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President Xi Jinping has ordered “all-out” rescue efforts in China’s dry and mountainous northwest after severe flash floods, triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall.
China has warned the UK and the US after their warships sailed through the diplomatically-fraught Taiwan Strait.
Doomsday cult preacher Paul Mackenzie contacted his followers while in jail and convinced them to starve themselves to death in a fasting ritual, preliminary police investigations indicate.
Qatar’s prime minister said Israel has “killed any hope” of seeing more hostages returned from Gaza after carrying out an attack targeting Hamas leadership in his country.