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Rescuers have pulled a pair of survivors from a collapsed building in central China, two days into a search-and-rescue operation for dozens feared missing. The building in Changsha city, Hunan province — which housed a hotel, apartments, and a cinema — caved in Friday afternoon, leaving a gaping hole in …

Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield near the Ukrainian city of Odesa. The ministry said it used high-precision Onyx missiles to strike the airfield after Ukraine accused …

Greece lifted COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday for foreign and domestic flights, its civil aviation authority said, ahead of the summer tourism season that officials hope will see revenues bouncing back from the pandemic slump. To fly in or out of the country, travelers were previously required to show either a …

Turkish riot police detained dozens of protesters trying to reach Istanbul’s main Taksim Square for May Day demonstrations against economic hardship caused by raging inflation. The Istanbul governor’s office had allowed May Day celebrations to be held in another district and deemed gatherings in all other locations as unauthorized and …

Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Armenian capital Yerevan to warn the government against concessions to arch-foe Azerbaijan over the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of plans to give away all of Karabakh to Azerbaijan after he told lawmakers last month that …

Citizens and trade unions in cities around Europe were taking to the streets on Sunday for May Day marches and put out protest messages to their governments, notably in France where the holiday to honor workers was being used as a rallying cry against newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron. In …

A Russian defence ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine has caught fire, the Belgorod region governor said on Sunday. Looks like something is on fire in Belgorod. https://t.co/IqO7geGV4b pic.twitter.com/axtaKJQVWA — Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 1, 2022 There was no immediate information about damage or casualties, the governor …

A group of 40 civilians was evacuated on Sunday from Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks in a convoy with vehicles bearing United Nations symbols, signalling a deal had been struck to ease the ordeal of the most destructive siege in the Ukraine conflict. In one of the first major signs of an …

The month of May brings Donald Trump the biggest test of his political clout since the end of his presidency, as a candidate, he has endorsed contest Republican primaries that will set the stage for November’s midterm congressional elections. Trump-backed candidates in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina face active and …

Syria is the Middle East’s main producer of drug Captagon and Saudi Arabia is the main consumer market. Iraqi security forces seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon, making several arrests and breaking up a drug trafficking ring. “Around 6.2 million pills” were uncovered in a …

Russia says it struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv during an unannounced visit. Pelosi, the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, arrived on Saturday, leading a Congressional delegation. She …

The ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack in Kabul, which left four people dead and wounded. The Taliban reported on Saturday an explosion in the Security District 3 in the west of the capital Kabul, in which one woman was martyred and three others were injured. The Taliban …

A tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and buildings, injured several people, and left more than 15,000 people without power, officials said Saturday. In addition to wreckage from the tornado itself, three University of Oklahoma meteorology students traveling back from storm chasing in …

Five people were killed and four others injured in a shooting incident on Saturday in Pakistan’s Punjab Province. At least five people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The injured have been sent to the hospital for treatment, CGTN reported. A terrorist …

Egyptian officials told local sources on late Saturday that an explosion occurred in a gas pipeline in Bir El Abd town located in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the reports, people suspected of being members of ISIL blew up the gas pipeline. Egyptian officials added that the explosion only caused …

The European Union has demanded a “proper answer” from Chinese authorities over the arrest of a local employee at its Beijing mission who has been held for eight months. The EU Delegation in China staffer was detained by police in September 2021, the bloc confirmed in an emailed statement. “Despite …

An Israeli police officer has been seriously injured in an alleged car-ramming attack in the central part of the occupied territories, amid heightened tensions between Palestinians and the regime’s forces in the fasting holy fasting month of Ramadan. Palestine Alyoum news website reported the incident late on Saturday, saying the …

Ukraine carried out a prisoner exchange with Russia on Saturday, with seven soldiers and seven civilians coming home, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in an online posting. One of the soldiers was a woman who is five months pregnant, she added. She did not say how many Russians had …

Local media in Afghanistan reported on Saturday afternoon that an explosion had taken place in the west of Kabul killing at least one and wounding three people. According to local Afghan media, eyewitnesses said the blast took place near the Dehburi intersection in the Security District 3 in Kabul. The …

Russia believes the risks of nuclear war should be kept to a minimum and that any armed conflict between nuclear powers should be prevented, the TASS news agency quoted a foreign ministry official as saying on Saturday. Vladimir Yermakov, the foreign ministry’s head of nuclear non-proliferation, said all nuclear powers …