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At least fifteen were reported killed on Tuesday in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia after a suicide bombing, claimed by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab, at a checkpoint outside General Dhegobadan Military Camp. Army officer Mohamed Adan told Al Jazeera the perpetrator was disguised among army recruits, and put the death toll at "about 15" but suggested it could be higher. A Reuters witness also suggested the number at 15; army chief Odowaa Yusuf Rageh, the target of a 2020 assassination attempt by Al-Shabaab, initially told state media at lea

Austrian Airlines cancelled cargo-passenger flight OS601 from Vienna bound for Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Thursday after authorities in Russia refused to accept a new proposed route to its capital city which bypassed Belarusian airspace. Following the grounding of a Ryanair flight on Sunday from Greece to Lithuania; in Minsk, Belarus, over a bomb scare and subsequent arrest of opposition journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, the European Union imposed sanctions on Belarus. Many air carriers in Europe including Aust

On Monday, Barbara Johnson, secretary of the Latrobe Combined History Group, spoke to Latrobe City councillors in Morwell, Victoria, Australia asking for an increase in grants to local historical societies. Since 1994, the area's six historical societies have received a yearly grant of A$500 each from the council for administrative purposes. In her speech, Johnson spoke about historical societies as a "repository of information for [the council]", and stressed that they needed to "remain alive and viable" to provide services to the council wh

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Olivia Rodrigo's song good 4 u debuts at No 1 on US Billboard Hot 100 chart}} On Monday, Billboard magazine announced that Olivia Rodrigo's new song good 4 u had debuted at #1 on the Hot 100 chart dated for May 29. The Hot 100 combines sales, streaming and radio airplay in the United States to create a list of the most popular songs in the US on a weekly basis. According to MRC Data, within the United States good 4 u received 43.2 million streams, sold 12 thousand downloads, and drew an audience of 3.8 million on the radio in

On Saturday, Wynnum (Bugs) defeated Maroochydore 29 points to 10 in round four of Australia's Sunshine Coast Rugby Union. The Bugs opened the scoring with two tries before conceding a penalty goal. They went to the half time break up ten points to three. "All credit to the boys, especially the forward pack all day just dominated them," Wynnum player Nathan Urquhart said. "Pushing forward, letting us spread out to the backs, punching forward through the gaps. Just nice strong running. The scrums were just unbelievable all game. That put t

On Thursday, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled a five-year rent freeze introduced earlier in February last year illegal due to lack of the Berlin Senate's jurisdiction. This decision allowed rent to be increased as the Court ruling invalidated the previously introduced law which had capped the rent for about 90% of renters in the country. Protesters gathered in the capital city of Berlin with demonstrations against the ruling and against the possible increases in rent. Some demanded dispossessions of large real estate companies.

On Tuesday, higher than average amounts of precipitation have ceased in New South Wales (NSW), south of Queensland, and north-east of South Australia. Over the course of the prior five days, these heavy rains caused floods and hazards to farms and dwellings, with up to a month quantity of rainfall falling within 48 hours on Monday and Tuesday in some areas, notably 150mm of rain at the Great Dividing Range, Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) reported. On Tuesday, BoM said the situation reportedly started to ease, with rains moving towards the east,

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) ruled Thursday, after thirteen European Union (EU) nations suspended rollouts of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the jab was "safe and effective" and there was "no indication" of correlation between taking the vaccine and blood clotting. The review included safety data from over 17 million people vaccinated in the EU and the United Kingdom and focused on cases of uncommon blood disorders. In a statement on the EMA's website, the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee confirmed "the benefits of

Yesterday, the state government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia announced "Bradfield" as the name for the planned third city in Greater Sydney. Bradfield is located at west of City of Parramatta and Sydney, in vicinity of the then currently in construction Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport. The city is to be named in honour of John Bradfield, the engineer who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney rail line. The name came after a public consultation earlier last year. In a press release on the New South Wal

On Friday, after three earthquakes hit near both the Kermadec Islands and about 105 km off New Zealand's east coast, people across New Zealand were instructed by the government to stay away from beach and shore areas. The first earthquake hit at 2:27 AM local time at a depth of 10km, and registered 7.1 according to Radio New Zealand. It was felt across the North Island and parts of the South Island. Two 7.4 and 8.1 earthquakes were recorded near the Kermadec Islands by New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Radio New Zea

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Wikinews mourns loss of volunteer John Shutt}} On Friday, Wikinews learned Dr John Nathan Shutt, a long-time contributor to both Wikinews and Wikibooks, died on Wednesday. Editing under the name Pi zero, he was at the time the top contributor to Wikinews by edit count, and came third on English Wikibooks. Dr Shutt was 56 years old. Dr Shutt's elder sister, Ms Barbara Shutt, informed Wikinews about his death via email on early Friday. His mother Elsie Shutt had called 9-1-1 emergency services after he had trouble breathing. B

The Serbian Orthodox Church — the dominant Christian Church in Serbia — elected Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana Dr. Porfirije Perić as new Serbian Patriarch yesterday, filling a vacancy created in November when Patriarch Irinej died. Perić's formal enthronment was set for today. Born Prvoslav Perić, Perić was ordained as a monk in 1985 and elected to his position as Metropolitan in 2014. He would now lead a church of 12 million faithful in the former Yugoslav republics, the disputed region of Kosovo, and associated dioceses in Australia,