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Six people were killed and one wounded in an attack at a kindergarten in South China’s Guangdong province on Monday, a spokeswoman for the city government said. “The victims include one teacher, two parents, and three students,” she said. She did not offer details about the identities and ages of the victims nor […]
At least 10 palestinians have been killed in Jenin as Israel’s largest assault in decades in the occupied west bank enters its second day. UN aid agencies on tuesday voiced alarm at the scale of the ongoing operation in the west bank town of Jenin, where ten Palestinians have been killed and one in […]
China’s restriction of exports of some metals widely used in semiconductors, electric vehicles and high-tech industries has ramped up a trade war with the United States and could potentially cause more disruption to global supply chains. China’s commerce ministry said on Monday it would control exports of eight gallium products and six germanium products from Aug. 1 […]
Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometres from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said Tuesday. The tragedy happened last Friday at the Jeram Mawar waterfall located deep in a forest in the district of […]
At least two people were killed and 28 wounded in a mass shooting at a street party early Sunday in the US city of Baltimore, police said. Officials said more than one assailant opened fire at the celebration in Baltimore, a port city about an hour’s drive north of Washington which has one of the […]
Kenyan President William Ruto announced Sunday the lifting of a near six-year ban on logging, despite the concerns of environmental campaigners. Ruto said the move was “long overdue” and was aimed at creating jobs and opening up sectors of the economy that rely on forest products. “We can’t have mature trees rotting in […]
The U.S Supreme Court on Friday was set to rule on the legality of President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt – a move intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise. The conservative justices during arguments in the case in February signaled skepticism over […]
Some 59 flights were cancelled at Geneva’s international airport on Friday, it said, after operations were halted for four hours because of a strike by workers at the start of the busy summer travel season. “Because of the social action… the direction decided a temporary halt of operations from 6:00 am to 10:00 am […]
Violent protests shook Paris suburbs overnight and celebrities expressed outrage Wednesday after police shot dead a teenager during a traffic stop and appeared to have lied about the circumstances of the killing. The 17-year-old man, named only as Nael M., was pulled over by two policemen on Tuesday for breaking traffic rules, prosecutors said. Police […]
A U.N. monitoring mission in Ukraine said on Tuesday that Russia has detained more than 800 civilians since the conflict began last February, of whom 77 were executed. The report showed that Ukraine had also violated international law by arbitrarily detaining civilians but on a considerably smaller scale. “(The U.N. rights office) identified […]
