TEHRAN -- A mini-bus carrying Chinese tourists overturned in Iran's southern province of Fars on Monday, injuring eight of them, official IRNA news agency reported.

"A minibus carrying the Chinese tourists turned over on Shahid Abad bend of Khorrambid County, on Shiraz-Isfahan road, and nine people were injured," Mohammad Javad Moradian, chief of the province's Accident and Medical Emergency Management Center, told IRNA. (Iran-Car Accident-Chinese Tourists)

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ISTANBUL -- Four soldiers were killed on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a park inside a residential area in Istanbul as it was attempting an emergency landing.

Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya told reporters on the scene that four military personnel were pulled out from the wreckage in the Cekmekoy district on the Asian side of the city and rushed to a nearby hospital. (Turkey-Copter Crash)

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DAMASCUS -- Israeli shelling targeted Syrian military positions in Quneitra province on Monday, state news agency SANA reported.

The Israeli shelling targeted a destroyed hospital and a Syrian military observatory in Quneitra, said the report. (Israel-Syria)

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TRIPOLI -- Libya's eastern-based army on Monday killed 7 terrorists in the eastern city of Darna, according to a military source.

"Violent clashed have been going on since Sunday until Monday noon against the terrorists in their remaining pocket in the old town (central Darna)," the source told Xinhua. (Libya-Terrorist) Enditem

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