Nine soldiers confirmed dead in Colombia helicopter crash: army

08:53, July 22, 2020

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  PLA soldiers pitch in to help prevent flooding in Jiangxi

  People's Liberation Army soldiers prepare and arrange numerous sandbags to help prevent flooding at a dyke in Jiangzhou town of Jiujiang city, East China's Jiangxi province, on July 25, 2020. [Photo/China News Service] . A PLA soldier carries a sandbag prepared to help prevent flooding at a dyke

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  China's Dalian reports nine new confirmed COVID-19 cases

  Dalian, Liaoning province, reported nine new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 27 symptomatic infections from Thursday until 3 pm Friday. (Photo: China Daily)DALIAN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The city of Dalian in northeast Chinas Liaoning Province reported nine domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 between 11 a.m. on Thursday and 3 p.m. on Friday.The new confirmed cases are all close contacts of the first confirmed case reported in the city on Wednesday and are all employees at a local seafood processing company, according to Zhao Lian, deputy director of the citys health commission.As of 3 p.m. on Friday, the city had reported a total of 12 confirmed domestically transmitted cases.The city has asked citizens to refrain from leaving the city. Those who have to leave are requested to carry certificates of nucleic acid tests showing negative results within seven days. Enditem

• 4 dead, 4 missing after ship capsizes in Taiwan Strait

  TAIPEI, July 27 -- Four people have been found dead while four others remained missing after a mainland sand carrier capsized in the waters of the Penghu archipelago on Sunday evening, Taiwan's coast guard authority said Monday.One of the nine crew members on board was rescued as of 10:06 a. Endite