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Key senator urges Biden to step aside as polls show Trump rise
An influential US senator on Sunday joined calls for President Joe Biden to end his candidacy in favor of a younger Democrat, while a shock poll from the swing state of Michigan illustrated the growing sense that he will lose to Donald Trump if he stays in the race. - Big shift in Michigan - Meantime, a new poll from the battleground state of Michigan -- where Trump, his right ear bandaged from the recent attempt on his life, held a raucous rally Saturday -- carried grim news for the president.
Schauffele finds inner calm to win British Open and collect second major
Xander Schauffele said a "sense of calm" helped him win the British Open on Sunday as the American claimed his second major just two months after triumphing at the PGA Championship. I had this sense of calm, a calm I didn't have when I played earlier at the PGA," said Schauffele.
'We're ready', say Paris Olympics organisers
Paris Olympics supremo Tony Estanguet said Sunday that the city was "ready" for the Games as he played down complaints from some residents and businesses about the impact of the event. "It was always a choice made in full conscience that the success of Paris 2024 would mean having the Games in the city," Estanguet explained.
Yemen's Huthis vow major retaliation for Israeli port strike
Yemen's Huthi rebels on Sunday promised a "huge" retaliation against Israel for a deadly strike on the port of Hodeida, as regional fallout widens from months of war in Gaza. The fighting across the region came ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip this week to Washington, which has been trying to secure a ceasefire in the more than nine-month war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in Gaza.
Bangladesh court winds back job quotas that sparked unrest
Bangladesh's top court on Sunday pared back contentious civil service hiring rules but failed to mollify university student leaders, whose demonstrations against the scheme sparked nationwide clashes that have killed 155 people. "Rather than try to address the protesters' grievances, the government's actions have made the situation worse," Crisis Group's Asia director Pierre Prakash told AFP. Since Tuesday, at least 155 people, including several police officers, have been killed in clashes around the country, according to an AFP count of victims reported by police and hospitals.
'Premature adults': The lost childhoods of Belarus's crackdown
One night in September 2020, Hanna Kanavalava fled her native Belarus and crossed the border into Ukraine -- on foot, in the dark and with her two young grandchildren in tow. She took them briefly to Ukraine, and then to Poland, which has become a shelter for many of the hundreds of thousands that have fled.
Unregistered Senegal youth struggle for legal status
It was only when 12-year-old Senegalese schoolboy Lassou Samb prepared to sit his end-of-year exams that his lack of any legal documentation finally caught up with him. Hundreds of thousands of Senegalese pupils are sitting exams until Wednesday to mark the end of their school year.
Turkey-Syria rapprochement likely to be gradual: analysts
After a long estrangement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad may be edging towards a meeting, but analysts say normalisation will likely be gradual due to thorny issues. Mona Yacoubian, vice president of the Middle East and North Africa centre at the United States Institute of Peace, said any normalisation "is not going to happen overnight... even if there's an Assad-Erdogan meeting".
South Korea's first lady grilled over Dior bag, stock manipulation
South Korea's first lady Kim Keon Hee has been questioned over allegations of stock manipulation and graft involving a $2,200 luxury handbag, the prosecution said on Sunday. The questioning comes as the opposition calls for a special probe into the first lady, who has been under scrutiny for accepting a Dior bag in violation of government ethics rules, and for her alleged role in a stock manipulation scheme.
Insect infestation ravages North African prickly pear
Amor Nouira, a farmer in Tunisia's Chebika village, has lost hope of saving his prickly pear cacti, ravaged by the cochineal insect spreading across North Africa. In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers' fields of prickly pear -- also known as Opuntia -- have been spoiled by the cochineal, which swept through North Africa 10 years ago, beginning in Morocco.
All eyes on AI to drive Big Tech earnings
Over the next two weeks, the quarterly results of Big Tech giants will offer a glimpse on the bankability of artificial intelligence and whether the major investments AI requires are sustainable for the long haul. According to data from BrightEdge, relayed by Search Engine Land, the number of searches presenting a result generated by AI Overviews has plummeted in recent weeks as Google shies away from the feature.
Five takeaways from Trump's first rally since assassination bid
Donald Trump commanded the stage for nearly two hours Saturday in his first rally since a gunman tried to kill him last week, with a fiery, rambling speech to thousands of passionate supporters. But when Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday night he did not hold back.
In raging summer, sunscreen misinformation scorches US
Dismissively tossing a tube of sunscreen over his shoulder, a bare-chested TikTok influencer declares that the cream causes cancer. Clutching a surfboard on a beach, another bare-chested Instagram influencer says he rejects sunscreen.
Bangladesh court to rule on job quotas that sparked unrest
Bangladesh's top court was due to rule Sunday on the future of civil service hiring rules that sparked nationwide clashes between police and university students, killing 133 people. Since Tuesday at least 133 people, including several police officers, have been killed in clashes around the country, according to an AFP count of victims reported by police and hospitals.
South Korea steps up propaganda broadcasts after new trash balloons from North
South Korea will ramp up propaganda broadcasts to the North in response to Pyongyang sending more trash-carrying balloons across the border, Seoul's military said Sunday. The two Koreas have engaged in a tit-for-tat campaign, with the North sending nearly 2,000 trash-carrying balloons southwards since May, saying it is retaliation for propaganda balloons launched by South Korean activists.
Defiant Netanyahu to face US Congress amid Biden's withdrawal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress this week, a visit that has now been thrown off balance by President Joe Biden's decision on Sunday not to seek re-election. Israeli President Isaac Herzog was one of the first world leaders to react to Biden's announcement Sunday that he would not be seeking re-election as president.
US issues 'don't travel' alert for protest-hit Bangladesh
The US State Department warned Americans on Saturday not to travel to Bangladesh and said it would began removing some diplomats and their families from the country roiled by deadly civil unrest. "Travelers should not travel to Bangladesh due to ongoing civil unrest in Dhaka," the department said in an advisory that escalated its advice of "reconsider travel" from earlier in the day.
A 'God moment' in Michigan as Trump preaches to faithful
Renee White was seated behind Donald Trump one week ago when shots rang out as a gunman tried to assassinate the former US president at a Pennsylvania rally. "God has a protective hedge around him," White told AFP, recalling the chaos in Butler, Pennsylvania when Trump was injured by a would-be assassin, and how the 78-year-old Republican rose to his feet and defiantly pumped his fist in the air.
US homeland chief hits back at attacks on women Secret Service agents
The US homeland security chief hit back Saturday at misogynistic attacks on the women Secret Service agents who threw themselves into the line of fire to protect Donald Trump from a would-be assassin. Several women were seen among the Secret Service agents racing to shield Trump with their bodies as the gunshots ring out.
Lebanon state media says Israeli strike 'targeted ammunition depot'
Lebanese official media said an Israeli strike on a town deep in the country's south Saturday evening targeted an ammunitions depot, lightly injuring three people and causing rockets to explode. "The raid on the town of Adloun targeted an ammunition depot," Lebanon's National News Agency said, after earlier reporting "the Israeli enemy launched a raid" on the area, with "rocket still exploding" and the blasts "lightly injuring three citizens".
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