House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office announced early Sunday morning that she plans to visit at least four Asian countries during her trip to the region, but a stop in Taiwan was skipped. Pelosi is leading a congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region that includes stops in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. The trip will focus on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance in the Indo-Pacific region, her office said in a press release....

Comment The head of the World Health Organization has suggested men who have sex with men temporarily limit the number of sexual partners they have as monkeypox cases rise in their community – a shift in messaging from the World Health Organization, days after an increase in threat alert level for the monkeypox outbreak. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments on Wednesday during a press conference, in which he said 98% of monkeypox cases have been reported in men who have sex with men....

• À lire aussi: Le pape, diminué, admet qu’il ne pourra «plus voyager au même rythme» • À lire aussi: Le pape au Canada: des souffrances inimaginables • À lire aussi: Visite du pape: les survivants autochtones ont été entendus Lors de ce «pèlerinage pénitentiel» qui a mené le souverain pontife de l’ouest du Canada, au Québec puis dans le Grand Nord, il a demandé pardon à plusieurs reprises aux Amérindiens canadiens pour ce système dans lequel au moins 6000 enfants ont péri entre la fin du XIXe siècle et les années 1990....

Conservative officials have confirmed that Pierre Poilievre and Leslyn Lewis have told party officials they will not attend the Aug. 3 debate in Ottawa. That leaves Jean Charest, Roman Baber and Scott Aitchison to hash it out for 90 minutes on Wednesday at 6pm. ET. Under party rules, both Poilievre and Lewis must now pay an automatic penalty of $50,000 for skipping a formal debate. Both had already made it known that they were unhappy with the decision to hold a third debate....

The first 180 K2 tanks, made by Hyundai Rotem and equipped with 120 mm guns, are expected to arrive this year, with production of 800 upgraded tanks starting in 2026 in Poland, according to the ministry. The first 48 K9 howitzers, made by Hanwha Defense, are also expected to arrive this year, with delivery of a second batch of 600 starting in 2024. From 2025 they will be produced in Poland, the ministry said....

The woman, identified as Portia Odufuwa, entered the airport at about 10:59am. local time and went to a restroom, police said. He came out of the bathroom wearing different clothes and fired three shots into the air, Garcia said. She then pointed her gun at a bystander and an officer, who then returned fire. An investigation later found that Odufuwa had fired her gun at the officer. Press Conference-Dallas Love Field Airport Shooting Update Posted by Dallas Police Department on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Garcia identified the officer Tuesday as a 15-year veteran who responded once the suspect started shooting and gave her multiple verbal commands while verbally directing bystanders to safety....

Pope Francis said his age and difficulty walking ushered in a new, slower phase of his papacy. “I don’t think I can go on traveling at the same rate as before,” the 85-year-old told reporters on the plane back to Rome from a weeklong trip to Canada. The pontiff had visited Canada to apologize for the role of the Catholic Church in schools where indigenous children were abused. In recent months, he has been using a wheelchair, cane or walker due to knee pain caused by a fracture and inflammation of the ligament....

MODERNISER. A 20 heures, une première estimation indiquait que 20 hectares avaient brûlé. La situation s’améliore, mais d’importants moyens restent immobilisés, notamment plus de 200 pompiers. La coïncidence est difficile à croire. La piste d’un incendiaire semble en effet se renforcer dans le secteur de Calce où un second incendie, différent de celui de samedi, a eu lieu à proximité du premier ce dimanche après-midi. Déjà sur place, les sapeurs-pompiers ont répété plus d’une centaine d’hommes ainsi que des colonnes venues d’Occitanie et de l’Est de la France....

After a high-profile case of alleged racial discrimination against two black girls, SeaWorld is being sued over other alleged cases of “pervasive and appalling” discrimination against children at Sesame Place Philadelphia. Named plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Baltimore, Maryland, residents Quinton Burns and his 5-year-old daughter, who claim four performers refused to engage with the girl and other black children during a meet and greet last month. According to the suit, the artists engaged “easily” with “many” white children....

“Times are tough out there,” Raising Cane CEO AJ Kumaran told CNN. “(Workers) see it at their gas stations and at their gas pumps, they see it on their grocery store shelves … Things aren’t easy these days, so when we saw there’s an opportunity to not only have some fun, but maybe make a little extra money for our people, we wanted to do that.” Tuesday’s drawing has an estimated cash value of $470....

Shane ‘Kiwi’ Martin, 54, was found dead face down on his bedroom floor in Mt Maunganui, 200km south-east of Auckland, in December. The Richmond hero’s dad’s official cause of death has remained a mystery for months pending an autopsy and two detailed toxicology reports. Daily Mail Australia has obtained a copy of the coroner’s findings, which reveal his final moments and the cocktail of prescription drugs discovered nearby. He was found to have died of heart disease but was a steroid user who also took anti-depressants after being kicked out of Australia and kept away from his son....

“Across the newly occupied territories in southern Ukraine, Russian-installed authorities are highly likely under increasing pressure from Moscow to consolidate their control over the region and prepare for referendums on joining Russia later in the year,” the UK Ministry of Defense said Saturday in an intelligence update posted on Twitter. “Local authorities are likely coercing the population into disclosing personal details in order to compose voting registers.” The assessment followed warnings from the U....

The assurance on Tuesday from Russia came after the newly appointed head of its space agency, Roscosmos, surprised NASA earlier in the day by announcing that Moscow intended to end more than two decades of cooperation on the space station “after 2024”. “We’re not getting any indication at any working level that anything has changed,” Kathy Lueders, NASA’s head of space operations, told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the US space agency’s relationship with Roscosmos remained “business as usual....

“Following the COVID-19 vaccine discovery, we are closer than ever before to an effective HIV vaccine and even on a path toward a cure,” said Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, co-chair of the 24th International AIDS Conference. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette Article content Say “pandemic” and most people think COVID-19. Yet HIV, which takes a life every minute, remains the deadliest pandemic of our time. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below....

On Thursday, New York State and San Francisco declared their own states of emergency. But even as the national tally approaches 5,000 cases and experts warn that containment is slipping away, federal health officials have not followed suit. One reason: This virus — unlike the coronavirus — is a known enemy, officials say. Doctors understand how it spreads and there are already tests, vaccines and treatments. But for scientists, the accumulating research paints a more complex and challenging picture....

In a major boost for the foreign secretary’s campaign, Tugendhat wrote in The Times that her plans for huge tax cuts were “based on true conservative principles”. The chairman of the foreign affairs select committee also criticized Rishi Sunak’s budget policy, saying it was not right to increase the tax burden when people are entering winter with “terror”. His support is significant as he is popular among Conservative party members and a senior figure in the One Nation group of centrist Tory MPs....

Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature 50km to go: Back to smoother roads for a bit, before another big climb, on the Cote de val des Clos, and the first group’s gap in the yellow jersey group to the peloton stabilizes at around 1:05. That group of three is now down to two, Asencio and Demay with Demey dropped. Updated 14.08 BST The Côte de Celles-sur-Ource points 56km to go: Demey is losing ground to the other two breakaway riders as Coralie Demay takes the lead and reaches the summit first with Ascencio on her tail as they hit the first gravel stage....

The intensifying rivalry between former US President Donald Trump and his once fiercely loyal vice president, Mike Pence, was on full display on Tuesday as the two dueled in Washington over the future of the Republican Party. Trump, in his first return to Washington since Democrat Joe Biden ousted him from the White House, repeated the false allegations of voter fraud that sparked the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan....

Trumps Schwiegersohn Kushner hat Krebs Der Ehemann von Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, sprach über seinen Krebs. Der Schwiegersohn von Ex-Präsident Donald Trump hat Schilddrüsenkrebs. Jared Kushner (41), Ehemann von Donald Trumps (76) Tochter Ivanka (40), war an Schilddrüsenkrebs erkrankt. Dies geschah während seiner Zeit als Chefberater des ehemaligen Präsidenten. Nach hartnäckigen Medienberichten enthüllt Kushner dies nun in seiner bald erscheinenden Autobiografie „Breaking History: A White House Memoir“. Er sagt, er sei 2019 von Trumps Leibarzt diagnostiziert worden, als er mit dem Präsidentenflugzeug Air Force One unterwegs war....

In the Blues’ last summer outing, £50million Sterling found the back of the net in Italy just before the break. 4 Raheem Sterling scored his first Chelsea goal in unconventional styleCredit: Getty 4 N’Golo Kante opened the scoring for the BluesCredit: Getty 4 Mason Mount completed the win late in Credit: Getty Another new signing – £35m defender Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli – also made his first start. N’Golo Kante scored the first goal on his return, having missed his club’s tour of the USA due to his vaccination, while Mason Mount finished in the third....