Global Look Press/Senior Airman Karla Parra
Bloomberg: The US announced a new military aid package of about $400 million that includes high-precision artillery to improving targeting of Russian forces and equipment.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited front-line troops in the Dnipropetrovsk region on Friday in a rare foray from Kyiv. Germany expects Canada to release a key part for a Russian gas pipeline that’s been caught up in sanctions, a move that could ease the squeeze on gas flows to Europe as natural gas prices are set to post another weekly advance.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Moscow over blocking Ukraine grain exports. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of a G-20 meeting in Indonesia, but the Russian diplomat left the room for some of the G-20 speakers.
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PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Olympic Games open on Friday after a soaking wet ceremony in which athletes were cheered by the crowd along the Seine, dancers took to the roofs of Paris and Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song.
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Saboteurs attacked France's TGV high-speed train network in coordinated actions that caused chaos on the country's busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.
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Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave.
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The solar system's tiniest planet may be hiding a big secret. Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath the crust of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
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