Another 200 Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti under a United Nations-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation. The new batch that arrived on Tuesday brings the total to 400 Kenyan boots on the ground in the violence-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian sources said. The Kenyan contingent … Read more
Cinthya Carbajal/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of the passengers wait for news about their loved ones outside the Mariscal Hospital in Ayacucho, Peru, on July 16, 2024. CNN — At least 29 people are dead in Peru after a bus plummeted over 650 feet into a ravine on Tuesday while traveling from the capital Lima to the … Read more
Trump nominated by Republicans two days after assassination attempt. Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential nomination and picked Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, days after surviving an assassination attempt. With Trump and his Republican Party dominating the news cycle in the United States, there has been less focus on President Joe … Read more
Twenty others injured after bus veered off a cliff in the south-central Andes region of Ayacucho, police official says. A bus crash in Peru’s Andes mountains has killed at least 20 people, a local police colonel has told Peruvian media. Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of a highway protection division, told RPP radio that the crash … Read more
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week — a step that could destabilize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and trigger more large protests in the community. The announcement followed a landmark Supreme Court order for young religious men to begin enlisting … Read more
Police take ‘all necessary security measures’ after the extremely rare act of violence in the sultanate. A shooting near a mosque in Oman killed at least four people and wounded several others in a rare act of violence in the Gulf nation. The attack early on Tuesday took place in Wadi al-Kabir, a district east … Read more
The US had announced a humanitarian truce between Kinshasa and the M23 rebel group on July 5. Two children and two teenagers have been killed in a bombardment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources have told AFP news agency. The United States announced a humanitarian truce on July 5 between Kinshasa and … Read more
China’s Communist Party aims to chart a new economic course NPR China’s Communist Party meets to set direction for troubled economy CNN What to Expect From China’s Third Plenum Bloomberg Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector The Economist China Is Holding a Major Meeting on the Economy That You Can’t Watch The New York Times Source … Read more
People & Power investigates the costs and benefits of the Parisian Olympics, and if global sporting events are worth it. The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris are seen by many in France as an international triumph and a showcase for the country. Officials who sold the $6.9bn project to France’s citizens – already $2bn … Read more
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Monday submitted her resignation ahead of becoming the European Union’s new foreign policy chief. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic republic since 2021, handed her resignation to President Alar Karis but will remain prime minister in a caretaker capacity until early August. The 47-year-old, who will also step … Read more