Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney says he will vote for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Republican ex-President Donald Trump in the
#US
elections, following a similar statement made by his daughter Liz Cheney this week.
A rare copy of the
#US
Constitution that was signed and sent to states to ratify is up for auction later this month in North Carolina. It was missing for centuries.
Tim Walz says that those protesting American support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are doing so for “the right reasons,” as the Democratic ticket looks to balance its support for Israel with the plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave.
#Ukraine
’s foreign ministry says it is deeply concerned by media reports about a possible impending transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to
#Russia
.
Three members of the Lebanese Civil Defense have been killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an
#Israeli
attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Froon,
#Lebanon
’s health ministry says.
A person in the state of Missouri has become the first in the United States to test positive for bird flu without a known exposure to infected animals, authorities say.
Led by beleaguered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro,
#Brazil
’s political right will rally for “democracy and freedom” amid a free speech tussle that has seen X, their preferred social platform, suspended in the country.
Two
#German
warships are set to pass through the sensitive
#Taiwan
Strait in the middle of this month, becoming the first German naval vessels to do so in 22 years, Spiegel magazine reports.
Thousands of left-wing demonstrators take to the streets across
#France
to protest against the nomination of the center-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron’s “power grab.”
The health ministry in
#Gaza
says that at least 40,939 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, now in its 12th month.
Turkish President
#RecepTayyipErdogan
says Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he calls “the growing threat of expansionism” from
#Israel
.
A fire has broke out in
#Russia
’s Voronezh region bordering Ukraine after a drone was downed, triggering an explosion of incendiary devices, the local governor says.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr
#Zelenskyy
met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, her office says, as he presses allies for more weapons in his country’s fight against Russia.
Algerians head to the polls in a presidential election widely expected to bring a second term for incumbent Abdelmadjid
#Tebboune
whose main hope is for a high turnout.
#Algeria