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China said Tuesday it wants the U.N. Security Council to not only extend humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria from neighboring countries but to tackle the impact of Western sanctions and the need to expand deliveries across conflict lines.

Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, known for his work in exposing the criminal underworld, was fighting for his life after being shot on an Amsterdam street, officials said on Tuesday.

Mexico's human rights commission (CNDH) has accused migration authorities of keeping nearly 90 people in overcrowded facilities, without providing masks to protect them against COVID19 or medicines for epilepsy and diabetes.

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Saudi Arabia's deputy defense minister on Tuesday became the highestranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January and was holding talks with senior officials on the Yemen war and threats from Iran.

Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has been shot and seriously wounded on a street in Amsterdam, national broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday, adding he had been taken to hospital.

Egypt's irrigation minister said on Monday he had received official notice from Ethiopia that it had begun filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), for a second year.

France's champagne industry group on Monday blasted a new Russian law that forces foreign producers to add a "sparkling wine" reference to their bottles of champagne, and called for the halting of exports of the bubbly drink to Russia.

The Bank of England has asked its staff to work at least one day a week from its offices from September, an official said on Monday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced England was set to end social and economic COVID19 restrictions from July 19.

Israel reported on Monday a decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness but said it remained highly effective in preventing serious illness.

The White House said on Sunday it was reaching out to victims of a wideranging ransomware outbreak that is centered on a Floridabased information technology company and has had an impact on hundreds of businesses worldwide.

Fireworks are returning to New Orleans on Independence Day thanks to actor Will Smith.

The Fourth of July holiday was marked with somber tones in South Florida, where a collapsed building has left at least 24 dead and more than 120 missing under rubble.

A facility housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria came under attack late Sunday when rockets were fired from nearby areas, an opposition war monitor and a spokesman for U.S.backed fighters said.

Under the practice, usually a temporary alliance, the wife waives some conventional marriage rights such as cohabitation and financial support.

The Taliban say they have changed and that they will make provisions for women's rights in line with cultural traditions and religious rules.