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By Ali Sawafta and Mohammed Torokman QUSRA, West Bank, July 26 (Reuters) – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials said. On Friday, four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers – one of them acting as a local security coordinator – had been killed when a crowd of Israeli settlers made an incursion […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations. The UNESCO committee, which meets in Busan through Wednesday, also inscribed the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara and South Sudan’s Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Typhoon Noul weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it moved inland after making landfall and bringing winds and heavy rain along the coast of southern China. Chinese weather authorities expected parts of southern Guangdong and southeastern Fujian provinces to experience heavy rain. More than 801,000 people had been relocated for safety in the Guangdong province as of Sunday, according to the official Xinhua News […]

LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 in one region alone as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more localities southwest of the historic city. Gusting […]

By Kirsti Knolle BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Berlin police have published a picture of a 21-year-old Islamist man suspected of carrying out Saturday night’s attack at the Pride celebration in which a vehicle rammed into a crowd, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. In Sunday’s online post, police urged members of the public to help them find the man identified as Abdul B, adding that it […]

July 26 (Reuters) – New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will always put Britain’s interests first”, he told the BBC when asked in an interview, parts of which were released on Sunday, whether he was willing to call out U.S. President Donald Trump.  Burnham’s predecessor Keir Starmer, who announced he was stepping down last month, had a fraught relationship with Trump, who criticised him due to differences over the U.S.-Israeli […]

July 26 (Reuters) – The main land border crossing between Kuwait and Iraq has reopened, Iraq’s state news agency cited the country’s border crossings authority as saying on Sunday. The Abdali border crossing was temporarily closed after a drone attack on Thursday that caused material damage but no casualties, the Kuwaiti army said. Abdali, in Kuwait’s northern Al-Jahra Province, is a key route for passenger and commercial traffic between the […]

MANILA, July 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Japan joined the Philippines in maritime exercises in the South ​China Sea, as the Filipino and Chinese governments traded accusations following an encounter between vessels from their countries in the disputed waters. The five-day drills from July 21 to 25 brought together warships, coast guard vessels and surveillance and fighter aircraft in operations aimed at improving interoperability among the allies, the Philippine […]

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Sunday issued a wanted notice for a fugitive suspect in the van ramming near Berlin’s Pride festival that left one person dead and injured at least 16 others. Police and prosecutors asked for help in finding the 21-year-old, whom they identified as Abdul B. They said he is believed to have injured several people with a moving vehicle, and that one or more people […]