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RAYTOWN: Three people, including two children, have been injured in an explosion at a suburban Kansas City duplex. Firefighters, police and medics responded around 7 pm. Monday to the explosion and subsequent fire at the Raytown home.…

NAIROBI: Ethiopia's government says it has "positively accepted'' a call for an immediate, unilateral cease-fire in its Tigray region after nearly eight months of deadly conflict and as hundreds of thousands of people face the world's…

HONG KONG: A fire engulfed 16 vessels in a Hong Kong typhoon shelter early Sunday, resulting in at least 10 boats sinking and one person sent to a hospital. The fire broke out at about 2:30am at the Aberdeen South typhoon shelter in Hong…

ISLAMABAD: Unidentified armed men opened fire on a security check-post in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, killing at least four paramilitary soldiers. The attack took place on Thursday in Kahan area of Kohlu district. The armed…

SHANDONG: Six people were killed after a fire engulfed a gold mine in east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday, local authorities have said. The fire broke out around 6 am as workers were conducting equipment maintenance at the…

PERTH: An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed an estimated 30 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many locals across the region told it is too late to leave. The…

KYIV: At least 15 people were killed and 11 injured in a fire in a nursing home in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian state emergency service said on Thursday. The fire broke out in the afternoon on the second floor of…