ITALY: A fuel depot exploded in the central Italian region of Tuscany yesterday, killing at least two people and injuring nine, authorities said.

Italy’s ENI oil company said the cause of the explosion at the depot in Calenzano, near Florence, was under investigation. It said the flames were confined to a loading area and had not spread to nearby tanks.

INDONESIA:  Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java, officials said yesterday. 

Torrential rains since last week have caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through more than 170 villages in Sukabumi district of West Java.

INDIA: The foreign secretaries of Bangladesh and India met yesterday in Dhaka to discuss their strained relations, including the growing tensions after former Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina fled to India for exile in August.  

Alleged assaults targeting minority Hindus in Bangladesh and an attack on a Bangladeshi diplomatic mission in India featured prominently in yesterday’s talks between Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Mohammad Jashim Uddin.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Prosecutors told the International Criminal Court yesterday that they were confident that two alleged leaders of a predominantly Christian rebel group, the anti-Balaka, in the Central African Republic were guilty of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Former CAR football federation president Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona and Alfred Yekatom are accused of involvement in atrocities including murder and torture during fighting with the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group in 2013 and 2014.