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King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) continued the implementation of the Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project in Al Khokha District, Hodeidah Governorate, Yemen. 1,575,000 liters of potable water and 1,575,000 liters of usable water were pumped, and 120 shifts were carried out to remove waste from camps of the displaced during June. Two hygiene campaigns and 54 sewage suction operations were carried out, and 120 bags were distributed for cleaning bathrooms, SPA reported. As many as 9,800 people benefited from these services.

Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions. Most of the 674 migrants were found on a fishing boat 124 miles off the coast of Calabria, the boot of Italy. Others were rescued in the water. Search and rescue operations were carried out by a merchant vessel and Italy’s coastguard and finance police. The migrants were transferred to port cities in Sicily and Calabria on Sunday morning, the statement added. The five dead…

Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines’ capital region on Sunday, including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said. Local Quezon City police chief Remus Medina said the shooting appeared to have been an assassination of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city, Rose Furigay. The suspect, wounded in a shootout with a campus security officer and arrested after a car chase, was now in custody and being interrogated, Medina told reporters. “He looks like he was a determined assassin,” Medina said, adding he was found with…

Ukraine pressed ahead on Sunday with efforts to restart grain exports from Odesa and other Black Sea ports after a missile attack that cast doubt over whether Russia would honour a deal aimed at easing global food shortages caused by the war. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced the strikes on Odesa as blatant “barbarism” that showed Moscow could not be trusted to implement Friday’s deal, mediated by Turkey and the United Nations. However, a government minister said preparations to resume grain shipments were ongoing. Public broadcaster Suspilne quoted the Ukrainian military as saying the missiles had not significantly damaged the port.…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that Russian forces had hit a Ukrainian military boat in the port of Odesa in Ukraine with high-precision missiles. The Ukrainian military had said Russian missiles hit the southern port on Saturday, threatening a deal signed just one day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.

A senior U.S. Congressional delegation met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Saturday and promised to try to ensure continued support in the war against Russia. The delegation – which included Representative Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee – is the latest in a series of high-profile American visitors to Ukraine. “The United States, along with allies and partners around the world, have stood with Ukraine by providing economic, military, and humanitarian assistance,” the delegation said in a statement. “We will continue to seek ways to support President Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people as effectively as…

A total of 171,546 pilgrims of different nationalities have arrived in Madinah after performing this year’s Hajj. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah’ statistics on receiving and departing pilgrims in Madinah showed that 14,593 pilgrims have left Madinah through Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz International Airport and the Land Pilgrim Reception Center. According to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the number of pilgrims staying in Madinah until yesterday totaled 73,649 pilgrims.

The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO’s emergency committee on the virus. More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, said WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. There had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak, he added. There are only two other such health emergencies at present – the coronavirus pandemic and the…

India’s financial-crime investigation agency arrested a West Bengal government minister on Saturday for allegedly making money off recruitment for state-run schools, officials said. Partha Chatterjee, who was education minister in the eastern state for more than five years, was accused of appointing hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff for money and other forms of bribes, putting them in positions they were not qualified for or had they paid acquire, said an official of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Chatterjee, who holds three ministerial posts, was arrested at his home in the state capital, Kolkata, ED said. “The minister has been charged…

The United States promised more military support for Ukraine, including drones, and is considering whether to send fighter aircraft, as Russian forces relentlessly shelled towns and cities in the east with the war about to enter its sixth month. Moscow and Kyiv signed a landmark deal on Friday that raised hopes of unblocking vast grain exports from Black Sea ports. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed that accord, but with heavy fighting continuing on several fronts, he said there could be no ceasefire unless lost territory was retaken. “Freezing the conflict with the Russian Federation means a pause that gives the Russian…