At least 530 Egyptians have died taking part in the haj and another 31 are missing as extreme heat hits the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, medical and security sources told Reuters on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance would lower power bills, soften inheritance tax and link pensions to inflation if it wins a snap election, the prime minister said, seeking to counter the far right and a new left-wing bloc.
Egypt is seeking large volumes of gas from global markets this summer with deferred payments of up to six months, terms that market sources said would narrow the list of bidders and increase premiums at a time of high competing demand from Asia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday that strengthening strategic ties is "one of his priorities" as he continued a swing through Asia seen as a show of defiance.
Negotiators in the deal for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, as well as a senior official in the U.S. who is privy to the details of American intelligence, told the Wall Street Journal newspaper that the number of hostages still alive may be as low as 50.
A weakened South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Wednesday that his new multi-party government would work to improve basic living conditions for all citizens as he was sworn in for a second term in office.
Relatives of pilgrims reported missing during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia searched hospitals on Wednesday, fearing the worst after more than 900 pilgrims died, mostly due to the extreme heat.
Iran condemned Canada's listing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization as "an unwise and unconventional politically-motivated step," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Canadian government announced the addition of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to its list of terrorist entities.
The U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday it had conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed a senior Islamic State official and facilitator named Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim al-Janabi.
Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took turns to drive each other around in a Russian-built Aurus limousine on Wednesday after the Kremlin said Putin had gifted one of the luxury vehicles to Kim.
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