Polls defeat projected for Japan PM
TOKYO, July 20 (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition lost its upper house majority in elections on Sunday, local media projected, in a result that could end his premiership.Ishiba's governing coalition was already humiliatingly forced into a minority government after lower house elections in October, shortly after he became...
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Ukraine proposes fresh peace talks with Russia
KYIV, July 20 (AFP): Kyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, hours after Russian strikes across Ukraine claimed more lives.Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv have failed to result in any progress towards a...
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Druze regains control of Sweida city after truce
SWEIDA, July 20 (AFP): Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria's southern city of Sweida on Saturday, a monitor said, after the government ordered a ceasefire following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.Fighting nonetheless persisted in other parts of Sweida province, even as the Druze...
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Pope urges immediate end to 'barbarity' of Gaza war
GANDOLFO, July 20 (AFP/Reuters): Pope Leo XIV slammed the "barbarity" of the war in Gaza on Sunday and urged against the "indiscriminate use of force", just days after a deadly strike by Israel's military on a Catholic church."I once again ask for an immediate end to the barbarity of the...
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Nine shot dead at pool bar in Ecuador
VILLAMIL, July 20 (AFP): At least nine people were shot dead Saturday while playing pool in a tourist city in southwestern Ecuador, the country's prosecutor's office said.A group of armed men opened fire on several people at a bar in a working-class neighborhood of General Villamil Playas, a coastal city...
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