BEIRUT -- Three paramedics were killed and three others injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike targeting their vehicle at the Deir Qanoun Ras El Ain junction in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported.

The ministry's Public Health Emergency Operations Center issued a statement announcing that the Israeli army continues to target paramedics and ambulance facilities in the south. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrike-Casualty)

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SYDNEY -- Police in the Australian state of New South Wales announced that a man has died after a public place shooting in Sydney's inner city on Friday evening.

According to a police statement, emergency services were called to Baptist Street, Surry Hills, an inner-east suburb of Sydney, at about 7:45 p.m. local time following reports of shots fired. (Australia-Gunshot)

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ISLAMABAD -- The death toll from Thursday afternoon's attack on passenger coaches in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has risen to 42, the province's Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Aftab Alam Afridi confirmed on Friday.

Talking to media, Afridi said that unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets at the coaches from the mountains in the Kurram tribal district of the province before fleeing the scene. (Pakistan-Attack-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 10 Naxals were killed in a fierce gunfight with government forces Friday in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said.

The gunfight between Naxals and contingents of police and paramilitary forces broke out in Bhejji police station area of Sukma district, about 498 km south of Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh. (India-Naxals-Gunfight) Enditem

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