Twenty-four people died and 30 others were injured after a section of a highway collapsed in Meizhou, Guangdong province on Wednesday morning.
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India suspends visas for Canadians
India has stopped issuing visas to Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. India said the temporary move was due to security threats disrupting work at its missions in Canada.
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Israel launched airstrikes
Israel launched airstrikes targeting alleged weapons manufacturing and storage sites in Gaza on Thursday, following a rocket attack from the coastal enclave. In a statement, The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza owned by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs Gaza.
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Ukraine F-16 fighter pilot training will start soon in Romania
The training of Ukrainian pilots on United States-made F-16 fighter jets is to begin in Romania in August. Officials have said on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lithuania that Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced the Romania training programme on Tuesday alongside Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren and Denmark’s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen.
