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China has ramped up its efforts to clamp down on foreign access to data in a move partially motivated by U.S. think tank intel efforts to monitor hard to find information relating to Beijing's "military-civilian fusion" strategy.

Large swaths of Russia's Siberia and Sverdlovsk regions were engulfed in flames this week, with winds and dry weather being blamed for the Eurasian nation's recent wildfire uptick.

A convoy including diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was ambushed Monday in Burma's eastern Shan state. No deaths were reported.

The former head of the United Nations Development Program Kemal Dervis died at the age of 74. Dervis was also an economist from Turkey.

Mikalai Klimovicz, a blogger who was jailed over a satirical drawing of Alexander Lukashenko, has died in prison. Klimovicz died at the age of 61.

A Turkish opposition election rally was shut down early due to violence. Police in the country detained over a dozen people and used water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Pirates in Africa have freed six of 16 crew members after holding them hostage for over a month. The crew members worked on a Liberian-flagged tanker.

Fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan has killed at least 100 people according to doctors in the country. Hospitals in the region are still out of service.

An E.U. diplomatic reception was canceled in an attempt to prevent officials in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government from attending.

Iran hanged two men on rare blasphemy charges Monday as executions continue to surge across the country following months of unrest.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the Taliban appointed-government in Afghanistan have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along the border.

Last month was the hottest April on record for Spain since records began in 1961. The average daily temperature in April was 58.8 Fahrenheit.

Communities in Western Canada are under threat as areas near British Colombia recorded 108 active fires on Sunday. About 29,000 residents were forced to evacuate.

Basements were flooded, and train routes were temporarily closed in Germany due to heavy rains. Some residents were trapped in their homes due to the flooding.

Russian forces are evacuating civilians from the area around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in anticipation of intensifying conflict.

At least 394 people were found dead after torrential rains broke river banks and caused flooding to sweep away buildings in the eastern Congo.

One of Syria's most well-known drug dealers was killed in airstrikes in the southern part of the country. His wife and six kids were also killed.

A top Russian official has used his country's Victory Day, its largest secular holiday, to compare the Nazi's reign in Germany to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's rule in Ukraine.

The United Nations urged the Taliban to immediately end the public executions, lashings and stonings it has carried out since returning to power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.

A double-decker boat carrying children who were on a school vacation capsized into a river in southern India, leaving at least 22 dead. Most of the victims were tourists.