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Heatwave, humidity grip half of US

NEW YORK, July 21 (Agencies): Americans from Texas to Maine sweated out a steamy on Saturday as a heat wave canceled events from festivals to horse races, chased baseball fans out of their seats and pushed New York City to order steps to avoid straining the electrical system.The National Weather...

Hammond to quit if Johnson becomes British PM

LONDON, July 21 (BBC): Philip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next PM.He said a no-deal Brexit, something Mr Johnson has left open as an option, was "not something I could ever sign up to".Asked if he thought he...

Over 20,000 demand fair local polls in Moscow

MOSCOW, July 21 (AFP): More than 22,000 people packed a Moscow square Saturday to demand free and fair local polls, incensed by the authorities' refusal to put popular opposition candidates on the ballot.Staging their largest protest in years, opposition leaders such as President Vladimir Putin's top opponent Alexei Navalny and...

Longest-serving chief minister of Delhi dies

NEW DELHI, July 21 (AP): Veteran Indian politician Sheila Dikshit, New Delhi's longest-serving chief minister, died on Saturday after a prolonged illness. She was 81.Dikshit died at a hospital in New Delhi, where she had been admitted for treatment for a heart ailment, New Delhi Television channel said.A veteran leader...

Ukrainian leader seeks support to fight graft

KIEV, July 21 (AP): Ukrainians are voting in an early parliamentary election in which the new party of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to take the largest share of votes.Polls ahead of Sunday's balloting showed Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party getting support from a little more than half of...

HK protesters demand direct elections again

HONG KONG, July 21 (AP): Protesters in Hong Kong pressed on Sunday past the designated end point for a march in which tens of thousands repeated demands for direct elections in the Chinese territory and an independent investigation into police tactics used in previous demonstrations.Around 10,000 people gathered in Admiralty,...

Costa Rica on alert as 19 die drinking alcohol

SAN JOS, July 21 (AFP): Alcohol tainted with potentially toxic levels of methanol has killed 19 people in Costa Rica, where authorities issued an alert against drinking some half-dozen brands.The Ministry of Health issued the national warning Friday while also updating the death toll.Of 34 people who have been poisoned,...

Dancing party shooting kills four persons in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, July 21 (Xinhua): Three men and a woman were killed while another woman was injured in a shooting on Saturday at a dancing party in a western neighborhood in Mexico City, local authorities confirmed.The incident, reported around 2:30 am local time (0730 GMT), occurred in the Penon de...

News in Brief -(22-07-2019)

Detainee allegedly tortured in Sudan diesKHARTOUM, July 21: A Sudanese civilian detained and allegedly tortured by security agents in a central town has died in custody, a doctors committee linked to the country's protest movement said Sunday. The man died on Saturday in the town of Dilling in the state...