ISLAMABAD -- Three people were killed and several others injured when a bomb hit a passenger van in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday, local reports said. (Pakistan-Explosion-Van)

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MANILA -- Four people were killed and two others injured after two vans collided in the southern Philippine city of Davao on Saturday, local police said.

Footage from a surveillance camera around the accident area showed a southbound grey van losing control, swerving to the opposite lane, and slamming into the side of an oncoming white van. (Philippines-Crash)

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NEW DELHI -- Six people died and a few others were injured when a fire broke out inside a firecrackers manufacturing unit in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, confirmed a local cop over phone.

The incident occurred in the state's Virudhunagar district. The blast was suspected to have occurred during the mixing of chemicals. (India-Fire-Deaths)

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ST. PETERSBURG -- Four drones were shot down in Russia's Leningrad Oblast, regional Governor Alexander Drozdenko said Saturday.

"The night and morning of Jan. 4 saw a record number of UAVs destroyed. Four aircraft were downed over the Leningrad Oblast with the use of electronic warfare and small arms," Drozdenko wrote in a post on social media Telegram. (Russia-Drones-Interception)

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DAMASCUS -- Syria's Damascus International Airport will begin receiving international flights starting Tuesday, Ashhad al-Salibi, chairman of the Syrian General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport, announced Saturday.

Al-Salibi told Syria's SANA state news agency that the authorities are in the process of fully rehabilitating the airports in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo to accommodate international flights. (Syria-Airport-Resumption) Enditem

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