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AFGHANISTAN

Insurgents killed during search

KABUL | NATO and Afghan forces killed several insurgents, including an armed woman, in a search operation in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said.

The governor of Shindand district in Herat, where the operation took place, said three civilians were killed and three children were wounded when insurgents used a civilian house for cover during the fighting.

NATO rejected claims that the operation had caused civilian casualties, saying the security force “protected several women and children present in the compounds, and no civilians were harmed during the operation.”

In the southern province of Zabul, a woman was accidentally killed when another joint operation by Afghan and international forces used explosives to enter a compound in search of a Taliban district commander, NATO said.

Separately, the alliance announced the deaths of two U.S. service members and an American civilian contractor in two explosions Friday in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

SOUTH KOREA

Fire kills 10 at shooting range

SEOUL | A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said.

Some people were on fire as they ran out of the building, Yonhap news agency quoted a witness as saying.

Nine Japanese tourists and their South Korean guide were inside the facility in the southeastern port city of Busan when the fire broke out on the second floor of a multitenant five-story building, police said.

Yonhap said the four indoor shooting ranges in Busan, about 200 miles southeast of Seoul, are popular with Japanese visitors to the city.

ISRAEL

Orthodox protest Intel Sabbath work

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