QUITO -- Three people, including two police officers, were killed and two other officers were injured in an armed attack Monday on the road to Samborondon, a town in the coastal province of Guayas in southwest Ecuador, the country's Attorney General's Office (FGE) said.

According to the FGE report, the victims were shot near the town of San Gil, where two vehicles were found containing firearms and ammunition. (Ecuador-Armed Attack)

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SEOUL -- South Korea on Tuesday protested at Japan's renewed territorial claims to the disputed islets lying halfway between the two countries, called Dokdo by South Korea and Takeshima by Japan.

South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement that the government strongly protests against the Japanese government, which reiterated its unjust territorial claims to Dokdo through its diplomatic blue paper earlier in the day. (South Korea-Japan-Territorial Dispute)

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DHAKA -- A head-on collision between a bus and a pickup truck killed 13 people in central Bangladesh on Tuesday, a senior police official said.

The fatal road accident happened at around 7:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) in Bangladesh's central Faridpur district, some 101 km away from the capital Dhaka, Mohammad Morshed Alam, the district's police chief, told Xinhua. (Bangladesh-Road Accident)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exchanged views on Iran's massive retaliatory military operation against Israel on Monday.

In a phone call on Monday night, the two sides also discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry early Tuesday. (Iran-UN-Phone Call) Enditem

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