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A U.S. operations soldier was killed and four wounded in an attack Friday by al-Shabab extremists in Somalia. The injured have been treated and discharged to a U.S.embassy medical team in Kenya, the U.S. Africa command said Saturday.

One member of a "partner force" was also wounded in the attack, the military said.

The Africa command said the four U.S. service members were now awaiting transport "for additional medical evaluation."

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which is based in Somalia and controls parts of the country’s rural south and central regions, claimed responsibility for the attack.

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A short-fin male pilot whale died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 17 of plastic bags and packaging.

Veterinarians removed more than 80 plastic bags from the whale's stomach, said Jatuporn Burutpat, director-general to Thailand's Department of Marine and Coastal Resources in a CNN report.

The whale, which weighed about 1,100 pounds and was nearly 15 feet long, died Friday afternoon.

Democrats flipped another seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday night, bringing the total number of state legislative flips to 41 since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Helen Tai, the Democratic candidate running in the Bucks County Pennsylvania House District 178, defeated Republican Wendi Thomas on Tuesday night. The election was called after Republican Scott Petri resigned to work as the executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority. In the district, President Trump narrowly won 50-47, but underperformed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney who won 56-43 against former president Obama.

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New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood will replace outgoing state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, on an acting basis, officials said Tuesday.

Schneiderman abruptly announced his resignation late Monday after The New Yorker published a story involving sexual assault accusations from four women, and after Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged him to step down. He will leave office at the end of the day Tuesday.

"I'm grateful to work with the best colleagues in the business -- including Barbara Underwood, who will be acting NY [attorney general]," Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for the AG's office, tweeted. "She's argued 20 cases before the Supreme Court, clerked for Thurgood Marshall, & much more. The work continues."

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At least 14 people have been killed by an explosion at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan that is being used as a voter registration centre, according to a health official.

Waheed Majrooh, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health, told Al Jazeera more than 30 others were wounded in Sunday's attack, which took place inside Yaqoubi mosque in the city of Khost.

The bomb went off as civilians gathered both for prayers and to register.

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President Trump is throwing doubt on statements made by his new attorney Rudy Giuliani that indicated the president reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for his payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Attempting to walk back statements by Giuliani, who joined Trump's legal team last month, Trump called the former New York mayor "a great guy," but said that he just "started a day ago" and "he'll get his facts straight."