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50 ISIS-K terrorists surrender in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 6 (ANI): At least 50 Daesh (ISIS-K) militants have surrendered to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, local officials said on Sunday.
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Death toll in Philippines from Typhoon Rai rises to 144: Reports
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from Typhoon Rai that battered the Philippines this week has climbed to at least 144, local officials said on Sunday.
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Uyghur policeman tortured to death for helping detainee: Report
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI): A Uyghur police officer in China's Xinjiang province who was said to have committed suicide was instead tortured to death for helping a camp detainee, Radio Free Asia (RSA) has reported.
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Taliban ask officials not to carry out public executions unless directed b
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 16 (ANI): The Taliban has directed local officials to refrain from carrying out punishments in public unless Afghanistan's "top court" issues the order for public execution.
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10 injured in knife attack on Tokyo train
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 7 (ANI): At least 10 people were injured after a man stabbed them on Tokyo's Odakyu Electric Railway commuter train on Friday, local officials said.
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Taliban blow up culverts on Kabul-Jalalabad highway in Aghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nangarhar [Afghanistan], August 5 (ANI): Taliban terrorists blew up three culverts on the second highway between Kabul and Jalalabad in Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, Pajhwok Afghan News citing local officials reported on Thursday.
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Plane crash-lands in Somalia with over 40 passengers onboard
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mogadishu [Somalia], July 21 (ANI): A plane carrying more than 40 passengers crash-landed into a military base in Gedo region, southern Somalia, early Wednesday, local officials confirmed.
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Two border towns in Afghanistan's Herat province fall to Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 9 (ANI): The Islam Qala border town, one of the key trade gateways of Afghanistan into Iran, and the Torghundi border town, another trade gateway into Turkmenistan, have fallen to the Taliban, according to local officials.
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Roadside blast kills 3 in Kenya's border region
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mandera [Kenya], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): At least three people were killed and two others injured in a roadside blast on Wednesday evening in northeast Kenya's Mandera county, the police and local officials said.
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9 missing people in Indonesia's boat accident found dead
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], May 17 (ANI/Xinhua): The nine-missing people in a boat accident in the Kedung Ombo Reservoir in Boyolali district, Indonesia's Central Java province, have been found dead, local officials said on Monday.
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China underreporting severity of air pollution levels, says study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 23 (ANI): Air pollution data in China may have been manipulated by local officials, according to a new study conducted by Harvard and Boston University researchers.
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Afghanistan: 2 killed, 3 injured in two separate blasts
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 27 (ANI): Two people were killed and three injured in two blasts in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces on Saturday, TOLO News reported citing local officials and police.
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