BRASILIA -- Eight people were killed Saturday when a hot air balloon carrying tourists caught fire and crashed in Praia Grande, a popular tourism destination in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, said regional authorities.
The balloon was carrying 21 people when it burst into flames and plummeted to the ground -- a scene captured on video by nearby tourists and widely shared on social media. (Brazil-Hot-Air Balloon-Crash)
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ABUJA -- At least 24 people were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device at a local food joint in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late Friday, the police said Saturday.
Nahum Daso, the spokesman for the police in Borno, told Xinhua by telephone that the suicide bomber targeted residents who had gathered to buy food in the Konduga local government area of the state. The area was cordoned off and thoroughly searched for other possible explosive devices, but none were found. (Nigeria-Suicide Attack)
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in statements on Saturday that it had killed three senior commanders in Iran overnight.
One of them was Saeed Izadi, the commander of the Palestine Corps in the Quds Force, a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the IDF. (Israel-Iran-Attack)
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TEHRAN -- Israeli attacks on Iran over the past nine days have killed over 400 Iranians and left 3,056 others wounded, Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Iranian Health Ministry's public relations, said on Saturday.
"Among the injured, 2,220 have been treated and discharged from Ministry of Health hospitals, while 232 received outpatient care at the scene of the attacks," Kermanpour said in a post on social media platform X. (Iran-Israel-Attacks) ■
