High-level talks held on Ukraine aid
AP : The UK and Germany are co-chairing a high-level virtual meeting on Monday to discuss President Donald Trump’s push for Nato allies to supply weapons to Ukraine, a week after he announced that...
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Ishiba’s coalition loses majority in Japan upper house election
AP: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ’s ruling coalition failed Monday to secure a majority in the 248-seat upper house in a crucial parliamentary election, NHK public television said. Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party and...
D-Day hero and TikTok star ‘Papa Jake’ Larson dies at 102
AP: Jake Larson, fondly known as “Papa Jake,” a D-Day veteran who captured hearts worldwide by sharing stories of World War II and honoring his fallen comrades on TikTok, has died at the age...
Israeli forces kill 93 Palestinians trying to get aid
AFP: Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid in the war-torn Palestinian territory on Sunday, killing 93 people and wounding dozens more. Eighty...
Kabul faces most severe water shortage
CNN : As the sun rises over Kabul’s parched mountains, a family’s daily struggle to find water – and to make it last – is about to begin. The sound of water tankers rumbling...
38 killed in Vietnam tourist boat accident
Reuters : The death toll from a tourist boat accident in Vietnam’s Halong Bay climbed to at least 38 with several people still missing, the government said, as rescuers continued to search for survivors...
Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn
The Guardian : Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years...
Tsunami alert in Russia
AFP : A series of powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia’s Fareast on Sunday, triggering a tsunami alert, the US Geological Survey said. Earlier 5.0-magnitude and 6.7-magnitude earthquakes did not initially trigger...
Japan’s ruling coalition likely to lose upper house majority
Japan Today : Japan’s ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday’s election, potentially heralding political turmoil as a tariff deadline with the United States...
180 die in Pakistan floods amid intense monsoon rain
REUTERS: At least 180 people have been killed and more than 500 have been injured since early July as Pakistan weathers a monsoon season up to 60 percent more intense than previous years, reports...
Trump pulls US from World Health pandemic reforms
AFP : President Donald Trump’s administration said on Friday the United States was rejecting changes agreed last year for the World Health Organization on its pandemic response, saying they violated the country’s sovereignty. Trump...
UK won’t compensate Afghans
BBC : Thousands of Afghans whose personal details were leaked but who were not evacuated to Britain are not expected to receive any compensation. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will “robustly defend against any...