DAMASCUS -- Syria's supreme committee for parliamentary elections announced Saturday the postponement of parliamentary elections, scheduled for September, in three provinces due to security challenges.
The committee said the elections in Sweida, Hasakah, and Raqqa will be deferred "until suitable conditions and a safe environment are available," stressing that the parliamentary seats allocated to the provinces will remain reserved until balloting can take place. (Syria-Parliamentary Elections-Delay)
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GAZA -- A Palestinian journalist was killed on Saturday by Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.
Medical sources told Xinhua that Khaled al-Madhoun, a cameraman for the official Palestine TV channel in the Gaza Strip, died after being shot by the Israeli army. Eyewitnesses reported that al-Madhoun was killed while covering events at the Zikim crossing, west of the town of Beit Lahia in the north of Gaza. (Gaza-Israel-Killing of Journalist)
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CAIRO -- Six students died and 24 others were injured in a drowning accident on Saturday at a beach in Alexandria governorate, northwest of Cairo, Egypt's Health Ministry said in a statement.
The victims were part of a student group on a field trip organized by an academy specializing in air hospitality, the ministry said. The incident occurred at Abu Talat beach in Alexandria's Agami district. (Egypt-Drowning Accident-Students)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday its forces had smashed a "terrorist" team in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, killing six of its members and arresting two others.
Members of the "terror" team, seven non-Iranian nationals, had entered Iran through the country's eastern border during the past days and sought to perpetrate "precarious and targeted terrorist operations," according to a statement published on the ministry's website, which did not specify the date of the operation. (Iran-Terror Group-Security Operation) Enditem
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