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A three-story building next ‌to a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sending more than 10 others to the hospital, New York City officials said, as rescuers searched the rubble for possible additional victims. The four-unit apartment ​building dating from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was ​underway, and the cause was under investigation, said John Esposito, the city’s fire ⁠department chief. The number of people who were at home when the building in the Flatbush area…

Oil prices dropped more than $1 on Thursday as hopes for progress in peace talks over the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine ​wars pressured the market. Brent futures lost $1.14, or 1.2%, to $91.62 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell $1.04, or 1.2%, to $85.49. Brent rose about 1.4% and WTI 0.6% on Wednesday after hitting two-month lows the previous day. “Markets are ​falling on expectations that behind-the-scenes efforts are underway to secure a ​ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and that it is unlikely the ⁠Iran…

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton said on Wednesday that Israel must allow aid trucks into Gaza, a day after he ​visited the Rafah border crossing in Egypt. Hamilton, a seven-times ‌world champion, arrived in El Arish on Tuesday, where he was briefed on how aid is prepared and coordinated before it is sent into ​Gaza, as he toured the Rafah crossing and the Egyptian Red ​Crescent’s aid warehouses. “The past three years of Israel’s genocide ⁠in Gaza are appalling. It’s an injustice for people to ​be denied their freedom, their…

An Israeli airstrike on a building at Nasser Hospital ​in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed at least five people, including ​a surgeon and wounded 20 others early on Thursday, a ⁠spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence service told Reuters. There ​was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Mahmoud Basal, ​the spokesperson for the territory’s civil defence, said the Israeli airstrike hit the surgery department at Nasser Hospital, causing extensive damage. Medics ​identified the dead surgeon as Rezik Abushira. Israel, which ​has stepped up its attacks on the enclave, says Hamas…

Saudi Arabia said debris from two ballistic missiles ​intercepted by its air defences fell in the Mecca ‌region on Wednesday, as the kingdom and Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis continued to trade attacks in an escalating conflict. Saudi state television identified the locations as Sabuhah village, about 35 km northeast of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, and Wadi al-Maghmas, about 21 km east of the mosque. The missiles were launched towards the region and intercepted and destroyed, ​Saudi Arabia’s civil defence said in a statement. The Houthis have repeatedly denied ​Saudi accusations…