KINSHASA -- At least 16 civilians were killed overnight from Saturday to Sunday in several simultaneous attacks by ADF-Ugandan rebels in North Kivu province and Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to military sources.

In the province of North Kivu, at least 10 civilians were killed in the attack. In the neighboring province of Ituri, another branch of the same rebellion launched the attack at the village of Boyo and killed six civilians. (DRC-Attack)

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MOSCOW -- Russia successfully launched its first "Arktika-M" satellite on Sunday to monitor the Arctic's climate and environment, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in a press release.

A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the satellite on board blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 09:55 a.m. Moscow time (0655 GMT), Roscosmos said. (Russia-Arctic Satellite)

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BUDAPEST -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban received an injection of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 on Sunday.

"Vaccinated!" Orban wrote on Facebook, posting a photo of himself getting the shot, a close-up of the Chinese vaccine and a picture of a door to the vaccination point where he received the inoculation. (Hungary-COVID-19-Chinese Vaccine)

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BAGHDAD -- At least five security members were killed and four others wounded on Sunday in a car bomb explosion in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a local official said.

The blast took place in an area in the west of the town of Haditha, some 200 km northwest of the capital Baghdad, when a joint force of the Iraqi army and tribal fighters came close to a suspected car to check it, Mabrouk Hameed, mayor of Haditha, told Xinhua. (Iraq-Car Bombing-Killing) Enditem

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