Police kill armed man near Israeli consulate
BBC : An armed man has been shot dead by German police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate in the southern city of...
International
Michel Barnier new French PM
BBC : French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as prime minister almost twomonths after France’s snap elections ended in political deadlock. Mr Barnier,...
A quarter century of deadly gun violence in US schools
AFP : A shooting rampage Wednesday in the US state of Georgia that left two students and two teachers dead and nine wounded is only...
Presidents of Egypt, Turkey seek common ground
Al Jazeera : Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has concluded his first visit to Turkey since he took office in 2014, in what constitutes the...
UK inquiry finds ‘dishonesty-greed’ behind Grenfell fire deaths
Al Jazeera : Incompetence, dishonesty and greed were behind the 72 “avoidable” deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, a report into the 2017...
81 killed Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
AFP : At least 81 people died and several were missing after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe State, local...
At least 20 missing on Myanmar-Laos border
AFP : At least 20 people are missing, feared dead, following a boat mishap on the Mekong river in the “Golden Triangle” area between Laos,...
UN weather agency warns of ‘red alert’ after record heat
AFP : Rising temperatures should trigger a global “red alert,” the United Nations’ weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again...
Mother, daughters killed in new wave of strikes on Ukraine
BBC : A mother and her three daughters were among seven people killed in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, during a fresh wave of Russian...
129 killed in DR Congo prison break attempt
CNN : More than 120 people have been killed in an attempted mass breakout from the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the...
41 killed in Russian missile strike
Al Jazeera : Two Russian ballistic missiles struck an educational facility and hospital in central Ukraine’s Poltava city, killing at least 41 people and injuring...