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UKRAINE: Agreements were signed on Thursday (Jul 14) by the United States and more than 40 other countries, following what Kiev claimed was a Russian missile strike that killed civilians well from the front line. “Russian missiles targeted two communities in western Ukraine, killing 20 people, including three young children,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at an international summit. Since …

IRAN: In less than a week, acclaimed director Jafar Panahi has become Iran’s third filmmaker detained. Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who won a Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival for his film “Taxi,” was arrested in Tehran on Monday when Panahi went to the prosecutor’s office to check on him. According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, Rasoulof …

ITALY: After a day of political drama that threatened to topple Italy’s national unity government, President Sergio Mattarella rejected Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s resignation on Thursday (July 14). ECB President Mario Draghi stated Thursday that he would quit after the 5-Star Movement, a coalition party, failed to support him in a confidence vote over his strategy to curb increasing prices. …

US: Friday (Jul 15), Saudi Arabia said that restrictions on “all airlines” accessing its airspace would be lifted ahead of US President Joe Biden’s arrival in Saudi Arabia. US President Barack Obama hailed Riyadh’s “historic” decision, the latest concession to the Jewish state, which it has refused to recognize despite Israel’s persistent attempts to build connections with the Arab world. …

US: Trump’s first wife and mother of his three oldest children, Ivana Trump, died on Thursday at the age of 73, the former president revealed. The death of Ivana Trump was announced by Donald Trump on his Truth Social social media network. Law enforcement officials are investigating if she went down the steps at her Manhattan residence, according to the …

SINGAPORE: Energy connectivity in Southeast Asia could benefit from a feasibility study conducted by Singapore and the United States. Amidst the US-Southeast Asia Clean Energy Roundtable in Singapore on Thursday, Tan See Leng, Singapore’s Second Minister of Trade and Industry, and US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met (Jul 14). Friday, they issued a joint ministerial statement reiterating their commitment to …

US: The first photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope were made public by NASA on Tuesday. The images demonstrated the telescope’s enormous potential for uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos. The following are some of the things we’ve learned thus far. Advanced scientific devices, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, might occasionally fail to perform as expected. The Hubble …

SCOTLAND: Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch post-Impressionist artist, painted a self-portrait behind another of his works. The discovery was uncovered by conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland during an x-ray inspection of Van Gogh’s 1885 painting “Head of a Peasant Woman” for an upcoming show, the organization announced on Thursday. According to the x-rays, this was the case “bearded …

US: It was announced on Wednesday (July 13) that a former CIA software engineer has been found guilty of the largest theft of secret information in the agency’s history. During his retrial in New York City, Joshua Schulte claimed in closing arguments that the CIA and the FBI made him the scapegoat for WikiLeaks’ embarrassing 2017 leak of a cache …

US: US President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday (July 13) to begin a trip to the Middle East, where he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to strengthen Israel’s ties to the area as they prepare to take on Iran. A visit to Saudi Arabia by Biden, who will be making his first regional trip since assuming …