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State and federal officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the nation's largest fuel pipeline led to panic-buying. (May 12)

Israel has killed a string of senior Hamas military figures and pounded three multistory towers as it hammers the Gaza Strip with airstrikes. Meanwhile, militants in the territory fired barrages of rockets Wednesday. (May 12)

A growing number of gas stations in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia are running out of gas as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown stretches into a sixth day. CNN's Pete Muntean reports.

tajikistan (Tajikistan) (AFP) – Tajikistan's government says that eight people have died and many properties were devastated in landslides in various parts of the country following heavy rainfall. Fatal landslides affect mountainous Central Asian Tajikistan every year around springtime, blocking off important roads in a country lacking transport infrastructure and forcing families to rebuild homes from scratch.

In Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, thousands are flocking to markets ahead of Eid, as the government tightens travel restrictions due to coronavirus but loosens lockdown rules for markets ahead of the festival and during the holy month of Ramadan.

Retail online giant Amazon has won an appeal in a European court over tax rebates it was awarded in Luxembourg. The European Union said the deal amounted to illegal state support and ordered it to pay €250m in back taxes. But Europe's General Court ruled there was no proof Amazon had benefited from an undue reduction in taxes.

Afghanistan has suffered its deadliest attack in a year outside a girls' school in Kabul. At least 50 people died in a bombing, mostly students, and about 100 were injured.

Australian cliff diver Rhiannan Iffland set a world first as she plunged from a moving hot air balloon into New South Wales' Lockstock Dam on Tuesday. The four-time world champion made history by diving 18 metres off a small platform attached to the balloon into the chilly water below.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he's deeply concerned about the violence taking place between Israel and the Palestinians. (May 12)

An overpass carrying a subway train has collapsed in Mexico City, killing 15 people and injuring at least 70, according to local government officials.

Foreign-born residents in Sweden and Norway are more hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, official statistics show. More than 80% of citizens born in Sweden and aged over 80 have so far been vaccinated against the coronavirus. But the corresponding statistics for Swedish citizens born in northern Africa is just 59%, and merely 44% for those from sub-Saharan Africa.

President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots will defend the Pentagon's response to the chaos of the day before Congress by rebutting broad criticism that military forces were too slow to respond. (May 12)