CAIRO -- At least six people were killed and nine others injured on Thursday when a tourist submarine sank in Egypt's Red Sea during a trip in the resort city of Hurghada, an official source at the Red Sea Governorate told Xinhua.

Five of the injured are in critical condition, while 29 other passengers were rescued and returned to their hotels, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. (Egypt-Red Sea-Bathyscaphe Accident)

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BEIRUT/JERUSALEM -- Four people, including a Hezbollah military commander, were killed on Thursday in two separate Israeli drone strikes targeting vehicles in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.

One strike hit a vehicle in Yahmar al-Shaqif in the Nabatieh district, killing three people, Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center said in a statement. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrikes-Hezbollah Commander)

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ISTANBUL -- A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwestern Türkiye earlier Thursday killed four people, including a champion skier and his instructor father, two months after a major ski resort fire killed 78 in the country.

According to a statement by the Bursa Governor's Office, the incident, which occurred in the Uludag ski resort in Bursa province around 5:30 a.m. local time (0230 GMT), killed Yahya Usta, President of the Turkish Ski and Snowboard Instructors Association, his 24-year-old son Berkin Usta, a national skier and World Alpine Champion, and two staff members of the hotel. (Türkiye-Hotel Fire-Skier)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least two people were killed and 21 others, including several policemen, were injured in a bomb attack on a police vehicle in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Thursday, the police and health officials said.

The incident happened in the provincial capital of Quetta, and several of the wounded people are in critical condition, Waseem Baig, media coordinator of the provincial health ministry, told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Balochistan-Blast)

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YAOUNDE -- At least 12 soldiers have been killed and around 10 others injured after jihadist terrorists raided the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

In a statement, the ministry said the attack took place from Monday night to Tuesday. The terrorists attacked a mixed post, which was close to the Cameroonian border, of the Defense and Security Forces in the locality of Wulgo (in Nigeria), Sector III of the MNJTF of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. (Cameroon-Lake Chad-Attack) Enditem

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