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UKRAINE WAR IAEA experts en route to Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear plant in Ukraine

EFE |
Lviv, Ukraine
A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency is on its way to the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine to carry out an assessment of the complex after agreeing security guarantees from Moscow and Kyiv, the director general Rafael Grossi said Wednesday.
UKRAINE WAR TOURISM EU to suspend visa agreement with Russia

EFE |
Prague
European Union foreign ministers on Wednesday agreed to suspend a visa facilitation agreement with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
PAKISTAN FLOODS Vulnerable Pakistan has seen decades of fatal flooding

EFE |
New Delhi
Hit by the worst floods in years with at least 1,100 deaths, Pakistan has for decades lived under the yoke of climatic disasters that have claimed tens of thousands of lives and inflicted incalculable economic losses.
AFGHANISTAN US Taliban mark US withdrawal 1st anniversary with fireworks, military parade

EFE |
Kabul
The Taliban Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan with a military parade at the sprawling Bagram airbase that served as the nerve center of the 20-year war against the Islamist militia.
SPAIN TOMATINA Spain’s iconic tomato fight returns after pandemic pause

EFE |
Buñol, Spain
The deep red flesh and juice of 130,000 kilograms of tomatoes coated thousands of revelers and inundated the streets of Buñol Wednesday as Spain’s iconic Tomatina festival returned following a thousand-day hiatus due to the pandemic.
US RAINS US president declares emergency in Mississippi over water crisis

EFE |
Washington DC
United States President Joe Biden declared Tuesday an emergency in the state of Mississippi over a water crisis after a water pump failed following several days of heavy rains.
RUSSIA GORBACHEV Mikhail Gorbachev dies

EFE | Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last person to lead the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991, died here Tuesday, RIA Novosti news agency said. He was 91.
IRAQ POLITICS Iraqi Shiite cleric orders loyalists to withdraw after deadly clashes

EFE | Baghdad
Iraq's influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday ordered his followers to withdraw from Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone after deadly clashes left at least 35 dead and hundreds wounded.
PAKISTAN FLOODS Pakistan, UN launch aid appeal for flood victims

EFE | Islamabad
The Pakistan government and the United Nations on Tuesday jointly launched a flood response plan making a flash appeal of $160 million for more than 33 million victims of the natural disaster.

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