MANILA -- Two people died after a fire gutted a crowded residential community in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, the city's disaster risk reduction and management office said Saturday.

The Bureau of Fire Protection said the victims, a woman and her son, were trapped when flame engulfed their home and 20 other houses in the neighborhood on Friday night. (Philippines-Fire-Death)

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore's Civil Defense Force said on Saturday that one was killed in a building fire at Block 131C, Canberra Crescent.

The fire, which involved the contents of a bedroom, was extinguished by firefighters. A person was found dead inside the fire-affected bedroom. (Singapore-Emergency-Fire)

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WASHINGTON -- Polls opened across South Carolina for Republican primary voters on Saturday morning as former U.S. President Donald Trump and the state's former governor, Nikki Haley, face off.

Trump remains undefeated in the GOP race and has led Haley by a significant margin in South Carolina polls, while Haley has vowed to continue her 2024 presidential campaign beyond Saturday's contest in her home state. (US-South Carolina-Trump)

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ULAN BATOR -- The number of livestock deaths caused by the extreme weather has exceeded 2 million so far this winter in Mongolia, the country's State Emergency Commission (SEC) said Saturday.

"At least 2,009,000 heads of livestock have died due to the dzud across the country," the SEC said in a statement. (Mongolia-Harsh Winter-Livestock Deaths) Enditem

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