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More than 120 people were killed in devastating floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Rwanda, the government said on Wednesday, the highest death toll from a flood reported in a single day in the country's recent history.Entire families were killed, injured or left homeless and in desperate need of assistance.

Russia is ramping up pressure on civilians in occupied parts of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, whose forces have stepped up their assaults behind enemy lines ahead of a widely expected counteroffensive.The assault could prove a critical opportunity after 14 months of war, not just for Ukraine to regain territory but also for it to try and persuade its Western allies to send still more weapons and aid.

Signs of an imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive mounted on Monday with stepped-up military strikes by both sides, Russian forces moving into defensive positions and even an unexplained explosion that knocked a supply train off its tracks across the border in Russia.Ukraine's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said in an appearance on national television that the military was reaching the finish line in preparations to launch a counteroffensive and that commanders would decide how, where and when.

Reem Townsend attended a DuPage Township town hall-style meeting in early April as part of her duties as a trustee elected to a four-year position in 2021.It was a meeting just like any other, except for the fact that she had to break her fast during the meeting at sunset.As a practicing Muslim, Townsend was observing the month of Ramadan.

HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 29/04/2023 - 10:12 In this handout photo taken from video released by the Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel on Saturday, April 29, 2023, smoke and flame rise from a burning fuel tank in Sevastopol, Crimea.Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel, via AP An apparent drone strike started a fire at a fuel storage facility in Sevastopol, the main port in Moscow-annexed Crimea, on Saturday, the Moscow-installed governor there said.

At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when they plunged into a well after its cover collapsed inside a packed temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, local officials said.Rescue workers were trying to help at least 16 others who were trapped and injured inside the well, a stair-lined communal water source under the floor at the Shri Bileshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple in the city of Indore, according to the police commissioner, Makrand Deoskar.

Local Officials said they could not "secure the funds necessary to support the long-term sustainability of the school."Officials at the Cambridge Matignon School announced Tuesday that the school will be closing in June.In a letter to the school community, President of the school's Board of Trustees Marc-Anthony Hourihan said that the school will permanently close at the end of the current academic year.

Governments often claim covering gender-affirming care is too expensive, but analyses show the costs are relatively low.Sgt.Anna Lange in a video for Houston County's Sheriff's Department.Houston County 911 / YouTube When a transgender sheriff's deputy in Houston County, Georgia, requested that the department's health insurance plan cover gender-affirming surgeries, local officials refused to cover them, claiming it was too expensive.

After the rain stopped Wednesday afternoon, the prevailing sounds in northwest Woodlake were those of rushing water and gas generators.On the town's edge in Tulare County, northeast of Visalia, dozens of houses had flooded repeatedly since early Friday as more storms slammed California.A new development was cut off from existing homes by a river of brown water a foot deep and 10 feet wide, coursing around signs reading "Sold" and "Ready to Move In!" before hitting a main street and being channeled to a natural creek bed.

ATLANTA At a Georgia State Senate hearing a few weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost his bid for re-election, Rudolph W. Giuliani began making outlandish claims.There are 10 ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them dead people, felons, phony ballots, he told the assembled legislators.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, later Wednesday to attend a vigil honoring the lives lost in the mass shooting at The Covenant School, the White House announced.Following her visit to Ohio today to meet with military families, the First Lady will travel to Nashville, Tennessee to join a candlelight vigil to honor and mourn the lives of the victims of The Covenant School shooting, Biden spokesperson Vanessa Valdivia said in a tweet.

Police block off a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia near where fire engulfed a building belonging to the border patrol of Russian Federal Security Service or F.S.B. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) A building for the border patrol of Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, exploded in flames on Thursday in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, killing at least one person and injuring at least two, according to Russian media and local officials.