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LA PAZ -- At least six people were killed on Thursday due to a confrontation between members of mining cooperatives in Bolivia's western department of La Paz, local authorities said.
The conflict began early Thursday in the community of Yani of the Sorata municipality, after members of the Senor de Mayo cooperative attacked members of another cooperative, Hijos del Ingenio, with explosives, which unleashed a series of violent acts. (Bolivia-Clash-Death)
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GAZA -- At least 31 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others wounded on Thursday when an Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering displaced persons in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, according to the Civil Defense in Gaza.
Mahmoud Basal, a Civil Defense spokesman, told Xinhua that rescue teams recovered the bodies of 31 victims, including 18 children and an elderly woman, from the rubble of Dar Al-Arqam school, which had been struck by multiple Israeli missiles. (Gaza-Hamas-Israel)
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HOUSTON -- At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured after dozens of tornadoes tearing through large swaths of the U.S. Midwest and South since Wednesday night, local authorities confirmed on Thursday.
At least five fatalities were confirmed in Tennessee, one in Missouri, and one in Indiana, according to local media reports. (U.S.-Tornadoes-Death)
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OSLO -- Accusing the United States of subjecting Denmark and Greenland to "pressure and threats," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday firmly rejected U.S. attempt to annex the Greenland, citing international law.
"You cannot annex other countries -- not even under the pretext of international security," Frederiksen said at a press conference with Greenlandic officials in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. (Denmark-Greenland)
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OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Thursday that Canada will be responding by matching the U.S. approach with 25 percent tariffs on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
The prime minister said his government will also impose the tariff on non-Canadian content of any CUSMA-compliant vehicles from the U.S., adding that Mexico won't be impacted. (Canada-U.S.-Tariff) Enditem
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