Russia yesterday said it shot down 419 Ukrainian drones over the country overnight, including in the Moscow region, where authorities said a six-month-old baby was killed.

The powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last week damaged or destroyed more than 58,000 buildings, according to a preliminary assessment of satellite data published by US space agency Nasa.

The US Supreme Court yesterday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict birthright citizenship in a blow to one of his signature anti-immigration initiatives.

Top US envoys who have arrived in Doha will not hold a high-level meeting with Iran, a Qatari official said yesterday, casting doubt on the progress of efforts to bring a lasting halt to the Iran war and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

More than one million undocumented migrants in Spain have sought legal status under a scheme that has defied a wider European crackdown on irregular immigration, the government said yesterday, the final day for submissions.

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Qatar says no high-level meetings between the longtime adversaries scheduled in Doha

Health services are under extreme pressure now, says spokesman Christian Lindmeier

Health officials say mortality rose nearly 14% during five-day spell

Some 1,700 people were killed and thousands remain missing following the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 -- the strongest to hit the South American nation in more than a century

Mass casualty accidents are common at Myanmar's mines -- particularly in monsoon season, when rains destabilise sites where workers have dug unsafe shafts or piled up precarious waste heaps

Washington and Tehran both have said they were sending teams to the Gulf state, but issued conflicting statements on most other details, including timing and purpose of the trip

The poll of 2,022 voters showed Republicans and President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again base were skeptical of foreign aid before getting more details.

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The unrest has already killed at least four people, with thousands of African migrants fleeing home or huddling in makeshift camps for fear of attack

Until Trump, no president had tried to fire a Fed official

The drones were neutralized without force, Giuliani said, without explaining how

5,034 people were injured in the quakes, which left tens of thousands of people missing

Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of people in eastern Afghanistan, with Islamabad saying yesterday it targeted militants but the Afghan government reporting civilian casualties.

Rescue teams raced on Sunday to find more survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela this week, with signs of life bringing occasional relief to a grim quest to whittle down a list of tens of thousands missing.