The majority of African nations’ leaders have chosen not to attend the upcoming Russia-Africa summit, with 38 out of 55 countries opting not to send their heads of state, The Moscow Times reported on July 25.
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A powerful typhoon blew closer to the northern Philippines on Tuesday, forcing thousands of evacuations and a halt to sea travel ahead of torrential rains and tidal surges up to 3m.
An earthquake of 5.5-magnitude shook the southern Turkish province of Adana on Tuesday morning, according to the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre in Istanbul.
In Sudan, about 435 children have been killed and 2,025 injured since violence broke out three months ago, according to a statement issued by the UN children’s agency UNICEF on Monday.
President Vladimir Putin has pledged to deepen relations with African countries across several spheres, promising free supply of grains to the continent to tackle food insecurity.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been released from hospital on Monday after heart surgery.
Another ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea has been hit in a drone attack according to the regional governor.
Senior UN officials on Sunday condemned the deadly Russian missile strikes in the Ukraine city of Odesa which damaged several historic buildings.
Large numbers of protesters have taken to the streets of Iran following another desecration of the Koran in Sweden.
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 10 pips to 7.1456 against the dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.