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(Adnkronos) – 221 people have died and more than 500 have been injured in incidents related to almost a month of heavy monsoon rains. The Pakistani disaster management agency reports, stating that “from June 26 to July 21, 221 people have lost

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force plane against a school complex in Dhaka has risen to 27. “At the moment 27 people have died, including 25 children and the pilot,” Health and Family Welfare Ministry

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli army arrested a “cell of terrorists planning an attack” during a night operation in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. The IDF reports this, adding that a total of 16 suspects were arrested during the raids. 

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani and 24 counterparts in Europe Asia and Oceana on Monday urged Israel to immediately halt its over-20-month-old war against Islamist Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, saying the “unacceptable” suffering of civilians had “reached new depths”. 

(Adnkronos) – Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced today that the first steps have already been taken for the construction of a new pipeline that will connect his country to Serbia, at a time, he said, when the European Union is “cutting

(Adnkronos) – At least 16 people, mostly students, were killed and over one hundred were injured when a Bangladesh Air Force training plane crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka. The office of Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus said that at

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq has risen to 30, with a total of 231 cases registered nationwide since the beginning of this year, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced today. Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said

(Adnkronos) – The Bombay (Mumbai) High Court today acquitted the 12 people convicted, including five sentenced to death, for the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, which killed 189 people and injured more than 800. The judges ruled that the prosecution had failed

(Adnkronos) – The European Union and China are “major economies and global players” whose relations impact the entire world, EU Council president Antonio Costa stated ahead of an EU-China summit in Beijing on Thursday.  “50 years of bilateral relations, 25th #EUChina summit

(Adnkronos) – The death toll of Palestinian victims in Deir Al-Balah has risen to at least 8 after Israeli tanks entered the city, in the central Gaza Strip, in what is the IDF’s first ground incursion into the area. The Israeli army