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Bodies of 89 migrants retrieved from Atlantic
NOUAKCHOTT — Coastguards in Mauritania have recovered 89 bodies of migrants from a boat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday.Nine people — including a five-year-old girl — were rescued, but dozens more are missing.Survivors say the vessel — a traditional fishing boat — set sail last week from the Senegalese-Gambian border area with 170 people on board. It capsized off Mauritania's southwestern coast.Mauritania is a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa, with thousands of boats departing from the country last year.The most common destination on the perilous route is Spain's Canary Islands.The Spanish government says nearly 40,000 people arrived there last year — double the number from the previous year.Desperate to get to Europe,...
July 05, 2024

Bodies of 89 migrants retrieved from Atlantic

Keir Starmer
Labour's Keir Starmer to become UK prime minister
LONDON — Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK's first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party's landslide general election victory.Labour is returning to power with a huge parliamentary majority of 174, following a collapse in support for the Conservatives.Sir Keir will be formally appointed by the King at Buckingham Palace later and then make his first speech in Downing Street.He is then expected to begin appointing his new cabinet on Friday afternoon, before it meets for the first time on Saturday.Speaking in central London, Sir Keir told a crowd of Labour supporters that "change begins now", adding: "It feels good, I have to be honest."Labour's victory has come largely as a result in a dramatic 20 point drop in Tory support, with the party...
July 05, 2024

Labour's Keir Starmer to become UK prime minister

Among those attacked were government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot (L) and her deputy Virginie Lanlo
Violent attacks shock France ahead of crunch vote
PARIS — More than 50 candidates and activists in France have come under physical attack in the run-up to Sunday's tense final round of parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said.He revealed the figure after government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot, her deputy and a party activist were brutally assaulted as they put up election posters in Meudon, south-west of Paris.The motive for the attack is not clear, but Ms Thevenot returned to Meudon on Thursday with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who condemned what he called "attacks of intolerable cowardice".The spate of assaults across France reflects the febrile mood on the final day of campaigning in an election that the far-right National Rally (RN) is poised to win.Although RN is well ahead in the polls,...
July 05, 2024

Violent attacks shock France ahead of crunch vote

Palm trees blow on a Mexican beach
Mexico's coast battered by Hurricane Beryl
MEXICO CITY — A hurricane that has wreaked havoc across the Caribbean, destroying property and leaving homes without power, is set to hit Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.Hurricane Beryl, a category three storm, is making landfall early on Friday morning, affecting the area's two million residents and the tourist hotspots of Cancún and Tulum.Beaches are closed and thousands of troops have been deployed to help as the storm hits the country's southeast shoreline.The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said hurricane conditions were "starting to occur" in the region, and warned people to take shelter.Across the Caribbean, at least ten people are known to have died and more are missing, roofs have been torn from buildings, and thousands of homes were left without...
July 05, 2024

Mexico's coast battered by Hurricane Beryl

Britain's Reform UK Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media after winning his first seat in parliament during the UK election in Clacton-on-Sea, Britain, on July 5, 2024
Nigel Farage elected MP for first time as Reform UK wins four seats
LONDON — Nigel Farage has been elected as an MP for the first time, on a night which saw Reform UK take more than four million votes.The party is on course to be the third largest party in the UK by vote share and has won four seats so far.Farage overturned a Conservative majority of more than 25,000 to comfortably win in Clacton, Essex — a race which marked his eighth attempt to enter the Commons.He said the result was "the first step of something that is going to stun all of you".Reform also gained Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness from the Tories, while former Conservative MP Lee Anderson — who defected to Reform in March — retained Ashfield in Nottinghamshire.The party drew large support in areas where the Conservatives won in 2019 under Boris Johnson, coming...
July 05, 2024

Nigel Farage elected MP for first time as Reform UK wins four seats

President Joe Biden
Biden faces donor pressure as he digs in on re-election bid
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some major Democratic donors as he faces a critical few days in his campaign for re-election.A number of donors are publicly warning they will withhold funds unless Biden is replaced as the party's candidate following his disastrous debate performance last week.They include Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, Hollywood producer Damon Lindelof, Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, and philanthropist and entrepreneur Gideon Stein.Biden is seeking to shore up his candidacy this weekend, including with a rare primetime TV interview on Friday and a rally in Wisconsin.Pressure on Biden, 81, to step aside has grown following a debate marked by several instances where he lost his train of thought and was...
July 05, 2024

Biden faces donor pressure as he digs in on re-election bid

Blazing infernos force evacuations in northern California
Nearly 30,000 evacuated from California wildfires
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of people in northern California have been told to leave their homes as wildfires grow across the state during a heatwave.About 28,000 people were under evacuation warnings or orders on Thursday after the Thompson fire broke out two days earlier, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).Dangerously hot weather is expected to continue with temperatures of 118F (47C) forecast in some areas until early next week.No one has died, while 74 structures across the state have been destroyed or damaged from fires this season.The city of Oroville, near where the Thompson fire started, canceled its 4 July Independence Day fireworks celebration over the risk of starting another blaze.“The last thing we need is somebody who’s...
July 05, 2024

Nearly 30,000 evacuated from California wildfires

There has been no progress towards a ceasefire since Biden's announcement five weeks ago
Israel asks Gaza ceasefire negotiators to resume work
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to send a team of negotiators to discuss a hostage release deal with Hamas.US President Joe Biden welcomed the development, which comes a day after Hamas responded to a Gaza ceasefire plan he outlined in late May. The last indirect talks took place in Cairo earlier that month.Details of Hamas's latest response have not been made public, but a Palestinian official told the BBC that the group was no longer demanding a full ceasefire at the outset of the plan presented by Biden.A senior US administration official said Hamas had agreed to "pretty significant adjustments" to its position."We've had a breakthrough on a critical impasse," the US official said, although he stressed that "this does...
July 05, 2024

Israel asks Gaza ceasefire negotiators to resume work

President Joe Biden attends a ceremony at the White House in Washington on July 3
Biden’s uncertain future set to overshadow NATO summit 
WASHINGTON — When dozens of world leaders convene in Washington, DC, for the NATO 75th anniversary summit next week, they won’t only be looking to underscore the unity of the alliance — they will also be carefully watching US President Joe Biden after his poor debate performance last week.Biden’s showing at the CNN presidential debate was met with shock and concern by diplomats around the world. Now, the president will be under immense pressure to perform well at the high-stakes gathering and show that he is still a viable competitor to former President Donald Trump, multiple diplomats told CNN.The concern is compounded because many believe Trump poses a threat to the future of NATO. He publicly railed against the alliance during his first term in office and did so again recently...
July 05, 2024

Biden’s uncertain future set to overshadow NATO summit 

Fires and black smoke rise from between the houses of the northern Israeli border (archive)
Hezbollah launches 200 rockets into Israel after senior commander's killing
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for firing over 200 rockets at multiple Israeli military bases in response to an airstrike that killed a senior commander.The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. There were no immediate reports of casualties.It acknowledged on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, a day earlier.Hours later, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. It launched more rockets on Thursday and said it had also sent exploding drones into several...
July 04, 2024

Hezbollah launches 200 rockets into Israel after senior commander's killing

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