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Kansas abortion vote rocks US midterms outlook
The surprise vote in Republican-heavy Kansas to repudiate a push for abortion bans fired shockwaves through the US political landscape ahead of November's midterm elections, with President Joe Biden's Democrats now seeing a glimmer of hope that they may avoid their predicted drubbing.
US envoy heading to Vienna to resume Iran nuclear talks
Rob Malley, the US State Department's pointman on talks with Iran, announced Wednesday that he was headed to Vienna to resume negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program that have been stuck for months on key final details. European Union-brokered indirect talks between Washington and Tehran stalled in March over the final details of a resumption of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Turkish inflation stabilises at under 80% in boost to Erdogan
Turkey's annual inflation rate stabilised in July at just under 80 percent, official data showed on Wednesday, helping support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pledges that runaway price increases would soon stop. The official annual rate of consumer price increases reached 79.6 percent in July compared to 78.6 percent in June.
Burkina army says civilians killed in air raid
Burkina Faso's army said on Wednesday that civilians had been killed in an air strike against jihadists, as local inhabitants reported around 30 people had died. Local residents said around 30 people had died, most of whom were women.
Russia backs Myanmar junta's efforts to 'stabilise' country, hold elections
Russia backs the Myanmar junta's efforts to "stabilise" the crisis-wracked country and hold elections next year, its foreign minister said in talks with top generals on Wednesday, according to Russian state media. Lavrov is scheduled to travel on to an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting in Cambodia from which the junta's top diplomat has been excluded.
Satellite firm bars Russia's NTV Mir over Ukraine Nazi slurs
French satellite company Eutelsat on Wednesday halted European broadcasts of Russian channel NTV Mir after regulators flagged content it had aired comparing Ukrainians to Nazis.
Make stoves, not war: Ukrainian blacksmith helps troops
He'd hardly know a Beretta from a Bazooka, but Anton Zaika can sure find his way around a blacksmith's forge -- and he is helping Ukraine's war effort in his own unique way.
Germany's Scholz accuses Russia of blocking gas turbine delivery
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday accused Russia of blocking the delivery of a turbine needed to keep gas flowing via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe. Russian energy giant Gazprom has blamed the delayed return of the unit from Canada, where it was being serviced, for the initial reduction in deliveries of gas via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
Hearing Canada Indigenous horror like being 'slapped': pope
Pope Francis on Wednesday likened hearing first-hand tales of abuse at Catholic-run schools from Indigenous victims in Canada to being slapped. Many children were physically and sexually abused at the schools, and thousands are believed to have died of disease, malnutrition or neglect in what Francis said after his Canada trip was "genocide".
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