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At least eighteen young children, as well as a staff member, were killed in an attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States on Tuesday. There are conflicting reports on the exact number of staff killed, although figures on Tuesday night ranged from one to three individuals. An 18-year-old gunman is suspected to be the lone perpetrator of the intrusion and subsequent attack. Texas Governor Greg Abbott identified the suspected attacker as Salvador Ramos, adding that Ramos had shot his grandmother before embarking to commit th

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, died Friday aged 73, having suffered from poor health since a heart stroke in 2014. Following nationwide prayers and a military honour guard, he was laid to rest at the Al Bateen cemetery. The Emirati Ministry of Presidential Affairs has announced a three-day suspension of work in both public and private institutions and a forty-day period of national mourning during which flags would be flown at half-mast. Prominent dignitaries have expressed t

Thousands of people joined Bans off Our Bodies protests Saturday in what organisers claimed was over 380 cities and towns across the United States. Protesters demanded that the government keep abortion legal and accessible. Earlier this month, Politico published a leaked draft of a US Supreme Court decision showing that a majority of justices on the nine-judge panel were planning to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that rendered the procedure legal throughout the US. Protests took place in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and other cities. T

The Parliament of Queensland, Australia rejected a motion on Wednesday by the Katter's Australian Party (KAP) that argued allowing transgender women to play in women's sports teams would "erode the integrity of female sport". The motion stated "anyone who supports biological men playing in female sport, irrespective of age group, level or code, is complicit in eroding the integrity of female sport and therefore women's rights", and that, due to "insurmountable physical advantages", transgender women would "pose an unfair competitive advantage

On Friday, Palestinians and the Israeli Police clashed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where thousands from all over the world had gathered for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, it treated 152 people wounded in the face-off. The mosque is located in the Old City of Jerusalem which is a holy site for Muslims as well as Jews. According to a statement released by the Israeli Police, hundreds of Palestinians had gathered in the mosque compound and threw firecrackers and stones at the sacred Jewish s

A 17-year-old boy has died and a 16-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after a fight broke out at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, Australia, on Monday at around 8 p.m. Sydney time (10:00 UTC). According to New South Wales Ambulance Inspector Mark Whittaker, the 17-year-old, who worked at the event, went into cardiac arrest after being stabbed in the chest in front of his parents. Paramedics performed CPR on the teenager before loading him into an ambulance. He died while being transported to Westmead Hospital. The 16-year-old

Tuesday, at around 8:30 a.m. New York Time (1230 UTC) a mass shooting took place on a train between the 25th Street Station and the 36th Street Station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At least sixteen people were injured in the incident, out of which ten had gunshot wounds and the remaining six were otherwise injured. According to the latest press briefing by the New York Police Department (NYPD) at the scene, no deaths were reported in the incident. Additional people

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On Tuesday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of committing war crimes against civilians during the ongoing invasion via live video feed to the United Nations Security Council. Zelenskyy said: "The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country. They shot and killed women outside their houses when they just tried to call someone who is alive. They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies." Demanding the perpetrators and their superiors be brought be

On Friday, a fire broke out in the Waheen Market in the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa. 28 people have been injured, but no deaths were reported. The fire began at around 20:00 EAT (1700 UTC). Firefighters had difficulty accessing the site, with firefighters bringing the situation under control by early yesterday. The cause is not yet known. President of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi has visited the market, pledging USD1 million in aid. He estimated that fire-related damages would run into millions of dollars. Waheen Market has over 2,000 stor

Thursday, Ukraine reported, and the IAEA confirmed Russian forces had withdrawn from the disused Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. State-owned enterprise Energoatom, which operates Ukraine's nuclear facilities, said Russian soldiers were radiated whilst digging trenches in the Red Forest of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The IAEA said retreating Russian forces moved towards Belarus, but did not confirm radiation exposure. Russia seized control of Chernobyl in the initial stages of its invas

Yesterday, India entered the second day of a two-day nationwide general strike organised by a forum of central trade unions along with numerous other regional trade unions. Hundreds of protestors were seen with red flags in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, a place frequently used for protests. The protestors claimed that the economic policies under the current Indian government led by Narendra Modi were hurting the unorganised sector of the country. Swadesh Dev Roye, a top official of Centre of Indian Trade Unions in a statement said that the Modi go