Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

A tornado has swept through Hainan island in southern China, killing eight people and injuring two others.

Police say protesters in Indonesia’s restive Papua province have set fire to an indigenous assembly building.

A Yemeni commander says airstrikes have hit government forces heading to the southern port city of Aden to fight separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 30 troops.

Ex-premier Giuseppe Conte on Thursday accepted a fresh mandate to try and cobble together a new government backed by the populist 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democrats, aimed at blocking right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini’s power grab.

The head of Russia’s election commission is standing by a decision to keep a dozen independent candidates from running for the city legislature in Moscow, but concedes after weeks of protests drew unusually large crowds, thousands of arrests and unfavorable attention that the qualification rules are outdated.

Norway’s top prosecutor on Thursday asked police and prosecutors across the country to identify all criminal cases where telecommunications data have been obtained from Denmark, amid concerns about the data being used as evidence.

A Virginia man will serve five years in prison without parole for the death of a pit bull that was tied to a fence, covered in accelerant and set on fire.

German unemployment remained unchanged in August as the labor market held steady despite signs of a slowing economy.

The Latest on efforts to form a new Italian government (all times local):