Bolivian President Evo Morales on Sunday said he was resigning for the “good of the country” after 14 years in office. The South American nation descended into deadly protests after Morales claimed he won a fourth term on Oct. 20 and many accused him of election fraud. The country’s military chief called for his resignation after police guards outside the presidential palace abandoned their posts.

Officials in Australia’s most populous state declared a state of emergency on Monday. Some 1,500 firefighters are battling 60 fires throughout New South Wales. The fires have killed at least three people and injured more than 100 others, including firefighters, since Friday.

Germany is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany reopened its border with West Germany after 28 years and later tore down the wall separating the two nations.

Around 1,000 masked protesters chanting “a blood debt must be paid in blood” filed through Hong Kong’s central district midday on Friday. Hours earlier, the Hospital Authority confirmed the death of a 22-year-old student protester who fell off a parking garage after police fired tear gas nearby during clashes with protesters on Monday.

The rural East Azerbaijan region of Iran recorded more than 40 aftershocks following a shallow 5.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday. The quake led to the deaths of at least five people and injured more than 300 others while destroying at least 30 homes, provincial Gov. Mohammad-Reza Pourmohammadi told local media.

Is Iran prone to earthquakes? The country sits on major seismic faults and experiences frequent earthquakes.

The United States and China have agreed to lift some of the tariffs they imposed on each other’s goods. Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng on Thursday said the “phased cancellation” will continue if talks on a trade deal progress. The size of the cuts will depend on the agreement reached, he said.

Two former Twitter employees gathered private data on prominent critics of the Saudi government, federal prosecutors revealed on Wednesday. In return, Saudi Arabia gave the workers designer watches and moved tens of thousands of dollars into secret bank accounts. Authorities have also accused another Saudi citizen who works for the royal family of spying.