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South Korea sees deaths of at least 22 people as a fire blazed at a lithium battery factory on Monday. Most of them are foreign nationals.

The blaze broke out at around 10:31 a.m. local time at a facility operated by battery maker Aircel in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, about 50 kilometers southwest of Seoul.

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A fatal train crash in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal has claimed the lives of 8 Indian citizens and injuring 60 others.

The accident occurred when a goods train hit a stationary passenger train, the Kanchenjungha Express, in the New Jalpaiguri area on Monday morning. Dramatic visuals from the accident site showed one wagon of the express train suspended in the air.

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Small 1000 armed drones have been approved for sale to Taiwan by the US, as the self-ruled island claimed by China aims to strengthen its asymmetrical warfare abilities with an eye on successful tactics used on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Four Iowa Cornell College instructors were taken to hospital after a "serious incident" during a daytime attack by a 55-year-old man in the northern province of Jilin.

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Hundreds of trash-laden balloons have been dropped in South Korea, reigniting a tit-for-tat exchange after South Korean activists sent floating packages in the other direction carrying K-pop and K-dramas on USB sticks.

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The sister to India's main opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, is set to contest her first election, ending decades of anticipation by her supporters.

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Rahul Gandhi, India's opposition leader, has demanded an investigation into a stock market crash that hit investors at the end of the general election.