NEW YORK -- Five people were killed and five others injured after an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway and crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday, authorities said.
The accident occurred at 1:58 p.m. local time (1758 GMT), Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz told a press conference.
Five people were hospitalized with injuries, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. (US-Amazon-Cargo Plane Crash)
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TEHRAN -- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has said that his country would announce a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days and place any ship attempting to transit the area on Tehran's sanctions list.
In an interview with state-run IRIB TV, which was broadcast Sunday night, Rezaei said that the zone would extend from "the line where the U.S. naval blockade begins to the Strait of Hormuz region and inside the Persian Gulf on the other side (of the strait)." (Iran-Hormuz Strait-Restricted Zone)
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ADEN, Yemen -- At least 117 people have been killed in four days of fierce clashes between Yemeni government forces and the Houthi group in the western provinces of Taiz and Hodeidah, medical officials told Xinhua on Sunday.
A senior medical official accompanying government forces on the western coast frontlines told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that 54 government soldiers had been killed and many others wounded since fighting erupted on Thursday. (Yemen-Fighting-Deaths)
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CAIRO -- The foreign ministers of Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Indonesia and Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned remarks by two Israeli ministers concerning the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
In a joint statement, the ministers condemned recent remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defense Minister Israel Katz, including proposals for plans and mechanisms aimed at "forcibly removing Palestinians from their land."(Israel-Gaza)
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PRAIA -- The government of Cabo Verde on Sunday declared two days of national mourning for the victims of a bus accident on the island of Fogo that killed 25 people.
Under a resolution approved by the Council of Ministers, national flags will be flown at half-mast at public buildings across the country as well as at Cabo Verde's diplomatic and consular missions abroad during the mourning period. Public celebrations and performances will also be canceled. (Cabo Verde-Bus accident) ■
