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A powerful explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, rattling windows and sending smoke billowing from Kabul's downtown area near the US Embassy. The explosion occurred as the streets were packed with morning commuters. Kabul's chief police spokesman, Firdous Faramaz, could only confirm the explosion, but was unclear on the target or the type of explosive device. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xjpf6X

Trump travelled to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) with South Korean President Moon Jae-In and met with troops stationed there before meeting Kim at a marker delineating the border between the two states. Trump became the only sitting US president to set foot inside North Korea when he crossed the demarcation line. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XebL7q

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and opposition leader Juan Guaido's team will restart negotiations to try to resolve the country's crisis, three people familiar with the talks said on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XbeQWa

China and the United States will face a long road before they can reach a deal to end their bitter trade war, with more fights ahead likely, Chinese state media said after the two countries' presidents held ice-breaking talks in Japan. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Yk1vvL

Trump was to visit the DMZ — widely referred to as the world's last remaining Cold War frontier — with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a day after extending his invitation to Kim on Twitter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XeMXfz

US President Donald Trump said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had "a good feeling" and "a good relationship" and he hoped to meet him at the Demilitarized Zone border dividing the two Koreas later on Sunday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KM2iCL

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Singapore joins dozens of other cities around the world in celebrating gay pride this weekend but it is the only one where gay sex is criminalised, although the law is not enforced. The gay pride rally has been held since 2009 under stringent public assembly laws at Speakers' Corner, an area set aside for demonstrations, performances and exhibitions for citizens and permanent residents only. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2IVhM58

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin have announced new initiatives to further expand economic ties and tourist exchanges between the two nations, but have made no visible progress on a decades-long territorial dispute. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2X9gPtN

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that US companies could sell equipment to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, indicating a potentially softer position on a key sticking point in the US-China trade war. "US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei," Trump told reporters in Osaka hours after sealing a tariff truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XboGXK

France's new record temperature of 45.9 degrees C was registered on Friday in Gallargues-le-Montueux, a village in the southern department of Gard near Montpellier, breaking successive records set earlier in the day. France is just the seventh European country to register a plus 45-degree temperature, along with Bulgaria, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece and North Macedonia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2JcxFmF

US President Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Saturday after inviting Kim Jong Un, the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, to an impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula. Air Force One touched down at Osan air base south of the capital. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xdh9b4

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Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats. "All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in one lawsuit. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KMSjxc

PM Imran Khan is scheduled to visit the US on a maiden trip on July 20 during which he will meet US Prez Donald Trump, according to a media report. The trip, originally planned in June, was postponed because of the PM's prior domestic engagements, especially due to federal budget 2019. Relations between Pak and the US have remained tense during Trump's tenure. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XBNRaw

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Thanks to a rock-solid performance Thursday in the first Democratic debate of the 2020 cycle, the US senator from California has now catapulted back into the top tier. Her suddenly viable candidacy is noteworthy in the era of Donald Trump: as a black American daughter of immigrants, Harris may well be the American dream incarnate, mounting a challenge to a president whom many Democrats denounce as the nation's divider in chief. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KLmsN0

The young royal has faced international pressure after US-based writer was killed and dismembered in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul last year. "You have done a spectacular job," Trump told the powerful crown prince as the pair met on the sidelines of the G20 summit, referring to him as "a friend of mine". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Yn53h4

Oscar Martinez, 25, and, Angie Valeria, just shy of 2 years old, died on June 23 as they were attempting to cross the river between Mexico and the United States. A photo of the two drowned migrants caught them face-down in the reeds of the river's trash-strewn shore. The little girl, in red tights swollen by a water-logged diaper, is entwined in her father's T-shirt, a small arm stretched across his neck as if in a final embrace. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FFeHV1

Ivanka Trump, adviser to Prez Trump, at a special session on women empowerment at G20 Summit described improving the status of women as "smart economic and defence policy." Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, the UN secretary-general's special advocate for inclusive finance for development, said: "it is really necessary to close this gap for women to be economically empowered." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XbSHfb

The spectacular invitation on Twitter caught observers by surprise. If Kim accepts, it would be the third meeting between the leaders of the two former enemies amid efforts to denuclearise the Korean peninsula. "After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon)," tweeted Trump. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KOzYPZ

Diplomats meeting in Vienna made "one step forward" in efforts to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but the outcome "was still not enough", Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Friday. Referring to Iran's decision to stop abiding by certain limits on nuclear materials under the deal, Araghchi said: "The decision to reduce our commitments has already been made in Iran and we continue on that process unless our expectations are met." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Yj1d8t

China said on Friday it would import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on Tehran, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes. "We reject the unilateral imposition of sanctions," said Fu Cong, director general of the Chinese foreign ministry's department of arms control. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XahUlg

British Prime Minister Theresa May told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that normal relations will not be restored until Moscow ends its "irresponsible and destabilising" activity, a Downing Street spokesperson said. The comments came as May met Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan's Osaka, their first formal face-to-face since the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal last year from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Lo3sUs

According to the report, the Iraqi diplomat was told the attack by Iraqi protesters on the Bahraini Embassy in Baghdad was "an irresponsible behavior that is strongly rejected.'' from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KLXDRl

Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Christian Cambon said Friday that both France and the European Union reject Turkey's actions. According to the Cyprus News Agency, Cambon said France will protect energy company Total's licensed gas search off Cyprus. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xa5Y31

A 17-year-old harvest worker has died from heat stroke in Spain, local authorities said, in the first known death related to the record heatwave currently raging in Spain and large parts of Europe. The youth suddenly felt dizzy and took a dip in a swimming pool but suffered convulsions when he got out and collapsed, the regional government of Andalusia in southern Spain said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xg1c92

Wang, 43, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison in January for "subverting state power" following a closed-door trial. A prominent lawyer who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, Wang vanished in a sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities known as the "709" clampdown because the arrests started on July 9, 2015. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XzBk7f

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A Whitehall memo seen by the paper said the department asked for the footage to be cut, saying it would make Anglo-French relations "awkward" and make Brexit negotiations more difficult. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XbZPrP

President Donald Trump came face to face with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Friday for the first time since the special counsel found extensive evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US election. When asked if he would warn Russia not to meddle in the next election, Trump wore a bit of a smile, pointed his finger at Putin and dryly said: "Don't meddle in the election, plz." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2YhYLPD

Govts warned citizens to take extra precautions, with the week-long heatwave causing a build-up of pollution and fears of an increase in emergency calls across Europe. French meteorologists have forecast temperatures that may exceed 45 C on Friday, a high never seen in mainland France. Meanwhile, Spain battled with a wildfire that led temperature to reach up to 42 C. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RFfj1C

Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, said the issue of race was deeply personal for her and looked straight at Biden to challenge him to explain himself. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RJXSx0

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NATO allies gave the US no firm commitments that they will participate in a global effort to secure international waterways against threats from Iran, acting defense secretary Mark Esper said. He said the US will come back next month and provide reluctant allies more details on exactly how the Iranian threat has escalated in recent months. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KFP4rh