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At least 50 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in northern Nigeria, police told. The attack happened in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State as worshipers were gathering for the "fajr" dawn prayer around 5:20 a.m. local time, Othman Abubakar, a police spokesman said. The bomber was about 17 years old, Abubakar added. Many more people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.

Transport officials said a moving train collided with a stationary faulty train at the elevated Joo Koon station in the far west of the city-state. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the injured passengers were taken to the hospital, with most sustaining minor injuries. At least 25 people were injured in a train collision in Singapore on Wednesday, officials said. "At 8.19am, a second train stopped behind the first faulty train. At 8.20am, the second train moved forward unexpectedly, and came into contact with the first train," regulator Land Transport Authority (LTA) and train operator SMRT said in a joint statement. It added that 23 passengers and two SMRT employees "sustained light to moderate injuries" and have been sent to nearby hospitals. Densely populated Singapore's metro system has been hit by repeated delays and breakdowns in recent years, generating public anger in a financial centre in which the cost of car owne...

A North Korean soldier had sped towards the border in a vehicle when a wheel came loose, forcing him to escape on foot under fire from North Korean soldiers who shot around 40 rounds at him. North Korea's military took action when the defector was spotted in the four-wheel drive heading towards the border alone. The soldier shot while defecting to the South had undergone several surgical procedures and was in a critical condition, South Korea's government and military said on Tuesday, with doctors expecting to save him. The soldier took cover behind a South Korean structure within the Joint Security Area (JSA) inside the demilitarized zone between the two Korea's and was later rescued by South Korean and US soldiers at the border, the United Nations Command (UNC) said in a separate statement. The Joint Chiefs of Staff official said he was found collapsed in a pile of fallen leaves and the three South Korean soldiers who rea...