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Gaza, June 1 (UNI) At least 70 Palestinians were found dead on Friday in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp where Israel has just pulled out its armed forces after a nearly three-week offensive. Local medical sources told Xinhua that ambulance and civil defense crews primitively retrieved about 70 bodies, including 20 children, from the camp,…

Beijing, June 1 (UNI) 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Nyima County, Nagqu City in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, at 8:46 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 34.14 degrees north latitude and 86.36 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 8 km, said…

Beirut, June 1 (UNI) A Hezbollah member and one civilian were killed and five others wounded on Friday evening in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources. The sources, who spoke anonymously, said one Hezbollah member was killed and another wounded in an Israeli attack in the town of Ain Qana, while…

Pyongyang, May 31 (UNI) The super-large multiple rocket units of North Korea conducted a power demonstration firing under the order of its top leader in response to the moves by South Korea infringing upon North Korea’s sovereignty, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party…

Los Angeles, May 31 (UNI) A second human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5) virus infection has been identified in the state of Michigan, marking the third human case associated with an ongoing multistate outbreak of A (H5N1) in U.S. dairy cows, US health authorities said on Thursday. The new case is…

Islamabad, May 31 (UNI) The Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Azerbaijan on Thursday agreed to broaden the scope of cooperation in all areas of mutual interest including trade, defense, climate action, and regional connectivity among others, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement here. In a meeting between Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister…

Islamabad, May 30 (UNI) A gas cylinder explosion injured at least 40 people, mostly women and children, in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on Thursday, police said. The incident happened in Hyderabad district of the province where the explosion happened in a shop selling gas cylinders, the district’s police told local media. The explosion sparked a…

Bratislava, May 30 (UNI) Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is recovering from gunshots and his condition is satisfactory, the Government Office said on Wednesday. Slovakia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Robert Kalinak also confirmed that Fico’s condition is improving satisfactorily, according to Slovak News Agency. “The patient is beginning to reach a stage when…

San Francisco, May 30 (UNI) A shooting in East Oakland, U.S. state of California, left one man dead and another injured Tuesday night, authorities said. The victim, an Oakland resident, died from his injuries at a hospital, authorities said. His identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Another Oakland male resident, who…

United Nations, May 30 (UNI) The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has topped 7 million, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday. More than half of the 7 million internally displaced people are children. In addition, some 2 million people have fled across borders into neighboring countries, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN…