‼️More than 30 people were killed in a stampede during an event organized by a new generation church in Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria's Rivers State.

The incident, which resulted in 31 deaths, occurred during a church-organized event to distribute gifts and food among the poor, according to the Punch newspaper, citing the acting spokesman for the state Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko.

"We need to make sure that we have sufficient new resources in place and operational before we let some of these retirements go," said Mark Rothleder, chief operating officer at the California ISO grid operator. "Otherwise, we are putting ourselves potentially at risk of having insufficient capacity."

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😳✈️As millions of Americans are traveling for the Memorial Day holiday weekend more than 1,000 flight cancelations have led to travel chaos.

The domestic airports recording the most cancellations throughout the morning were along the East Coast, a Laguardia Airport in New York, Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, and Reagan National in Washington DC.

Spirit Airlines is reporting the most cancellations today with 386 flights and is also seeing the highest percentage of flights canceled, with 67% of its trips scrapped today. The next highest was Republic Airways, which saw 287 flights axed accounting for 23% of the regional airlines' total scheduled for the day.

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🇺🇸Trump is calling for a drop in energy prices, which he says will help weaken Russia

😱WATCH: A heroic mother scooped up her toddler as she tried to chase after a small black bear in the family's backyard in Washington

🔎Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on a new campaign finance and ethics face-lift, bucking objections from some of the state’s most influential advocacy groups who opposed the measure.

“I think that transparency is a good idea,” Lee told reporters earlier this month. “I think that whenever we have transparency into organizations that politically lobby, that’s a good thing.”

The Republican governor signed the measure Friday. The move comes as a federal investigation has hovered over the GOP-controlled General Assembly for over a year that has so far led to one Republican lawmaker pleading guilty to a federal wire fraud charge over allegations she helped carry out a political consulting kickback scheme.

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📹 The Russian MoD has revealed footage showing the work of Malka self-propelled artillery units.

The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the positions of Ukrainian troops in the forest, the ministry noted.

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📹 The Russian MoD showed the combat work of Ka-52 helicopters to destroy strongholds and equipment of Ukrainian troops.

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⚡️ At least six people were injured on Saturday night as a result of an exchange of gunfire in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, police said.

👮‍♀️ Chattanooga Police officers were patrolling downtown at about 10:48 p.m. local time when they "observed multiple parties exchanging gunfire and a lot of people fleeing the venue" near 100 Cherry St.

🗯 "Our officers began rendering aid to the victims as well as assisting others to safety," a police spokesperson said. "They were able to detain at least one person of interest in the incident in the moments after the shooting began."

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❗️ MoD: Russian high-precision missiles eliminate arms depot in central Ukraine

❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed a large arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at an storage site in Krivoi Rog using high-precision long-range missiles.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have hit three command posts, 25 areas of AFU troop and military equipment concentration and 2 artillery batteries at firing positions over the past day using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit two command posts, as well as 53 AFU troop and military equipment concentration areas.

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian air force Su-25 aircraft near Novogrigorovka, Dnepropetrovsk Region, in mid-air.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 62 command posts, 596 areas of troop and military equipment concentration, as well as 52 positions of artillery and mortar units of Ukrainian nationalists.

▪️ Some 183 Ukrainian aircraft and 128 helicopters, 1,049 unmanned aerial vehicles, 325 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,309 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 447 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,722 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,270 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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📹 A resident of Popasnaya, who survived all the months of hostilities in the city, tells about what she had to go through.

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📹 “They are just soulless robots”

Watch a Ukraine nationalist 'explain' why killing Russians is not a sin.

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🔥 Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has told the Spanish newspaper El Diario that “There is a 50 percent chance” that the world community “will have another pandemic” within the next 20 years.

▪️ He suggested that it could be a human-made virus or a naturally occurring pandemic, caused by climate change-related consequences.

▪️ Gates, who released his new book noscriptd "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic" on 3 May, previously urged governments across the world to shore up on epidemiologists and computer modellers to help identify global health threats.

▪️ According to him, in addition to global surveillance to spot pandemic dangers, increased spending is needed to improve preparedness for health threats.

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📹 "This was very scary"

An elderly resident of Donetsk recalls how he became a victim of Ukrainian artillery shelling.

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📹 A resident of Svetlodarsk tells about the horrors of the Ukrainian occupation.

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📹 "Despite everything!": A resident of Yasinovataya in the DPR tells how people live and tidy up the streets despite constant shelling in the region.

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📹 The reporter shows how Ukrainian Nazis set up a fortified base inside a former hotel in Mariupol. In one of the hotel rooms a "special device" for the use of drugs was found.

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❌ The European Union continues to discuss possible new sanctions against Russia, potentially including an oil embargo, a high-ranking source told reporters on Sunday. The EU Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) is scheduled to meet on Monday.

According to the source, the process is complicated, with many technical issues still remaining to be agreed upon, as well as a potential timetable for abandoning Russian oil.

⛽️ EU continues discussing all new sanctions against Russia, including oil embargo as part of a single package - source

🔫 The Justice Department will review law enforcement's response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said the review would be conducted in a fair, impartial and independent manner, and that findings would be made public.

In a statement, Coley said the goal of the review is "to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and response that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events.”

❗At least one dead and seven injured as gunfire breaks out at an outdoor festival in Oklahoma early Sunday, authorities said.