At least 21 people have been killed and several others injured after a fire ripped through a residential building in the densely-populated Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip,…
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Japan: Inflation soars to 40-year high
Japan’s inflation has risen to its highest level in 40 years as a weak yen drove up commodity prices already surging worldwide. Core consumer inflation, which excludes volatile fresh food…
Senegal: Sadio Mane ruled out of World Cup with leg injury
Senegal forward Sadio Mane will not play at the Qatar 2022 World Cup due to a leg injury, the team’s doctor has said. “Unfortunately, today’s [Thursday] MRI shows us that…
USA: Regulators approved plan to demolish four dams in river restoration effort
United States regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat in what will be the largest…
Pakistan: Bus plunges into a ditch killing 20
At least 20 people have been killed in Pakistan’s flood-hit south after a minibus crashed into a deep and water-logged ditch. The vehicle crashed late on Thursday in Sehwan region…
India: Celebration over successful launch of 1st privately made rocket
India has successfully launched its first privately developed rocket, a milestone in the country’s effort to create a commercial space industry and to compete on cost. Vikram-S lifted off at…
Nigeria: Boko Haram survivors receive new homes in their old villages
Saleh Abba’s new home, a well-ventilated two-bedroom flat that he shares with his wife and three children in Ngarannam, a small, humid town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno,…
Spain: Police seize 52 tonnes of marijuana, detain 20 people
Spanish police have seized more than 50 tonnes of marijuana, the largest amount of the drug ever confiscated in the country. Eight farms have been dismantled in the northeastern region…
Iraq: Gas cylinder explosion kills 15 people in Sulaimaniyah
The death toll from a gas cylinder explosion in a residential area of the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah has risen to 15. Thursday’s explosion, which caused a house to…
DRC: Ex-President Uhuru Kenyatta calls for urgent intervention Congo conflict
Kenya’s former President Uhuru Kenyatta has called for urgent intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting between the army and M23 rebels has flared again in…