INDIA: Flooding in India’s north-east Assam state has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said today.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said nearly 900 villages were submerged and more than 7,000 homes were without electricity.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a shooting in the northern West Bank, health officials said today. Several more people were injured.

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