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The airport in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has been badly damaged in fresh Russian shelling, a local official said on Sunday.“There has been another attack on Dnipro airport. There is nothing left of it. The airport itself and the infrastructure around it has been destroyed,” the head of the city’s military administration, Valentin Reznichenko, said on Telegram.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Rockets keep flying and flying,” he added.He said authorities were seeking to clarify information about victims. An AFP reporter saw black smoke in the sky above the airport and fire trucks entering its grounds.A plane also took off from the airport later on Sunday, suggesting the runway was still functioning.Reznichenko said attacks on the city, which lies on the banks of Dnieper River, intensified on Sunday.The industrial city of one million people has been targeted by Russian forces since Moscow’s invasion but has so far been spared major destruction.The announcement came as Ukraine, which rebuffed a Russian offensive on Kyiv, anticipates a renewed Kremlin attack on the east and south of the country.Read more:Head of Russia Orthodox Church calls on people to rally around authoritiesUkraine says probing 5,600 alleged war crimes by 500 RussiansShelling in Ukraine regions Dnipro, Luhansk injure one: Officials
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Full Article: Ukraine’s Dnipro airport ‘destroyed’ by Russian shelling

Troops from naval unit rarely carry out raids • Sources call the move "unique"

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Full Article: IDF uses elite Shayetet 13 in Jenin arrest raids

The prime minister visited survivors of the Tel Aviv terror attack in hospital on Saturday.
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Full Article: PM Bennett helps Tel Aviv terror attack survivor find a girlfriend

Opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif submitted his nomination to be Pakistan’s next prime minister to the legislature on Sunday, his party said, after incumbent Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote in parliament after nearly four years in power.The younger brother of three-times prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz, 70, has led a bid by the opposition in parliament to topple former cricket star Khan, and he is widely expected to replace him following a vote on Monday.But Khan’s party also submitted papers nominating the former foreign minister as a candidate for prime minister, saying their members of parliament would resign en masse should he lose, potentially creating the need for urgent by-elections for their seats.Khan, the first Pakistani prime minister to be ousted by a no confidence vote, had clung on for almost a week after a united opposition first tried to remove him.On Sunday, he repeated allegations that a foreign conspiracy was behind the regime change.“The freedom struggle begins again today,” he said via his Twitter account, followed by more than 15 million and that still describes him as Prime Minister of Pakistan in his biography section.Even before the vote Khan had called for protests, which were expected to take place late on Sunday.“I tell all of my supporters across Pakistan, on Sunday, after Isha (evening) prayers, you all have to come out of your homes and protest peacefully against this imported government that is trying to come to power,” he said in an address to the nation on Friday.His government fell in the early hours of Sunday after a 13-hour session that included repeated delays and lengthy speeches by lawmakers from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.Opposition parties were able to secure 174 votes in the 342-member house for the no-confidence motion, giving them the majority they needed to enable Monday’s vote to elect a new premier.Khan’s former information minister Fawad Chaudhry told reporters of the plan for resignations if their nominee does not win.The speaker would be obliged to accept those resignations that would necessitate by-elections in probably more than 100 seats.That could plunge the country into another crisis as the election commission has previously said it would not be ready to hold elections until October.Role of military?Two sources who declined to be identified said the vote that ousted Khan went ahead after the powerful army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, met Khan, as criticism mounted over the delay to the parliamentary process.The Supreme Court has also ordered parliament to convene and hold the vote.The military has ruled the country of 220 million people for almost half its nearly 75-year history.Read more: Pakistan top court rules against PM, restores Parliament
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Full Article: Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif submits PM nomination to Pakistani parliament

One of the most common things on any travel equipment list is the medications we want to take with us.
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Full Article: What medications should you take when you travel?

Amnesty International is calling on Qatar to urgently investigate abuses in the private security sector..
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Full Article: Amnesty International report sheds light on 'further labour abuses'

“[The] ruling is a clear example of arbitrariness, injustice and violation of the rule of law,” he tweeted on Friday.
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Full Article: Argentinian ambassador to Israel resigns after corruption conviction

Raad Hazem carried out a terror attack on Thursday, killing three and injuring a dozen more.
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Full Article: IDF shoots Tel Aviv terrorist's brothers in Jenin

Qatar Airways is suing Airbus for steadily rising compensation, now exceeding to $1 billion..
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Full Article: Qatar Airways and Airbus continue to clash in court dispute

An explosion was heard in New York’s Times Square after three manholes caught fire on Sunday evening, triggering mass panic and sending crowds running, according to local news reports and videos circulating on Twitter.No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, according to Fox News Digital which cited preliminary reports from the New York Police Department (NYPD) and New York Fire Department (FDNY).For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Firefighters at the scene discovered elevated carbon monoxide levels at an 18-story office building, near the site of the explosion, and were in the process of venting the area, a spokesperson from the FDNY told Fox News Digital.According to local media Spectrum News NY1, the fire caused parts of Times Square to be shut down.The videos posted on social media showed people running away in a state of panic, after the sound of the explosion alarmed them as they seemed to not know what was happening.“There’s just a huge explosion,” witness Brad Ball told Fox News. “It didn’t sound extraordinarily close, but definitely was an explosion.”Celebrity chef Gary Maclean tweeted: “This isn’t my normal tweet but tonight I was 100 [feet] away from an explosion in Times Square, I took this video a few seconds after. I believe it was a fire under ground that blew up. It’s a miracle no one was hurt.”Cable failure was apparently the cause behind the explosion, energy company Con Edison said in a company statement according to Spectrum News NY1.“At this time, there have been no customer outages, and no reports of injuries or property damage. Our crews remain on location,” the statement read.Manhole explosions are common and are often caused by frayed wires from aging, corrosive chemicals or rats biting them. These wires often carry around 13,000 volts of electricity and once they heat up the paper, lead and rubber insulation, they can causes fires which releases gases.The pressure from the gas then builds up inside the manhole and electrical wires arc like a bolt of lightning and ignite the gases, causing a powerful explosion. Depending on the amount of gas-pressure built up inside the manhole, the cover – which often weighs between 35 to 135 kg – can flip over and be launched several feet in the air causing either a fire or an explosion, depending on the gas pressure level.Read more:Elon Musk decides not to join Twitter boardElton John, Celine Dion support ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’ social media rallyNFT fraud: Money laundering and wash trading on the rise, expert warns
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Full Article: Manhole explosion in New York’s Times Square triggers mass panic