One policeman was injured as a bomb blast targeted a police vehicle in the northern Baghlan provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri on Monday, a local official said.
Two suicide bombings which struck the eastern Nangarhar and southern Helmand provinces on Wednesday, have claimed 13 lives including four attackers in Afghanistan, officials said.
Up to 10 Taliban militants have been killed in Baghlan province, as clash flared up on Wednesday night, deputy to provincial police chief Abdul Rashid Bashir said Thursday.
At least 15 people have died or remain missing and more than 200 others have been injured since the powerful typhoon Mujigae made a surprise landing in southern China since Sunday.
A Taliban shadow provincial governor was killed along 14 militants following an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province on Sunday, an official source said.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Sunday that the victory secured by his government at the provincial council elections held over the weekend was an endorsement given by the people.
Sri Lankan election monitors on Wednesday voiced alarm at escalating violence in the run up to provincial elections next month with over 20 opposition party offices attacked this week.
Chinese authorities have decided to remove two senior officials of north China's Shanxi Province from their posts for suspected serious discipline violations.
Fifty people in central China's Hunan Province have been indicted for their roles in an electoral fraud, the provincial procuratorate said on Monday.
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Tuesday issued a regulation on assessing local governments' performance in implementing a government action plan on air pollution control.
Sixteen Taliban militants were killed in two military operations carried out by the Afghan security forces, officials said on Sunday.
Two new cases of human H7N9 were reported Thursday in south China's Guangdong Province, and another avian flu patient died
A new case of human contraction of H7N9 bird flu has been confirmed in east China's Jiangsu Province, provincial health authorities revealed on Wednesday.
Lingering droughts in central China's Hubei Province have affected more than 1.17 million people, local authorities said Sunday.
A memorial service was held on Wednesday for 161 people who died or went missing in a landslide that hit a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province during the previous week.
The provincial police chief of southern Afghan province of Helmand escaped unharmed a suicidal car bomb attack, which wounded three policemen, officials said on Monday.
One person died and 270,000 others were affected by a new round of rain in central China's Hunan Province, authorities said Wednesday. Downpours have also swept Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.
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