GENEVA – A UN official says 47 Palestinians were wounded, mostly by gunfire, when crowd overran Gaza aid hub.
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva that it appeared Israeli army fire had caused most of the injuries.
On Tuesday, crowds of Palestinians overwhelmed a new aid distribution hub set up by an Israeli and US-backed foundation. The crowd broke through fences and an Associated Press journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah was opened the day before by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been slated by Israel to take over aid operations.
The UN and other humanitarian organizations have rejected the new system, saying it won’t be able to meet the needs of Gaza’s 2.3 million people and allows Israel to use food as a weapon to control the population. They have also warned of the risk of friction between Israeli troops and people seeking supplies.
Palestinians have become desperate for food after nearly three months of Israeli blockade pushed Gaza to the brink of famine.
May 28 – Russia attacked an industrial enterprise in the city of Svitlovodsk in Ukraine’s central Kirovohrad region, injuring three people, Governor Andriy Raikovych said on Wednesday.
The resulting fire had been contained, Raikovych said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that 76 private houses and one nine-storey residential building had also been damaged in the attack.
The incident left 1,400 residents without power, he said in a later post.
Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Palestinians carry boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. AP
MUWASI, Gaza Strip – Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new US-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences. Nearby Israeli troops fired warning shots, sending people fleeing in panic.
An AP journalist heard Israeli tank and gunfire and saw a military helicopter firing flares. The Israeli military said its troops fired the warning shots in the area outside the center and that “control over the situation was established.”
At least three injured Palestinians were seen by The Associated Press being brought from the scene, one of them bleeding from his leg.
The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah had been opened the day before by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been slated by Israel to take over aid operations. The UN and other humanitarian organizations have rejected the new system, saying it won’t be able to meet the needs of Gaza’s 2.3 million people and allows Israel to use food as a weapon to control the population. They have also warned of the risk of friction between Israeli troops and people seeking supplies.
MEXICO: Missing persons investigators found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in a central Mexican region plagued by criminal violence, the state prosecutor’s office said.
Ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs were used to locate the bodies last week in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, according to a statement released late Monday.
Knives, machetes, pickaxes, and shovels were also found.
Five of the victims – four men and one woman – have been identified as missing persons, according to prosecutors.
“Their families are being informed,” a Guanajuato state official, Jorge Jimenez, told reporters.
Guanajuato is a thriving industrial hub and home to several popular tourist destinations, but it is also Mexico’s deadliest state due to gang turf wars, according to official homicide statistics.
Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing.
Civil society groups formed by relatives who denounce government inaction risk their own lives searching for remains in unmarked graves, often in areas where cartel gunmen are active.
Much of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation.
Guanajuato recorded more than 3,000 murders last year, the most of any Mexican state, according to official figures.
That was equivalent to just over 10 percent of the nationwide total.
May 28 – Russian air defences destroyed or intercepted 112 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period, including a swarm of drones repelled while headed for Moscow, officials said early on Wednesday.
Russia’s Defence Ministry, in a post on the Telegram messaging app said the incidents occurred between 9 p.m. and midnight Moscow time. Fifty-nine drones were downed over the Bryansk region on the Ukrainian border, the others were intercepted over five different regions.
The ministry announcement made no mention of drones being downed in the region surrounding Moscow.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in a series of notices posted in rapid succession on Telegram, listed 12 drones he said had been intercepted while heading for the Russian capital.
“Ministry of Defence air defence units continue to repel the attacks of enemy drones,” Sobyanin wrote.
Recovery crews were examining fragments on the ground, he said.
Russia and Ukraine fired large numbers of missiles at each other over the past week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that more than 900 missiles had been fired at Ukrainian targets over a three-day period ending early on Monday. The numbers tapered off on Monday night to Tuesday morning.
HARARE, May 27 – At least 12 people were killed Tuesday morning after a fuel tanker hit a truck and a van on a highway near the city of Kwekwe, Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province, local police confirmed.
Zimbabwean Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said in a statement that the petrol tanker, with two trailers, hit a 2-ton truck traveling in the opposite direction, and then had a head-on collision with a van carrying 12 occupants, also traveling in the opposite direction.
The tanker, which was traveling from Harare, dragged the van for several meters before it overturned and landed on top of the van, trapping the occupants inside, he said, without disclosing the identity of the deceased.
More details on the accident would be released in due course, he added.
Deadly road accidents are frequently reported in Zimbabwe. Police attribute some road accidents to reckless driving, including speeding and failure to observe traffic regulations, while some are caused by defective vehicles.
YAOUNDE, May 27 – At least seven people died Tuesday in a collision involving several vehicles in Cameroon, according the police.
The tragedy occurred along a major highway in Matomb locality in the Nyong-et-Kelle department in Centre region where the capital of Yaounde is located.
Witnesses said two trucks collided and blocked traffic for hours, and a second collision involving about 10 vehicles ensued.
State broadcaster CRTV reported that five people died on the spot and two others died from injuries as they were being rushed to a local hospital.
Those injured are receiving treatment in the hospital, the prefect of Nyong-et-Kelle, Chaibou, told reporters after visiting the scene of the accident.
Formal inquiries have been launched into the exact cause of the tragedy, the police said.
An aerial drone photo taken on May 27, 2025 shows rescuers working at the explosion site of a chemical company in the city of Gaomi, east China’s Shandong Province.
JINAN, May 27 – Five people were killed and six others were missing as of 7:25 p.m. Tuesday following the explosion at the workshop of a chemical company in the city of Gaomi, east China’s Shandong Province, said the local emergency management bureau.
Nineteen people also sustained minor injuries in the accident that occurred at the Shandong Youdao Chemical Co., Ltd. at noon, the bureau said.
The provincial and local authorities have established a joint rescue command center to coordinate efforts, focusing on searching for the missing, treating the injured, comforting families and monitoring the environment. Search and cleanup work at the scene is still ongoing.
Upon receiving the report of the blast, the Ministry of Emergency Management immediately dispatched a work team and specialized personnel, including firefighters, medical experts and work safety specialists, to aid local rescue efforts.
KABUL, May 27 – One person has been confirmed dead and eight others sustained injury as two families clashed over a land dispute in eastern Afghanistan’s Kapisa province, said a news release of the provincial police office on Tuesday.
The clash erupted after two families disputed over a piece of land in Malangkhil village of Kohband district on Monday evening. As a result, a man was killed in gunshots while four men and four women were injured, the news release added.
Police have arrested the alleged criminals and referred their cases to the judiciary for further investigation, the news release further said.
On Sunday, a similar clash between two families over land ownership claimed one life and injured seven others in eastern Afghanistan’s Khost province.
ZAGREB, May 27 – An explosive device was thrown on the Slavenskog Street here early Tuesday morning, damaging two cafes, the Zagreb Police Department said in a statement.
The unidentified perpetrator threw an explosive device at around 2:50 a.m. local time (0050 GMT), shattering the windows and damaging the inventory of both buildings, according to the statement.
No deaths or injuries were reported, as the buildings were unoccupied at the time of the explosion.
JINAN, May 27 – An explosion occurred at the workshop of a chemical company in the city of Gaomi, east China’s Shandong Province, at noon on Tuesday, with emergency response efforts currently underway, according to the municipal emergency management bureau.
JERICHO, May 27, 2025 – A young man was killed at dawn on Tuesday during an Israeli occupation forces raid on the city of Jericho.
Medical sources confirmed to WAFA that 20-year-old Mohammed Yahya Asi Jalaytah succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces during the raid on the Arab neighborhood in central Jericho.
The Fatah movement in the Jericho organizational area declared a general strike in mourning for Jalaytah.
After midnight, Israeli occupation forces raided Jericho and fired live ammunition and sound bombs at residents of the Arab neighborhood in central Jericho.
They also raided a private home, during which Jalaytah was hit by live ammunition and later pronounced dead.
The slain youth’s body will be taken this afternoon from his family’s home on Qasr Hisham Street in central Jericho to the old Jericho mosque, and then to his final resting place.
GAZA, May 27, 2025 – Israeli bombing on Monday evening killed two Palestinian civilians and injured others across the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that Israeli fighter jets conducted a strike targeting an area to the east of Az-Zawayda town in the central Strip, claiming the life of a civilian and injuring others.
He added that Israeli bombardment targeted a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, claiming the life of another civilian.
Meanwhile, the occupying forces razed and blew up several houses to the east of Khan Younes and in the northern Strip, causing extensive destruction, and targeted anyone in the surrounding area, with the death toll exceeding 80 on Monday.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.
WASHINGTON, May 27 – A mass shooting occurred in a park in the U.S. city of Philadelphia on Monday night, killing at least two people, local WPVI-TV reported.
At least eight others were wounded in the gunfire in the Fairmount Park, reported the TV channel, which is affiliated with the ABC News.
The report said the shooting happened on Lemon Hill Drive at Poplar Drive in the city.
Among the people shot were at least two juveniles, it said, citing the police.
NEW YORK, May 27 – A motorboat with 13 people on board exploded in Fort Lauderdale, U.S. state of Florida, on Monday afternoon, according to U.S. Coast Guard and media reports.
Up to 11 people, including two children, were injured and transported to hospitals.
The explosion took place when the anchored boat was trying to leave the New River Triangle sandbar.
People on board were tossed into water and the cause of the explosion is unknown yet, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesperson Frank Guzman.
Local fire investigators, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating the cause of the blast.
Muslim ethnic Fulani nomadic herders have long clashed with settled farmers, many of whom are Christian, in Benue over access to land and resources. AN-AP
JOS, Nigeria – More than 30 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said Monday, the latest raids in a region where herders and farmers often clash over land access.
The attacks occurred in three villages between Friday and Sunday, chairman of the Gwer West local government area of Benue state, Ormin Torsar Victor, told AFP.
“No less than 20 people were killed at Aondana village on Sunday,” he told AFP over the phone, adding that more than 10 others died in another village.
A resident of Aondona, Ruthie Dan Sam, told AFP that “20 people were killed here in Aondona.”
“Children of less than two are being killed. The worst sight is a baby macheted on its mouth,” she said.
She added that other people had been killed in neighboring villages, but she had no figures.
Victor said he and other locals had buried five people, including a father and two of his sons killed in the village of Tewa Biana “very close to a military base.”
Benue State Police spokesperson Anene Sewuese Catherine confirmed two attacks in the area but said her office had received “no report of 20 people” killed.
She said one raid resulted in the death of a policeman who had “repelled an attack” and that “three dead bodies were discovered.”
Motive for the violence was not clear, but Victor blamed the “coordinated attacks” on Fulani cattle herders.
Muslim ethnic Fulani nomadic herders have long clashed with settled farmers, many of whom are Christian, in Benue over access to land and resources.
The attacks in Nigeria’s so-called Middle Belt often take on a religious or ethnic dimension.
Benue has been one of the states hit hardest by such violence between nomadic herders and farmers who blame herdsmen for destroying farmland with their cattle grazing.
BEIJING, May. 27 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted South of Java, Indonesia at 2025-05-27 00:55:05 GMT on Tuesday (2025-05-27 08:55:05 Beijing Time), the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 10.39 degrees south latitude and 110.24 degrees east longitude.
SYDNEY, May 27 – Five people died in two separate crashes within hours in the Australian state of Queensland, one of which is the subject of a homicide investigation.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) said in a statement that two people were killed when a car crashed into a tree near the small town of Brooloo, over 100 km north of Brisbane, shortly before 2 p.m. on Monday.
A man in the front passenger seat and a woman seated in the back were declared deceased at the scene. The driver, a 61-year-old male, was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Following further investigations, he was arrested by detectives. The QPS said he was under police guard in hospital on Monday night and assisting detectives with an ongoing homicide investigation into the crash.
In a separate incident, three people were killed in a fiery highway crash between two vehicles near the town of Grosvenor, almost 300 km northwest of Brisbane, shortly after 5 p.m.
The QPS said that two vehicles were travelling in opposite directions on a highway when they collided. Emergency services arrived at the scene and found one of the vehicles engulfed in flames.
Two occupants of that vehicle as well as the sole occupant of the other, a 42-year-old woman, were declared deceased at the scene.
Police said that investigations into both crashes are ongoing.
Crowds greet the Liverpool soccer team during their Premier League winners parade in Liverpool, England, Monday, May 26, 2025. AP
LIVERPOOL, England, May 26 – A car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans during a parade celebrating their side’s Premier League soccer title on Monday, hospitalising 27 people, with two seriously injured, but police said they did not believe the incident was terrorism-related.
Police said they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” whom they believed to be the driver of the vehicle which struck a large group of supporters who were celebrating in the city in northwest England.
Twenty people were treated at the scene. Ambulance officials said of the 27 taken to hospital, four were children. One child and one adult were in a serious condition. Four people trapped under the vehicle had to be released by fire fighters.
Videos on social media showed people thrown into the air as the car rammed into spectators.
When the car stopped, angry fans converged on it and began smashing the windows as police officers intervened to prevent them from reaching the driver.
“We believe this to be an isolated incident, and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it. The incident is not being treated as terrorism,” temporary Deputy Chief Constable Jenny Sims told reporters.
Police and emergency personnel deal with an incident after a car collided with pedestrians near the Liver Building during the Premier League winners parade in Liverpool, England, Monday, May 26, 2025. AP
With most people off work for the Spring Bank Holiday, hundreds of thousands of fans gathered to watch the Liverpool team and its staff travel through the city centre on an open-top bus with the Premier League trophy.
The incident “cast a very dark shadow over what had been a joyous day,” Liverpool city council leader Liam Robinson said on social media.
In the aftermath, a Reuters photographer saw emergency services carrying victims on stretchers to ambulances and debris scattered on the road.
Police were unusually quick to give a description of the man they arrested.
Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in London’s Metropolitan Police, told the BBC this was an effort to cool social media speculation that the episode was an Islamist attack.
The same police force oversaw the response to the murder of three young girls in the nearby town of Southport last year, an incident which sparked days of rioting, sparked by speculation online over the identity of the attacker.
An eyewitness to Monday’s incident who gave her name as Chelsea told BBC Radio that people packed onto the street were only alerted to the danger by screams from the crowd. That enabled some to jump out of the way as the driver showed no sign of slowing.
“With the commotion, that was the only reason we looked up, and thankfully, looked up and managed to jump out (of) the way in time,” the woman said.
Police and emergency personnel deal with an incident near the Liver Building during the Premier League winners parade, in Liverpool, England, Monday, May 26, 2025. AP
A Reuters witness said that before the incident, there was disorder in the city centre where the parade was due to pass, with overcrowding and spectators confused by a lack of signage about street closures or where they should go.
Liverpool last won the trophy during the COVID pandemic when celebrations were not permitted due to lockdowns.
Politicians in Britain and in Ireland, where the club is popular, thanked emergency services.
“My thoughts are with all those injured or affected,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on X, calling the scenes “appalling.” and saying that he was being updated about the events.
The team said on X it was in direct contact with police. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by this serious incident,” Liverpool FC said.
SANTIAGO, May 26 – Chile’s President Gabriel Boric was set to travel Monday to the southern city of Puerto Varas after an unusually strong tornado whipped through the town Sunday, injuring 19 people, damaging over 250 homes, and knocking down power lines and trees.
The intense tornado surprised the 45,000 residents of the city located at the edge of Lake Llanquihue, close to numerous volcanoes.
Following the incident, Boric announced the government will take emergency measures to expedite the survey of damage to homes and property, and said “various state agencies are collaborating in the removal of debris.”
Undersecretary of the Interior Victor Ramos provided the media with an assessment of the situation Monday, saying the injured were receiving treatment, and “the supply of drinking water has been restored to 100 percent and the electrical system has been 85 percent restored.”
Puerto Varas residents took to social media Sunday afternoon to report “hurricane-force winds” that sounded like “an airplane taking off.”
Residents also shared images of fallen trees, broken glass, damaged streets, and destroyed rooftops.
Chile’s meteorological service said the unusual phenomenon registered winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour.
The National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) has declared a red alert for the area to continue monitoring the meteorological event, leading local authorities to suspend school classes on Monday, in addition to providing shelters for those affected.
