WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg after she "sustained an injury during an official engagement," a spokesperson said Friday.
"While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation," Ian Krager, the spokesperson, said on "X," formerly known as Twitter. (US-House-Pelosi)
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KHARTOUM -- In central Sudan, at least 42 civilians were killed in a landmine explosion in Sinnar State on Friday and two attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Gezira State over the past two days, local volunteer groups reported Friday.
The Al-Suki Emergency Room, a volunteer group in Al-Suki city in Sennar State, said in a statement that "13 people from the Al-Suki area were killed and many others injured when a landmine exploded in their pickup truck in the Jebel Moya area." (Sudan-Paramilitary Attacks-Casualties)
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NEW DELHI -- At least seven people, including a toddler, were killed after a fire broke out at a private hospital in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said Friday.
The fire broke out Thursday night in the hospital in Trichy Road in Dindigul district, about 430 km west of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. (India-Fire)
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GAZA -- At least eight Palestinians were killed on Friday, including a photojournalist, in a series of Israeli raids targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip, according to official Palestinian sources.
Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Xinhua that photojournalist Shadi al-Salafiti and another person were killed Friday afternoon by an Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of the al-Sina'a area in Gaza City. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel) ■
