continue to search for survivors beneath the rubble of three houses bombed by U.S. fighter jets in the Bani Al-Harith district in northern Sanaa, the authorities said.

Lee Jae-myung elected presidential candidate for S. Korea's Democratic Party

Lee Jae-myung, former chief of South Korea's Democratic Party, was elected presidential candidate for the liberal party overwhelmingly, the party said Sunday.

Lee won 89.77 percent of all votes cast in the party's primary, marking the highest ever recorded in the Democratic Party-affiliated primaries since the country's democratization in 1987.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar to clear Syria's 15-mln-USD World Bank debt

Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced Sunday in a joint statement that they will jointly settle Syria's overdue payments to the World Bank Group totaling 15 million U.S. dollars, to support Syria's economic recovery.

According to a report by the Saudi Press Agency, the decision followed discussions at a recent high-level roundtable on Syria on the sidelines of the 2025 World Bank/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C..