International news from Saturday, August 8th, 2026

Thousands of residents in British Columbia were ordered to evacuate on Saturday as a fast-moving wildfire in western Canada nearly doubled in size overnight.

The death toll from a school shooting in Thailand rose to nine on Saturday, after police said a 12-year-old girl caught up in Friday's incident had died.

Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture on Saturday, injuring five people and cutting power to 14,000 buildings, while China shut ports and ferry routes ahead of the storm's expected arrival on its east coast.

Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding capital Kyiv on Saturday, an official said.

Spain's government said on Friday it would establish border controls for flights and ships from Italy from midnight on Saturday until September 7 in a dispute with the neighbouring country over irregular migration.