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Syria took one other main step towards ending a decade of isolation as Arab League international ministers assembly in Egypt Sunday voted to permit the regime of President Bashar Assad again into the fold. Despite reservations expressed by the Biden administration, the ministers backed a partial lifting of...

The US has skilled extra mass shootings than days thus far in 2023, with hundreds lifeless because of this.There had been not less than 191 within the first 127 days of the yr, with the most recent in a busy Texas shopping center leaving 9 individuals lifeless, together with the suspected gunman.On common, the US has seen greater than 39,000 gun deaths a yr since 2014, and as of 1 May not less than 13,959 individuals have been shot lifeless in 2023, in accordance with information from Gun Violence Archive.That is a charge of 115 deaths per day. And on every one, America is extra prone to see a mass taking pictures than not.Gun Violence Archive broadly defines a mass taking pictures to imply 4 or extra individuals (excluding the perpetrator) shot at roughly the identical time ...

At least 12 folks have been killed and 31 others injured - together with three severely - in a multi-vehicle crash in southern Turkey, officers stated.The incident occurred on Saturday night in Hatay province - one of many areas worst hit by an earthquake earlier this 12 months. The pile-up occurred when a truck driver misplaced management on the Iskenderun-Antakya freeway, crossing over into the alternative carriageway.The truck collided with 9 automobiles and two minibuses, the state-run Anadolu information company reported.Many of the autos have been parked on the roadside close to a petroleum station as buddies and relations stated goodbye to males leaving to hold out necessary army service. The non-public Demiroren information company stated the truck was carrying excava...

More than 200 individuals have been killed in flash floods and landslides within the jap Democratic Republic of Congo.Authorities have mentioned many extra individuals are lacking within the province of South Kivo. Thomas Bakenge, administrator of Kalehe, the worst-hit territory, informed reporters 203 our bodies had been recovered to date.Hundreds of houses have been washed away within the village of Nyamukubi, the place rescue employees and survivors dug by way of ruins in search of extra our bodies within the mud.Grieving survivor Anuarite Zikujuwa mentioned she had misplaced her whole household, together with her in-laws, in addition to lots of her neighbours. "The whole village has been turned into a wasteland. There's only stones left, and we can't even tell where our l...

A gunman has shot and killed eight folks and wounded a minimum of seven others at a busy shopping center in Texas, police have stated.The gunman reportedly stepped out of a automobile and started firing exterior the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, a suburb in Dallas, sending a whole lot of consumers fleeing in panic.He was "walking down the sidewalk just... shooting his gun outside," an eyewitness instructed native ABC affiliate WFAA TV."He was just shooting his gun everywhere for the most part."Maxwell Gum, a 16-year-old shift employee at Wetzel's Pretzels, was on his lunch break when a household with restricted English bumped into the again of his retailer, urgently saying "Gun! Shoot!" because the sound of gunfire may very well be heard within the background.'300 folk...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish twin nationwide Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 assault on a navy parade that killed no less than 25 folks, one in all a number of enemies of Tehran seized overseas in recent times amid tensions with the West. Farajollah Cha’ab, also c...

BELGRADE, Serbia — Funerals are being held in Serbia on Saturday for a number of the victims of two mass shootings that occurred in simply two days this week, leaving 17 folks useless and 21 wounded, a lot of them youngsters. The shootings on Wednesday in a college in Belgrade and on Thursday in a rural sp...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Tears flowed amid heartfelt embraces as Mexican households had been allowed temporary reunions on the border Saturday with kin who migrated to the United States. As a mariachi band performed the favored track “Las Mañanitas,” about 150 households handed over the Rio Grande to f...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After attending the coronation of King Charles III in London, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the shortage of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent 4 years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison. “It is an embarrassment that a journalis...

LONDON — What does one put on to a coronation? For senior royals like Queen Camilla and Kate, the Princess of Wales, the theme was pale, subdued clothes to let their regal robes and glittering jewellery do the speaking. ...