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Hundreds of residents remain at the evacuation centre, and 52 rescues are being carried out overnight despite conditions being relaxed.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the launch of a cleanup operation in eastern Australia after record floods killed five people and hit tens of thousands of people. A damage assessment is underway in the eastern New South Wales coastal region, where at least 10,000 properties are believed to have been damaged on Saturday, the state Department of Emergency Services said. The situation has been eased since Friday after unrelenting rains cleared livestock and destroyed homes after days of isolated townships…
The meeting came after the US and the EU agreed to lift sanctions and allow Civil War countries to recover and rebuild.Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharah met Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan and other senior officials in Istanbul as Western sanctions were lifted. The two leaders were portrayed after Turkiye’s state media waved after an official reception and attended a meeting at Dolmabahce Palace on Saturday, in the country’s largest city. Erdogan’s office said the Turkish president told Alshara that his country welcomed the lifting of sanctions. He also said, according to X’s statement, “Israel occupation and invasion on Syrian…
Despite the losses of the war, Hezbollah uses this vote as an opportunity to show that it still has political influence.Voters in southern Lebanon are throwing votes in local elections, which are considered a test of support for Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political and armed group. Saturday’s vote in most Shia regions where Hazbollah is allied with Amal (the party led by Congressional Speaker Nabi Beli) marks the final stages of Lebanon’s local elections. It comes after the November 2024 ceasefire between the group and Israel was supposed to end months of the attack. But Risrael has been on a…
The power recovered after the halt was hit by a prominent film festival on the closing day, affecting 160,000 homes in the area.French police are investigating suspicious arson attacks as the main cause of power outages that have been hit in southern France’s Alpes Extreme Region, including Cannes, which hosts the world-famous annual film festival. “We are considering the possibility that a fire could be intentionally launched,” a spokesman for the French National Governor said on Saturday, adding that no arrests were made at this stage. Police sources said the outage was caused by an overnight fire, presumably an arson…
The overnight attack shows Moscow is blocking ceasefire contracts to end the war, Zelensky says.Ukrainian officials updated their calls for more sanctions against Russia after Russian troops launched dozens of attack drones and ballistic missiles in Kiev ahead of the second exchange of soldiers and civilians. Ukrainian forces on Saturday said overnight attacks launched from multiple Russian regions used 250 drones and 14 ballistic missiles to strike Kiev, causing damage to several apartments and shopping malls and injuring at least 15 people. The sites in Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporidia in the Ukrainian region were also attacked, with Ukrainian forces saying…
On the surface, it was a routine closed-door meeting between Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and the chiefs of the country’s three armed forces, to discuss law and order. But the May 20 meeting came amid what multiple officials familiar with the internal workings of the government described to Al Jazeera as an intensifying power struggle in Dhaka. Portrayed in social and mainstream media in Bangladesh as a “cold war” between the armed forces and the interim administration, these tensions now threaten the future of Yunus’s role, nine months after he took charge following the ousting of…
Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points as the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks to get a 2-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.The Indiana Pacers are in their midst of a chance to win an elusive NBA title when they return home in the Eastern Conference Finals, but they may prefer to stay where they are. Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points on Friday night. They scored 39 points as the Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 114-109. As a result, Pacer has a 2-0 lead in the playoffs after the first two…
A fake story of the West African Court Zin coup has emerged this week amid growing tensions in the October general elections. Several accounts on social media sites, including Facebook and X, have posted videos of large crowds on the streets with burning buildings. However, no violence has been reported this week by security forces or other government authorities. Abidjan residents also denied the claims on social media. On Thursday, the national agency of Information Systems Security (ANSSI) in Coast denied the rumor. In a statement released on a local media site, the agency said: [Ivory Coast] …This claim is…
UNHCR says the two shipwrecks, May 9th and 10th, could become “the most deadly tragedy at sea” involving Rohingya so far this year.At least 427 Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, may have died at sea on two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10, the UN said it would be another fatal incident for the persecuted group. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement Friday that the two incidents will become “the most fatal tragedy at sea” involving Rohingya refugees so far this year. “The UN Refugee Agency is seriously concerned about reporting the tragedy of…
Cormac Fire, Cyprus (AP) – Ashes hang unsteadily from the cigarettes of iosif scordis as they recall a fellow villager in the end of extinction language, which reaches a language that traces its roots in part to the language that Jesus Christ once spoke.Skodis, 97, is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cyprus’ Maronite Arabic or Sanna. Today, his village of Colmac Flame is the last fortress of the language spoken by tens of thousands of people in the village once.The tongue, a derivative of Syrian Arabic that absorbed Greek, was passed from generation to generation…