CHICAGO -- A gunman killed five people and injured five police officers in a manufacturing plant in Aurora, a suburb of Chicago, on Friday, local police said.

Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said in a news conference that the gunman, who was also killed and identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, attacked his place of employment, the Henry Pratt Company in the city, around 65 km west of Chicago, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois. (US-Gun-Attack)

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ABUJA -- Chairman of Nigeria's electoral body announced on Saturday that the country's presidential election was postponed until Feb. 23 as scheduled proceeding of the vote was not "feasible."

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said this at a press conference just a few hours before the commencement of the poll. (Nigeria-Presidential Election-Postponement)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, the latest move to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Among the five designated individuals, four are high-level officials of Venezuelan intelligence and security organizations, and the other is Manuel Quevedo, the president of Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. (US-Venezuela-Sanctions)

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JAKARTA -- Four people were killed and 5 others sustained injuries as landslide struck West Java province of western Indonesia, official said on Saturday.

Torrential rains led soils of a hill at Sukamakmur village of Bogor district to slide down and hit a house on Friday night, Agus Priyono, head of community police in the district, said. (Indonesia-Landslide-Death) Enditem

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