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Seven people were killed after an army helicopter crashed in a mountainous region in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory in northern Pakistan on Friday.

The causes of the crash remain unknown, as some sources say that the helicopter crashed during an emergency landing, while others claim it was taken down by Talibans.

A Pakistani military helicopter crashed May 8, killing six people including the Norwegian and Philippine envoys, with the Taliban claiming they downed it as part of a plot to kill Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
 

President Klaus Iohannis on Friday extended condolences to the countries whose citizens were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Pakistan.

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According to the latest survey of the online dating website for travelers MissTravel, Bulgarians were named among the world's top ten sexiest women.

The Bulgarian women were ranked ninth behind the women from the Philippines and ahead of the Lebanese, the Huffington Post reports.

The Philippines' most wanted Islamist militant, whose death at the weekend could boost peace efforts in the country's south, was killed by his own bodyguards in pursuit of a bounty offered by the United States, the head of the military said on May 4.

Residents of the western Philippines are being asked to turn off their refrigerators so there will be enough electricity to watch this weekend's fight between local boxing legend Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
 

Indonesia faced a storm of international protest on April 29 for putting seven foreign drug convicts before a firing squad, but Filipinos rejoiced after a compatriot was spared at the last minute.

Romanians Marius Copil and Adrian Ungur produced the day's surprise Thursday, defeating Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna in the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy doubles on the BNR Arenas of Bucharest and thus qualifying to the semifinal.

Summer is just around the corner and travelers from all over the world have already started to daydream about beautiful beaches, golden sands and azure waters.

In response to the growing demand for content that highlights amazing summer destinations, the travel website travelversed.com recently presented the top 20 most beautiful beaches in the world.

A Bulgarian hacker has been arrested in the Philippines and has been accused of cyber crimes, including a million-dollar scheme for draining the bank account of Microsoft's founder Bill Gates.

The 32-year old Konstantin Simeonov Kavrakov has been arrested for a period of 21 hours on Thursday evening after he attempted to withdraw money from an ATM using falsified credit cards.