ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia reported 1,998 more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 130,452, the country's health ministry said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, seven more deaths were reported, raising the national count to 670, the ministry said in a statement. (Mongolia-COVID-19)

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WASHINGTON -- The confirmed death toll in the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in Surfside, southeastern U.S. state Florida, has risen to 36, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at an evening news briefing on Tuesday.

There are 109 "reports of people who are potentially unaccounted for," the mayor said. (US-Building Collapse)

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KHARTOUM -- Sudan said on Tuesday that the notification it received from Ethiopia over the second filling of a huge dam on the Nile River is useless without a negotiated deal among related countries.

"The Irrigation and Water Resources Ministry received a letter from its Ethiopian counterpart notifying it has started the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the current rainy season," Omar Al-Farouq Sayed Kamel, spokesman of the Sudanese government's team to the GERD talks, said in a statement. (Sudan-Ethiopia-Dam-GERD-Tension)

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KAMPALA -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and visiting Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday called for forming the East African Federation, a proposed political union of the East African Community (EAC).

According to a statement issued by the State House Uganda, during a groundbreaking ceremony of a biotech manufacturing facility held in the central Ugandan district of Wakiso, Museveni said African countries need to realize that it is through integration that they can ensure the prosperity of their peoples. (Uganda-EAC-Federation) Enditem

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