MOSCOW -- All people on board the An-28 plane that disappeared on radar earlier on Friday have been found alive after the aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia's Tomsk region.

Two children were among the passengers together with four crew members, local media reported. (Russia-Plane-landing)

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BERLIN -- The death toll from the flood disaster triggered by heavy rainfall in western and southern Germany has risen to more than 100 as of Friday noon local time, according to police and local authorities.

The federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were hit particularly hard, with 43 people and 60 people killed respectively. (Germany-Flood-Missing)

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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- The Afghan security forces repelled an attack by Taliban on Shiberghan city, capital of Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province on Friday, killing and injuring dozens of militants, local police said.

Sporadic fighting started early Friday when dozens of Taliban militants armed with guns and heavy weapons entered from two directions in the south and east of the city, provincial police officer Abobakar Jilani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Attack)

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ABUJA -- Nigerian army on Friday confirmed that a senior army officer was shot dead by gunmen who attacked his vehicle in the country's central region on Thursday.

The army said in a statement that its former provost marshal, Major General Hassan Ahmed was killed by a group of gunmen while transiting along the Lokoja-Abuja road in the central part of the country. (Nigeria-Gunmen) Enditem

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