BEIRUT/JERUSALEM -- A Hezbollah member was killed on Friday in an Israeli drone strike in the city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities and a security source.

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center under Lebanon's Health Ministry confirmed in a statement that "an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle on the Sidon-Ghazieh road, resulting in one fatality." (Lebanon-Hezbollah-Israeli Drone Strike)

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KATHMANDU -- Forty-one people have lost their lives and 257 others sustained injuries in pre-monsoon disasters in Nepal, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said on Friday.

Properties worth hundreds of millions of rupees have been destroyed in the disasters. (Nepal-Pre-monsoon Disasters)

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KABUL -- Pakistan expelled over 5,000 Afghan refugees on Thursday, the local media Tolonews reported Friday.

The refugees returned from Pakistan via Torkham and Spin Boldak crossing points to Afghanistan on Thursday, the report said, adding that the returnees have received necessary assistance. (Pakistan-Afghan refugees)

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ULAN BATOR -- At least 44 cases of human tick-borne diseases have been reported in Mongolia since the beginning of this year, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said on Friday.

"Currently, five of the infected people were being treated at the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases," the NCCD said in a statement. (Mongolia-Diseases) Enditem

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