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At least 10 killed in Buffalo, New York supermarket mass shooting

At least 10 people were killed Saturday afternoon in a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
14 May 2022

War could be over by year end

The war in Ukraine could reach a “breaking point” by August and end in defeat for Russia before the end of the year, Kyiv’s head of military intelligence said yesterday, as fierce fighting raged in Ukraine’s east, slowing down a hoped-for Russian advance.
14 May 2022

New York subway shooting suspect pleads not guilty

The 62-year-old man arrested for allegedly shooting 10 people on the New York subway last month pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal terrorism charges.
14 May 2022

Georgia’s breakaway region to vote in July

The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia on Friday set July 17 as a date for a referendum on joining Russia.
14 May 2022

US ‘working to understand Turkey’s position’

Washington is “working to clarify Turkey’s position” after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed opposition to Finland and Sweden joining Nato, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday.
14 May 2022

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed elected UAE president

The UAE’s long-time de facto ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected as president yesterday, official media said, a day after the death of former leader Sheikh Khalifa.
14 May 2022

Outcry against Israel mounts

The US and EU led an international outcry yesterday after Israeli police charged the funeral procession of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and beat pallbearers who almost dropped her coffin.
14 May 2022

US hails ‘new era’

US President Joe Biden said on Friday a first summit in Washington with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) marked the launch of a “new era” in the relationship between the United States and the 10-nation bloc.
14 May 2022

G7 warns of grain crisis in Ukraine, asks China not to assist Russia

The Group of Seven leading economies warned Saturday that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, and urgent measures are needed to unblock stores of grain that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine.
14 May 2022

Swapping neutrality for NATO a mistake: Putin tells Finland

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on Saturday that ditching neutrality and joining NATO would be a mistake that could damage relations between their two countries, the Kremlin said.
14 May 2022

Mohammed bin Zayed elected UAE president

The United Arab Emirates' federal supreme council elected on Saturday Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the new president of UAE, state news agency (WAM) reported.
14 May 2022

US must condemn Israeli forces' attack at Palestinian journo's funeral, Bernie says

US Senator Bernie Sanders has critisised Israel over police violence at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
14 May 2022

Ukraine begins first war crime trial of Russian soldier

Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war — the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor said her office is pursuing.
14 May 2022

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern tests positive for Covid-19

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has overseen her country's world-leading response to the coronavirus pandemic, has tested positive for Covid-19, her office announced Saturday.
14 May 2022

Extreme intoxication can be defence in homicide, sexual assault: Canada's Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday ruled that defendants accused of violent crimes such as homicide and sexual assault can use self-induced extreme intoxication as a defense, striking down a federal law supported by women's advocacy groups.
13 May 2022

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa dies aged 73

The United Arab Emirates’ President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 yesterday, state media said, after battling illness for several years.
13 May 2022

One small pot of moon soil, one giant leap for space agriculture

That’s one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man’s knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program.
13 May 2022

$44b deal to buy Twitter ‘temporarily on hold’

Elon Musk yesterday said he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter, sending shares in the social media giant plunging.
13 May 2022

10 killed in Syria rebel attack

Syrian rebels killed 10 pro-regime fighters in northern Syria yesterday, in the deadliest such attack since a truce deal reached more than two years ago, a war monitor said.
13 May 2022

G7 allies vow to support Ukraine ‘until victory’

Leading democracies yesterday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in its war with Russia while the European Union promised to hike military support for Kyiv by more than half a billion dollars.
13 May 2022