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One person was killed and six others were injured in the past 24 hours as a result of a Russian attack on Ukraine’s Donetsk region.The Ukrainian News Agency (Ukrinform) reported that a girl was injured in the town of Kramatorsk when a Russian drone crashed into a residential building.Since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, Russia and Ukraine have continued to exchange claims of repelling each other’s attacks, though these reports have not been independently verified due to the ongoing conflict.

The Nigerian army announced that 19 militants and two soldiers were killed during a gunfire exchange between the armed forces and militants in northwest Nigeria. The Nigerian army explained in a statement that its forces exchanged fire with an armed group in Kano State, resulting in the death of 19 militants. Two soldiers and a local guard were also killed during the operation.The statement added that the operation came as part of a major military campaign to reduce the escalating insecurity in northern Nigeria, explaining that a number of soldiers and members of the Joint Task Force sustained minor injuries and were immediately evacuated for treatment.The northeastern states of Nigeria are subject to occasional attacks by armed groups that began an insurgency in 2009 that has killed about 40,000 people and forced about two million Nigerians to flee their homes.

At least three people were killed, and 11 others were injured when a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville International Airport in Kentucky. The US Federal Aviation Administration explained that the aircraft, an MD-11 model, crashed after taking off from Louisville en route to Honolulu, noting that the aircraft was carrying three crew members.Emergency services in Louisville reported that they issued an order to stay indoors within a five-mile radius of the airport, due to fires breaking out in industrial buildings adjacent to the crash site and the closure of several roads, while local reports indicated the formation of a large fire and the rising of thick columns of smoke.The airspace at Louisville airport was temporarily closed following the incident, amid expectations of impacts on cargo operations, given that the airport houses UPS's Worldport Center, the company's largest parcel processing facility.

At least 24 people were killed, and 18 others injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Indian police said the accident occurred as the bus, carrying about 70 passengers, was traveling to Hyderabad, the state capital.Reports indicate that the truck, which was transporting gravel, collided with the bus at high force, trapping several passengers inside. Initial investigations suggest that excessive speed and loss of control by the truck driver were the likely causes of the accident.Police said the dead included the drivers of the bus and the truck, as well as a 10-month-old baby and its mother. Authorities have launched an investigation into the accident.Traffic accidents are common in India as a result of overloading, poor infrastructure and reckless driving.

Four people were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted southern Lebanon. According to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA), citing the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) of the Ministry of Public Health, the strike hit the town of Kafr Rumman in the Nabatieh District late Saturday, resulting in four fatalities and several injuries.Earlier, Lebanese authorities reported that one person had been injured in a separate Israeli attack on southern Lebanon. The PHEOC also said in a press release that an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Sir in the Nabatieh District injured one person.Lebanon has been under Israeli aggression since October 2023. In recent days, Israel has intensified air and artillery strikes at an unprecedented pace, expanding the scope of its attacks to include the capital, Beirut. This escalation has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries and displaced more than one million people from their homes.

Twenty-three people, including children, were killed late Saturday in a fire that broke out at a store in the city of Hermosillo, in northwestern Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her condolences to the families of the victims in a post on the X platform, noting that she had ordered the immediate deployment of support teams to assist the victims' families and those injured in the incident.The city's fire chief said that the cause of the blaze has not yet been determined, as investigations continue.In a similar incident last September, at least three people were killed and 70 others were injured when a tanker truck overturned, caught fire, and exploded on a highway southeast of Mexico City.

Two Palestinians were killed, and a third wounded by Israeli occupation forces in various areas of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat had received the body of a martyr recovered by civilians from the city of Al-Zahra. The hospital also received a wounded person injured by Israeli fire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. In the same context, another person died from wounds sustained yesterday when he was shot by Israeli forces in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, according to medical sources. The Israeli occupation continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which came into effect on October 10. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, it carried out intensive airstrikes and shelling targeting Palestinian homes and tents in various parts of the Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians, including more than 46 children and 20 women.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced that more than 21,000 students and teachers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on Oct. 7, 2023.In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said that the number of students killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression has reached 19,932, while 30,102 have been injured. In the occupied West Bank, 148 students were killed, 1,045 injured, and 846 arrested.The ministry added that 1,037 teachers and administrators were killed and 4,757 injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while more than 228 were arrested in the West Bank.It noted that 179 government schools were completely destroyed in the Gaza Strip, along with 63 university buildings.The ministry explained that 118 government schools and more than 100 schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized.The aggression led to the removal of a total of 30 schools, along with their students and teachers, from the educational register.Meanwhile, the occupation destroyed three schools in the West Bank, while eight universities and colleges were subjected to repeated raids and vandalism.

Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinian young men at dawn on Tuesday and seized their bodies in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin.Local sources told the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town with military reinforcements, surrounded an area of agricultural land, and opened live fire at the three young men—whose identities have yet to be determined—killing them and seizing their bodies.Cities, towns, and refugee camps across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem witness daily raids and incursions by occupation forces and settlers, often accompanied by clashes, arrests, live and rubber bullet fire, as well as the use of tear gas and other toxic gas grenades against Palestinians.

One person was killed, and six others injured on Sunday when a turbine exploded at an oil depot in the Al-Zubair district of Basra Governorate, southern Iraq. An Iraqi security source said the explosion occurred in a tank in Al-Barjisia, causing a temporary drop in crude oil exports. He explained that Basra Civil Defense teams are working to extinguish the fire with support from oil firefighting teams. He noted that the head of the Zubair 2 Warehouses Division was killed, and six oil workers were injured in the incident. In a similar incident, an explosion occurred in June at an oil field in Salah Al-Din Governorate, central Iraq, injuring five workers.

Three people were killed and 29 others injured on Sunday in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported that the city was targeted by Russian forces for the second time in the past 24 hours.According to the report, Russian forces carried out a drone strike in the Desnianskyi district, where one drone hit a nine-story residential building.Another drone struck a 16-story building, shattering the windows on the first nine floors. Reports also indicated that a drone hit a multi-story building in the Obolonskyi district.Drone strikes between Russia and Ukraine have become routine amid the ongoing conflict, which remains far from a political solution as Moscow continues its military operation in Ukraine until its declared objectives are achieved.

The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population announced that two people were killed, and 41 others injured in a multi-vehicle collision on Saturday evening on the Cairo-Suez highway. The ministry said in a statement that 28 ambulances were dispatched to the scene. The injured were then transported to several nearby hospitals.Initial investigations revealed that the accident was caused by a heavy truck traveling at high speed, resulting in a collision with several cars, damaging the vehicles and resulting in casualties. The truck driver was arrested and referred for investigation.