UNITED NATIONS -- The latest UN analysis of satellite surveillance covering the Gaza Strip showed 63 percent of structures in Gaza have been damaged, UN humanitarians said on Monday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the UN Satellite Centre analyzed data collected a month ago. (UN-Gaza)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- At least 31 Alaska Native children died in federal boarding schools, according to the latest investigative report from the U.S. Interior Department.

This information "is not complete," and the Interior Department acknowledged that the actual number of children who died while in Indian boarding schools "is greater," said the second volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. (US-Alaska-Indian Boarding School-Deaths)

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NAIROBI -- Five people, including four foreign tourists, died Monday in a road accident along a busy highway in Narok County in southwestern Kenya, police confirmed.

The accident, involving a truck and a Land cruiser which was carrying the tourists, occurred at 3:10 p.m. (1210 GMT) along Narok-Mulot highway, national police spokesperson Resila Onyango said. (Kenya-Road accident)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- At least four people were injured following a shooting early Monday morning in Seattle, U.S. state of Washington, police said.

Police said they found a woman in her 20s with a gunshot graze wound to her head at the scene, and a man in his 20s who appeared to have been shot in his finger. (US-Seattle-Shooting) Enditem

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