Wednesday, August 26, 2009 JERUSALEM: A Palestinian was wounded by Israeli gunfire late on Tuesday after he breached a security fence separating the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state, a military spokesman said. "According to latest information, a Palestinian was injured by fire from our soldiers after he crossed the security fence near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal," said the spokesman.Soldiers "fired warning shots which were ignored, whereafter they aimed and wounded" the Palestinian. "The man, who was apparently lightly wounded in a leg, was moved to an Israeli hospital," he added. Early on Tuesday, three Palestinian brothers were killed and nine other people wounded when Israel bombed smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics said. The Israeli military said it launched the raid in response to mortar fire from the Palestinian territory late on Monday that wounded one soldier.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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