ISLAMABAD -- The death toll of sectarian clashes in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has exceeded 100, the hospital administration told media on Thursday.

The violence erupted last Thursday when a convoy of passenger coaches carrying Shiite Muslims was ambushed in Parachinar area, leading to a heavy casualty. (Pakistan-Sectarian Violence)

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COLOMBO -- More than 335,000 people were affected by adverse weather conditions in Sri Lanka starting from Nov. 22, according to the country's Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Thursday.

The DMC said in its latest situation update that 335,155 people belonging to 99,876 families have been hit by rain-related disasters in 23 out of the total 25 administrative districts across the country. (Sri Lanka-Adverse Weather)

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TOKYO -- A fire broke out Wednesday in an apartment building in Tokyo where a Japanese lawmaker lives with her family, and two unidentified bodies have been found at the scene, local authorities said.

A report was made after 7 p.m. local time Wednesday that a fire had started at a unit in a six-story apartment building in Bunkyo Ward of the Japanese capital, the residence of Kuniko Inoguchi, an upper house lawmaker of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and three other family members, a firefighter said. (Japan-Fire)

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SYDNEY -- An Australian-led international research has found that over 1.5 million deaths globally every year were linked to the health impacts of air pollution caused by landscape fires.

According to the research published on Thursday by Monash University in Melbourne, 1.53 million deaths per year between 2000 and 2019 were attributable to landscape fire-sourced air pollution. (Australia-Death-Air Pollution) Enditem

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