JAKARTA -- An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others.

Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province, told Xinhua over the phone, "The death toll has reached 13, and dozens of other injured are being treated in hospitals." (Indonesia-Explosion)

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GAZA/RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed on Sunday his hope that the coming Christmas day would be a date for an end of conflicts in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.

"None of our people were spared from this offensive, the attempts at forced displacement, and the destruction of thousands of homes," Abbas said in a speech on the occasion of Christmas. (Gaza-Abbas-Palestinians)

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KABUL -- The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs (MoBTA) has resolved nearly 200 ethnic conflicts and feuds over the past year in the war-ravaged country, the Tolonews quoting an official of the ministry reported Sunday.

"Up to now, 197 ethnic conflicts have been resolved and more than 100 more are in the process of being resolved, and we are trying to resolve these ethnic conflicts as soon as possible," the private media outlet quoted MoBTA spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat as saying. (Afghanistan-Conflicts)

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MANILA -- Two people were killed and three others injured after a man took control of a parked military truck and rammed into shoppers outside a market in Davao City in the southern Philippines on Sunday, police said.

Police said the truck driver parked the vehicle on the street with its engine running, when the man suddenly boarded the truck and drove it towards the crowded area. (Philippines-Car Accident) Enditem

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