European leaders to shore up Ukraine’s Zelenskyy for DC talks with Trump
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European leaders including Starmer to join Zelenskyy in Washington for meeting with Trump
Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’
European leaders including Britain’s Keir Starmer will join Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a White House meeting on Monday with Donald Trump, in an extraordinary joint effort to push back on a US-backed plan that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory.
As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.
Continue reading...US cancels visas for medical evacuation patients from Gaza
The US State Department has stopped all visitor visas for Palestinians arriving for urgent medical treatment from Gaza.
Marc Marquez extends win streak to six with maiden Austrian MotoGP victory
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Newly obtained video shows Israeli missile hitting Palestinian girl in Gaza
Video shows moment an Israeli drone-fired missile killed a Palestinian girl carrying water in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Keir Starmer hopes to exploit curious relationship with Trump in Ukraine talks
PM has positioned himself as someone who can get along with US president while stressing Europe’s red lines
Asked behind the scenes at June’s G7 summit if he could explain why Donald Trump seemed to like him so much, Keir Starmer admitted he did not really know. Whatever the reason, when it comes to Ukraine, the UK prime minister is once again hoping to exploit this somewhat curious relationship.
As soon as it was announced that a string of European leaders planned to join Volodymyr Zelenskyy to back the Ukrainian president in crucial talks with Trump at the White House on Monday, it was obvious Starmer would be joining them.
Continue reading...Three people killed and eight wounded in Brooklyn lounge shooting, police say
The 11 victims ranged in ages from 27 to 61 after multiple gunmen opened fire inside Taste of the City in Crown Heights
Three people were killed and eight others wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire inside a crowded Brooklyn hookah lounge and restaurant early Sunday morning, according to authorities.
Police officers responded to reports of a shooting inside the Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights just before 3.30am, New York police department (NYPD) commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said at a press briefing later Sunday.
Continue reading...Sudan army torturing people to death, says rights group
Emergency Lawyers group alleges the army is operating "execution chambers" in the capital.
Blocking US medical visas for Gaza kids “will be devastating”
Tareq Hailat talks about the US decision to halt visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including children in need of medical
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Right-wing candidates are the frontrunners in elections marked by economic crisis and division in the socialist ranks.
Riot police clash with protesters in Serbia
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Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?
A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report on it for the first time
Images of Palestinian children in Gaza, emaciated by hunger under the blockade imposed by Israel, and of families grieving the more than 61,000 people killed in the territory have stirred outrage among foreign governments and much of the global public. Inside Israel, however, the reaction has been markedly different.
In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either “not very troubled” or “not troubled at all” by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.
Continue reading...Israelis protest to end Gaza war as anger over fate of captives boils over
Israeli police make dozens of arrests, use water cannons on protesters who gathered for the nationwide demonstration.
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Huge rally in New York demands end to Gaza starvation
Thousands rallied in New York for a ‘Mass March for Humanity’ demanding an end to Israel’s imposed starvation of Gaza an
Flash flooding kills hundreds in northern Pakistan
More than 300 people have died in Pakistan after days of relentless monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides.
How much aid actually reaches Gaza?
Most aid to Gaza exists only on paper. Nine in ten UN trucks never reach the starving Palestinians.