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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.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The number of British visas granted to foreign health and care workers and family members of international students fell sharply after the previous Conservative government imposed restrictions to reduce net migration.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz led fellow Democrats in a political pep rally last night, vowing that he and presidential running mate Kamala Harris would triumph over Republican Donald Trump in November’s U.S.

CARACAS/MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) – Over a hundred employees at Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, plus others in the oil ministry and parts of the public sector, have been forced to resign over their political views since last month’s disputed election, workers and unions said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scores of social media influencers are fighting journalists for access, prestige and workspace at a national convention this week where the Democratic Party is counting on the influencers’ viral online videos to boost Kamala Harris’ U.S.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 50 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday, after U.S.

BUELLTON, California (Reuters)  U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday about ways to advance a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal, the White House said.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama delivered a one-two punch at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, urging Americans to back Kamala Harris in her 11th-hour presidential bid against Republican Donald Trump.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court created a hospital safety task force on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure medical workers’ safety, days after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor caused national outrage and protests by junior doctors.

KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban’s morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for “immoral acts” in the past year, officials said on Tuesday.

DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken crisscrossed the Middle East on Tuesday as part of Washington’s latest diplomatic push to secure a Gaza ceasefire and a hostage release deal as major areas of dispute remained between Israel and Hamas.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza overnight, according to statements from the military and the prime minister’s office on Tuesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman’s conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War Two.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden cemented the Democratic Party’s elevation of Kamala Harris to lead the fight for the White House against Republican Donald Trump with a convention speech yesterday that praised his vice president as the best hope for preserving American democracy.

KOLKATA (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian junior doctors on Monday refused to end protests over the rape and murder of a fellow medic, disrupting hospital services nearly a week after they launched a nationwide action demanding a safer workplace and swift criminal probe.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government, which is trying to head off a crippling rail transport stoppage, on Monday called on the country’s two main railway companies and the Teamsters union to work harder to reach labour deals.

PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday.