OTTAWA -- Nine people have been confirmed dead after a car plowed into the crowd at a street festival in Canada's Vancouver on Saturday evening, local police said Sunday.
The Vancouver police said in an X post that they believe this incident was not an act of terrorism. (Canada-Car Ramming)
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TEHRAN -- The death toll from a large explosion at a port in Iran's southern Hormozgan province on Saturday has risen to 28, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
The cause of the incident remained undetermined, the report said.
IRNA stated that the number of individuals injured in the blast and subsequent fire had reached 800, with six people still missing. (Iran-Port Blast-Casualties)
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ALGIERS -- Four people were killed and 13 others injured after a landslide struck Algeria's northwestern Oran province late on Saturday, Civil Protection authorities said on Sunday.
The landslide hit the locality of Ard Chebatt, about 400 km from the capital Algiers, destroying five homes, authorities said. (Algeria-Landslide-Casualties)
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SANAA -- U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa overnight killed two people and wounded 10 others, Houthi-controlled health authorities said on Sunday.
The strikes targeted multiple locations across Sanaa, the authorities said, adding that two women and three children were among the injured. All the wounded were taken to local hospitals for treatment. (Yemen-Houthis-US Airstrikes)
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SEOUL -- Lee Jae-myung, former chief of South Korea's Democratic Party, was elected presidential candidate for the liberal party overwhelmingly, the party said Sunday.
Lee won 89.77 percent of all votes cast in the party's primary, marking the highest ever recorded in the Democratic Party-affiliated primaries since the country's democratization in 1987. (South Korea-Presidential Election-Candidate)
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli researchers have discovered a key mechanism bacteria use to activate disease-causing genes, providing new insights into how infections begin and might be stopped, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) said Sunday in a statement.
The study, published Wednesday in Nature Communications, founded that key bacterial protein CsrA would gather in a droplet-like structure inside bacteria cells, and act like a "switchboard operator" inside the temporary control center, helping the cells adapt to their environment and decide whether to attack hosts or stay harmless. (Israel-Bacteria Disease-Causing Genes) ■
