The typhoon landed at Vietnam’s coastal provinces of Quang Ninh and Haiphong with wind speeds of up to 92 miles per hour, state media reported. Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese […]
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ALGIERS, ALGERIA — Algerians head to the polls Saturday to cast votes for president and determine who will govern their gas-rich North African nation — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power. Since elections were scheduled in March — ahead of the predicted schedule —
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Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, local medics said on Saturday. Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire deal to end the conflict and bring the release of Israeli and foreign hostages
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Five fatalities reported in three border provinces, where vaccination rates are traditionally low. Health authorities have launched an intensive vaccination campaign following the deaths of five people in the latest outbreak of measles in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces. Three of the five victims who died from the highly contagious disease over the past month in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani
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PARIS – Thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister, with left-wing parties accusing him of stealing the legislative election. Macron named 73-year-old Barnier, a conservative and the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister on
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The Ukrainian military has released footage of a MiG-29 fighter jet after it made an emergency landing in the Dnipropetrovsk region during the spring of 2024. The pilot safely exited the aircraft without injury, according to local sources. The exact condition of the aircraft remains unclear, but some sources suggest that the airframe sustained damage.
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The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling by the Court of First Instance that sentenced an Asian male to one month’s imprisonment and fined him Dhs360,000, to be followed by deportation, for the embezzlement of a luxury Rolls Royce vehicle from a showroom in the Ras Al Khor, Dubai. The details of the case
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Two German Tornado fighter jets were recently spotted at Edwards Air Force Base in California, carrying a nuclear bomb under the fuselage. The image, released on social media by user TaskForce23, shows the jet equipped with a B61-12 nuclear bomb trainer, a non-explosive version of the weapon used for training purposes. The B61-12 nuclear bomb
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On a sunny Saturday morning, the streets of Nile Avenue, Speke Road, Shimoni Road, and Buganda Road witnessed an extraordinary transformation. Instead of the usual traffic jams and the honking horns, the city’s streets were filled with laughter, cycling enthusiasts, children playing, and the joyful bustle of a community united for a cause. The 2nd
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Spacecraft lands in New Mexico desert without astronauts after dificult mission. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late Friday, capping a three-month test mission hobbled by technical issues that forced the astronauts it had flown to the International Space Station to remain there until next year. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became
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