Deadly monsoon
MONSOON floods have inundated hundreds of villages across the northeast Indian state of Assam, killing at least 21 people in the last four days and forcing some 800,000 people to leave their homes.
U.S. drones to Latvia
THE U.S. military has deployed two MQ-1 Predator reconnaissance drones and 70 airmen to Latvia on a training mission, the Pentagon said Monday.
The deployment over the weekend was the first time the U.S. military has sent a detachment of drones to Latvia to participate in partner training.
Prison fire kills 17
A FIRE at Venezuela’s central Tocuyito prison killed 17 people and injured 11 early Monday, the state prosecutor said in a statement.
Eight women and nine men were killed by the fire at the prison in the state of Carabobo. The cause of the blaze was being investigated but there was no immediate indication of how it started, it said.
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