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Athens, Jan 5 (UNI) Greece’s former prime minister and one of the founders of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, Costas Simitis, died in Greece on Sunday at the age of 88, Greek media reported. Simitis headed the Greek government from 1996 to 2004. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sent condolences on the death…

Baghdad, Jan 5 (UNI) Six people, including students, were injured on Sunday in a shooting incident inside a private university in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The incident occurred around noon when a student of al-Esraa University in Karrada neighborhood entered the campus and opened fire with a pistol,…

Singapore, Jan 5 (UNI) About 35 residents were evacuated early Sunday morning after a fire broke out in a vacant three-story semi-detached house in eastern Singapore, authorities said. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) reported that it was alerted to the fire at about 12:45 a.m.. Firefighters from the Kallang Fire Station and the Paya…

Moscow, Jan 5 (UNI) Russian air defence systems destroyed 61 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Rostov, Bryansk, Voronezh, Belgorod and Oryol regions, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. “Over the past night, air defence systems on duty destroyed 61 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: 37 UAVs were destroyed over the Rostov region, 20 over the…

Gaza, Jan 5 (UNI) The Hamas-run Gaza media office said on Saturday evening that the Israeli army carried out 94 airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip over the past 72 hours, killing 184 people. In its statement, the office described the escalation as “dangerous and brutal,” targeting unarmed civilians and residential areas, particularly in…

Khartoum, Jan 5 (UNI) At least eight civilians were killed and 53 others injured in artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and El Fasher city in western Sudan’s North Darfur State. “The RSF militia on Saturday continued its systematic shelling against civilians in Karari locality in Omdurman…

Sydney, Jan 5 (UNI) Two people have died in a light plane crash off Australia’s east coast north of Sydney. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement on Saturday night that emergency services were called to reports of a light plane crash in the ocean near the town of…

Jerusalem, Jan 5 (UNI) The Israeli police on Saturday arrested two Israelis who had crossed into Syrian territory by vehicle before being detained by the Israeli army. According to Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News, the suspects were apprehended approximately 1.5 km inside Syrian territory while in their vehicle. A police statement said the two individuals…

Moscow, Jan 5 (UNI) A Russian war correspondent was killed and four other media workers injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Donetsk region, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday. The drone struck a car carrying Russian journalists on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway, killing Alexander Martemyanov, a stringer for the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the…

Beirut, Jan 4 (UNI) At least 59 people were killed and 273 injured in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday. “Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation carried out four massacres on families in the Gaza Strip, with 59 people dead and…