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(Reuters) -Seven people are dead after a car ran into pedestrians in Brownsville, Texas, and a male suspect is in custody, a local television station reported on Sunday. The crash occurred at 8:30 a.m. local time near Ozanam Center, a shelter for migrants and homeless, said CBS 4 and NBC 23 affiliates, citing Lieutenant Martin Sandoval of the Brownsville Police Department. (Reporting by John Kruzel in Washington; Editing by Lisa […]

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s Education Minister Branko Ruzic resigned on Sunday over last week’s shooting at an elementary school in which eight children and a security guard were killed, amid public anger over that and another mass shooting just a day later. The country is in shock and mourning over the two shootings: the school massacre in the capital on Wednesday and a rampage outside the city on Thursday in […]

(Reuters) – Russia’s Wagner mercenary group appeared on Sunday to ditch plans to withdraw from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, saying they had been promised more arms by Moscow and suggesting they may keep up their assault on what Russia sees a stepping stone to other cities in the Donbas region. CONFLICT * Russian missiles targeted an industrial site in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine, while Ukrainian and Russian media […]

By Radovan Stoklasa and Jason Hovet BRATISLAVA (Reuters) -Slovak President Zuzana Caputova picked central bank Deputy Governor Ludovit Odor to lead a technocrat government after caretaker Prime Minister Eduard Heger quit on Sunday just months before early elections in September. Slovakia, a European Union and NATO member, has struggled through months of political uncertainty as Heger’s ruling coalition was weakened, coming amid a period of high inflation and war in […]

By Orhan Coskun and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) – With his two-decade rule in the balance, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has pulled out all the stops on the campaign trail as he battles to survive his toughest political test yet and shield his legacy from an emboldened opposition. Erdogan, the son of a sea captain, has faced stiff political headwinds ahead of a May 14 election: he was already facing […]

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli authorities demolished a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, drawing harsh condemnation from the European Union. COGAT, a branch of the Israeli military, said in a statement that the building, located about 2 km from Bethlehem, had been constructed illegally and “was found to be dangerous to the safety of anyone studying or otherwise visiting there,” and thus an Israeli […]

By Brad Brooks and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said. The gunman, whom authorities said they think acted alone and whose motive was not yet known, was killed by a police officer after he began firing outside of the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, the city’s police […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – The World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food aid to over 200,000 Palestinians from next month due to a “severe” shortage of funds, the group’s senior official for the Palestinian territories said on Sunday. “In light of the severe funding shortages, WFP is forced to make painful choices to stretch the limited resources,” Samer Abdeljaber, the WFP’s country director, he told Reuters by phone […]

By Aidan Lewis and Sarah El Safty CAIRO (Reuters) -The Arab League readmitted Syria after more than a decade of suspension on Sunday, consolidating a regional push to normalise ties with President Bashar al-Assad. The decision said Syria could resume its participation in Arab League meetings immediately, while calling for a resolution of the crisis resulting from Syria’s civil war, including the flight of refugees to neighbouring countries and drug […]