The US government says the flying objects pose no threat to national security, but their origin and intentions remain unclear.
Close to 1,000 people may have been killed after Cyclone Chido hit the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, the island's top official has said. Mayotte Prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told local TV station la 1ere: "I think there are some several hundred dead, maybe we'll get close to a thousand, even thousands... given the violence of this event." Officials had confirmed at least 11 deaths in Mayotte earlier on Sunday but said that was expected to increase.
Returning home to Homs is a lottery.