by Abdulmonam Eassa and Hasan Mohammed in Mesraba Agence France-Presse JISREEN, Syria (AFP) – At least six schoolchildren were among 11 people killed in Syrian regime shelling Tuesday in Eastern Ghouta, a war monitor said, despite a ceasefire in the hunger-hit rebel enclave. The bombardment of the rebel-held pocket outside Damascus came as a new round of peace talks to end Syria‘s six-year war entered a second day in the Kazakh capital Astana. Government fire […]
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25 people, mostly students, killed in Malaysia school fire — official
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said. The blaze broke out in the school, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in a mainly Malay settlement of Datuk Keramat just before dawn. “The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens,” Khirudin Drahman, director of Kuala Lumpur’s fire and rescue department told AFP. “They could have died […]





