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Death Toll from Ethiopia Landslides Could Rise to 500, UN Says 

Residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. (AFP)
Residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. (AFP)
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Death Toll from Ethiopia Landslides Could Rise to 500, UN Says 

Residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. (AFP)
Residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. (AFP)

The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has risen to 257, and is expected to rise to 500, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Ethiopia's National Disaster Risk Management Commission had put the death toll at 229.

Following heavy rain, a landslide buried people in Gofa zone in Southern Ethiopia regional state on Sunday night, then a second one engulfed others who had gathered to help on Monday morning.

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Iran Summons UK Ambassador over Extradition of Iranian to the US

A plague marks the re-opening of the British Embassy by Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Tehran, Iran August 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
A plague marks the re-opening of the British Embassy by Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Tehran, Iran August 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
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Iran Summons UK Ambassador over Extradition of Iranian to the US

A plague marks the re-opening of the British Embassy by Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Tehran, Iran August 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
A plague marks the re-opening of the British Embassy by Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Tehran, Iran August 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples

Iran on Wednesday summoned the British ambassador to Tehran after London extradited an Iranian citizen, wanted on legal charges of circumventing sanctions on Tehran, to the United States.
The Iranian foreign ministry said it had “conveyed to the British ambassador Iran’s strong protest” against the “illegal arrest of the Iranian citizen and his extradition to the United States”, reported Agence France Presse.
On Tuesday, the US Justice Department announced that Saeid Haji Agha Mousaei, 53, had been extradited by Britain to appear before a court in Chicago.
The United States has accused him of transporting to Iran advanced US technology with “military applications”.
Washington has imposed crippling sanctions on Iran since 2018, after withdrawing from an agreement secured three years earlier that placed curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Talks aimed at reviving the 2015 agreement failed in the summer of 2022.