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JERUSALEM, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — A senior Israeli commander stated on Wednesday that Israeli forces are “at peak readiness” along the Israel-Lebanon border, following a day in which thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon in an alleged Israeli attack. “We…

FREETOWN, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — At least eight people were killed on Monday after a seven-story building collapsed in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) of Sierra Leone confirmed. The NDMA said six survivors…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 30 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155 on Wednesday. Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV said…