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OUAGADOUGOU -- Gunmen attacked a church on Sunday and left at least 14 dead and several injured in Burkina Faso's eastern region, an official said.
The attack occurred during a worship in a church in Hantoukoura town in the Foutouri department of Komondjari province, close to Burkina Faso's border with Niger, regional governor Colonel Saidou Sanou said in a release reaching Xinhua here. (Burkina-Attack-Church)
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WASHINGTON -- The White House informed the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday that it will not attend the panel's first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump scheduled for Wednesday.
"We cannot fairly be expected to participate in a hearing while the witnesses are yet to be named and while it remains unclear whether the Judiciary Committee will afford the President a fair process through additional hearings," White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. (US-White House-Impeachment)
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HOUSTON -- Three people were dead after a small plane crashed Sunday night in San Antonio, U.S. state of Texas, about 320 km west of Houston.
Local media quoted fire officials as reporting that all three people on board the single-engine plane -- two men and one woman -- were killed after it crashed on the north side of San Antonio, about 5 km northwest of San Antonio International Airport. (US-Texas-San Antonio-Crash)
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NEW DELHI -- At least 15 people were killed Monday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after three houses collapsed completely due to heavy rains, officials said.
The houses collapsed at Nadur village near Mettupalayalam in Coimbatore district, about 502 km southwest of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. (India-Rain-Collapse-Death) Enditem
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