• A 21-year-old man was moderately injured after being stung by a scorpion in the fields near Kibbutz Nir Am. MDA personnel evacuated him to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
• Significant improvement in the condition of the child from Neve Tzuf in Binyamin, who was bitten by a snake yesterday, and was evacuated in serious condition to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer. The child's condition is now classified as moderate and he is hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit. He is breathing on his own and is conscious. The hospital said that the rapid evacuation from the area and the effective treatment in the emergency room saved his life.
• More than 100 people were killed on Saturday during a cattle raid in northern South Sudan. Regional information minister Bol Del said: "We lost 28 civilians" in an isolated herders' settlement in Warrap state. Police and soldiers pursued the attackers, killing about 85 of them.
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• A 24-year-old Florida man is suspected of suffocating his 1-year-old son to death because his crying was preventing him from playing video games and watching TV. According to local police, the father admitted during questioning that he was frustrated by his son's constant crying, so he blocked his airway for four minutes and put him to sleep with his head covered with sheets.
• A 40-year-old man was seriously injured yesterday, Saturday night, during a fight on Tversky Street in Tel Aviv. Magen David Adom forces evacuated the injured man to Ichilov Hospital, where he was stabbed in the upper body.
• Syrian opposition sources reported on Saturday another chlorine gas attack on the village of Zeita, in the Hama region, injuring more than 100 people. According to the report, Syrian air force planes dropped barrels of the toxic gas early in the morning. The extent of the damage or the exact number of casualties is not yet clear.
• Los Angeles police raided the Los Angeles Times building, which had been under siege for less than an hour, following a report of a man threatening to open fire. A man in his 20s, who works for a company that rents office space in the building, was arrested. The newspaper reported that the man who made the threat said he was depressed and 'didn’t care about killing anyone.' He showed an employee a bag full of bullets and said he didn’t want to go to jail. There were no injuries and no shots were fired.
• Australian authorities said Saturday that the underwater search in the Indian Ocean, based on signals from the black box of the Malaysian plane, will be completed within five days to a week. The Boeing 777, belonging to Malaysia Airlines, disappeared about a month and a half ago, with 239 passengers from 14 countries on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
• A military source in Yemen said that a US drone attack killed 15 operatives of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, as well as three civilians. According to the source, the drone attacked a vehicle carrying the operatives in the Al-Bayda district, while a civilian vehicle was driving next to it.
• Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, claimed on Saturday that the reinforcement of the Russian army near the border with Ukraine was due to the instability in Ukraine. This is in contrast to the claims made by Russia to date, when it said that the reinforcement of forces on the border was part of a routine military exercise. "Some of the forces are stationed there permanently, and some were sent to reinforce them and prevent the spillover of events in Ukraine," Peskov said. "Forgive me, but Ukraine is a country that has undergone a military coup, so naturally every country takes precautions to ensure its security.".
• Search teams in Nepal on Saturday found the body of another guide, the 13th to be killed in an avalanche on Everest yesterday. Several people are still missing and an extensive search is underway to try to locate survivors on the slopes of the mountain, on the route to the world's highest peak. It is the deadliest accident ever to occur on Everest.
• South Korea's coast guard said it had found three more bodies in the search for those missing from a ferry disaster off the country's coast on Wednesday. So far, 32 bodies have been found and more than 300 people are still missing.
• A 70-year-old hiker was moderately injured on Saturday after falling into Nahal Banias. He was rescued from the scene by the Golan Rescue Unit and taken to Ziv Hospital in Safed, suffering from head and back injuries. The Golan Rescue Unit worked to rescue two other hikers in Nahal Meshushim and another hiker in Nahal El Al.
