BHUBANESWAR (India), Dec 26 — Indian security forces killed senior Maoist commander Ganesh Uike, who had a US$120,000 bounty, along with three other fighters, including two women, in a raid in Odisha, police said.

MOSCOW, Dec 26 — New South Wales police have banned public gatherings in Sydney for 14 days following the Bondi Beach attack and recent tightening of gun and protest laws, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported.

MOSCOW, Dec 26 — Ocean Infinity, a US-based research firm, has confirmed it is restarting the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in 2014, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported.

LONDON, Dec 24 — Liverpool manager Arne Slot blamed the team’s poor set-piece record for harming their top-four hopes, with the champions sitting just behind Chelsea on goal difference.

NANCHANG (China), Dec 24 — Eight people, including the driver, died after their vehicle plunged into a pond in Pengze County, Jiangxi Province, Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local police.

MOSCOW, Dec 24 — A bomb in Moscow killed three people, including two police officers, after they approached a suspicious man near the site where a senior Russian general was assassinated two days ago, an attack Russia blames on Ukrainian intelligence.