Russia uses hypersonic missile in mass attack on Kyiv
Kyiv, May 24: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war. The intense aerial assault damaged buildings across the Ukrainian capital, including near government offices, residential buildings, schools and a market, Ukrainian authorities said. At least 83 people were wounded in the attack. (AP)
3 Bangladeshis die in mine explosions along Myanmar border
Dhaka, May 24: Landmine explosions along Bangladesh’s southeastern frontier with Myanmar on Sunday killed three villagers working on their plantations. The incident sparked panic in the troubled border areas amid the grinding civil war in Myanmar, expanding its blow in the neighbouring country. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) commander in the area Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Alam said the explosions severely wounded the three Bangladeshi tribesmen, who were declared dead after locals rushed them to a hospital. (PTI)
1 dies as under construction building collapses
Angeles (Philippines), May 24: A nine-story building under construction in a city north of the Philippine capital collapsed before dawn on Sunday, leaving at least one Malaysian tourist dead and at least 21 mostly workers trapped in the rubble, officials said. Two were located alive but could not be immediately extricated. At least 24 workers either managed to dash out of the building, where they mostly slept on the ground floor, or were rescued after the it crumbled to the ground around 2:30 am in a crowded neighbourhood. A Malaysian tourist died and another guest was injured in a lodging house, which was partly hit by debris from the collapsing building, Fire Superintendent Maria Lea Sajili said. (AP)
Turkish police storm offices of main Opp party
Ankara, May 24: Police stormed the offices of Turkiye’s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at a crowd of party supporters and officials gathered outside the gates. It was a violent end to a standoff that had been going on for several hours between members of the Republican Peoples’ Party, or CHP, and its new court-appointed leadership. Footage taken by local media in the courtyard and inside the building show huge clouds of tear gas with riot police storming through the premises, before journalists were removed by the police. Tension had been rising since Thursday when an appeals court on Thursday nullified the election of Ozgur Ozel as party chairperson in November 2023, suspending him and members of the party’s executive board. The ruling said he should be replaced by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, his predecessor, who led the party for 13 years but never won any national elections. (AP)
