JAKARTA -- Sixty-three bodies have been retrieved after flash floods hit Indonesia's easternmost Papua province on Saturday night, and a search and rescue operation is ongoing for dozens still missing, a rescue team member said on Sunday.

The flash floods, triggered by torrential rains, destroyed buildings, bridges and other infrastructure facilities, Cory Simbolon, head of the emergency unit of the provincial disaster management agency, told Xinhua. (Indonesia-Floods)

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TOKYO -- Thousands of Okinawa residents in southern Japan rallied on Saturday to oppose a relocation plan of a U.S. air base within the prefecture.

Some 10,000 protesters gathered at a park in the prefectural capital of Naha, demanding the Japanese and U.S. governments halt a plan to move the Futenma base from the Ginowan region to the less densely populated coastal area of Henoko, which is also on the island. (Japan-Okinawa-Protest)

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KABUL -- At least seven people, including a senior police officer, have been killed and three others wounded in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.

In one incident in southern Kandahar province, police chief Hajji Zamari, head of provincial Public Protection Police Force department, was killed along with three civilians following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Arghandab district late Saturday. (Afghanistan-Bomb Attacks)

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CARACAS -- Venezuela on Saturday launched civic-military exercises to protect the nation's public services in the wake of a recent purported sabotage of the electricity system.

"The Comprehensive Action Exercises begin to protect the nation's strategic public services," President Nicolas Maduro tweeted. (Venezuela-Drill-Public Service) Enditem

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