World

BEIJING (Reuters) – Two tropical cyclones will bring gales and heavy rain to China’s eastern seaboard this week, with the first expected to make landfall on Sunday, after deadly flash floods struck the country’s interior over the weekend.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Wildfires raging through the northern part of Canada’s Alberta have forced evacuations of three communities, a provincial body said on Saturday, as the oil-rich province continues to fight five different ‘wildfires of note’ in separate areas.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign today after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party’s candidate.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets in the area of Hodeidah port in Yemen yesterday, the Israeli military said, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israel’s economic hub Tel Aviv.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 39 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah.

NICOSIA,  (Reuters) – Greek Cypriots mourned and Turkish Cypriots rejoiced yesterday, the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of part of the island after a brief Greek inspired coup, with the chances of reconciliation as elusive as ever.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,(Reuters) – Donald Trumpheld his first campaign rally yesterday since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt one week ago, mocking Democrats and comparing former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to a “dog.”

PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pressed the case for the re-election of President Joe Biden at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Saturday despite continued pressure from fellow Democrats and big-money donors seeking an end to his bruised campaign.

PRAYAGARAJ, India/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sunil Kumar, a 30-year-old, has spent the last 9 years of his life chasing a job in the Indian government.

(Reuters) – U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a prominent progressive voice in the Democratic Party who was outspoken on African American and women’s rights, has died, her family posted on X late on Friday.

(Reuters) – Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems outages, another incident highlighting the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in an important advisory opinion issued yesterday.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The Bangladesh government has decided to impose a curfew across the country and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported yesterday, citing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary, amid widening student-led protests against government job quotas.

(Reuters) – A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance today before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in an important advisory opinion issued on Friday.

MILWAUKEE/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump described yesterday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God.”

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Telecommunications were widely disrupted in Bangladesh yesterday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.

ROME, (Reuters) – A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA and other local media reported.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.

STRASBOURG, (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was elected for a second term today after pledging to create a continental “defence union” and stay the course on Europe’s green transition while cushioning its burden on industry.