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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Concerns round civilian security spiked in Ukraine on Saturday, as officers introduced that an inspection had discovered practically 1 / 4 of the nation’s air-raid shelters locked or unusable, simply days after a lady in Kyiv allegedly died ready exterior a shuttered shelter throughout a Russian missile barrage. ...

A desecrated Vatican altar underwent purification after a person jumped on it bare in a type of protest in opposition to the conflict in Ukraine earlier this week. An unidentified man stood on the primary altar of St Peter's Basilica, a church in Vatican City, stripping off his garments and revealing an inscription on his again saying: "Save children of Ukraine". A prayer service often called a penitential ceremony to cleanse the holy desk was performed by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the basilica's archpriest, different clergymen and members of the devoted.The service, required by a set of spiritual rules known as Canon regulation, included the altar being blessed with holy water.Mr Gambetti condemned the bare man, saying he had dedicated an "inappropriate, truly regrettable ges...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Thousands of individuals rallied in Serbia’s capital on Saturday for a fifth time in a month, following two mass shootings that shook the nation, even because the nation’s populist president rejected any duty for the disaster and ignored the protesters’ calls for to step down. ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken his oath to be sworn in as Turkey's president for an unprecedented third time.Mr Erdogan gained one other five-year time period after a run-off with opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu final week. Neither candidate had failed to achieve the 50% threshold on 14 May, however the second spherical two weeks later noticed Mr Erdogan safe 52.1%.The 69-year-old was sworn in on the Turkish parliament in Ankara on Saturday forward of a separate inauguration ceremony on the mausoleum - the founder of contemporary Turkey, attended by overseas dignitaries.This makes him the longest-serving chief in Turkey's historical past - having served as prime minister for his AK get together since 2002. He will announce his new cupboard later this weekend. ...

A son of Libya’s late chief Moammar Gadhafi, who has been held in Lebanon for greater than seven years, started a starvation strike Saturday to protest his detention with out trial, his lawyer mentioned. ...

The lethal crash at Odisha's Balasore district on Friday, which has to this point claimed over 280 lives and injured 900 extra, has centered consideration on the protection of the railway community on the earth's second most populous nation.Run by state monopoly Indian Railways, the community is the fourth largest on the earth and transports 13 million folks each day in addition to transferring 1.5bn tonnes of freight yearly alongside greater than 40,000 miles (64,000km) of tracks. It includes 14,000 passenger trains and eight,000 stations.In latest years, cash has been pumped into modernising the system, with $30bn (£24.1bn) being dedicated final 12 months to spend on new trains and trendy stations, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed to spice up infrastructure and co...

Rescuers discovered no extra survivors within the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in japanese India, killing greater than 280 folks and injuring a whole bunch in one of many nation’s deadliest rail crashes in a long time, officers mentioned Saturday. ...

Three Israeli troopers have been killed in a significant incident on the Egyptian border on Saturday morning.The our bodies of two troopers, a person and a girl, have been discovered round 8.30am native time; the third soldier, a person, was killed in a firefight through the ensuing manhunt. It occurred inside Israeli territory and is believed to have occurred at shut vary. The lifeless gunman has been confirmed as an Egyptian policeman.A number of hours earlier, round 2.30am on Saturday, a significant cross-border drug smuggling operation was thwarted by Israeli safety in the identical space, close to Nitzana.Around $400,000 value of contraband was seized - it is nonetheless unclear whether or not the 2 incidents are linked. An investigation is ongoing. ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Despite a dire warning from the U.N. chief that the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees “is on the verge of financial collapse,” donors at a pledging convention on Friday offered simply $107 million in new funds - considerably lower than the $300 million it must preserve serving to tens of millions of individuals. ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron awarded France’s highest medal of honor to the U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, on Friday for his position in coordinating assist for Ukraine and for his greater than 40-year army profession spent in protection of democracy. ...