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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Top Democrats today ruled out the possibility of replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee after a feeble debate performance and called on party members to focus instead on the consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s bid for criminal immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss is set to be decided tomorrow by the U.S.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French voters cast their ballots today in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could usher in the country’s first far-right government since World War Two, a potential sea change at the heart of the European Union.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A moderate lawmaker will face Iran supreme leader’s protege in a run-off presidential election on July 5 after the country’s interior ministry said yesterday that no candidate secured enough votes in the first round of voting.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – A senior official of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said yesterday there has been no progress in ceasefire talks with Israel over the Gaza war.

(Reuters) – Canada’s WestJet Airlines said late yesterday that it has canceled a total of 407 flights affecting over 49,000 passengers after the carrier and the union representing its striking mechanics failed to reach an agreement.

(Reuters) – The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said yesterday that tropical storm Beryl has intensified into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, and cautioned that it may undergo rapid strengthening as it approaches the Caribbean island of Barbados.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – A Panamanian court has acquitted 28 people charged with money-laundering under cases linked to the Panama Papers and “Operation Car Wash” scandals, the country’s judicial branch said in a statement yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A moderate lawmaker will face Iran supreme leader’s protege in a run-off presidential election on July 5 after the country’s interior ministry said today that no candidate secured enough votes in the first round of voting.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden  said yesterday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would consider dropping out of the race after a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The low-key moderate candidate is leading the vote count in Iran’s snap presidential election among a tightly controlled group of four candidates loyal to the supreme leader at a time of growing public frustration and Western pressure.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The  U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulatory power yesterday by overturning a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden’s administration.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s allies scrambled to contain the fallout today from his faltering performance at the first 2024 U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen of Germany for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission, the EU’s powerful executive body.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – In the two years since he was elected, Kenya’s President William Ruto has wowed global climate activists under the Eiffel Tower, brushed shoulders with global tech titans in Silicon Valley and was toasted as a global peacekeeper at the White House.

(Reuters) – Democratic President Joe Biden endured a shaky start at yesterday’s debate, while his Republican rival Donald Trump rattled off a series of attacks that included numerous falsehoods, as the two oldest presidential candidates ever clashed on stage ahead of November’s U.S.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian President Luis Arce yesterday  denied any involvement or prior knowledge of a failed coup attempt led by the country’s former top military commander who alleged the president had asked him to do something to boost his popularity.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, (Reuters) – Sweltering summer weather is worsening conditions in Gaza where nearly all the 2.3 million inhabitants have been driven from their homes by Israel’s military campaign and where there is almost no electricity and little clean water.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Residents in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince expressed cautious hope after a first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in the Caribbean country, as part of a long-delayed mission to help police fight armed gangs.