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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s BA.N

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian “drone missile” yesterday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “sick old man from Red Square”.

SOLINGEN, Germany, (Reuters) – A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television yesterday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people.

SOLINGEN, Germany,  (Reuters) – Police hunted today for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen.

(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.