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By Krishna N. Das and Tora Agarwala NEW DELHI, July 25 (Reuters) – Nearly five weeks after the leaders of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party began their protest demanding the resignation of the education minister over exam paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 75, posted a rare selfie video: he said he was pained by their suffering and promised remedial steps. The video, posted late on Thursday on Instagram, where […]

July 25 (Reuters) – Russian authorities said 11 people including four children had been killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, accusing Kyiv on Saturday of deliberately attacking civilians. Ukraine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russian-appointed […]

By Elizabeth Howcroft BORDEAUX, July 25 (Reuters) – When raging wildfires threatened Mohammed Laabar’s hometown in southwestern France on Friday, he and his wife gathered their three-year-old son, grabbed a pre-prepared survival kit and fled to nearby Bordeaux. Within hours, however, the winds shifted, carrying smoke and fumes from the fires into Bordeaux. For Laabar, a 35-year-old truck driver who lives in the town of Salaunes, the apocalyptic scenes that […]

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA, July 25 (Reuters) – Brazil has denied visa requests for two Trump administration officials who planned to travel to the country to cast doubt on the integrity of its electoral system, two Brazilian officials with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Saturday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the U.S. plan represented an attempt to shape […]

BERLIN (AP) — At least one person died and a second one appeared to be missing after a small plane crashed into a home in northern Germany on Saturday, police said. For reasons that are still being investigated, the small plane lost altitude and crashed into the roof of a single-family home in a residential neighborhood in Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony, police in the nearby city of Oldenburg said. According […]

When Damarion Spann, 18, saw an Instagram flier calling for a massive gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, he immediately wanted to go. Thousands of others joined him that night on the sand, blasting music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen takeovers has popped up across the U.S. in recent years, influencing local policing and national politics. The events, often hyped online and captured in videos on […]

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — The black campaign bus with “Talarico for Texas” across its side came to a steaming stop at Memo’s Restaurant along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bibi Valdez’s eyes lit up. She marched in heels over to the bus, phone camera trained on its door, chatting about the locals whose political leanings shifted two years ago. “A lot of people, for some reason, especially the Hispanics, changed to […]

July 25 (Reuters) – Eleven people were killed, including four children, in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-installed local authorities said on Saturday, accusing Ukraine of deliberately attacking civilians. Kyiv did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Another 16 people […]

Jet lag threatens to turn even a dream vacation into a slog. And with peak travel season underway, millions of people may have to contend with this disorienting condition, which can cause sleep disturbances, daytime tiredness, headaches and nasty gastrointestinal symptoms. But you can minimize the effects of jet lag — and not just by adjusting your sleep-wake schedule. What and how you eat and drink can make a difference […]