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Bucharest, May 5 (UNI) Exit polls showed that George Simion, chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, took the lead in the first round of the Romanian presidential election rerun on Sunday. According to the exit polls conducted by the Center for Urban and Regional Sociology (CURS), Simion garnered 33.1 per cent of…
Jerusalem, May 5 (UNI) Israel’s military has begun issuing “tens of thousands” of call-up orders for reservists to intensify its offensive in the Gaza Strip, a senior defence official said on Sunday, vowing to increase pressure on Hamas to free hostages. Eyal Zamir, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces, announced the…
Tehran, May 5 (UNI) Iran on Sunday revised the death toll from a major explosion at its main commercial port late last month down to 57 from 70, while state television reported two arrests in connection with the blast. The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Hormozgan province’s Chief Justice Mojtaba Qahremani as saying the updated…
Lima, May 5 (UNI) The bodies of 13 mine company guards previously reported as kidnapped were found in north Peru’s La Libertad department, local media said Sunday. “Sources from the Executive Branch” confirmed the discovery of the bodies in the Pataz province, reported private news network Radio Programas del Peru. Police reports said that the…
Los Angeles, May 5 (UNI) Three people were hospitalised Sunday afternoon after a shooting at a park in Orange County, the U.S. state of California, authorities said. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on X that “Deputies are responding to reports of a shooting at Featherly Regional Park in Yorba Linda.” The…
Guiyang, May 5 (UNI) Nine people died and one is missing in a boat capsize accident in a river of Qianxi City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on Sunday afternoon, according to local authorities. Four boats capsized in sudden strong winds, plunging 84 individuals into the water. So far, nine people have died, 70 are being…
Lome, May 4 (UNI) Jean-Lucien Savi de Tove was elected by the Togolese parliament on Saturday as the West African country’s new president, said the president’s office. He will succeed Faure Gnassingbe, who was sworn in earlier on Saturday as the president of Togo’s Council of Ministers. In May 2024, Togo’s constitutional amendment came into…
Jerusalem, May 4 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his planned visit to Azerbaijan, said a statement from his office on Saturday. Netanyahu’s visit was scheduled to begin on Wednesday and last five days. “In light of developments in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and due to a tight political and security schedule,…
Aden, Yemen, May 4 (UNI) Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) appointed Finance Minister Salem Saleh Bin Braik as the country’s new prime minister on Saturday, following the resignation of Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak. The decision, reported by state-run Saba news agency, came just hours after bin Mubarak stepped down, citing constitutional constraints and obstacles that…
Gaza, May 4 (UNI) The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video on Saturday showing a hostage who appeared to have been injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The footage showed masked militants inside an underground tunnel, shouting at the distressed-looking hostage. “I am hostage number 24….
