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Snowfall and chilly weather have claimed the lives of four persons in Wakhan district of Badakhshan province with Faizabad as capital, said Ahmad Nawed Frotan, spokesman for the provincial government, on Wednesday.
The Afghan security forces on Tuesday launched a wide-scale operation in a remote district, the latest in a campaign against insurgency and its supply lines, according to a military statement.
Units of Afghan army raided a Taliban hideout in Shindand district of the western Herat province and destroyed a huge weapon cache of the militants early Saturday, an army spokesman Mehdi Qadiri said.
Indonesia experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”
Six people were killed and 21 wounded in four bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday evening, a police source said.
Syrian pro-government forces have pushed deeper into rebel-held eastern Aleppo, forcing civilians to flee to southern neighbourhoods to escape the onslaught as the regime pressed an assault to recapture the entire city.
Road collapse in a commercial district in southwestern Japan caused power failure and disruption of traffic on Tuesday morning.
Death toll of flashfloods and landslides in West Java province of Indonesia rose to 23 with 15 people missing and 32 others injured, local disaster agency official said on Wednesday.
The Afghan security forces regained on Saturday the control of Khan Abad district, Kunduz province, seized by the Taliban militants earlier, police said.
Landslides and floods in central Indonesia's North Sulawesi Province have left four people dead, one missing and hundreds of houses damaged, an official of the local disaster mitigation agency said on Wednesday.
A massive fire gutted 60 residential houses in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Tuesday.
More cultural spaces will be encouraged in Beijing's highly commercialized hutong, includingthe popular Nanluoguxiang, according to the Dongheng district government.
Rescuers have discovered 16 bodies and are searching for five missing others after flash floods struck a tourist resort in Deli Serdang district of North Sumatra province on Sunday, top official at local disaster agency said Tuesday.
Cracks further appeared within Taliban rank as infighting between supporters of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor and his opponents headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul have killed 15 fighters from both sides in the western region of Afghanistan since Sunday, officials said Tuesday.
Up to 16 militants were killed and nearly two dozen others injured as aircrafts pounded Taliban hideouts in Pasawand district of the western Ghor province on Sunday.
Two local journalists were shot dead in two separate attacks on them within a span of 24 hours in India, officials said Saturday.
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