GAZA -- At least 16 Palestinians were killed, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

The Al-Jaouni school was bombed for the third time since the onset of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, WAFA said. (Gaza-Hamas-Israel)

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BEIRUT -- A Hezbollah official was killed on Saturday in an Israeli air strike in the town of Shaath, north of the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.

The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-surface missiles at a car in Shaath, killing its driver. (Lebanon-Israel-Attacks)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that helping the country pass through the "bottlenecks, challenges and crises" would be a "big test" ahead, according to the official news agency IRNA.

He made the remarks when speaking with supporters at Imam Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran hours after being announced as the winner of the country's 14th presidential election in a runoff against principlist candidate Saeed Jalili. (Iran-Election-President)

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ADEN, Yemen -- The latest round of prisoner exchange negotiations between the Yemeni government and the Houthi group concluded Saturday in Muscat, Oman, without reaching a comprehensive agreement, according to officials from both sides.

The seven-day talks were conducted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross, aiming to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis surrounding prisoners in the conflict-ridden nation. (Yemen-Houthis-Negotiations) Enditem

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