INDONESIA: Rescuers searched for bodies and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings today after an earthquake killed more than 270 people on Java and injured hundreds more.

The death toll is likely to grow as search and rescue teams work in the rubble of fallen buildings on Indonesia’s main island.

The 5.6 magnitude quake occurred in West Java, the country’s most densely populated province, hitting the city of Cianjur hardest.

NORTHERN IRELAND: A conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ Northern Ireland committee began in Enniskillen today.

The conference is held every two years and attended by 200 delegates from the confederation’s 34 affiliated unions. Motions will concentrate mainly on the cost-of-living crisis.

HONG KONG: Six former executives of a now-defunct newspaper pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces in endangering national security.

The Apple Daily bosses were arrested last year and charged under the National Security Law, which criminalises subversion, terrorism and other anti-state activity.

RUSSIA: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel of Cuba is paying a state visit, laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soviet Soldier outside the Kremlin on Monday.

Mr Diaz-Canel, who is also first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party’s central committee, held a meeting with Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.

Later, Mr Diaz-Canel was received by Security Council vice-president Dmitri Medvedev, a former president.