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(Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris cast herself as the “underdog” in the presidential race and called her Republican opponent Donald Trump “just plain weird,” while Trump painted Harris as “evil,” “sick” and “unhinged” as the rivals exchanged barbs from afar yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Progress has been made suppressing fires in the Canadian tourist town of Jasper, with the remaining ones expected to be put out by the end of the day, authorities said yesterday.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children yesterday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s government declared the country was “broke and broken” ahead of an assessment of the public finances on Monday which the newly-elected Labour Party will use to blame their predecessors for a 20 billion pound ($26 billion) shortfall.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Ukraine next month, a local media report said, his first visit to the country since its war with Russia began and just weeks after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said yesterday he will return to the Pennsylvania town where he narrowly survived an assassination attempt, while Vice President Kamala Harris capped her week-long bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee with former President Barack Obama’s endorsement.

(Reuters) – Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire currently burning in the U.S.,

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the Supreme Court on Monday, Politico reported citing two people familiar with the matter, adding he was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil is gathering support from other countries for the creation of a fund that will send resources to nations with tropical forests in order to preserve them, Finance Ministry officials said at the sidelines of the G20 meeting of finance leaders in Rio de Janeiro.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Friday its missile forces struck a Russian military airfield in Crimea that has been used for long-range attacks against it, the latest in a series of blows to the Russian military on the occupied peninsula.

 (Reuters)  – Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president.”We

PARIS, (Reuters) – Saboteurs struck France’s TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country, causing travel chaos and exposing security gaps ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony later today.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris took her presidential campaign blitz to the largest U.S.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested on Thursday in El Paso, Texas, in a major coup for U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than President Joe Biden.

(Reuters) – A raging wildfire has devastated the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper, potentially destroying up to 50% of structures, and firefighters were trying yesterday to save as many buildings as possible, authorities said.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A marine tanker carrying industrial fuel sank in rough seas off the Philippines today, causing the death of a crew member and an oil spill that could spread to waters off the capital Manila, officials said.

 (Reuters) – A rebel army in Myanmar said today it had seized control of a major regional military headquarters near the border with China, in what could be the biggest recent defeat for a ruling junta that is battling to contain a widening revolt.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday said abandoning his reelection campaign and endorsing his vice president, Kamala Harris, as the Democratic candidate was the best way to unite the country and save democracy, despite his ambition to win a second term.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) north has likely killed 26 people, including 16 children, whiled several people were forced to flee after attackers set fire to their homes, the United Nations said.