A Taiwanese company on Wednesday denied manufacturing the pagers involved in detonations across Lebanon, which resulted in the deaths of at least nine people and left nearly 3,000 others, including Hezbollah fighters and medics injured, local media reported.

Taiwan's Gold Apollo Co. said that the pagers used in detonations in Lebanon were not made by it, but by a Hungarian company which has a license to use its brand.

"The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it," Gold Apollo founder and President Hsu Ching-Kuang was quoted as saying by the Taipei Times as he addressed the media at the company's offices in New Taipei City on Wednesday.

The Afghan security forces have seized a large amount of weapons and military equipment during a series of operations in the past three months in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the provincial police office said in a statement.

The contraband, which included nine Kalashnikovs, 41 pistols, two AK-47 rifles, six US-made M16 machine guns, five grenades, 15 various types of mines, and a quantity of war equipment, such as cartridges and bullets, news agency reported, quoting the statement.

Fifteen people were arrested in connection with the case and their dossiers were referred to the judiciary for further investigation, it said.

At least 30 civilians have been killed since a wave of violence hit northwest Mexico's Sinaloa state, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said.

During President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's usual daily press conference on Tuesday, Sandoval said the federal government was reinforcing security in the area to clamp down on the violence, which has also claimed the lives of two soldiers.

Authorities have arrested at least 30 suspects belonging to criminal organisations and seized 115 firearms since the violence started in the state on September 9, reports news agency, quoting Sandoval.

The recent spate of violence erupted following clashes between rival drug-trafficking groups, including one headed by Ismael 'Mayo' Zambada and another led by 'Los Chapitos', sons of jailed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.

At least four bandits were killed and 20 hostages rescued by Nigerian troops during separate anti-terror raids in the northwestern state of Kaduna.

The troops combed thick bushes suspected to be the hideouts of some bandits in Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government area to carry out the "successful operations" on Tuesday, reports, quoting Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs in Kaduna.

He said the forces recovered two AK-47 rifles, three motorcycles, three magazines, and a radio from the bandits.

He also mentioned that the troops saw bandits around Kwaga, and after pursuit, the forces neutralised two of them.

An estimated 3.4 million children under five are at high risk of deadly epidemic diseases in Sudan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

With heavy rains and flooding in the country, diseases such as cholera, malaria, dengue fever, measles and rubella "can spread more rapidly and severely worsen the outlook for the children in the affected states and beyond," UNICEF Representative to Sudan Sheldon Yett was quoted as saying in a statement on Tuesday.

The crises stem from significant declines in vaccination rates and the destruction of health, water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure due to the ongoing internal conflict, he said, adding that the deteriorating nutritional status of many children in Sudan puts them at even greater risk.

The Kaleshwaram Commission enquiring into the alleged irregularities in the construction of three barrages of the Kaleshwaram project, will hold its next hearing from Thursday in Hyderabad.

Retired judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, who is heading the Kaleshwaram Commission, is scheduled to arrive in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening.

He will conduct the hearing in the matters relating to the alleged irregularities in the construction of Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla barrages by the former Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government in the state.

UN humanitarians said that for the first time in four weeks, they were able to reach Northern Gaza, leading an inter-agency assessment mission to Gaza City.

However, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday said it was only able to reach the north by waiting for more than five hours before and at an Israeli checkpoint on the Coastal Road.

Access to the north remains extremely limited for aid workers from the United Nations and beyond, reports news agency.

OCHA said that during the first half of the month, out of nearly 50 missions led by seven different UN agencies -- all of which were fully coordinated with the Israeli authorities -- only a quarter could cross into the north through the Israeli checkpoints along Wadi Gaza.

Two more flood victims were found in Poland, raising the death toll to seven.

Senior Inspector Wioletta Martuszewska of the Klodzko County in Lower Silesian province told local media that one victim was found in a car in Ladek-Zdroj, and the other in the riverbed in Stronie Slaskie.

According to police, authorities have confirmed their identities, reports, quoting Polish Press Agency.

These are the sixth and seventh victims of the flood caused by heavy rainfalls over Europe, as per the police data. The flooding has led to evacuations, widespread damages, and significant disruptions. However, Polish local media reported that the death toll may have risen to ten.

A Hamas official said that the movement's leader, Yahya Sinwar, will remain in the Gaza Strip and is "willing to die for Palestine."

Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas' political bureau, on Tuesday, told Al-Aqsa TV that "Sinwar is prepared to martyr himself countless times in Palestine and will not leave."

The statement was made in response to a recent Israeli proposal offering a safe exit for Sinwar from Gaza in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages, reports.

Israeli hostage coordinator Gal Hirsch told US media earlier this month that if all 101 remaining hostages are returned, Israel would consider providing safe passage for Sinwar and anyone else who wants to leave Gaza with him.

Three Hezbollah members were killed evening in an Israeli airstrike on a village in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources.

The military sources, who spoke anonymously, told news agency on Tuesday that an Israeli warplane fired two air-to-ground missiles at a house in the border village of Majdal Selm, destroying it and severely damaging nearby buildings.

The casualties were transferred to Tebnine Governmental Hospital in southern Lebanon, according to the sources.