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By Elviira Luoma PAIMIO, Finland, July 26 (Reuters) – A sanatorium designed to foster a soothing environment to help tuberculosis patients recover was among a series of sites by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to join UNESCO’s World Heritage List on Sunday. The Aalto Works, comprising 13 sites across the Nordic country, were designed by Aalto along with his first and second wife, architects Aino and Elissa Aalto, and highlight architecture’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has imposed double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries, using a legal justification that permits the president to levy import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices. The new tariffs announced in recent days take effect just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs expired, and critics say they are less about cracking down on forced […]

The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania. The stakes are control of the House. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday will unveil the party’s Fighting for an Affordable America agenda, as he kicks off 100 days until the midterm elections and works to focus voter attention ahead of November. In Pennsylvania’s 7th District, tucked in the Lehigh Valley, Jeffries and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, […]

DAKAR, July 26 (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a new political party, formalising his break with former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the ruling Pastef party that swept him to power in 2024. • Faye unveiled his Kiiraay — Republican Patriots party at a gathering in the capital Dakar on Saturday, describing it as “the majority party in this country”. Kiiraay means “shield” in the local […]

MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) – A Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams has returned to earth, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said on Sunday. The spacecraft landed at 1:27 p.m. Moscow time (10:27 GMT) near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, the agency said. (Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Editing by Joe Bavier) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

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 […]