ISTANBUL -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed Israeli attacks against the Palestinians during a phone conversation, Turkey's presidential office said in a statement Wednesday.

Erdogan said the international community should teach Israel a "strong and deterrent" lesson to stop its "reckless attacks" on Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinians.

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NEW DELHI -- India's federal government has asked states to check the practice of dumping bodies of COVID-19 victims into the river Ganga, as the country struggles in a devastating second wave of infections.

"We have taken serious note of the issue of dumping dead bodies in River Ganga and instituted measures for the prohibition," India's federal minister of Jal Shakti (water resources), Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said.

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TRIPOLI -- Libya and Malta have agreed to hold an economic forum between the chambers of commerce and businessmen councils in the two countries "to enhance and support bilateral cooperation in the fields of economy and trade," the Libyan Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush discussed with the two Maltese ministers about "combating illegal migration, border control, and the importance of resuming flights between Malta and Libya, with the aim of promoting trade and investment," it said.

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KAMPALA -- Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in on Wednesday to serve for the sixth five-year term in office.

"I Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni swear in the name of the Almighty God that I shall faithfully exercise the functions of the president of Uganda," said Museveni amid ululations from hundreds of his ruling National Resistance Movement party supporters who graced the function. Enditem

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