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Professional golfer Grayson Murray has died aged 30, the PGA Tour has said. The American, a two-time tour winner who was number 58 in the world ranking, withdrew late in his second round at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday, citing an illness. “We were devastated to learn – and are heartbroken to share – that PGA Tour player Grayson Murray passed away this morning. I am at a loss for words,” said PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.”The PGA Tour is a family, and when you lose a member of your family, you are never the…

A fire broke out Saturday at a family entertainment venue in Gujarat State in western India, leaving at least 20 people dead, police said. The blaze occurred in the city of Rajkot. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X that the “fire tragedy in Rajkot saddened us all.” The fire broke out in the afternoon and is now under control.  Images showed firefighters removing debris with collapsed tin roof structures nearby. Focus on saving lives, says Rajkot mayor “Our focus is on rescue operations and saving lives. We will ensure strict action is taken against the people who are responsible for…

Finance ministers from theG7 group of wealthy democracies on Saturday cited “progress” but no breakthrough in talks on how to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine as it continues to battle invading Russian forces. The meeting of the G7 ministers in the northern Italian city of Stresa focused mainly on the question of how to find more funds for Ukraine as Russia presses on with a new offensive in the Kharkiv region in the third year of its unprovoked invasion. The G7 and its allies froze some $300 billion (€276 billion) of Russian assets shortly after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its…

At least two people have been killed after a crowded DIY store in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was hit by Russian strikes, regional officials say.Two guided bombs hit the hypermarket, wounding many more and triggering a huge blaze that fire crews were battling to contain, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said via the Telegram messaging app. Up to 200 people could have been in the store, which is in a residential area, at the time of the strikes, which killed at least two people and left at least 24 injured, according to officials. Image: Firefighters tackle the blaze. Pic:…

In a rejoinder issued five days after the joint release of the investigation by DW, Netra News, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bangladesh’s Defense Ministry called DW’s documentary “false and fallacious”. It was a “misleading portrayal of Bangladesh Army personnel in UN Peacekeeping Missions,” the army wrote. Earlier this week, DW, Netra News and Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed that officers from an elite force in Bangladesh – the Rapid Action Battalion – that commits torture, murder, and abductions, are being sent on UN peacekeeping missions. DW and its partners found more than 100 officers, 40 of them deployed in the last five years. The Defense Ministry’s rejoinder…

The fear is there, day and night, said Mamadou from Chad, who asked that DW not use his full name for fear of reprisals, recounting what happened to him earlier this month after he failed to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa with the help of human traffickers. “The Tunisian Coast Guard officers took our cell phones and our money, then they drove us to the Libyan border where they stripped us and left us alone,” he told DW from his hiding place: An olive grove near Tunisia’s port city of Sfax. He said he had walked around 240 kilometers (ca. 150 miles) through the desert to get…

Hundreds of people in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province attacked a Christian community over blasphemy allegations, officials said. The mob attack occurred in the Mujahid Colony area of the city of Sargodha. What else do we know about the attacks? The mob alleged that a Christian had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran. Police said that the man’s small shoemaking factory was burned down in the violence. Officers rescued at least five people from the violence, Sargodha police chief Sariq Khan was cited by the Reuters news agency as saying. He said that all five had been taken to the hospital.…

The G7 group of wealthy democracies will look at ways of using the future interest from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine as it continues to battle invading Russian forces, finance ministers from the group said on Saturday. The meeting of the G7 ministers in the northern Italian city of Stresa has been focused mainly on the question of how to find more funds for Ukraine as Russia presses on with a new offensive in the Kharkiv region in the third year of its unprovoked invasion. The G7 and its allies froze some $300 billion (€276 billion) of Russian assets shortly after Moscow launched…

Highway thieves have stolen 40 tonnes of avocados in Mexico, prosecutors have said.Armed men stopped freight trucks in two separate robberies in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico’s main producer of avocados, the attorney general’s office said. Approximately 20 tonnes of avocados were taken in both cases, with the robbers transferring crates containing the fruit into a van and fleeing the scene.Avocado farmers have long been targeted by drug cartel extortion demands in Michoacan, and thefts of fruit straight from trees in avocado orchards are known to happen.Read more from Sky News:Court orders Israel to halt Rafah offensiveBritish man missing…

A Haitian gang killed three missionaries, including a married couple from the United States,  in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and Natalie Lloyd and the local director of the mission group, Jude Montis, were killed by armed men on Thursday evening. Missouri State Senator’s children among the dead Natalie’s father is Missouri State Senator Ben Baker , and Davy is the son of David and Alicia Lloyd, who started the organization Missions in Haiti in 2000. “My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain,” Baker said in a Facebook post.…