The area is a vital export route for Kyiv to push out grain at a time when many other routes have been closed-off.

A former White House chef has been found dead after going missing while paddle boarding near the summer home of ex-US president Barack Obama, Massachusetts State Police said.

The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, asking a federal judge to force Texas to remove a roughly 1,000-foot line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that are meant to stop migrants from entering the U.S. (July 25)

All the latest political news in the UK as MPs warn Sunak not to send ‘mixed signals’ on climate change. Green MP Caroline Lucas says “Rishi Sunak is asleep at the wheel” when it comes to climate action.

Oil prices have jumped as China promised to provide more stimulus for its flagging economy.

China’s sluggish economy has held back oil prices in the past six months, with OPEC+ countries including Saudi Arabia cutting back production to lift prices.

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Israel’s parliament on Monday approved the first major law in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s justice system, triggering a new burst of mass protests and drawing accusations that he was pushing the country…

A car ploughed through a crowd of people in central Israel who were protesting the passing of a judicial reform bill.

Transit commission chair Glen Gower said the city is on the hook for extra personnel and overtime needed to operate R1 buses, while RTG and Alstom will take on the cost of finding and fixing the root cause.

Greece is bracing for a new wave of soaring temperatures as wildfires rage on two popular tourist islands, Rhodes and Corfu. For more on the link between climate change and the increased frequency and intensity of heatwaves and forest fires, FRANCE 24’…

Abdulhakim Moalimishak, president of the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque, said the past five years without charitable status have been hard and he’s excited for the future now that it has been returned.