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Lone gunman opens fire in a Prague university, killing 15 people
PRAGUE (AP) -- Prague's police chief says a lone gunman opened fire in a university building in Prague, killing at least 15 people and injuring 24 more. Police and the Czech Republic's interior ministry say the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday is also dead. Authorities have not released the shooter's name, but the police chief says he was a student at the university. Police officers sealed off Jan Palach Square and evacuated the philosophy department building of Charles University, where the shooting took place. Authorities are searching the area, including the building's balconies, for explosives.
SKorean court orders Japanese firms to compensate wartime Korean workers
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's top court has ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor. The Supreme Court ruled that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel Corp. must give compensation to a total of 11 workers who were forced to work for the companies during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The ruling is in line with the court's contentious 2018 verdicts that caused a huge setback in relations between the two countries. Observers say Thursday's ruling won't likely hurt bilateral ties much because Seoul and Tokyo have been pushing hard to bolster their partnerships in the face of shared challenges.
UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes
CAIRO (AP) -- The U.N. says fighting between Sudan's military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the country's devastating conflict. The fighting erupted in the city of Wad Medani which is the provincial capital of Jazeera province after the Rapid Support Forces attacked the city earlier this month. The RSF said it took over Wad Medani earlier this week and the military said its troops withdrew from the city, and an investigation was opened. Sudan's war began in mid-April.
China has started erecting temporary housing units after earthquake
BEIJING (AP) -- Hundreds of temporary housing units are being set up in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 135 people. State broadcaster CCTV showed footage Thursday of cranes lifting white, box-like housing units and lining them up in an open field in a village in Gansu province. The arrival of the prefabricated units was a sign that many of those displaced by the Monday night earthquake may be homeless for some time. Elsewhere, search teams were using excavators to dig out a thick sea of mud in two villages in Qinghai province, where 12 people remain missing.