HOUSTON — Two African American teenage cheerleaders were shot after one of them mistakenly opened the door to a wrong vehicle at a supermarket parking lot near Austin, the capital city of south central U.S. state of Texas, local media reported on Wednesday.
The suspect, a 25-year-old white identified as Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., was taken into custody hours later on Tuesday in Elgin, about 50 minutes by drive from Austin, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release. (US-Shooting)
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SANAA — At least 80 were killed, and 220 injured on Wednesday evening during a stampede at an aid distribution center in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to Anis Al-Subaihi, spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry in Sanaa. (Yemen-Sanaa-Stampede)
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NAIROBI — South Sudan’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday launched a project worth 10 million U.S. dollars to boost climate change resilience and adaptation in two states.
The five-year project, funded by the Global Environment Facility, will benefit the pastoral communities in Terekeka County of Central Equatoria State, and Kapoeta North County of Eastern Equatoria State, which have been severely affected by climate change over the years. (South Sudan-UNDP-Fighting Climate Change)
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LOS ANGELES — U.S. private space company SpaceX launched 21 more second-generation Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:31 a.m. Eastern Time from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in southeastern U.S. state of Florida. (US-SpaceX-Starlink)
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