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Jul 27, 2024 - World

The EU’s Josep Borrell made the remark in a meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang YiRussian forces launched 408 strikes on ten settlements in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Friday, injuring two women and one man, the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, said. Russian troops carried out eight airstrikes on Kamianske, Lobkove, Robotyne, Mala Tokmachka and Malynyvka, he wrote in a post on Telegram.The frontline Zaporizhzhia region is reported to be under regular bombardment by rockets, drones and cannons launched by Russia.The visit, still in the planning stages, is expected to occur in the third week of August, likely sometime around Ukraine’s Independence Day, according to WION, India’s English language news channel, who spoke with several sources in Delhi’s diplomatic circles.Earlier this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy extended an invitation to Modi during a telephone conversation. Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2024 - World

Israeli military says it is planning a military operation in Khan YounisMembers of Israel’s rightwing government have hit back at Kamala Harris over her demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after she met Benjamin Netanyahu during his US visit.After a brief meeting with the Israeli prime minister, which Harris described as “frank and constructive”, the US vice-president and presidential candidate said it was “time for this war to end, and end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity and self-determination”. Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2024 - World

More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives' bodies from the area.

Jul 27, 2024 - World

Former US president Donald Trump was indeed hit by an assassin's bullet or a fragment of one, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday.

Jul 27, 2024 - World

Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, ItalyStifling though the crowds of tourists can be at the height of summer, a hint of love is in the air across the five villages of Italy’s Cinque Terre as a Ligurian riviera coastal path famed as a meeting point for courting couples reopens after an almost 12-year closure.Sculpted into the steep cliffs wedged between the villages of Riomaggiore and Manarola, the Via dell’Amore (Path of Love) had been closed since being damaged by a September 2012 landslide that injured four Australian tourists. Continue reading...