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Trump is seen speaking behind bulletproof glass about national security during a campaign rally at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame in Asheboro, North Carolina, in this picture taken on Wednesday. – AFP Multiple US Secret Service agents have been placed on leave following the assassination attempt …

Knife attacker kills 3 at German festival in Solingen, 4 severely injured  Al Jazeera English ‘Random’ stabbing spree at festival in Germany leaves 3 dead, others injured: report  Fox News An attack at a festival in a German city kills 3 people and seriously wounds at least 5  Yahoo! Voices At least 3 …

Harris, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Walz and his wife Gwen wave to the crowd at the end of the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Centre in Chicago. – AFP Vice-President Kamala Harris sealed the Democratic presidential nomination with a muscular speech, laying down …

Freed hostage Noa Argamani returns to the dance floor to celebrate life  NBC News ‘It’s a miracle I’m alive,’ Noa Argamani says in first testimony on her captivity  The Jerusalem Post Freed Israeli captive Noa Argamani says she was wounded by Israel, not Hamas  Middle East Eye Rescued Hamas hostage Noa Argamani says …

This picture taken on Thursday shows containers stacked at the CPKC Toronto yard, after Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers following unsuccessful negotiation attempts with the Teamsters union. – Reuters Freight rail operations were set to resume across Canada following federal intervention to …

White House insists it is making progress on Gaza cease-fire as talks continue over the weekend  The Associated Press U.S. optimism over Israel-Hamas cease-fire set for a test with new round of talks in Cairo  CBS News Middle East Crisis C.I.A. Chief Joins Cairo Talks in Push for Cease-Fire Deal  The New York …

French President Emmanuel Macron French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured) began a round of thorny consultations with political leaders yesterday, hoping to cobble together a viable ruling coalition after last month’s inconclusive election.A full six weeks after a snap election in which Macron lost his relative parliamentary majority, he has still …

Oil tanker explosion claimed by Houthis threatens Red Sea pollution  Financial Times Fires observed on board Greek-flagged tanker in Red Sea, says maritime agency  Reuters Fires break out on abandoned Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion that Yemen rebels attacked in Red Sea  The Associated Press Oil tanker abandoned, adrift and ablaze after Red Sea …

People look at an improvised memorial in tribute of fallen members of the Wagner private military company in central Moscow. – AFP At a curbside tribute to Russian paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow, just a few hundred metres from the Kremlin, streams of his supporters came yesterday to lay …

Manhunt in Germany after deadly stabbing attack at festival  CNN Multiple people killed in knife attack at festival in German city  CBS News ‘Random’ stabbing spree at festival in Germany leaves 3 dead, others injured: report  Fox News Several people killed in Germany after knife attack at music festival: Police  ABC News 3 Killed, …