AFP, New York
Emergency crews extinguished a small fire on the property of former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary in Chappaqua, New York on Wednesday, officials said.
“A small fire broke out in the @SecretService facility today on Clinton property, in a building not connected to their home,” Hillary Clinton’s spokesman Nick Merrill said on Twitter.
Building fire kills 4 in Mumbai
Xinhua , New Delhi
At least four people were killed and nine others injured early Thursday in a devastating fire in India’s financial capital city of Mumbai, police said.
The fire broke out during night in Maimoon building in Marol area.
“Fire broke out in Maimoon building here early today, killing four people and injuring nine others,” a police official said. “Brihanmumbai Disaster Management Cell was informed that the fire started at 1:30 a.m. (local time).”
Israeli jets hit Gaza site
AFP, Jerusalem
Israeli air strikes targeted a site in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, with no injuries reported, the military and Gazan security sources said on Thursday.
“In response to the projectiles fired at southern Israeli communities throughout yesterday from the Gaza Strip, IAF (Israeli air force) fighter jets targeted a significant terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli forces said in a statement, without providing further details on what was hit.
Fifty bodies recovered from Peru bus crash
AFP, Lima
Peruvian emergency workers on Wednesday said they had recovered 50 bodies-six of them children-from a horrific bus crash over a cliff north of the capital Lima. The coach plunged around 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff on Tuesday after a collision with a truck on a precarious stretch known as the “devil’s curve.”
US air strike kills two militants in Somalia
Reuters, Mogadishu
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had killed two militants in Somalia in an air strike targeting al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group that is fighting to topple the U.N.-backed government.
The military’s Africa Command said the strike took place around 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, and that a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device” had also been destroyed in the early morning attack.
Last month Washington warned of a threat to its diplomatic staff in Mogadishu and directed all non-essential staff to leave the city.
