At least four foreign soldiers were reportedly killed when an Afghan soldier fired on them in a military center in Kabul on Tuesday, a source said.

"An Afghan soldier guarding at the National Defense University opened fire after an argument with foreigners, leaving several Afghan and foreign military officers killed and injured," a source told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Killing-Military Center)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 16 people were killed and 10 others injured when a passenger van fell into a ravine in Pakistani- controlled Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.

Dawn News reported that the ill-fated van was carrying over 30 passengers when it plunged into the ravine in Rawalakot area, a main district in the region.(Pakistan-Accident-Toll)

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PHNOM PENH -- Floods have hit seven Cambodian provinces along the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake and claimed eight lives since last week, a senior disaster control official said Tuesday.

"So far, eight people were reportedly drowned as more than 4, 000 families had been evacuated from their submerged homes to higher grounds," Nhim Vanda, vice-president of the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), told Xinhua.(Cambodia- Flood-Casualties)

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KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday strongly condemned a shooting attack against visiting Afghan and foreign trainers in Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul earlier in the day.

At around Tuesday afternoon, a man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on a group of military visitors in the facility, located in Qargha area in western Kabul, killing one U.S. military officer and wounding 15 others, including a German brigadier general, according to local media reports. (Afghanistan- Condemnation-Attack) Endi

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