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Gunman Kills 19 Children At Texas Elementary School
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Gunman Kills 19 Children At Texas Elementary School

A teenage gunman killed at least 19 young children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, prompting a furious President Joe Biden to denounce the US gun lobby and vow to end the nation's cycle of mass shootings. The attack in Uvalde -- a small community about an hour from the Mexican border -- was the deadliest US school shooting in years, and the latest in a spree of bloody gun violence across America. "It's time to turn this pain into action for every parent, for every citizen of this country," Biden said, his voice heavy with emotion. "It's time for those who obstruct or delay or block commonsense gun laws -- we need to let you know that we will not forget," he said. "As a nation, we have to ask when in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun...
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Two Killed, 120 Injured In Abu Dhabi Gas Explosion
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Two Killed, 120 Injured In Abu Dhabi Gas Explosion

Two people were killed and 120 injured in a gas cylinder explosion in a restaurant in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, police said. Initial reports "showed that 64 people sustained minor injuries, 56 others were moderately wounded, and two people died", police tweeted. The blast on Monday set off a fire that damaged the facades of six buildings and a number of stores before being brought under control, they added. Four of the damaged buildings were "safely" evacuated, with efforts underway to find their residents temporary housing "until the buildings are completely secured", the police said. Pictures released by Abu Dhabi police showed first responders tending to a person on a gurney, and debris and broken glass strewn across the pavement. A witness told The...
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Biden Approves Redeployment Of Some Ground Troops To Somalia
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Biden Approves Redeployment Of Some Ground Troops To Somalia

U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized the redeployment of several hundred American troops into Somalia, two U.S. officials said on Monday, after Donald Trump ordered their withdrawal during his presidency. Prior to Trump's withdrawal, the United States had about 700 troops in Somalia focused on helping local forces defeat the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgency. "President Biden has approved a request from the Secretary of Defense to reestablish a persistent U.S. military presence in Somalia to enable a more effective fight against al Shabaab," a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. "This is a repositioning of forces already in theater who have traveled in and out of Somalia on an episodic basis since the previous administration ma...
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Chinese jet catches fire before takeoff, causing minor injuries
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Chinese jet catches fire before takeoff, causing minor injuries

China's Tibet Airlines said all passengers and crew had been evacuated from an Airbus A319 plane that caught fire after an aborted takeoff in the southwestern city of Chongqing on Thursday. There were no deaths and only minor injuries among the 113 passengers and nine crew members on board, the airline said in a statement. Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said 36 people suffered bruises and sprains during the evacuation of flight TV9833 and were sent to local hospitals for examination. The pilots had interrupted the takeoff in line with procedures after experiencing an abnormality, CAAC said in a statement, leading to an engine scrape and fire after the plane veered off the runway. Emergency plans were activated and investigators rushed to the scene, the ...
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Ecuador Prison Riot leaves 44 dead and 108 On The Run
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Ecuador Prison Riot leaves 44 dead and 108 On The Run

At least 44 inmates died on Monday in Ecuador's latest grisly prison riot, the public prosecutor said, as another 100 prisoners managed to escape. Authorities said a fight broke out between the rival Los Lobos and R7 gangs inside the Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, in the center of Ecuador some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Quito. During the riot, dozens of inmates tried to escape. Police chief Fausto Salinas told reporters that 108 were missing after another 112 escaped prisoners were recaptured. The South American country's prison authority SNAI said it has activated security protocols to contain the "disturbances to order." Six gang leaders were transferred from Bellavista to two maximum security prisons, the interior ministry said. Interior M...
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Four Dead, 70 Hurt In Bolivian University Stampede
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Four Dead, 70 Hurt In Bolivian University Stampede

A stampede at a university in Bolivia Monday left four students dead and more than 70 injured when a tear gas grenade was detonated during an assembly, the institution and police said. Five of the injured were in intensive care, said Roxana Choque, public prosecutor of the Potosi region in Bolivia's southeast where the Tomas Frias university is based. Hundreds of students had gathered in an enclosed sports arena of the university for student council elections, rector Pedro Lopez told reporters. A heated debate ensued, and at least one student detonated a tear gas cannister, provoking the stampede, according to regional police chief Bernardo Isnado. The institution, Lopez added, was "in mourning." Two suspects have been arrested, said police official Nelson Pacheco. One ...
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Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption
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Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found former leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi guilty of corruption, the latest verdict in a series of secret trials. Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 2021 when a military coup ousted her elected government. The 76-year-old Nobel laureate has been charged with a raft of criminal offences including voter fraud. She denies all of the accusations and rights groups have condemned the court trials as a sham. The closed-door hearings in the capital Nay Pyi Taw have been shut to the public and media, and Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers forbidden from speaking to journalists. On Wednesday a junta court found her guilty of taking a $600,000 (£477,000) bribe in the form of cash and gold bars from the former head of Yangon, Myanmar's largest c...
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Russia halts gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria
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Russia halts gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria

Russian energy giant Gazprom has said it has halted gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria over the countries' refusal to pay for supplies in roubles. In a statement the firm said services will not be restored until payments are made in the Russian currency. It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered "unfriendly" countries to pay for gas in roubles Poland confirmed supplies had been cut but Bulgaria said it would soon know if gas sent via Turkey had been stopped. Poland's deputy foreign minister said the country can cope without Gazprom's gas and had "taken some decisions many years ago to prepare for such a situation". Marcin Przdacz told the BBC there were "options to get the gas from other partners," including the US and gulf nations. Polish state gas com...
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French President Emmanuel Macron Wins Re-Election
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French President Emmanuel Macron Wins Re-Election

The success continues the theme of the first round, when Macron finished 4.5 points and 1.6 million votes ahead of Le Pen, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon just barely being eliminated for the second round – he won nearly 22% of the vote, just a single percentage point behind the far-right candidate. With the first round behind him, Macron knew that he could count on the support of a larger number of candidates (Valerie Pécresse, Les Républicains; Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecologie Les Verts; Fabien Roussel, Parti Communiste; and Anne Hidalgo, Parti Socialiste) than Le Pen, who was endorsed only by the two other far-right candidates (Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan). While Mélenchon did not call for his supporters to cast votes for Macron, he proclaimed that “not a single vote” should...
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Two killed at a party in Pittsburgh where Shots Were Fired
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Two killed at a party in Pittsburgh where Shots Were Fired

Two teens were killed and several other people were injured in a shooting that stemmed from a large party in Pittsburgh over the weekend, according to police. Investigators are searching for multiple suspects in the shooting, which occurred early Sunday in the city's East Allegheny neighborhood at a property that was rented through short-term rental company Airbnb. The teens who were killed were both 17-year-old males, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office. Eight other people were shot and five others were injured while running from the gunfire, Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert said. As many as 200 people attended the party, most of whom were underage, the city said in a news release. Here's what we know about the shooting. More than 90 round...
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