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The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister has suffered a ‘hard landing.'

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: A Gaza hospital said Sunday that an Israeli air strike targeting a house at a refugee camp in the center of the Palestinian territory killed at least 20 people. “We received 20 fatalities and several wounded after an Israeli air strike targeted a house belonging to the Hassan family in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza,” the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said in a statement. Witnesses said the strike occurred around 3:00 a.m. local time. The Israeli army said it was checking the report.

CARACAS: Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions. Venezuela requested Iran’s help, according to a message on the social media platform X by the Iranian government attributed to the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. “Venezuela has a number of accelerators in its hospitals that have been stopped due to the embargo,” the message said. Medical accelerators are used in radiation treatments for cancer patients.

BUCHAREST: Romanian rescue teams on Saturday were scouring the Black Sea for three Syrian sailors who went missing when their cargo ship sank off the coast, the naval authority said. The Mohammed Z sank with 11 crew on board, 26 nautical miles off the Romanian town of Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube delta in the Black Sea on Saturday morning, officials said in a statement. The ship sailing under the Tanzanian flag was carrying nine Syrian and two Egyptian nationals, it said.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has unveiled a 174-project master plan that has attracted bids by rival powers.

Full-time training, travel to compete, medical and most other costs for these athletes are out of pocket.