BEIRUT -- An Israeli airstrike struck a building in the Jamous area of Dahieh, a suburb of Beirut, on Friday, killing at least eight people and injuring 59 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Civil defense teams continue to clear rubble to locate casualties and transport them to hospitals, the ministry stated. (Lebanon-Israel-Attack)

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FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Three miners of a gold mine lost their lives due to a mudslide in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Thursday, Provincial Director for Information and Culture Hekmatullah Mohammadi said Friday.

The ill-fated miners were busy extracting gold from a gold mine in Khwahan district on Thursday afternoon when a hilltop slipped suddenly, killing the three on the spot, the official added without providing more details. (Afghanistan-Miners-Death)

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KIEV -- The European Union (EU) will provide Ukraine with a new loan of up to 35 billion euros (about 39 billion U.S. dollars), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday.

The funds will be provided as part of a Group of Seven pledge, von der Leyen, who is on a visit to Ukraine, wrote on social platform X, formerly Twitter. (Ukraine-EU-Loan)

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ANKARA -- Turkish police detained 88 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) group, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.

The suspects were detained in 23 provinces during operations dubbed "GURZ-15," which were carried out over the past five days, Yerlikaya stated on the social media platform X. (Türkiye-IS Suspects) Enditem

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