OSLO -- The perpetrator and the other person were injured in a shooting incident that took place on Saturday in Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Bearum, a municipality just west of Oslo, Norwegian media reported. Later, a dead person was found and it was being investigated in related to the shooting incident.

One person of Norwegian ethnic background was arrested shortly after that, and the Norwegian police announced that they had control of the perpetrator, public broadcaster NRK reported. (Norway-Mosque-Shooting)

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TRIPOLI -- A car bomb explosion on Saturday killed two United Nations officials in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to a local source.

"Two of the staff of the UN Mission were killed and another was injured in a car bomb explosion, as a convoy of UN vehicles was passing in front of a local mall in Hawari neighborhood of Benghazi," the source told Xinhua.

(Libya-Car Bomb)

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NEW YORK -- Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. billionaire who was charged with sex trafficking of minors last month, was found dead by suicide in a New York jail, local media reported Saturday.

Epstein, 66, hung himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan before his body was discovered at around 7:30 a.m. (1130 GMT), sources told some local media outlets. (US-NYC-Epstein Suicide)

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THE HAGUE -- Strong summer wind caused trouble in parts of the Netherlands on Saturday. One death was reported and the stadium of soccer club AZ partly collapsed.

At the village of Linschoten in the province of Utrecht, a cyclist was killed after a falling tree hit him at around 2:30 p.m. local time. (Netherlands-Wind) Enditem

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