Top 10 world news: 50,000 people have fled Rafah; Sam Pitroda quits Congress after racist remark; and more

According to a top official at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), "roughly 50,000 people" have fled the southern Gazan city of Rafah in the previous 48 hours as a result of Israel's evacuation order. In other news,AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, which was sold in India as Covishield, has been withdrawn worldwide just days after it acknowledged in court documents that its vaccine can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.

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After the collapse of the ceasefire agreement that Hamas had previously agreed to, further negotiations are scheduled to begin in Cairo on Wednesday (May 8). Representatives from Hamas and the Israeli delegation have arrived in the Egyptian capital.

UK-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, that was sold in India as Covishield, has been withdrawn worldwide just days after it acknowledged in court documents that its vaccine can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.

Sam Pitroda resigned as Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress "of his own accord" on Wednesday, following a number of controversial statements. Mallikarjun Kharge, the party's president, accepted his resignation.

Three police personnel were killed and five others were injured after a blast rocked Faizabad city, the provincial capital of north Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, said the spokesperson for Taliban’s interior minister, Abdul Mateen Qani, on Wednesday (May 8).

On Wednesday (May 8), the European Union's climate change monitoring service in its monthly bulletin said that each month since June 2023 has ranked as the planet's hottest on record. This is in comparison to the months in previous years.

The United Kingdom, on Wednesday (May 8) said that it will expel Russia’s defence attache for being “an undeclared military intelligence officer”.

A senior member of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and a Berlin senator, Franziska Giffey was injured after a man hit her with a bag containing a hard object in a local library, said the police, on Wednesday (May 8).

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday (May 8) ordered the transfer of former prime minister Imran Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi, from the Banigala residence to Adiala Jail, her lawyer said.

Taliban regime on Wednesday (May 8) strongly refuted claims made by Pakistan that Afghanistan was involved in a March suicide attack on Chinese nationals working in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Taliban said the claims were “irresponsible and far from the reality.”

Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has suggested that the Australian government issue an apology to Novak Djokovic after the tennis great was not allowed to enter the Down Under country to participate in the Australian Open at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2022.