Anti-ISIS coalition raids kill 43 in east Syria
Beirut: Air strikes by the US-led coalition on Saturday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based monitor said. Seventeen children were among 36 ISIS family members killed in Abu Husn village of Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
1 dead, 47 hurt in French fuel taxes protests
Paris: One protester was killed and 47 others were injured during roadblocks set up around France to demonstrate against rising fuel taxes, a new challenge to embattled President Emmanuel Macron. The protester was killed when a driver caught in traffic accelerated in a panic at Pont-de-Beauvoisin, near Chambery, said Louis Laugier, the prefect, or top state official, in the eastern Savoie region.
Number of missing in US fire soars past 1,ooo
Chico (US): The number of people listed as missing in a northern California wildfire jumped past 1,000 as searchers found the remains of eight more victims on the eve of President Donald Trump’s trip to witness the devastation.
2 killed, 10 injured in blast in Pak’s Karachi
Karachi: At least two people were killed and 10 others injured as a bomb exploded near a flyover in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday. Some vendors were selling fruit and other items of daily use near the flyover at Quaidabad locality of the city when the bomb went off, police said.
