JAKARTA -- Six people were killed, another one was seriously injured, and scores of buildings were damaged after a 6.1-magnitude quake rocked Indonesia's western province of East Java on Saturday, officials said.
The earthquake struck at 2 p.m. Jakarta time (0700 GMT) with the epicenter 96 km south of Kepanjen town of Malang district with a depth of 80 km, Andry Sembiring, an official at the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, said. (Indonesia-Earthquake-Casualties)
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LONDON -- Fourteen more police officers have been injured in the latest riot in parts of Northern Ireland, bringing the total number of police officers injured in the past week to 88, local media reported Saturday.
The disorder happened Friday night around the loyalist Tiger's Bay and nationalist New Lodge areas of north Belfast, as well as Coleraine, County Londonderry, according to the BBC. (Britain-Riot-Police)
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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia executed on Saturday three soldiers for high treason crime, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The executed soldiers, identified as Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Yahya Akam, Shaher bin Isa bin Qasim Haqqawi, and Hamoud bin Ibrahim bin Ali Hazmi, collaborated with the enemy against the kingdom and its military interests, the SPA said, without mentioning which enemy they were aiding. (Saudi Arabia-Soldiers-Crime)
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MOGADISHU-- At least four people were killed and six others were injured on Saturday morning in a suicide bombing in Baidoa, southwest Somalia.
Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, spokesperson of the Federal Government of Somalia, said in a brief statement that the incident happened when a man wearing explosives blew himself up at a restaurant in Baidoa city of South West State. (Somalia-Bombing) Enditem
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