World

(Reuters) – Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged in a legal battle against three of his children to ensure that his eldest son and chosen successor, Lachlan Murdoch, will remain in charge of his media empire, the New York Times reported yesterday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Sharks off the coast of Brazil’s party city Rio de Janeiro have tested positive for cocaine.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto today nominated four members of the main opposition party to a “broad-based” cabinet he promised in response to nationwide protests, but activists criticised the new government as a corrupt bargain.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Nine months pregnant, Ola Al-Kurd could not wait to hold her baby and bring new life to Gaza during a war which has killed over 39,000 fellow Palestinians and razed much of the enclave.

MILWAUKEE,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris assailed Donald Trump yesterday at her first campaign rally since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate, while a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed her taking a marginal lead over her Republican rival.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez submitted his resignation yesterday in the aftermath of his conviction on corruption charges including bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt’s government, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats to give up the job.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen sharply to 157 and the number could increase further, a government official said yesterday.

ABOARD THE HUALCOPO, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy is ready to protect the seas around the Galapagos Islands from illegal fishing by foreign ships whose annual visits threaten marine wildlife in the archipelago’s waters, following training exercises with neighbouring allies.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Group of 20 finance leaders are expected to cheer the growing likelihood of a global economic “soft landing” while warning of the risks from unspecified “wars and escalating conflicts,” according to a draft communique seen by Reuters yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Sunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen sharply to 157 and the number could increase further, a government official said today.

(Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin today for the first time as a presidential candidate after enough Democratic delegates pledged to endorse her, clearing her path to the nomination.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Various Palestinian factions have agreed to end their divisions and strengthen Palestinian unity by signing the Beijing Declaration last night in China, according to Chinese state media.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Streets appeared calm in Bangladesh’s capital yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court agreed to scrap most government job quotas that had angered student-led activists and led to deadly protests.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court ruled yesterday that restaurants cannot be forced to display the names of their owners, suspending police orders in two northern states that critics had said could foment discrimination against Muslims.

FARNBOROUGH, England,  (Reuters) – Demand for air travel has normalised after a years-long boom following the COVID-19 pandemic as holidaymakers and travellers baulk at higher fares, executives at major airlines said at the Farnborough Airshow on Monday.

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines DAL.N struggled yesterday to restore normal operations after last week’s crippling global cyber outage, canceling 1,250 flights beyond the 3,500 it had already scrapped.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery, its biggest on the Black Sea, was damaged in a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight which sparked a fire, Russian officials said on Monday, though the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden dropped his faltering reelection bid on Sunday, amid intensifying opposition within his own Democratic Party, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party’s candidate against Republican Donald Trump.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel said it shot down a missile launched from Yemen on Sunday and the Yemeni Houthi movement said it had fired several missiles at the Israeli city of Eilat after Israel’s first public strike against the Iran-aligned group a day earlier.