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Iran’s envoy to China says Beijing to get Hormuz concessions

Iran’s ambassador to Beijing said China and other friendly nations will be granted “special considerations” when Tehran determines the level and nature of service fees charged to ships using the Strait of Hormuz. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the critical waterway for energy supplies is now a matter of “national security” in the aftermath of the four-month U.S. and Israeli war on the Islamic ...
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Pope Leo urges U.S. to welcome immigrants in July 4 appeal from Lampedusa

LAMPEDUSA, Italy – Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited Italy's migrant frontline island of Lampedusa. Leo, who drew the ire of Donald Trump last year after calling the U.S. president's hardline anti-immigration policies inhumane, also urged the world to become "more human" and to help ​those fleeing war and poverty.
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Thousands protest in Germany as far-right AfD sets sights on power

ERFURT, Germany – Thousands protested against Germany's far-right AfD and blocked roads to its annual conference in the eastern city of Erfurt on Saturday, where the party re-elected the two leaders who have overseen its rise as a national force. Protesters from unions, civil society groups and left-wing parties gathered as large numbers of police, including reinforcements from across Germany, were deployed ahead ​of the AfD's two-day conference. AfD stands for Alternative for Germany.
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St. Petersburg region oil terminal hit in major Ukrainian drone attack

MOSCOW – Russia's second city of St Petersburg and the surrounding region came under a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure hit, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said, as Kyiv's drone strikes ​continue to deepen fuel shortages in Russia.
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Venezuela quake death toll rises to 2,645 as U.N. estimates $37 billion in damage

Venezuela’s official earthquake death toll climbed to 2,645 on Friday as a new United Nations-backed assessment estimated the twin earthquakes caused at least $37 billion in direct physical damage, underscoring the enormous reconstruction challenge facing a country already weakened by years of economic decline and deteriorating infrastructure. The twin 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that ...
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Trial for Bundibugyo Ebola treatment starts in DRC, WHO says

A treatment trial for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo enrolled its first patient on Thursday, marking a milestone in efforts to combat the epidemic, World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
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Kyiv’s most-bombed neighborhood just won’t quit

With each cappuccino that barista Anya Balyokha made on a recent morning, the scent of coffee gained a bit more on the smell of burned shopping mall - the air still acrid from the Russian ballistic missile that destroyed the stores across the street a week earlier.
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Venezuela quake death toll tops 2,295 as missing-persons crisis deepens

Venezuela’s earthquake catastrophe entered its seventh day Wednesday with the official death toll climbing to 2,295, while a deepening crisis over missing persons, displacements and deteriorating conditions in the hardest-hit areas intensified pressure on the country’s fragile post-Maduro government.
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After a dramatic search, a mother finds her son, deported to Venezuela, dead.

Oswadeliz Núñez Ramírez found her son dead following an intense five-day search throughout the areas of La Guaira and Caracas, Venezuela. The young man was part of a group of 146 migrants deported from the United States who arrived in the South American country on the same day two powerful earthquakes struck the country last week.
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U.N. chief says U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees nearing ‘breaking point’

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged countries to cover a $100 million gap in funding for the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, saying the body was nearing a breaking point after deep cost-cutting and austerity measures. Guterres told an ad hoc meeting ​of the General Assembly on voluntary contributions that UNRWA's situation was increasingly precarious given sweeping restrictions throughout occupied Palestinian territory that impeded its work, and the large cash shortfall.
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