Mexico City, May 23 , 2024 : Nine people have died so far, including a child, while another 50 have been injured after portion of a stage crashed at an election rally in Mexico’s northern Nuevo Leon state, the local governor has said. The incident occurred as centre-left presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez was delivering…
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Hanoi, May 22 , 2024 : Lam, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, was elected as Vietnam’s new president on Wednesday, local media reported. At the ongoing seventh session of the 15th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, Lam won a majority of the parliamentary vote to become state president for…
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Kinshsa, May 22 , 2024 : The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will hold on Wednesday the postponed election for the leadership of the National Assembly — the country’s lower house of parliament, two days after a failed yet deadly coup attempt. In the general elections held in December 2023, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi…
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Tehran, May 22 , 2024 : People in Tehran on Tuesday attended, in large numbers, a farewell ceremony held for Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi, late Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others after their bodies were transferred from the northwestern city of Tabriz to the capital city. The ceremony took place at Imam Khomeini’s Mosalla.…
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Mexico City, May 22 , 2024 : At least 12 people were murdered in the span of a few hours in the latest spate of violence in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, local media reported Tuesday. According to the city’s Public Security Secretariat, the bodies of four men and two women with multiple gunshot…
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Sao Paulo, May 22 , 2024 : The discovery of four more bodies in the last few hours in south Brazil’s weather-battered Rio Grande do Sul state has pushed the death toll to 161, the Civil Defense agency said Tuesday. Record rainfall has devastated the state since April 29, leading to deadly floods and mudslides…
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United Nations, May 22 , 2024 : Dozens of civilians have been killed so far this month in intercommunal clashes over land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said aid workers are helping the injured and displaced…
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Rio De Janeiro, May 22 , 2024 :Brazil has surpassed a record 5 million cases of dengue so far this year, with nearly 3,000 confirmed deaths from the disease, the Ministry of Health said Tuesday. According to the most recent data, 5,145,295 probable cases of dengue have been registered in the country, causing 2,899 confirmed…
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Berlin, May 21 , 2024 : Ten people were injured, four of them seriously, as a result of lightning strikes in the eastern German city of Dresden, German media reported. One of the incidents occurred in the popular recreation area of Rosengarten, where people were hiding from the storm under a restaurant canopy, the Bild…
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Tehran, May 21 , 2024 : Iranian Vice President for Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri said on Monday that the body of President Ebrahim Raisi would be buried on Thursday in the northeastern city of Mashhad. He made the remarks while elaborating on the planned measures for the holding of the mourning ceremonies of Raisi and…
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