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China is to restrict the export of long-range drones over fears they're being transformed for army use in Ukraine.Beijing says it is going to restrict the export of some high-performance civilian gadgets because of the "increasing risk" that they're getting used for "non-peaceful purposes". Both Russia and Ukraine have accused one another of targetting civilian buildings with drone strikes in latest days, together with one on Moscow's monetary district, which a Kremlin spokesperson likened to 9/11.Xi Jinping's authorities has formally adopted a place of neutrality over Russia's invasion of Ukraine - regardless of its pleasant ties with Moscow.Chinese agency DJI Technology Co - one of many world trade's prime rivals - has additionally pulled out of Ukraine and Russia to stop i...

NEW DELHI (AP) — An enormous crane collapsed at a freeway building website in western India, killing at the very least 16 employees, the nation’s National Disaster Response Force stated Tuesday. ...

Myanmar's junta says it has pardoned ousted civilian chief Aung San Suu Kyi for a number of the offences she denies - greater than two years after she was detained as a part of a navy coup.Sky News understands the clemency won't absolutely pardon her and that 5 fees have been dropped, whereas 14 stay. The Nobel laureate, who final week moved from jail to accommodate arrest within the capital, Naypyitaw, has been in detention because the navy seized energy in a coup in early 2021.According to native media, Ms Suu Kyi was taken to a authorities constructing final Monday. She had spent a 12 months in solitary confinement.However, talking on Tuesday morning, her youngest son Kim Aris advised Sky News: "It's essential to take any information with a wholesome degree of scepticism. ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles slammed into an condominium complicated and a college constructing within the central Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih Monday, killing 4 individuals and wounding scores of others because the blasts trapped residents beneath the rubble, Ukraine‘s inside minister stated. ...

Mali and Burkina Faso have warned different West African nations that army intervention in Niger will probably be thought-about a declaration of warfare towards them.It comes after Niger's presidential guard surrounded the palace within the capital Niamey, detained elected president Mohamed Bazoum, and introduced a brand new army authorities. The West African regional physique - often known as ECOWAS - has threatened to make use of pressure if coup leaders in Niger don't reinstate the president by the weekend.But Mali and Burkina Faso, each run by army governments, have warned in a joint assertion they are going to take into account any direct intervention in Niger as a "declaration of war" towards them.The two international locations - who're each suspended from ECOWAS - hav...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon‘s embattled central bank governor stepped down on Monday under a cloud of investigation and blame for his country’s financial disaster as a number of European international locations are probing his alleged monetary crimes. ...

At least 16 building employees had been killed and several other others feared trapped after a crane collapsed in the course of the constructing of a bridge in India.Footage confirmed the mangled stays of the tools on the bottom as rescue employees pulled out our bodies and looked for survivors on the website in Shahapur - about 50 miles (80km) from Mumbai within the western state of Maharashtra. Numerous injured have been taken to hospital. Image: Pic: AP India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi expressed his condolences in a message on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter.His workplace stated in a publish: "Pained by the tragic mishap in Shahapur, Maharashtra."My deepest condolences to the...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greece’s prime minister stated Monday that his authorities needs to take full benefit of a creating optimistic political local weather with neighboring Turkey in an effort to enhance bilateral relations regardless of a string of decades-old disputes. ...

ISTANBUL — Campaigners combating to guard woodlands earmarked for coal mining in southwest Turkey on Monday pledged to keep up their battle as tree-felling got here to an finish. ...

SIDON, Lebanon — The dying toll rose to 9 Monday in three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at a refugee camp in Lebanon which have pitted members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah occasion in opposition to Islamist teams. ...