Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: - Kyiv strikes - Russian strikes hit a residential building in Kyiv in the first attack on the capital in almost three weeks, Ukraine says.. - Russia says it targeted missile factory - Russia says its strike on Kyiv hit a weapons factory, dismissing as "fake" reports that it struck a residential area of the Ukrainian capital.
A massive attempt by migrants to storm the barrier between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla resulted in "unprecedented violence" that killed at least 23 sub-Saharan Africans and has sparked fears of worse to come.. They were among 2,000 migrants who on Friday stormed the heavily fortified border between the Moroccan region of Nador and the enclave of Melilla.
Iraq's prime minister met with leaders in rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Sunday, discussing regional stability as part of Baghdad's efforts to mediate between the two Middle East heavyweights.. Iran and Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones around the region.
Grieving family and friends paid their last respects Sunday to British journalist Dom Phillips who was murdered in the Amazon earlier this month along with his local guide.. She said the family will pay close attention to the investigation into the murder of her husband and his colleague and demand justice.
The G7 group of rich democracies on Sunday announced an attempt to compete with China's formidable Belt and Road Initiative by raising some $600 billion for global infrastructure programmes in poor countries.. "There's no doubt that the Belt and Road Initiative has been around for several years and it's made a lot of cash disbursements and investments -- and that we're coming to this after years of their investments," the official said.
Delegates from almost 200 nations have made little progress towards hammering out a blueprint for a global pact to protect nature from human activity, after almost a week of difficult talks in Nairobi.. But progress at the talks in the Kenyan capital was slow.
Turkish police on Sunday forcibly intervened in a Pride march in Istanbul, detaining more than 150 demonstrators and an AFP photographer, AFP journalists on the ground and an NGO reported. . Kilic, who was also detained last year during the Pride march, was in police custody.
Norway paid tribute on Sunday to the victims of a deadly shooting near a gay bar in the capital that shocked the normally peaceful country and led to the cancellation of a Pride march.. "The shooting... put an end to the Pride march," said a somber Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
Boys scurry, duck and weave through crowds sheltering from the suffocating heat before upending buckets of cooling water on beefy bovines waiting to compete at the annual traditional Thai buffalo races in Chonburi on Sunday.. "I compete in the buffalo racing because I am trying to preserve our Chonburi traditions about good rice, good buffalo." tp-rbu/je
Iraq's prime minister met with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the kingdom Sunday as part of Baghdad's efforts to mediate between Riyadh and Tehran.. Prince Mohammed and Kadhemi addressed "bilateral relations and opportunities for joint cooperation", reported the official Saudi Press Agency.
