LILONGWE -- Two people are feared dead in a plane accident in Malawi involving a small aircraft of C210 type, registration number 7QPFU, which crashed into the Lake Malawi in Nkhotakota district, about 200 km northeast of the capital, Lilongwe, with one crew member and two passengers on board, authorities have confirmed.

Malawian government's chief spokesperson, Moses Kunkuyu, confirmed the accident in a statement Tuesday evening, saying one of the passengers, a female Dutch, has survived with minor injuries after she was rescued by local fishermen in the area. (Malawi-Plane Crash)

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GAZA -- At least nine people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a market in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said Tuesday.

Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that an Israeli aircraft launched at least one missile at the market, which was packed with shoppers. (Gaza Strip-Israeli Attack-Casualty)

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PRAGUE -- A bus and a lorry collided Tuesday in western Slovakia, leaving seven people injured, local media reported.

The accident occurred near the village of Turna in the Kosice region Tuesday afternoon. All the injured were conscious, the News Agency of the Slovak Republic reported, adding that six ambulances and a helicopter were sent to the site. (Slovakia-Collision)

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LOS ANGELES -- The KP.3.1.1 COVID-19 variant, now the predominant SARS-CoV-2 variant circulating in the United States, has been causing increasing infections in the country, the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.

KP.3.1.1, of the Omicron family, is among many currently co-circulating JN.1-derived variants in the United States. (U.S.-Coronavirus-Variant) Enditem

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