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United Nations, July 31 (UNI) An estimated 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa, a UN spokesperson said Wednesday. Active outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria raise the threat of cross-border transmission to neighboring countries, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson…

Washington, July 31 (UNI) U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation to address the effects of copper imports, imposing universal 50 percent tariffs on imports of semi-finished copper products and copper-intensive derivative products, effective on Aug. 1. The proclamation directs the U.S. secretary of commerce to establish a product “inclusion” process to add…

San Francisco, July 31 (UNI) The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced massive sanctions against some individuals, entities and vessels allegedly linked to an Iranian oil-shipping network. The package is designating “more than 50 individuals and entities and identifying more than 50 vessels,” the Treasury Department said…

Sydney, July 30 (UNI) A man has died after being critically injured in a light plane crash west of Sydney in Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW). Police said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a light plane crash in the small town of Balranald, some 700 km west…

Manila, July 30 (UNI) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Wednesday warned residents in the coastal areas fronting the Pacific Ocean against “tsunami wave height of less than 1 meter,” following a powerful earthquake that had hit Russia. Based on the revised magnitude calculations and tsunami wave models in the Pacific Tsunami Warning…

Amsterdam, July 30 (UNI) The lower house of the Dutch parliament has decided to cut short its summer recess to hold an urgent debate on the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, media reported. A majority of lawmakers in the Dutch House of Representatives (the Tweede Kamer) backed a motion from the Socialist Party…

Washington, July 30 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his 10-day “deadline” for Moscow to end the conflict with Ukraine is in effect, cutting short the 50-day timeline he announced two weeks ago. Russia has “10 days from today” to reach a ceasefire agreement, Trump told media on his flight back to Washington…

Paris, July 30 (UNI) France insists that Washington exempt alcoholic beverages, including champagne and other wines, from duties imposed by US President Donald Trump, the Financial Times newspaper reported, citing a French official. The EU’s trade deal with the United States reached on Sunday has caused confusion in Brussels and Paris over which goods will…

Caracas, July 30 (UNI) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil on Tuesday blamed John McNamara, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia, for “kidnapping” 33 Venezuelan children. McNamara “is the material author of this crime, directly responsible for maintaining this illegal and profoundly immoral situation,” Gil said in a post on social media. The children…

Los Angeles, July 30 (UNI) Three people are missing after an explosion at a plant on Tuesday in Fremont, U.S. state of Nebraska, local authorities and news outlets said. Troopers, along with multiple fire and police agencies are on the scene of a building fire near East Cloverly Road and South Union Street in Fremont,…