Putin set to win after 95.04 pct of ballots counted

Moscow, Mar 18 (UNI) Russia’s incumbent President Vladimir Putin is set to win the eighth presidential election with 87.32 percent of votes after 95.04 percent of ballots were counted by late Sunday, showed preliminary data from the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC). Under Russia’s presidential election regulations, a candidate who receives more than 50 percent…

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Rescuers battling forest fire in China’s Sichuan

Beijing, Mar 17 (UNI) As of 2 a.m. Sunday, 930 individuals had already been dispatched to combat the forest fire raging in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, with an additional 775 rushing to the site, local authorities said. The fire erupted in Baizi Village, in Yajiang County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, at around 5…

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Israel strikes target sites in Syrian capital

Damascus, Mar 17 (UNI) Israeli missiles hit multiple sites in the countryside of Syria’s capital Damascus after midnight Sunday, a war monitor reported. At least two locations were struck — one harboring a weapons shipment within a military installation used by Syrian military forces and the other near an engineering battalion in the Qalamoun rugged…

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Road accident kills 21 in south Afghanistan

Kandahar, Mar 17 (UNI) At least 21 commuters were killed and 11 others injured in a road accident in south Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim Riaz said. The deadly accident took place on a road in Gereshk district early Sunday morning when a Herat-bound passenger bus collided with…

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