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CAIRO, July 26 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics and police officials said. The strike killed Colonel Wael El-Ledawi, head of the service in central Gaza, and Major Ramez Abu Zraiq, medics and the Hamas-run interior ministry said. […]

By Miranda Murray BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Members of Berlin’s LGBTQ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. Organisers of the parade cancelled several related events after Saturday night’s attack, including a breakfast market at a popular food hall and a post-parade […]

BUCHAREST, July 26 (Reuters) – A Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the NATO member’s airspace that President Nicusor Dan called “inadmissible and intolerable”. Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine and Russian drones have repeatedly violated its airspace during the more than four-year Ukraine war. […]

PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) – The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler’s Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sunday. • In a statement on its website, UNESCO said that the beaches formed an “exceptional cultural landscape shaped both by the events of 1944 and by […]

HONG KONG, July 26 – China said on Sunday it organised a routine patrol by its naval and air forces in the South China Sea, accusing the Philippines of holding patrols with foreign countries in the disputed waterway that undermined regional peace and stability. • The comments came from the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army. • Its spokesperson, senior navy Colonel Zhai Shichen, said the Philippines had “rallied […]

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 […]