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Rio DE JANEIROcColor:> Six foreign nationals were arrested in Venezuela on Saturday after officials accused them of plotting to assassinate President Nicols Maduro.The alleged plan was to generate violence and destabilize the country Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said during a press conference. Cabello claimed that the Spanish and US secret service

LagoscTypeface:> At least 45 people have died in a river boat accident in Nigeria authorities said.The wooden boat sank on Saturday morning on a river near the town of Gummi in the northern state of Zamfara Hassan Dauran the director of the states disaster management agency told DPA on Sunday.Ten passengers were rescued he said but the total number of peopl

AgenciesPalestinian Territories/Tel avivIsraeli bombings killed 12 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn Medical sources said on Sunday.Gazas civil defence reported earlier that an elderly man and a girl were killed after an overnight attack on the home of the al-Nimr family in Sheikh Radwan.Israeli air raids also hit the Jabalia and Nuseirat

KievcTypeface:> More than 30 civilians have been injured in a Russian airstrike on the city of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine officials said on Sunday.President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram a high-rise residential building was hit and that a fire broke out between the 9th and 12th floors. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 33 people were injured including several children. Befo

PA Media/dpaLondonEight migrants have died while trying to cross the English Channel overnight.The French maritime prefecture for the English Channel and the North Sea said 53 migrants were on board a boat which got into difficulty off the coast of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France.A rescue operation was launched but

AgenciesIstanbulA US-Turkish activist killed during a protest last week against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her home town in western Turkey.Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was martyred by soldiers of the terror state Israel during a peaceful protest Turkish parliamentary speaker Numan Kurtulmus said

AgenciesMoscow Russia and Ukraine on Saturday held a major exchange of prisoners with both sides swapping more than 100 captured soldiers.The Russian Defence Ministry said 103 of its military personnel were in Belarus to receive necessary psychological and medical assistance before returning home.Moscow thanked the United Arab Emirat

dpaTehranThe infamous Evin prison in Tehran is to be converted into a university building the Iranian government said on Saturday.By converting a prison into an academic centre we would send a good signal and a conciliatory message to the world community said Vice President Mohammed-Reza Aref according to the ISNAnews agency.The

dpaBucharestAt least four people have been killed in eastern Romania after the country was battered by heavy rains and flooding news agency Mediafax reported onSaturday.According to civil protection authorities the affected areas were in the Romanian region of Western Moldavia which borders Moldova.The victims are mainly older citizens

BelgradecTypeface:> Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic onSaturday approved the reintroduction of compulsory military service which was abolished in 2011.As commander-in-chief of the armed forces Vucic agreed to reimpose a 75-day period of compulsory service at a ceremony in Belgrade.While the measure only applies to men women can continue to serve in the armed