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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Israel opens embassy, expanding new ties

Israel opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates, its Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, in a historic move four months after the Jewish state and the Gulf country normalized ties. The embassy is the latest in Israel's diplomatic outreach to the Arab world, with a flurry of normalization agreements and new deals with four countries over recent months. The UAE on Sunday approved the establishment of its embassy in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The UAE, along with Bahrain, signed a United States-brokered deal in September to normalize relations with Israel. The deals shattered a longstanding Arab consensus that there should be no normalization with Israel until it reaches a comprehensive peace deal with the Palestinians.

UNITED STATES

Pregnant woman among 5 shot dead

Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot to death early on Sunday inside an Indianapolis home in an apparent targeted attack, the city's police chief said, decrying the "mass murder" killings as a "different kind of evil". The fatal shootings were discovered by police who had been called at about 4 am to investigate reports of a person shot on the city's near northeast side but first discovered a juvenile male with gunshot wounds, said Sergeant Shane Foley with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. No suspects were in custody as of Sunday evening. IMPD Chief Randal Taylor said police believe the deadly shootings were not random, but a targeted attack.

Agencies - Xinhua