#BREAKING France says at least five migrants dead after boat sinks in Channel
#BREAKING French police say 'more than 20 dead' in Channel migrant boat sinking
#UPDATE More than 20 migrants died on Wednesday when their boat crossing the Channel from France to England sank off the northern port of #Calais, authorities said, the deadliest single disaster on the intensively-used route u.afp.com/wwgQ
#BREAKING UK PM to hold crisis meeting after Channel migrant deaths: official
#BREAKING Toll in migrant boat sinking in Channel rises to 27: French police
Police, ambulances and other emergency services arrive at the port of Calais Wednesday evening after at least 27 people died in a migrant boat that sank while trying to cross the English Channel from Dunkirk, France
#BREAKING UK PM 'shocked, appalled and deeply saddened' by Channel deaths
At least 27 migrants died Wednesday crossing from France to England when their boat sank off the port of Calais, French authorities said, the deadliest disaster since the Channel became a major part of the migrant route u.afp.com/wwMS
#BREAKING France will not let Channel become cemetery: Macron
#BREAKING France, Britain to boost fight against 'lethal crossings': UK
#BREAKING Toll from migrant tragedy revised down to 27: French minister
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub