KABUL -- At least five commuters were killed when their vehicle plunged into a river in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Saturday, a local police official said.
The mishap occurred when the car overturned due to reckless driving and fell from the Tishkan bridge into the river below, according to Ehsanullah Kamgar, spokesman for the provincial police. (Afghanistan-Vehicle-River-Commuters)
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DHAKA -- A head-on collision between a gas tanker and an auto-rickshaw killed five people in Bangladesh's northwestern Kushtia district on Saturday, an official said.
Md Abu Obayed, officer-in-charge of the Kushtia district's Chourhash Highway Police station, told reporters that the deadly crash happened at around 2:30 p.m. local time when the auto-rickshaw collided with the liquid gas tanker. (Bangladesh-Road Accident)
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KATHMANDU -- Nepal posted year-on-year growth in foreign trade over the first seven months of the current 2025-26 fiscal year, with continued increases in both exports and imports, government data showed.
Issuing a seven-month report card of the trade, the Department of Customs said the total volume increased by 15.76 percent to 1.29 trillion Nepali rupees (about 8.88 billion U.S. dollars) between mid-July 2025 and mid-February 2026, up from 1.11 trillion during the same period in the previous fiscal year. (Nepal-Trade-Growth)
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TOKYO -- The prefectural government of Iwate, northeastern Japan, has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm, local media reported Saturday.
The farm in the town of Kanegasaki reported to a livestock hygiene service center on Friday morning that an unusual increase in bird deaths had been observed, Jiji Press reported, citing local authorities. (Japan-Bird Flu) Enditem
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