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MIDDLE EAST

4 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli missile attack

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and another four wounded in an Israeli missile attack near Damascus early on Monday, Syrian state media cited a military source as saying. State news agency SANA said the attack caused some material damage and that the missiles had targeted some points in the vicinity of the city of Damascus, but gave no specific details. Syrian air defenses intercepted the Israeli missiles and shot down some of them, the military source told SANA.

MOROCCO

At least 24 fatalities from minibus crash

At least 24 people died in a bus crash on Sunday in the province of Azilal in central Morocco, marking one of the deadliest such incidents in recent years in the country. According to local authorities, cited by Morocco's official news agency MAP, the crash occurred when a minibus carrying passengers overturned at a curve en route to the weekly market in a small town in central Morocco.

Agencies Via Xinhua