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Highlights and best moments of Stage 4 Tour de France 2025
Thanks! We're off! Our coverage of stage 4 of the Tour de France 2025 with 174,2 km course between Amiens Métropole and Rouen comes to an end. Thanks for joining us! Stay tuned to VAVEL.com to keep up to date with the world of sports. Next stage...

BRICS strengthens role of African countries in tackling global issues — Russian senator
MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. The BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro underscored the significance of the organization and showed that African countries are fully engaged in the process of solving international problems, Ivan Novikov, the member of the...

BRICS in a multipolar world: Rio declaration charts bold course for global south leadership
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JULY 6: China's Premier Li Qiang, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto during Lula speech...

Lithium-ion battery fires jump 162% in Toronto over 2 years, city says
Toronto The number of fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries has more than doubled in the span of two years, according to the city. Between 2022 and 2024 the number of fires jumped from 29 to 76. Attempts to modify lithium-ion batteries at the...

Why is Journalist's Day celebrated across Latin America?
They go by names such as National Journalist Day, Press Day, or Journalist and Media Worker Day. And they’re observed on the date the first national newspaper was printed, the date journalists were killed for criticizing dictatorships, or the date...
58 Visa-Free Destinations For Indian Passport Holders This Summer
Looking to travel this summer as an Indian passport holder? Good news, Indian travelers can visit up to 58 destinations visa-free. The top destinations are placed throughout Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Aside from these...

Mike Yardley: Flying LATAM Airlines to South America
LATAM, Latin America’s leading airline group, connects Auckland to Santiago and beyond. I recently travelled to Ecuador and the Galapagos with LATAM Airlines. From New Zealand, there is no quick and easy route, but LATAM jetted me all the way to...

Quinoa Explained: Nutrition, Cooking Guidelines, And Regular Makes Use Of
Once a staple crop of the historical Incas, quinoa has re-emerged as a global superfood in recent years. Technically a seed but organized like a grain, quinoa gives a completely unique mixture of vitamins, such as all nine vital amino acids,...

Tinubu Urges BRICS to Rethink Global Governance Structure, Finance, Health
•Trump threatens extra 10% tariffs on BRICS’ allies DejiElumoyeand Michael Olugbode in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has called for a re-evaluation of the current global governance structure, as well as the financial and healthcare systems, urging...

Rio Declaration: BRICS calls for more equitable global order
Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the BRICS countries released the Final Declaration of the 17th Summit this Sunday (Jul. 6), highlighting the “importance of the Global South as an engine of positive change, especially in the face of significant...

Anti-U.S. BRICS Holds Biggest, and Most Toothless, Summit Yet
The BRICS security and trade coalition is concluding its annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, publishing a “declaration” notably missing some of the most strident anti-American policies it previously promoted, including the creation...

BRICS countries stand united that attacks on civilians unacceptable — Lavrov
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7. /TASS/. BRICS nations are in consensus that attacks on the civilian population and civilian facilities are inadmissible, committing this understanding to paper in their Rio de Janeiro summit declaration, Russian Foreign...

PM’s participation at BRICS Summit affirms Vietnam’s rising global standing: ambassador
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam’s participation in the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro highlights the country's growing global role and sets the stage for deeper future cooperation, said Vietnamese ambassador to Brazil Bùi Văn Nghị. The diplomat was speaking to...

Highlights and sets Djokovic vs De Minaur (1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4) in Wimbledon
Set 4: Novak Djokovic (6-4) POINT, SET AND GAME! Novak Djokovic wins with a triple 6-4 after having lost the first set 1-6 to Álex De Minaur, a worthy and great rival who knew how to make the Serb uncomfortable at several moments of the match, but...
PAHO says Measles cases rise in the Americas in 2025
A total of 7,132 confirmed cases of measles and 13 deaths have been reported in the Region of the Americas as of mid-June 2025, according to the latest epidemiological update from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This represents a...
I Remember It, Well….
Fame is fleeting. We may be a Facebook celebrity today with ‘likes’ in the six digits, only to find as time goes by that the balance is shifting daily as we fade into the oblivion from which we emerged. Pretty much the same phenomenon is...

New archpriest of St. Mary Major has inspiring background
The Lithuanian has served in various roles, from Vatican diplomacy to the Secretariat of State, and has effectively been running St. Mary Major since 2021. Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas has succeeded Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko as archpriest of the...

BRICS condemns attacks on Iran, Gaza war, Trump tariffs: Key takeaways
Leaders of the BRICS bloc have sharply rebuked the United States and Israeli bombardments of Iran in June, calling them a “blatant breach of international law” while voicing strong support for the creation of a Palestinian state. But their joint...

Death in the Air
So long have serial killers been a staple of American popular entertainment—films (Zodiac, Se7en, Badlands, Natural Born Killers, The Silence of the Lambs, Monster, Longlegs), TV series (Dexter, Criminal Minds, True Detective, The Fall,...

President Cyril Ramaphosa Arrives In Brazil To Participate In XVII BRICS Summit
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo President Cyril Ramaphosa will, at the invitation of His Excellency Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, attend the XVII BRICS Summit from 6 to 7 July 2025 in...