GAZA -- At least 29 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Sunday, according to the Civil Defense in Gaza.

In central Gaza, 10 people were killed and some others wounded by an Israeli airstrike on a residential house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense, told Xinhua. (Gaza-Israeli Attacks-Casualties)

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KATHMANDU -- Nepal's external trade increased by 16.89 percent in the last nine months of the current 2024-25 fiscal year due to a rise in both imports and exports, the Department of Customs announced on Sunday.

The total trade of the South Asian country stood at 1.49 trillion Nepali rupees by April 13, up from 1.28 trillion rupees during the same period of the previous fiscal year, the department said in a report. (1 Nepali rupee equals 0.0073 U.S. dollar) (Nepal-Foreign Trade)

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ABUJA -- At least five people were killed and 15 others rescued after a three-story building collapsed in Nigeria's southwestern state of Lagos, the country's emergency management agency said Sunday.

The three-story building collapsed on Saturday morning in Ojodu-Berger, a suburb of Lagos, leaving an unknown number of people trapped, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said earlier. (Nigeria-Accident-Building Collapse)

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MANILA -- A passenger jeepney lost its brakes and plunged into a roadside canal in Marinduque province in the Philippines, killing six and injuring 20 others, police said Sunday.

Police said the jeepney, carrying 26 holidaymakers, was heading to a river for a family outing when the crash happened past 10 a.m. local time Saturday. (Philippines-Road Crash-Deaths)

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LOS ANGELES -- Three people were killed after a small plane crashed into a river Friday night in the midwestern U.S. state of Nebraska, authorities said.

The small plane was traveling along the Platte River south of Fremont when it crashed into the river, according to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. (U.S.-Small plane-Crash)

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MOSCOW -- The crew of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday morning, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on its website.

The descent module carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit landed at 04:20 Moscow time (0120 GMT) near the city of Jezkazgan in central Kazakhstan. (Russia-Soyuz MS-26) Enditem

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