KUALA LUMPUR -- Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalized following a fall at his home on Tuesday morning, according to his press secretary.
Mahathir was taken to the National Heart Institute at 9:30 a.m. local time by ambulance but remained conscious, the secretary said in a brief statement. (Malaysia-Former PM-Fall)
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ISLAMABAD -- At least 2,597 terrorists were killed in more than 75,000 counter-terrorism operations conducted across Pakistan in 2025, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, disclosed the figures while addressing a press conference, describing terrorism as "the greatest threat currently facing the State of Pakistan." (Pakistan-Terrorist-Military)
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's military said that an explosion rocked a border area of Nam Yuen District, Ubon Ratchathani Province at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
The blast wounded one Thai soldier, who sustained shrapnel injuries to his right arm, Thailand's 2nd Area Command said in a statement, adding that medical evaluations confirmed the serviceman is not in a life-threatening condition. (Thailand-Cambodia-Conflict)
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SEOUL -- A group of South Korea's ruling party lawmakers on Tuesday expressed concern over the recent U.S. use of force in Venezuela.
A total of 68 lawmakers of the Democratic Party said in a statement that they express deep concern that the recent U.S. military operations in Venezuela could seriously threaten international peace and stability. (SKorea-U.S.-Venezuela)
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MANILA -- Philippine state volcanologists on Tuesday raised the alert level of Mayon Volcano in Albay province on Luzon island to Alert Level 3, citing the "onset of dome collapse pyroclastic density current," the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
"This means that Mayon is exhibiting a magmatic eruption of a summit lava dome, with increased chances of lava flows and hazardous pyroclastic density currents (PDCs), affecting the upper to middle slopes of the volcano and of potential explosive activity within days or weeks," the institute said in its advisory. (Philippines-Mayon Volcano-Alert) Enditem
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