TOKYO -- Two children died after a vehicle rammed into more than 10 preschoolers from a daycare center in western Japan, local media reported Wednesday.

According to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, the motorist hit a group of 13 children aged between two and three years old.(Japan-Car crash)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least three people were killed and 18 others injured on Wednesday morning in a blast near a police vehicle outside a shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, local media reported.

According to the reports, the blast hit the vehicle of police commandoes which was present for the Data Darbar, a famous shrine in the provincial capital of the eastern Punjab province.(Pakistan-Lahore-Blast)

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SEOUL -- Deputy nuclear envoys of South Korea and Russia discussed the Korean Peninsula issues in Russia's capital Moscow Tuesday, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Jeong Yeon-doo, director-general of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) nuclear affairs bureau at the South Korean foreign ministry, visited Moscow on Tuesday to consult with his Russian counterpart Oleg Burmistrov, an ambassador-at-large for DPRK affairs.(SKorea-Russia-Peninsula issues)

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COLOMBO -- Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday said that 56 suspects linked to the Easter Sunday terror explosions were in police custody.

Addressing Parliament, Sirisena said that security forces had been successful in identifying all those involved in the terror attacks and they had been able to restore normalcy in the country.(Sri Lanka-Terror suspects) Enditem

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