UGANDA: At least 20 children and one adult were killed when a primary school bus crashed in Uganda, police said yesterday.

The bus crashed Thursday night in the Kapchorwa District in eastern Uganda while returning from an educational tour to the region’s Sipi Falls waterfalls, the Uganda Police Force said in a statement posted on social media.

Police said survivors, including three adults and several children, were taken to local hospitals.

CHINA: A landslide Friday in the south-west Chinese city of Chongqing in Pengshui County buried more than 10 residential buildings, trapping an undetermined number of people, local media reported.

State broadcaster CCTV said at least nine people were rescued from the debris, and that search and rescue operations were ongoing.

ISRAEL: Israel’s parliament dissolved early yesterday after passing a marathon of Bills in the last moments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.

The Knesset, which was scheduled to break for its summer recess yesterday, will not reconvene before the elections scheduled on October 27.

Clearing the decks for the election, the Knesset has recently halted the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox men into the military, curbed the powers of the judiciary and increased state control of the broadcast media.

PAKISTAN: Pakistani security forces raided multiple militant hideouts in the country’s north-west region, killing Pakistani Taliban and seizing a cache of weapons, the military and local officials said.

The military said yesterday that it used intelligence sources to target militants in operations carried out over the previous day that killed 24 members of the outlawed Pakistani Taliban and Baloch separatist groups.