BEIRUT -- Four Hezbollah fighters were killed and three other people were wounded on Friday in Israeli air strikes targeting a village in the border region of southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.

The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that the casualties were caused by several Israeli raids on the village of Ramyah in the Bent Jbeil district in southern Lebanon. (Israel-Lebanon-Border-Tension)

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GAZA -- Hamas's armed wing said on Friday that seven Israeli captives had been killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group has been holding dozens of prisoners since the onset of the ongoing conflict.

The al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that they had lost contact with some of their fighters who were guarding the captives, and that they had confirmed the deaths of seven captives after weeks of verification. (Hamas-Israel-Hostages)

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WARSAW -- A car struck a crowd at a tram stop in the northwestern Polish city of Szczecin on Friday afternoon, injuring 19 people, including six minors, police and local media said.

The incident occurred at Rodla Square in Szczecin at around 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) when a man drove a car into the crowd for unknown reasons. The motorist continued driving before crashing into three other vehicles, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported, citing Pawel Pankau, an officer from Szczecin's municipal police headquarters. (Poland-Car Incident)

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KIEV -- Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov signed a plan for the implementation of the adapted Annual National Program of Cooperation with NATO for 2024, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported Friday.

Aiming at reforming Ukraine's security and defense sector, the Ukrainian defense ministry mapped out 50 steps to achieve 17 goals in its plan. (Ukraine-NATO-Plan) Enditem

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