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. A fire ripped through the dormitory of a boarding school in central Kenya, killing 17 boys as they slept and injuring 14 others, police said Friday. A government spokesperson said the boys were in Grades 4 to 8, and that the dormitory housed 156 students. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Kenya has a history of school fires, many of which have turned out to be the result of arson. Nine students were killed in September 2017, during a fire at a school in Nairobi. In 200, 58 schoolboys were killed in a dormitory fire at a school outside Nairobi and in 2012, eight students were killed at a school in western Kenya.

. Hundreds of people in Vijayawada, a city in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, were left stranded Monday when heavy rains triggered flash floods in the area.

. An Italian prosecutor on Saturday opened a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people who were killed when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily this week.

. Two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June on a faulty Boeing Starliner will return home on a SpaceX ship in February 2025, NASA said. The U.S. space agency has determined that problems with the Starliner's propulsion system make it too risky for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to use it for their return trip.

. On Monday, Democrats will gather in Chicago for their national convention, where the party is expected to select Kamala Harris as its presidential candidate.

Greek firefighters managed to contain a wildfire on Sunday that had raged uncontrolled overnight on the

.. An annual rites pilgrimage has turned into a mass death event as an extreme heat wave grips Saudi Arabia, with temperatures soaring to over 50 C in some areas

. . The war in Sudan has raged on for more than a year and the humanitarian crisis in the North African nation just keeps getting worse.

.. In South Africa, reaction is pouring into what's already been a historic election. For the first time since the end of apartheid, the nation's leading party will be forced to form a coalition government

. Delhi recorded an all-time high temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, as extreme heat conditions gripped the north and western parts of India, sending people to seek shelter indoors.