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At least nine people have been killed after the collapse of a bridge over a river in India’s western Gujarat state, according to authorities.Gujarat’s Health Minister Rushikesh Patel said several vehicles fell into Mahisagar River when a portion of Gambhira Bridge collapsed on Wednesday ...
At least 105 Palestinians have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.The toll included seven aid seekers killed and more than 57 injured, the statement published by the ministry on Telegram said.Israel’...
Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since early June, according to the United Nations refugee agency, after Tehran imposed a July 6 deadline for undocumented migrants and refugees to leave the country.The surge compounds Afghanistan’s existing challenges as the impoverished nation s...
Thousands of daredevils ran, skidded and tumbled out of the way of six charging bulls at the opening run of the San Fermin festival in Spain.Monday was the first of nine morning runs during the famous celebrations held in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.The bulls pounded along the twisting cob...
Countries across the Mediterranean are battling fast-spreading wildfires and soaring temperatures as a heatwave sweeps through Southern Europe and parts of the Middle East, prompting evacuations and emergency alerts.Blazes broke out in Greece, Turkiye, France and Syria on Sunday, with several other ...
Several people have been injured in Kenya after police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital Nairobi as they mark the 35th anniversary of pro-democracy rallies.Authorities on Monday ramped up police deployments in the city as hundreds of demonstrators advanced, with s...
An Australian police officer who shot dead an Indigenous teenager was a racist drawn to “high adrenaline policing”, a landmark coronial inquiry has found.Racist behaviour was also “normalised” in Zachary Rolfe’s Alice Springs police station, said the 682-page findings r...
Suriname has elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as its first female president, with parliament backing the 71-year-old physician and lawmaker to lead the crisis-hit South American nation.Her election came after a coalition deal was struck in the National Assembly, which voted by a two-thirds majority...
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has stepped up his criticism of United States President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and spending bill and renewed his call for a new political party.Musk’s criticism of Trump’s 940-page “Big, Beautiful Bill“, which proposes tax breaks and sweeping...
Police in Turkiye have detained four people over a cartoon published by the satirical magazine LeMan, which critics say appeared to depict Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses shaking hands in the sky as missiles fell below in a war-like scene – a claim the magazine denies.The cartoon, published...
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Britain’s High Court has ruled that the government’s decision to allow the export of Lockheed Martin F-35 jet parts to Israel is lawful despite accepting that they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law.In a 72-page ruling on Monday, Judges Stephen Males and Karen Stey...
Turkiye has evacuated four villages and two neighbourhoods in its western province of Izmir as firefighters battle wildfires for the second day, according to local authorities.Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said on Monday that the blaze was fanned overnight by winds reaching 40-50kmph (25-30mph) ...
The partial collapse of a traditional gold mine in Sudan’s northeast has killed 11 miners and wounded seven others, according to the state mining company, as a brutal civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is in its third year.Since the war erupted...
Iran may be able to restart uranium enrichment in a matter of months despite a wave of attacks by the United States and Israel that targeted its nuclear infrastructure, according to the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi.The remarks came on Saturday, days after US President D...
Ukraine has lost an F-16 aircraft and its pilot while repelling a Russian missile and drone strike, according to the war-torn country’s air force.After shooting down seven air targets, the plane was damaged and lost altitude overnight, the Ukrainian military said in a statement published on Te...
The League of Social Democrats (LSD), the last remaining active pro-democracy party in China-ruled Hong Kong, has announced its disbandment due to “immense political pressure”.The “difficult” decision announced on Sunday in effect leaves the financial hub with no opposition f...
Nearly 40 people have been killed after a bus and a minibus collided in Tanzania, sparking a fire that engulfed both vehicles.The crash occurred on Saturday evening in Sabasaba in the Kilimanjaro region after one of the bus’s tyres was punctured, causing the driver to lose control of the vehic...
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During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge.Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and his siblings. Caviar would keep them in good health, she believed.It was salty and “smelled like the sea”...
At least 62 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as Israel’s national security minister called for a “complete halt” of humanitarian aid supplies to the Palestinian territory.Local health authorities said on Thursday tha...
The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory (OHCHR) has accused Israeli authorities of accelerating efforts to forcibly displace large numbers of Palestinians from long-established towns and communities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.According to OHCHR, thes...
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