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30 people are killed when U.S.-led planes hit a petroleum refinery controlled by the Islamic State on the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, says monitor. Gavino Garay reports.
Images from the site of a massive landslide that struck six villages in Papua New Guinea's highlands, with many homes believed to be buried and scores of villagers feared dead. The landslide hit a remote part of Enga province at around 3:00 am local time when many villagers were at home asleep. IMAGES
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES
Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Togo lawmakers give their final approval to a constitutional reform switching to a parliamentary system that opposition parties say will allow President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his grip on power. IMAGES