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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and Palestinian rocket fire toward Israel continued on Thursday as fighting between Jews and Arabs rages in Israeli cities. (May 13)

Beijing's Muslim community gathers for Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of Ramadan at the Niujie Mosque – the capital city's biggest and oldest mosque.

Frustrated drivers lined up at a North Carolina petrol station in a wake of a gas shortage prompted by the Colonial Pipeline hacking.

New York City has started offering vaccines at some metro stops through a pilot programme. Locals and travellers alike lined up at a walk-in vaccination site at Penn Station on Wednesday to get their COVID jabs without any pre-requirements.

Pro-Israel demonstrators gather in Times Square, New York, to express support for the country amid worsening hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.

Students and community activists from New England to the Deep South are demanding their colleges take more ambitious steps to atone for past sins amid the nation's latest racial reckoning. (May 13)

Pandemic-hit oyster farmers are rescued by a program that buys and deploys surplus stock onto depleted shellfish reefs to provide habitat for fish, protect shorelines from erosion and filter out pollutants and excess nutrients from the water.

Denver police are shifting gears to tackle the problem of increased street racing during the pandemic through a renewed push for their "Take it to the Track" event, which provides a safe, controlled venue for those who have the need for speed.

A New Delhi crematorium is overwhelmed as India's coronavirus death toll passes 250,000, with a record 4,205 fatalities in 24 hours as the pandemic rages across the vast country of 1.3 billion.

Health officials in California and other states are ramping up efforts to find and vaccinate isolated residents who want the COVID-19 vaccine but have difficulty leaving their homes because of physical disability or other health issues. (May 11)

China has sent half a million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh, in Beijing's latest move to fill the gap left by India as it reels from the pandemic.

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 that contributed to more than 1,000 gas stations running out of fuel. (May 12)