US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders announced a bid to rival China with global infrastructure projects to poor countries. – AFP photo ELMAU CASTLE, Germany (June 27): The G7 group of rich democracies on Sunday announced an attempt to compete with China’s formidable Belt and Road Initiative by raising some US$600 billion for…
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‘Very serious soil erosion’ prompted the move, a first for a French national park. – AFP file photo MARSEILLE (June 27): Two popular coves in the “Calanques” area near Marseille, among southern France’s main attractions, saw visitor numbers capped on Sunday for the first time to protect their fragile ecosystem. The coast between Marseille and…
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The Saint-Avold station was only closed on March 31. – AFP file photo PARIS (June 27): France has become the latest country to reconsider its energy options because of the war in Ukraine, announcing Sunday it was looking into reopening a recently closed coal-fired power station. The energy transition ministry said it was considering reopening…
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World powers on Sunday agreed to ban gold exports from Russia, kicking off a G7 meeting aimed at taking new steps to deplete Moscow’s war chest and bolster Ukraine’s defences. – AFP photo ELMAU CASTLE, Germany (June 27): World powers on Sunday agreed to ban gold exports from Russia, kicking off a G7 meeting aimed…
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World Aerial view of the collapsed grandstand in a bullring in the Colombian municipality of El Espinal, southwest of Bogotá, on June 26, 2022. SAMUEL ANTONIO GALINDO CAMPOS/AFP via Getty Images By Associated Press June 26, 2022 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Part of the wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia Sunday, sending…
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Seven members and associates of the MS-13 street gang have been convicted of sex trafficking in federal court after taking in a 13-year-old runaway and coercing her into commercial sex acts in Maryland and Virginia. The seven defendants all face a mandatory minimum prison term of 15 years when they are sentenced…
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World “We really cannot understand what has happened here.” Members of the community and family wait for news outside a township pub in South Africa’s southern city of East London. Getty Images By John Eligon, New York Times Service June 26, 2022 | 6:30 PM JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Twenty-one teenagers were found dead early…
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WASHINGTON — Furious about surging prices at the gasoline station and the supermarket, many consumers feel they know just where to cast blame: on greedy companies that relentlessly jack up prices and pocket the profits. Responding to that sentiment, the Democratic-led House of Representatives last month passed on a party-line vote — most Democrats for,…
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JOHANNESBURG — South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 20 people early Sunday at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London. It is unclear what led to the deaths of the young people, who were reportedly attending a party to celebrate the end of winter school exams. Local newspaper Daily…
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of sex trafficking with former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, has been put on suicide watch at the jail in Brooklyn where she’s been since her July 2020 arrest, her lawyer said. Bobbi Sternheim, a lawyer for Maxwell, said in a letter to the judge slated to sentence the socialite on…
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