Kyiv, May 23 ,2024 : The Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to rebuild 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) of fortifications along the front line, Ukrainian publication Liga reported. Ukrainian military personnel complained about the inefficient use of resources and the need to urgently rebuild previously constructed low-quality fortifications. According to a serviceman who asked not to…
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London, May 23 , 2024 : British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the country will hold a general election on July 4. “Earlier today I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of parliament. The king has granted this request and we will have a general election on July…
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Moscow, May 23 , 2024 : Over 20 explosions was heard in the center of Belgorod, a Russian city some 40 km north of the border with Ukraine, amid a reactivated missile warning alert, Russia’s RIA Novosti reported on Thursday. In the center of Belgorod, near Cathedral Square, several dozens of blasts were heard against…
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Gaza, May 23 , 2024 : At least 16 people were killed, 10 of them children, in an air strike on the Fatima al-Zahra Mosque in northern Gaza City by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. In the early hours of May 7, the IDF launched what it called…
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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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