VOA60: July 24, 2024

Germany has raided 53 properties in eight states and banned the Islamic Centre Hamburg association for ties to radical Islamists and the militant group Hezbollah.

In Nepal, officials are investigating an airplane crash near Katmandu that killed 18 passengers. Only the pilot survived.

In the Philippines, an ocean storm has killed at least 13 people and displaced 600,000 with heavy rain and flooding reported.

And Japan's Coast Guard rescues 121 passengers on a tour boat that lost power traveling to a volcanic island off the country's south-central coast.
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