MOSCOW -- Russia's air defense systems have shot down 10 U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, one Ukrainian Neptune long-range guided missile, and around 400 Ukrainian drones over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Additionally, Russia's Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel in the central Black Sea, the ministry said in a statement. (Russia-Ukraine-Fight)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the number of its Ground Force members killed in a "terrorist" attack on Wednesday had risen to four.
The fourth member succumbed to his wounds sustained in a clash with the "terrorists" in the Lar area, northeast of the provincial capital Zahedan in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the IRGC reported through its official news outlet Sepah News, without specifying the assailants' affiliation. (Iran-IRGC-Terrorist)
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ISLAMABAD -- Two children were killed and 16 others injured when a mortar shell exploded at a seminary in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police sources said on Thursday.
The blast happened at about 2:00 p.m. local time (0900 GMT) in North Waziristan district of the province on Monday, where some students brought in a mortar shell they had found outside the seminary and mistook it for a toy, the sources told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Blast)
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SOFIA -- Bulgaria's coalition government led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned on Thursday, a day after thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets in nationwide protests.
Zhelyazkov announced the decision minutes before lawmakers voted on the sixth no-confidence motion against his government. The motion, brought forward by opposition parties over what they described as failures in economic policy, secured only 106 votes in the 240-seat parliament, well short of the majority needed for passage. (Bulgaria-Government-Resigns) Enditem
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