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Police in Colombia have detained 70 people in new anti-government protests that drew thousands of people to the streets across the South American country and left dozens of people wounded. Back in April, protests broke out in Colombia in opposition to a proposed tax hike. The rallies soon tuned into …

News footage released on Chinese broadcaster CGTN showed rescuers carrying children and guiding elderly to safety amid flood-stricken passageways and homes in Anyang on Thursday. Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated from flood-hit regions of central China on Thursday as officials raised the death toll from heavy rain …

A spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the Saudi-led coalition is receiving a heavy blow in al-Bayda amid territorial gains made by the Yemeni army and allied Popular Committees in the central province. “Once again and thanks to God, the enemy is receiving a painful blow in al-Bayda,” Mohammed Abdulsalam …

The United States has deployed more F-16 warplanes to Prince Sultan Air Base, south of Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. According to Press TV, the US Central Command said in a post on its official Arabic-language Twitter account on Tuesday that the fighter jets were deployed to the base last week. …

The Israeli regime stages an aerial strike against the military positions lying in the countryside of Syria’s western city of Homs, prompting Syria to bring down most of the incoming missiles. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said the attack targeted the positions in the early hours of Thursday. …

A helicopter affiliated to the US occupation forces has targeted a house in northeastern Syria, killing three people and injuring many others inside. Citing local sources, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported the deadly US strike in Jamous Village, east of the city of Hasakah, on Wednesday. The report added …

At least 17 Bengali migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Crescent said. According to Press TV, the humanitarian organisation said the boat had set off from …

Officials are warning of a trade war between the United Kingdom and the European Union if the UK refuses to back down on its new demands for post-Brexit rules on Northern Ireland. According to reports, on Wednesday, Brexit minister David Frost issued a new “command paper” that would radically rework …

US plans for a bipartisan committee to investigate the pro-Trump January 6 attack on the Capitol Hill have fallen apart after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off two Republicans from a riot committee. Pelosi rejected Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s naming of representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan to the committee. …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Israeli regime to suspend exports of its “dangerous” spying technology that is used to persecute dissidents worldwide, after an international investigation found that 50,000 phone numbers were targeted using an Israeli spyware. “Enabling governments to install spyware that is used in practice to …

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin are “satisfied” with the near completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Kremlin has said after the two leaders spoke on the phone. The Chancellor discussed the project with the Russian President today, as the publication of a joint agreement between Germany and …

An 11-year-old boy from the Indian state of Haryana has died from a bird flu virus of the H5N1 strain, the first such fatality in the country, an official statement said on Wednesday. The boy succumbed to multi-organ dysfunction on July 12, at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) …

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company acknowledged that some of its data is being held for ransom online. Aramco said it likely came from a third-party contractor, denying there’s been any breach of its computer systems. The company confirmed to AP on Wednesday it “recently became aware of the indirect release …

The death toll from recent riots in South Africa has risen to 276, and police are investigating 168 cases for murder, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. The unrest started as protests over former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing two weeks ago in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. But it quickly …

Russia says it has been developing hypersonic missiles to counter actions taken by the United States and NATO that damage military “parity” with Moscow. Speaking at a news briefing on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said arms control treaties had been gradually broken over the past decades. He referred to …

France on Wednesday criticized a move by Turkish Cypriot authorities to partially reopen an abandoned town in Cyprus for potential resettlement, calling it a “provocation.” Turkish Cypriots said on Tuesday that part of Varosha would come under civilian control and people would be able to reclaim properties – angering Greek …

The popular TikTok video-sharing app was blocked Wednesday in Pakistan for a fourth time because of “inappropriate content”, the country’s telecommunication regulator said. The Chinese-owned site has fought a series of legal battles with religious activists and authorities in the conservative Muslim nation and was shut down two days earlier …

Ten people suffered minor injuries at a beachfront disco in southern Italy early Wednesday after a patron began shooting, Italian news media reported. Police arrested the suspected shooter, who opened fire during a brawl that broke out at about 2 am at a popular club near Taranto, the reports said. …

Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a roughly 400 million-euro ($472 million) package of immediate aid for victims of last week’s floods and vowed to get started quickly on rebuilding the devastated areas. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said that the package, financed half by the federal government and half by Germany’s …

Black and Hispanic Americans saw a more dramatic plunge, with life expectancy dropping by three years. Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, health officials have said – but the decrease for Black …