PARIS -- A fire broke out Saturday morning in an apartment building in the northern suburb of Paris, killing 3 people and injuring 19 others, including 4 firefighters.

"This morning around 9:30 am (0730 GMT), a violent fire broke out in Rue de la Commune de Paris in Ile-Saint-Denis from the 9th floor to the 12th floor of a residential building," the Prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis said. (Fire-Death-Paris)

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LUSAKA -- At least four people were burnt to death while 10 others were seriously injured when two vehicles collided head-on in central Zambia's Serenje district, the police said on Saturday.

Rae Hamoonga, the police spokesperson, said the accident occured on Saturday noon when the driver of the truck failed to keep to his near side and in the process collided with a bus coming from the opposite direction. (Zambia-Collision-Killed)

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TEHRAN -- Three Iranian police officers and one conscript soldier were killed in separate armed clashes in three provinces in the past 24 hours, the official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

One of the policemen was killed in Masjed Soleyman County in the southwestern Khuzestan province on Saturday morning during an armed clash with a suspect accused of theft, IRNA quoted the county's police commander, Hamidreza Baharvand, as saying. (Iran-Police-Armed Clashes)

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BEIRUT -- Armed groups have seized another school in Ain Al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number to eight, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Saturday.

"We are getting credible reports of severe damage to buildings and looting of educational materials and equipment from the schools," Dorothee Klaus, director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, said in a statement. (Lebanon-Armed Groups-Schools Occupation) Enditem

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