🇦🇪🤝🇾🇪❌🇾🇪-The UAE now fully oversees the Socotra Archipelago, having established dominance over essential infrastructure, civil services, and security operations across the islands. In Socotra, the UAE has assumed authority over public institutions and is actively working to solidify control of the airport.

➡️On the smaller islands of Abd al-Kuri and Samhah, airfields and additional installations have been constructed, reinforcing the Emirates’ strategic footprint in the region.

🇨🇳🇨🇳📉📹 — Partial collapse of a 650-year-old tower in China, as videos show the roof of the historic Drum Tower in Fengyang County, Anhui Province partially collapsed.

➡️ On the evening of May 19, tiles fell off the Ming-era Zhongdu Drum Tower in Fengyang County, Chuzhou, Anhui Province.

➡️ Witnesses said it lasted for one or two minutes.

➡️ Public data shows that from 2023 to 2024, the local government spent more than 3.41 million yuan to repair the Ming-made Zhongdu Drum Tower.

➡️ According to the official website of Fengyang County Government, the Ming Zhongdu Drum Tower, also known as Zhongdu Qiao Tower, is located in the Drum Tower Square of Fucheng Town, Fengyang County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province.

➡️ It is an important ancillary building of Zhongdu City.

🇨🇳 The building was built in the eighth year of Hongwu Emperor in the Ming Dynasty (1375), the last Han Dynasty of China

🇨🇳 At that time, Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang planned to move the capital to his hometown Fengyang and built this drum tower to tell time for the whole city.

➡️ As per the PRC's Local Cultural and Tourism Bureau: No casualties.

The relevant situation is under investigation.

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