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Rescue effort under way after boat carrying 18 people capsizes in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands.

Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency.

Dozens of rescuers and two boats were at the site of the disaster on Tuesday, and seven of the 18 people on board the boat have been rescued, the agency said in a statement.

The vessel…

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says US farmers have been ‘crushed’ by unfair trade practices.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced that it will impose a 17 percent tariff on fresh tomatoes from Mexico, scrapping a three-decade-old agreement to spare the produce from anti-dumping duties.

The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement on Monday came as the clock ticked down for Mexico to reach an across-the-board trade deal with the US…

Here are the key events on day 1,237 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Tuesday, July 15:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern regions of Kharkiv and Sumy, killing at least one person and wounding 21 others, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing local authorities.
• The Ukrainian Red Cross said the attacks also damaged buildings in Sumy, including an educational and medical facility.
• The death toll from Russian attacks on Ukraine on…

Makers of Sesame Street blame an unknown hacker for slew of offensive social media posts.

The makers of Sesame Street have deleted a slew of offensive social media posts after hackers hijacked the puppet Elmo’s X account to launch a tirade about Jews and Jeffrey Epstein.

The posts on Elmo’s account on Sunday called for the extermination of Jewish people, referred to United States President Donald Trump as a “puppet” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the release…

Israeli forces have continued to pound the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 72 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, as ceasefire talks stall amid a deepening fuel and hunger crisis.

An Israeli attack near an aid distribution point in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least five people who were seeking aid on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The killings raised the death toll of Palestinians killed near aid sites run by the controversial Israeli and…

Court reverses lower court ruling that said large staff cuts would effectively hamstring the Education Department.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can proceed with plans to slash funding and resources for the federal Department of Education.

The conservative-majority court ruled on Monday that the government could move forward with plans to lay off nearly 1,400 employees as part of Trump’s push to effectively dismantle the…

Officials from California, New York, Kentucky and 20 other states allege the US administration acted unconstitutionally.

Two dozen states have sued the administration of United States President Donald Trump after the federal government froze $6.8bn in education funding.

On Monday, a group of 23 attorneys general and two governors filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island arguing that the decision to halt funds approved by the US Congress was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, and…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- At least 15 Israeli soldiers have killed themselves since the start of 2024, according to Haaretz. Since the Gaza genocide began, that number has risen to 43, with most cases involving reserve soldiers overwhelmed by battlefield horrors.

Israeli social media accounts bypassing military censorship reported the latest suicide on Monday. A soldier reportedly killed himself inside a military base in northern occupied Palestine. It marks the third…