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Jerusalem, Aug 2 (UNI) Israel has refused to renew the visa of Andrea De Domenico, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, the organization said. De Domenico’s visa expired on Thursday, the organization said, adding that he had held the post for two years. In…

Caracas, Aug 1 (UNI) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday submitted an appeal to the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to audit and certify the results of Sunday’s presidential elections amid calls for greater transparency. Maduro asked the highest court to summon the pertinent institutions “to compare all the elements of evidence…

San Francisco, Aug 1 (UNI) Boeing announced on Wednesday its Board of Directors has elected Robert K. “Kelly” Ortberg as the company’s new president and chief executive officer, effective Aug. 8. Ortberg, who will also serve on Boeing’s Board of Directors, will succeed Dave Calhoun, who earlier this year announced his intention to retire from…

Johannesburg, Aug 1 (UNI) Five pupils were killed and 20 others injured in a collision between a school bus and a train in South Africa on Wednesday, authorities said. The crash involving a bus and a goods train occurred Wednesday afternoon at a level crossing in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, a province in eastern South Africa, the…

Tehran, Aug 1 (UNI) An Iranian military adviser was killed in an Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. Milad Bidy was killed in the Israeli attack on a building in Dahieh suburbs where Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fouad Shokor, was staying, the…

Baghdad, July 31 (UNI) At least three Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi members were killed and seven others wounded on Tuesday in an unknown drone attack on a military base in Babil province south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The attack occurred Tuesday night in the Jurf al-Nasr area in the northern part…

Sao Paulo, July 31 (UNI) At least three people died, including a one-year-old baby, 16 others were injured and nine were missing after a boat capsized in northern Brazil’s Amazon River, police reported Tuesday. The boat, “M. Monteiro,” was carrying more than 200 passengers when it caught fire after an explosion on Monday near the…

Jerusalem, July 31 (UNI) Israel’s army announced on Tuesday that it killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fouad Shokor, in an airstrike in Beirut, saying the assassination was a retaliation for a cross-border rocket that killed 12 youngsters on Saturday. Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group and political party, did not immediately confirm his condition. “Tonight, IDF…

Tehran, July 31 (UNI) Palestinian movement Hamas said on Wednesday that the movement’s politburo chief, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli attack on his residence in the Iranian capital of Tehran. “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas expresses condolences to the sons of our great Palestinian people … Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement…

Caracas, July 31 (UNI) Venezuelan authorities have arrested 749 people for participating in violent riots following Sunday’s presidential elections, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said Tuesday. Those arrested face charges of “incitement, obstructing public roads, hate crimes … resisting arrest and, in the most serious cases, terrorism,” the attorney general said at a press conference….