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Paul Kagame to seek fourth term as president of Rwanda
BBC News 09 Jul 2022
Rwanda's leader, who has been in power for two decades, has said he would consider remaining in office for another 20 years. Paul Kagame, 64, told French TV he would stand for president again at the next election in 2024. In 2015 he changed the constitution, allowing him to stay until 2034 ... Features ... .
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Ukraine reports heavy Russian missile strikes in east and south
BBC News 09 Jul 2022
Russian missile and rocket strikes have caused more widespread damage in towns and cities across eastern and southern Ukraine, regional officials say. Four civilians died in a strike on Siversk, a town in Donetsk region, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said. It is just west of Lysychansk, a city seized by the Russians nearly a week ago ... War in Ukraine.
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Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as Navy threatens to ‘walk away’
The Guardian 09 Jul 2022
Tobias Ellwood, Conservative chair of the influential defence committee, which has completed a damning inquiry into the use of the military in the Channel, said ... .
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For EU, Johnson exit won't change much; damage already done
Korea Times 09 Jul 2022
From his days stoking anti-European Union sentiment with exaggerated newspaper stories, to his populist campaign leading Britain out of the bloc and reneging on the post-Brexit trade deal he signed, outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been the bane of Brussels for all so many years ... election loss of Donald Trump in 2020 ... 17, 2019. AP-Yonhap.
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Russian veto stops last aid lifeline into NW Syria
The New Arab 09 Jul 2022
Russia on Friday vetoed a bid to extend UN Security Council approval for 12 months of UN aid deliveries to some 4 million people in opposition-controlled northwest Syria from Turkey. The resolution, drafted by Ireland and Norway, received 13 votes in favour, while China abstained ... "This is a life and death issue ... "We're not daunted by this veto ... ....
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‘Undeniable’ flaws in Shinzo Abe’s security: Japan police officer
Al Jazeera 09 Jul 2022
There were “undeniable” flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the head of police in the area where the leader was assassinated has admitted, pledging an investigation. Japan’s best-known politician was on the campaign trail in the western region of Nara when a gunman opened fire at close range ... Police facing questions ... .
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Japan’s tight gun laws add to shock over Abe’s assassination
Wtop 09 Jul 2022
TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates ... ___ ... Source .
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Kazakhstan’s Rybakina wins women’s Wimbledon title, 1st Slam
Metro USA 09 Jul 2022
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship ... Rybakina is ranked No. 23 ... 31, although she previously had been No ... .
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Ukrainian official warns of 'catastrophe' in captured city
Independent Online 09 Jul 2022
A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago, saying Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while the bodies of the dead decompose in hot apartment buildings. Gov ... “Fierce battles are going on in several villages on the region’s border.
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‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
The Guardian 09 Jul 2022photo: AP / Amitha Thennakoon
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees as protesters surround residence, says report
Indian Express 09 Jul 2022
Video clips showed people shouting slogans against Rajapaksha as they marched through rooms and corridors of the palatial building ... .
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'Relentless' Russian shelling in east Ukraine as US promises new aid
Urdu Point 09 Jul 2022
Druzhkivka, Ukraine, July 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Jul, 2022 ) .Russian troops pursued their "relentless" shelling of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, as the United States promised new military aid to Kyiv including powerful rocket launchers ... Air raid sirens sounded overnight throughout the country's east and south ... ....
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16 dead in flash floods at occupied Kashmir pilgrimage site
Dawn 09 Jul 2022
Sixteen people were killed in India-occupied Kashmir, with rescuers searching for dozens more missing, after flash floods swept away hundreds of tents near a popular Hindu pilgrimage site, officials said on Saturday ... — Reuters. “We found 16 bodies so far and at least 40 are missing,” an official from the state disaster response agency told AFP ... — AFP.
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'Very shocking': Four stabbed by assailant at major Shanghai hospital
Gulf Daily News 09 Jul 2022
SHANGHAI. Four people at a renowned Shanghai hospital were wounded by a knife-wielding assailant on Saturday, in the second reported stabbing incident after a Covid-19 lockdown of the financial hub was lifted early in June ... A long trail of blood was seen on the marble surface of a flight of stairs in one video ... "This is very despairing ... .
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Amber Heard Steps Up Call For Retrial Over 'Improper Juror Service' Claims
Huffington Post 09 Jul 2022
Amber Heard leaving court last week. Amber Heard’s lawyers have stepped up their demands for a new trial in her multimillion-dollar defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp following claims of “improper juror service” ... The documents continued ... Johnny Depp ... “Ms Heard’s due process was therefore compromised,” the documents stated ... Lawyers concluded ... .