MOSCOW -- Russia's incumbent President and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, who is set to win reelection, said he would do his utmost to achieve national development goals on Monday morning.

Putin has won 87.32 percent of the vote after 95.04 percent of all ballots were counted, according to data from the Russian Central Election Commission as of Monday morning. (Russia-Presidential Election)

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DAMASCUS -- An explosion shook the eastern countryside of the southern Syrian province of Daraa on Sunday night, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The war monitor reported that the explosion coincided with Jordanian warplanes flying over the Syrian-Jordanian border. (Syria-Explosion)

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MANILA -- A woman was killed after the motorcycle she and her husband were riding was hit by an overtaking bus along a highway in Rizal province of the Philippines at dawn on Monday, police said.

Police said the accident occurred around 4 a.m. while the couple traveled along a highway in Taytay town. The woman died at the crash site, while her husband sustained injuries in the left arm. (Philippines-Road crash)

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CANBERRA -- The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been deployed to carry out evacuations from a remote area of the Northern Territory (NT) ahead of a cyclone making landfall.

Murray Watt, the minister for emergency management, on Monday approved a request from the NT government for ADF assistance to evacuate up to 800 people from the town of Borroloola -- more than 700 km southeast of Darwin -- and its surrounds as the region braces for Tropical Cyclone Megan. (Australia-Cyclone-Evacuation) Enditem

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