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18 killed as heavy rains drench southern, central China

18 killed as heavy rains drench southern, central China

Torrential rain continued across southern and central China on ​Tuesday with at ⁠least 18 people killed in widespread flooding that also closed schools and ‌businesses, and disrupted transport and ‌power supplies, authorities said. China's weather

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Man wins compensation after elevator accident leaves last…

Man wins compensation after elevator accident leaves last…

Abu Dhabi Family, Civil and Administrative Cases Court ordered a company to pay Dhs30,000 in compensation to a man for failing to fulfill its professional obligations by neglecting to perform regular maintenance on the elevator

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Gunman kills 8, including children, at busy Egypt transport hub

Gunman kills 8, including children, at busy Egypt transport hub

Grief engulfed the city of Abnub in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt, after a horrific massacre was carried out by a mentally ill man who opened fire indiscriminately with an automatic rifle on passersby. The attack

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Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS Clothing Line Helps Convict Cocaine Smuggler in England

Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS Clothing Line Helps Convict Cocaine Smuggler in England

Kim Kardashian Cocaine Smuggler Sent To Prison Thanks To KK's SKIMS Line Published May 19, 2026 3:31 AM PDT Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS underwear line helped get a cocaine smuggler convicted in England and sentenced to

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Israeli troops intercept Gaza flotilla off Cyprus

Israeli troops intercept Gaza flotilla off Cyprus

Israel’s navy intercepted an activist flotilla in the waters off Cyprus on Monday, halting the latest attempt to challenge a naval blockade of Gaza and draw attention to the grim living conditions for Palestinians in

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MBR Library Foundation launches ‘Dubai Archive’

MBR Library Foundation launches ‘Dubai Archive’

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library Foundation announced the launch of “Dubai Archive,” a national project aimed at establishing an advanced system for managing documents and knowledge assets.The strategic initiative supports Dubai’s vision to

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Sharjah Ruler chairs SCHESR’s Executive Committee meeting

Sharjah Ruler chairs SCHESR’s Executive Committee meeting

His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, Chairman of the Sharjah Council for Higher Education and Scientific Research (SCHESR), chaired on Monday morning the meeting of

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US police investigating deadly mosque shooting as hate crime

US police investigating deadly mosque shooting as hate crime

,Police were investigating a shooting in the US state of California as a hate crime on Tuesday after a pair of teenage gunmen killed three people at a mosque complex.Tearful women emerged from a center set up to reunite families caught up in the shooting, and yellow police tape blocked access to the Islamic Center of San Diego, where the victims were found on Monday. Police said emergency response teams found the victims, all men, outside the sprawling complex, before later finding the shooters, aged 17 and 18, dead in a car from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds."We are actively investigating this as a hate crime," San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters. "There was definitely hate rhetoric that was involved."The Islamic center describes itself on its website as the largest mosque in San Diego County, which is in southern California.After a short period of lockdown when authorities advised area residents to stay inside, San Diego police announced that the threat at the center had been "neutralized.""We received a call of an active shooter at the Islamic center. Within four minutes, officers arrived on scene and observed immediately three deceased victims out in front," Wahl said. "We immediately began to deploy with an active shooter response into the mosque and adjacent school," he said, adding that police had received calls about more gunfire nearby, where a landscaper had been shot at but not hit. "The suspects at this point appear to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. There were no officers involved in firing their weapons," Wahl said.  Related Story

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WHO worried about ‘scale and speed’ of deadly Ebola outbreak

WHO worried about ‘scale and speed’ of deadly Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organization chief voiced concern on Tuesday about the "scale and speed" of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed an estimated 131 people.The WHO has declared the surge of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever an international health emergency and will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on Tuesday. No vaccine or therapeutic treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola responsible for the latest outbreak of the disease, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half century.With the new outbreak largely concentrated in difficult-to-access areas, few samples have been laboratory-tested and figures are based mostly on suspected cases."We have recorded roughly 131 deaths in total and we have around 513 suspected cases," Congolese Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba said on national television early Tuesday."The deaths we are reporting are all the deaths we have identified in the community, without necessarily saying that they are all linked to Ebola," he added. The previous figures from the outbreak, declared late last week in the country's east, gave a total of 91 dead out of 350 suspected cases.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the decision to declare the second-highest level of alert under international health regulations was not taken "lightly". "I'm deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic," he told the World Health Assembly in Geneva on Tuesday.The outbreak's epicentre is in northeastern Ituri province on the border with Uganda and South Sudan.The United States has announced it was bolstering precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola, including screening air passengers from outbreak-hit areas and temporarily suspending visa services.It is attempting to evacuate six additional people to monitor their health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. First identified in 1976 and believed to have originated in bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. It can cause severe bleeding and organ failure. The outbreak is the 17th in the central African country of more than 100 million people. The deadliest Ebola outbreak in the DRC claimed nearly 2,300 lives out of 3,500 cases between 2018 and 2020. The previous outbreak before the current one killed 45 people between September and December last year, the WHO said. Related Story

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UAE President approves nationwide healthcare system for all citizens

UAE President approves nationwide healthcare system for all citizens

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, has directed the adoption of a national healthcare system that guarantees comprehensive medical care and health services for all citizens.The system is underpinned