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Extreme rainfall in Afghanistan and devastating flash floods have killed at least 66 people and damaged homes, infrastructure, and farmlands across most of the country’s provinces, authorities said on Tuesday. The storms, which started over the weekend, are adding to the challenges facing Afghanistan, which is still recovering from
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The FBI has opened a federal criminal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Baltimore bridge last month when a ship crashed into one of its supports, the bureau said on Monday. FBI agents had boarded the cargo ship Dali to conduct court-authorized law enforcement activity regarding the crash, a
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Australian police said Monday they are investigating why a 40-year-old man with mental illness appeared to target women as he roamed a Sydney shopping mall with a large knife, killing six people and injuring a dozen more. Videos shared on social media showed unshaven itinerant Joel Cauchi pursuing mostly female
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A search and rescue team found 18 people killed by landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island and are still looking for two missing, officials said Monday. Rescuers found about 14 bodies in Makale village on Sunday afternoon and four in South Makale, said Mexianus Bekabel, the chief of Makassar Search
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France and its allies Monday sought to drum up hundreds of millions in aid for Sudan a year since its civil war erupted, sparking one of the world’s worst and most underfunded humanitarian crises. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and 8.5 million more have been
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Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has appointed Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as prime minister, state news agency KUNA reported on Monday. The Kuwaiti ruler also tasked the new prime minister to form a government. The Kuwaiti ruler last week accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad
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Some 3.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian help in Chad following the arrival of large numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing war, a French NGO warned Wednesday. “Provinces in the east of Chad are among the country’s most vulnerable zones with poor access to basic services,
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An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot by a police officer after he attacked shoppers in the busy Westfield Bondi Junction
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Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah submitted his cabinet’s resignation as expected to the Kuwaiti emir on Saturday, the state news agency reported. The move comes after a new parliament was elected on Thursday and is a procedural one as the current government has to submit its
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani left Baghdad on Saturday for the United States, his office said, where he will meet with the US president as regional tensions flare. US President Joe Biden is due to receive the Iraqi leader on Monday to “coordinate on common priorities” and discuss
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Jordan will temporarily close its airspace starting on Saturday night to all incoming, departing and transit aircraft, state-owned Al Mamlaka news said on Saturday.
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The water level in the Ural River near the Russian city of Orenburg has risen above the critical level of 9.3 meters and is currently at 9.31 meters, state-run RIA news agency reported on Tuesday citing Orenburg Mayor Sergei Salmin’s office. Earlier Salmin had described the flood
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One year since the conflict in Sudan erupted, thousands of desperate people are still fleeing the country daily “as if the emergency had started yesterday,” the UN said Tuesday. More than 8.5 million people have fled their homes since the fighting broke out, with nearly 1.8 million having
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Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister said Tuesday that this week’s slaying of a local politician by what authorities say was a gang of Syrian nationals signals the need to restrict the number of refugees entering the country from neighboring Syria. Bassam Mawlawi also urged Lebanese to show restraint amid
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An explosion at an Italian hydroelectric power plant on Tuesday killed at least four people and left five missing, an official said. Three people were also injured in the incident at the Bargi plant run by Enel Green Power located on Lake Suviana, the official from the Bologna prefecture in
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The Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah will receive worshipers for Eid Al-Fitr prayers after completing preparations, the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Saudi Arabia has said. The Two Holy Mosques have been prepared with with a package of religious services “to enrich the experience