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At least 19 people were killed in clashes between armed men and security forces in the gang-plagued state of Sinaloa, authorities said Saturday.
A statement from the State Prosecutor’s Office said two people were killed in an initial shooting Friday involving rival groups in Villa Union, about 15 miles southeast of Mazatlan.
In a second clash, 15 municipal police officers came under attack on a highway by people riding in pickup trucks.
Marines and state police went to the aid of the municipal police, and 17 attackers were killed.
An oil tanker and a large cargo ship collided Saturday in the Dover Strait between Britain and France but no casualties or pollution from the accident were reported, French authorities said.
The collision between the two Honk Kong-flagged vessels took place 20 miles off the northern French port of Dunkirk in one of the world’s busiest sea routes.
The World Health Organization said Saturday that a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 1,500 people since April and is suspected of sickening 246,000 people.
A two-year Saudi-led campaign against Houthi rebels has damaged infrastructure and caused shortages of medicine in the Arab world’s poorest country.
4 Kashmir unrest: A prominent rebel leader recently blacklisted as a terrorist by the United States pledged Saturday to continue fighting until India relinquishes control of the disputed Himalayan region.
“We will not end this fight without liberating Kashmir from India,” Syed Salahuddin, who heads the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group, said amid tight security in a news conference in Muzaffarabad, in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir.
The U.S. State Department classified Salahuddin as a “global terrorist” on the eve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last month, a decision the militant leader said was only made to appease India.
“GST is a simple, transparent system that prevents generation of black money and curbs corruption,” the prime minister said.