Residents and police searched for survivors on Monday after a landslide at a gold mine in the Solomon Islands, a witness and officials told AFP.

Australia's emergency management official said on Monday that a test of a new national emergency warning system was successful after it was broadcast to 94 percent of cell towers.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is joining hands with southern Thailand's Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and other public and private agencies in celebrating Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan's inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Tehran summoned the French ambassador to Tehran to protest "interference in Iran's internal affairs" as two French diplomats were briefly detained earlier this month.

TEHRAN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday condemned Ukraine's illegal attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea during a phone call on Sunday, according to Iran's foreign ministry.Araghchi condemned Ukraine's move as a dangerous adventurism and clear violation of the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, stressing that Iran would decisively defend its national security and interests, the ministry said in a statement.Lavrov, for his part, denounced the attack as an action in violation of international law and a threat against the trade routes between Russia and Iran, the statement added.The two ministers also discussed regional developments following what Tehran described as the U.S. breach of promises and imposition of insecurity on the Strait of Hormuz, according to the statement.According to Iran's foreign ministry, the attack took place at 3:00 a.m. local time on Saturday (2330 GMT on Friday), and led to the vessel's explosion and a sailor's death. The semi-official Mehr news agency on Sunday reported that three sailors were also injured in the attack.Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had hit a Russian warship and vessels used for transporting Iran-linked military cargo in the Caspian Sea.

TEHRAN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the United States is exchanging messages with Iran through mediators, including Pakistan and Qatar, according to Iranian media reports, citing his remarks in an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF.Baghaei stressed in the interview that for any dialogue to be formed, the proper ground must be prepared, noting that the United States has destroyed such a ground, Iranian media reported on Sunday.He accused Washington of violating all its provisions in practice under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States.The spokesman said Iran's current priority is to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity and protect its people against the war crimes that are being perpetrated by the United States.Under the MoU signed on June 18, the United States and Iran were scheduled to hold talks within a period of 60 days to reach a final agreement, but the talks' fate is hanging in the balance following renewed clashes between the two over the past two weeks.