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Tehran, Aug 7 (AFP/APP): Five people including two policemen were killed and at least 11 others injured during the collapse of several buildings in Iran’s capital, local media reported on Monday. The policemen were securing the planned demolition on Sunday of “unauthorised buildings” in Tehran’s […]

PortauPrince, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): In Cite Soleil, the largest slum in Haiti’s gang-infested capital, the early days of August have brought a grim flow of sometimes skeletally malnourished children to the Fontaine Hospital Center. The community clinic, a reassuring presence in this poorest corner of […]

Limoges, France, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): A teenager riding a scooter and his adult passenger were killed in France after an encounter with police, during which officers said Sunday the pair had fled a patrol and crashed into another vehicle. The incident comes just weeks after […]

Ismailia, Egypt, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): Rescue divers in Egypt retrieved on Sunday the body of a crew member from inside a tugboat that sank in the Suez Canal, authorities in charge of the key waterway said. “Divers found the body in the cabin of the […]

Rome, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): At least 30 migrants are missing following two shipwrecks off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to survivor testimony, the UN’s migration agency said Sunday. Around 28 people were reported lost at sea by survivors on one boat, while three were […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): A Russian missile strike on Saturday hit a facility of the Ukrainian aeronautics group Motor Sich, one of several companies requisitioned by the government since Moscow’s invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “Today there was another Russian missile attack against our […]

Moscow, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): Russia said Sunday that its forces struck military airbases in the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions in western Ukraine and that “all targets were hit.” “Overnight Russia’s armed forces carried out strikes… on Ukrainian armed forces airbases around the settlements of Starokostiantyniv […]