ISLAMABAD -- Five people were killed and several others injured in a collision between two vehicles in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police said on Tuesday.
According to the police in the area, the unfortunate incident happened on the Rawalpindi Road in Khushab district of Punjab province. (Pakistan-Road Accident)
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CANBERRA -- Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed the news that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be released by U.S. authorities.
Assange, 52, on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty to U.S. espionage charges in a deal that ended his imprisonment in the United Kingdom (UK), allowing him to return to Australia pending court proceedings in Saipan on Wednesday. (Australia-Assange)
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COLOMBO -- Forty-six known thieves in Male have been intercepted over 4,000 times by police in the first six months of 2024, Maldivian Minister of Homeland Security and Technology Ali Ihusaan said on Tuesday, speaking at the Parliament Committee on National Security Services.
He added that most robberies in Male region are generally being committed by these 46 repeat offenders. (Maldives-Thieves-Arrest)
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MANILA -- At least nine motorists have been injured in a car crash due to a tire blowout in Quezon province, southeast of Manila, police said.
Police said one of the passenger van's rear tires burst while traveling on a highway in Atimonan town before 5 p.m. local time on Monday. (Philippines-Road Accident)
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JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government said Tuesday that it would issue two protection policies, namely Safeguard Measures Import Duty (BMTP) and Anti-Dumping Import Duty (BMAD), for textiles and textile products as an effort to protect the local industry from surging imported textiles.
The BMTP is a state levy to prevent the threat of serious losses suffered by the domestic industry as a result of a surge in the number of imported goods that directly compete with the domestic products. Meanwhile, the BMAD will be an additional import duty. (Indonesia-Taxes-Textile Industries) ■
