NEW DELHI -- Four members of a family were killed Sunday due to suffocation after fire broke inside their house in the western Indian state of Gujarat, police said.

"Early today, a fire broke out inside a house, following which four members of a family, including a couple and their infant child, were killed due to asphyxiation," a police official said. "The fire erupted on the first floor of the house where the family members were sleeping." (India-Fire)

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DAMASCUS -- A car bomb explosion killed at least eight people and injured 23 others in Syria's northern city of Azaz, a war monitor said on Sunday.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the car bomb was detonated at a popular market in Syria's rebel-held city of Azaz, adding that rescuers had arrived at the scene. (Syria-Car Bomb)

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LIMA -- Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen said on Saturday that the raid carried out by the public prosecutor's office and the police on the home of President Dina Boluarte on Friday night was "disproportionate."

"What has happened constitutes an intolerable violation of the dignity of the president of the republic and the nation she represents," he told the local radio station Radio Programas del Peru. (Peru-President)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden has won North Dakota's Democratic presidential primary, the state party announced Saturday.

In the primary election of North Dakota, there are 13 pledged delegates available, and the voting process was predominantly conducted through the use of mail-in ballots. (US-Primary-Biden-North Dakota) Enditem

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