PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan -- A total of 40 militants including Taliban's shadow governor for the besieged northern Baghlan province have been killed by government forces, a spokesman for the Afghan Special Forces Corps said on Thursday.

"Units of Special Forces backed by airpower begun targeting Taliban positions around provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri in the early hours of Thursday and so far 40 armed rebels including Mawlawi Abidullah, the shadow governor for Baghlan, have been killed and six main bases of the militants have been destroyed," Abdul Ghafar Nuristani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Militants)

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TOKYO -- Dozens of people were injured after a train collided with a truck in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Thursday, causing the train to derail.

According to rescue officials, as many as 33 people were injured in the collision that occurred on a crossing on the Keikyu Line between Kanagawa-Shimmachi and Nakakido stations, in Yokohama, at around 11:40 a.m. local time.

The collision derailed a number of carriages of the train and caused the truck to burst into flames, rescue officials said. (Japan-Traffic Accident)

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SYDNEY -- Australian researchers have called for an urgent rethink of coastal infrastructure, issuing a world-first global framework to guide policy makers in designing resilient coastal ecosystems.

The report released on Thursday by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) suggests that to cope with climate change, policy makers and scientists take a much more active role in shaping natural coastal environments beyond purely defensive or damage-mitigating measures. (Australia-Coastal Infrastructure)

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MANILA -- The Philippines' headline inflation further eased to 1.7 percent in August 2019, the lowest rate recorded in 34 months, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Thursday.

The August rate is lower than the 2.4-percent inflation rate in July 2019, and is the lowest since October 2016, when the inflation rate was 1.8 percent.

According to the PSA, the slowdown of inflation in August was mainly due to the slower annual increase in food and non-alcoholic beverages at 0.6 percent. (Philippines-Inflation) Enditem

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