- — Putin allows inspectors to visit Russia-held nuclear plant
- Flare-up in fighting around the Russian-controlled nuclear power station has both sides blaming each other for attacks.
- — Finland’s Sanna Marin takes drug test after party video is leaked
- One of the worlds youngest government leaders faced calls from her own coalition, opposition to take a drug test.
- — Russia’s Gazprom to shut Nord Stream 1 pipeline for three days
- Russian state gas company says the pipeline requires maintenance, deepening energy standoff with Europe.
- — US judge sentences ISIL ‘Beatle’ to life in prison over killings
- Judge says behaviour of former UK citizen El Shafee Elsheikh was horrific, barbaric, brutal and of course criminal.
- — Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet denies sexual assault allegations
- Ouellet, a prominent figure in the Catholic Church, firmly denies accusation he sexually assaulted a woman in Quebec.
- — Nicaraguan police raid home of Catholic bishop critical of Ortega
- Church figures and rights advocates condemn apparent detention of Ronaldo Alvarez after pre-dawn raid of his home.
- — UK: Glasgow holds ceremony to repatriate artefacts to India
- Objects were previously looted from sacred places such as temples and shrines and given as gifts to the citys museums.
- — Iran nuclear deal ‘imminent’ with crippling sanctions removed
- Sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic an agreement to revive the landmark accord abandoned by the US is soon to be announced.
- — Indigenous judge O’Bonsawin nominated to Canada’s top court
- Experienced jurist Michelle OBonsawin would become first Indigenous person to ever sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- — Russia’s communications watchdog to punish foreign IT firms
- Russias Roskomnadzor says its taking punitive measures against TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Discord and Pinterest.
- — ‘Left with nothing’: Record floods devastate Pakistan province
- Tens of thousands are currently at the mercy of an exceptional monsoon season, which has wreaked havoc across Pakistan.
- — Turkey’s Erdogan says he won’t rule out dialogue with Syria
- Erdogan said Turkey did not want to seize Syrian territory as the Syrian opposition fears a potential deal.
- — South Africa’s Zulu nation to coronate new king amid tussle
- A succession battle has dulled the shine on the forthcoming coronation ceremony of the Zulu monarch in South Africa.
- — More blasts in Russian-held areas far from Ukraine front lines
- Ukraine hopes new ability to hit Russian targets deep behind front lines can turn the tide of the war.
- — Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in occupied West Bank village
- Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, 58, was shot in the head during an Israeli army raid on the village of Tubas.
- — Civilians killed in northern Syria marketplace missile attack
- The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defence, also known as White Helmets, said five children were among those killed.
- — ‘Not going anywhere’: The Palestinian NGOs shut down by Israel
- Israel shut down seven Palestinian NGOs on Thursday, but theyve defiantly said they will continue to operate.
- — Emirates to halt Nigeria flights over failure to recover funds
- The airline says its suspending flights, effective 1 September, as it could not repatriate $85m stuck in the country.
- — Germany’s Chancellor Scholz testifies over tax fraud scandal
- Scholz rejects accusations of impropriety in his handling of a multibillion-euro tax fraud when he was Hamburg mayor.
- — Germany’s Chancellor Scholz faces grilling over tax fraud scandal
- Scholz will tell a parliamentary committee what he knew about a tax evasion scam when he was mayor of Hamburg.
- — Indian company to develop Nepal hydropower plant left by China
- Nepal signs MOU with India’s NHPC Ltd to develop the plant after Chinas Three Gorges International Corp backed out.
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