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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali pirates hijacked an oil products tanker off Yemen, a Somali maritime security official said, the latest in a resurgence of piracy that has seen six commercial vessels seized since April across the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean. Six armed pirates hijacked the Eritrean-flagged M.T. Sibu 1 on Thursday about 136 nautical miles (252 kilometers) east of al-Mukalla, Yemen, and took it toward Somalia’s […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo has received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the country grapples with the fastest Ebola outbreak in history, the country’s health minister said. The 16,250 doses arrived at the N’djili International Airport in the capital, Kinshasa, late Friday, as part of 70,000 doses expected from the World Health Organization and partners that were announced on Thursday. More doses are expected early next […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least two people were killed overnight in Ukraine by Russian drone and missile strikes, authorities said, a day after an attack on a shopping center killed 16 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday one person was killed and another wounded when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital Kyiv. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday its forces had hit a locomotive depot. Moscow’s […]

WARSAW, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Romania’s National Committee for Emergency Situations approved new measures to boost the water level of the River Danube and ensure cooling of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the government press office said on Saturday. The plant remains shut due to historically low Danube levels and the country has declared a ​state of emergency ‌throughout August stemming from a decline in electricity ​production. • Emergency dredging […]

LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Several people have died after a collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England between a police car and a passenger car, the local police force said on Saturday. Cleveland Police said the incident took place at around 3.39 a.m. (0239 GMT) on a main road near the South Bank area to the east of Middlesbrough. “Sadly, the collision has resulted in multiple fatalities,” a police spokesperson […]

(SRN NEWS) – The United States has imposed fifty-percent tariffs on roughly twenty billion dollars’ worth of Canadian products, after last-minute negotiations between Washington and Ottawa failed to produce a deal. The tariffs took effect early Saturday and cover a range of Canadian goods, from hockey sticks to medical supplies, including tongue depressors. The affected products represent about five percent of Canada’s annual exports to the United States. President Donald […]

One of China’s best-known comedians is under investigation and several of his shows have been canceled after he changed the lyrics of a revolutionary song during a performance. Guo Degang, the country’s most prominent performer of traditional xiangsheng, a form of Chinese comedic dialogue, is under investigation by local authorities in the city of Wuhan in central China, local media reported. Guo’s show on Friday in the northwestern city of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Andy Pages fractured his left hand after being hit by a pitch against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. The center fielder was struck on the back of his hand by a pitch from Bubba Chandler in the third inning and took first base. He advanced to third before the inning ended. Pages was replaced by Kiké Hernández to start the fifth. […]

ELSENBORN, Belgium (AP) — The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews responding to the flames. Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest […]