DAMASCUS -- Five officers of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an Israeli missile attack on a residential neighborhood in the capital Damascus on Saturday, an Iranian media source told Xinhua.

An eyewitness living in the area told Xinhua he heard four to six missiles passing through the sky in quick succession. (Syria-Israel-Attack)

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NEW DELHI -- Indian security personnel gunned down at least three armed rebels (popularly called "Naxals"), including two women, in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, local police confirmed.

The encounter took place in a remote area in the state's Bijapur district, around 480 km from the state capital Raipur. (India-Rebels)

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KIGALI -- One student was killed and another injured Saturday in a fire that gutted a dormitory at a technical school in northern Rwanda's Gakenke district, a local official said.

The fire broke out at around 3 a.m., local time, Saturday at a school for technical and vocational education known as Ecole Agricole Et Veterinairi Rushashi, Vestine Mukandayisenga, the Gakenke district mayor, told reporters. (Rwanda-School Dorm Fire-Casualty)

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BAGHDAD -- The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq warned Saturday that Iraq is at risk of being drawn further into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that threatens the security and stability of the region.

"The Middle East is at a critical juncture, with the conflict raging in Gaza and armed action elsewhere threatening a major conflagration," said a statement issued by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. (Iraq-UN Envoy-Warning) Enditem

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