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Manila: A fire broke out on a motor tanker while anchored off Batangas province, south of Manila, on Sunday, killing two people, officials said.The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) initially reported that one died from the blaze that razed the...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's navy said it apprehended a multi day fishing trawler with 200 kg of heroin valued at more than 4,000 million Sri Lankan rupees (12.3 million U.S. dollars) on Sunday.The navy said in a statement that the...

Kabul: More than 12,000 Afghan refugees have returned to south Afghanistan from Pakistan over the past months, deputy head of Refugees and Repatriation Directorate in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province Momin Agha said.According to the official, on average 820 families,...

King Edward Point: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted South Sandwich Islands region at 0303 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.The epicenter, with a depth of 35.1 km, was initially determined to...

Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday it managed to kill several Hamas fighters, including a member of the Nukhba elite unit."Yesterday, the IDF killed two terror operatives near the security fence between Israel and the Gaza...

Patna: An earthquake of moderate intensity of 5.3 measured on richter scale, rocked several districts of Bihar on Sunday morning but no casualty was reported from any part of the state so far.Weather department sources said that earthquake of...

Gaza: More than 50 Palestinians were killed as a result of overnight Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing medical workers.On October 7, Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale rocket attack against Israel from...

Jerusalem: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said its aircraft were carrying out strikes against targets of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement in response to missile launches towards Israel."Over the last few hours, in response to rocket launches and anti-tank missiles fired...

Kyiv: The Russian military hit Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen in the Donetsk direction near Kleshcheyevka and Kurdyumovka; Ukraine lost up to 155 military personnel, Vadim Astafyev, the South group's spokesman, told Sputnik.“In the Donetsk direction, units of the South...

Moscow: Colonel General Viktor Afzalov has become the new commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces (RAF), replacing Army General Sergei Surovikin, local media reported on Saturday.Afzalov, who was previously acting commander-in-chief of the RAF, was born on June 9,1968.He...