BEIRUT -- A Hezbollah fighter was killed and three civilians wounded on Thursday in Israeli air strikes targeting a house in the southern village of Aitaroun in Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that members of the Civil Defense equipped with bulldozers, cranes, and ambulances rushed to the scene to remove the rubble and transport the casualties to hospitals. (Lebanon-Israel-Airstrikes)

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OTTAWA -- A 19-year-old student is charged with killing six people including four children, with the youngest less than three months old, inside a townhouse in the suburb of Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, local media reported Thursday.

Febrio De-Zoysa is charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Police said he is a Sri Lankan national who is believed to be in Canada as a student, CBC News reported. (Canada-Killing)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least 10 people died from cholera and 161 others were infected with the disease between November 2023 and February 2024 in the Kagera region of northwestern Tanzania, according to an official statement Thursday.

Fatma Mwassa, the Kagera regional commissioner, said that the cholera outbreak was first reported in November 2023 in the districts of Misenyi, Muleba and Bukoba, as well as on Goziba Islet in Lake Victoria. (Tanzania-Cholera-Death Toll)

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ISLAMABAD -- Two terrorists were killed in two separate counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the military said on Thursday.

The security forces conducted intelligence-based operations in the Khyber and Dera Ismail Khan districts of KP, the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said in a statement. (Pakistan-Counter terrorism) Enditem

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