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(Reuters) – Russia’s security services shot dead four inmates on Friday who had taken hostages at a penal colony, fatally stabbed four of its staff and posted online videos describing themselves as Islamic State militants, officials said.

(Reuters) – Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abandoned his campaign on Friday and endorsed Republican Donald Trump, ending a presidential bid that he began as a Democrat trading on one of the most famous names in American politics.

MONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) – The union representing workers at Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO)

(Reuters) – A federal judge agreed to dismiss part of the most serious charge against two former police officers in Lousiville, Kentucky, accused of falsifying a search warrant that led to colleagues killing Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black medical worker, in her apartment in 2020.

PORTICELLO (Reuters) – Italian divers retrieved the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, who was the last person still unaccounted for after the family’s luxury yacht sank this week off Sicily.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A volcano in southwestern Iceland spewed lava and smoke for a second day on Friday, the country’s meteorological office said, after the eruption forced the evacuation of a nearby luxury spa resort.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will be asked to testify about an opposition website where voting tallies from a disputed July election are posted, attorney general Tarek Saab said on Friday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Friday blasted the U.S.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Disappointed Pro-Palestinian activists said Kamala Harris’ speech to close the Democratic convention in Chicago failed to demonstrate any break from the status quo, after a week in which the most divisive issue facing the party was mostly ignored.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States today imposed sanctions on more than 400 entities and individuals for supporting Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, the State Department said, including Chinese companies that U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – India’s Narendra Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskiy today to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war and offered to act as a “friend” to help bring peace as the two leaders met in wartime Kyiv.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted her party’s nomination for president, seeking to define herself for America as she and Republican candidate Donald Trump lock horns in the final 11 weeks of a razor-close campaign.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal on Thursday ratified President Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the July 28 presidential election, sealing institutional backing for the ruling party as the disputed contest fades from international headlines.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s economy could shrink by billions of dollars this year if a rail stoppage that began on Thursday continues for weeks, and the knock-on effects would swell jobless numbers and consumer prices, economists and analysts warned.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal “now is in sight,” the U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli forces pressed deeper into areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas fighters, while Palestinian health officials said on Thursday that Israeli strikes had killed at least 27 people across the enclave.

PORTICELLO, Italy (Reuters) – The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A ferry loaded with fuel tanks sank in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar region on Thursday after a Ukrainian attack, local authorities said.

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in southern India on Wednesday, which killed at least 17 people and injured 36, was due to a chemical solvent leak, according to an internal government report accessed by Reuters on Thursday.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted her party’s nomination for president on Thursday with a rousing call to end the war in Gaza and to fight tyranny around the world, drawing a sharp contrast with Republican Donald Trump.