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At least 800 people have been killed and thousands injured in eastern Afghanistan after a deadly 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday night. Video footage shows scores of buildings collapsed into rubble. Landslides have blocked many roads, and rescuers are using helicopters to try and get to more remote, cut off regions. Source link

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour, Donald Trump has announced on Truth Social. Giuliani became known as “America’s Mayor” after leading New York through 9/11. While he previously worked as Trump’s personal lawyer, the pair have since parted ways. The announcement comes two…

Narendra Modi The tête-à-tête inside Putin’s car lasted for 45 minutes India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, says he has had an “insightful” exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a summit in China. The two leaders spent 45 minutes inside the Russian leader’s car – after which Modi posted a picture of…

Nestle has fired its chief executive after just one year in the job because he failed to disclose a “romantic relationship” with a “direct subordinate”. The Swiss food giant, which makes Kit Kat chocolate bars and Nespresso coffee capsules, said Laurent Freixe has been dimissed with “immediate effect” following an investigation led by Nestle’s chair…

Cut off by rock falls in the mountains, locals who survived the tremors help pull injured and dead from the rubble. Source link

The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) states that Israel’s conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide. Across a three-page resolution, the IAGS presents a litany of actions…

Watch: Aerial footage shows buildings destroyed to rubble after Afghanistan earthquake A 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan’s mountainous eastern region, with authorities saying hundreds of people have been killed. The quake hit at 23:47 local time on Sunday (19:17 GMT) with its epicentre 27km (17 miles) away from Jalalabad, the country’s fifth-largest city, in…

Security forces in Guyana say a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was shot at “from the Venezuelan shore” in the contested Essequibo region. Police and the Guyana defence force said in a joint statement that the incident occurred on Sunday, ahead of the South American nation’s general election on Monday. The patrol that…

Helicopters have been deployed to try and rescue people trapped in difficult to access regions following a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan. At least 800 people have been killed after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, according to the UN’s humanitarian agency. The BBC’s South Asia and Afghanistan correspondent Yogita Limaye reports. Source link

The man who was caught on camera snatching a hat off a young boy at the US Open has said he made a “huge mistake” after footage of the incident went viral. Piotr Szczerek, a Polish chief executive of a paving firm, said he was “convinced” tennis star Kamil Majchrzak had been “passing his hat…