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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a historic visit Friday to Ukraine, a month and a half after he traveled to Moscow to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin. Officials in India and Ukraine have said the visit will focus on boosting economic ties and cooperation in defense, science and technology. But analysts say the visit could also be an attempt to have India strike a more neutral stance after what has been seen as a lean toward Russia, given Modi’s recent Moscow visit, his country’s historic, Cold War-era relationship with Russia…

Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said Democrats need to hold the White House and win majorities in both the House and Senate to defend democracy against Republicans led by former President Donald Trump, a belief that underscored her concerns about President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. While reiterating she thinks Biden is a “very, very consequential president,” she hinted many of his accomplishments were in jeopardy if he continued his presidential bid against Trump. “I wanted very much to protect his legacy … and what it meant to the American people,” Pelosi said at an appearance at the…

China is seriously concerned about a report that said the United Stated approved a nuclear strategic plan to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday. “The U.S. is peddling the China nuclear threat narrative, finding excuses to seek strategic advantage,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said. According to a report by the New York Times, U.S. President Joe Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan that focused on China’s quickly growing arsenal, but also seeks to prepare the U.S for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and…

Created by Darren Star, the featherlight Netflix series Emily in Paris unsurprisingly has plenty in common with Star’s earlier iconic show Sex and the City. From the annoying protagonist, to the obsession with the City of Light, to the fashion – SATC costume designer Patricia Field worked on the first two seasons of Emily – the two shows share many of the same themes. And this season, Emily in Paris takes another page out from its forebear, as it addresses sexual harassment in the fashion world. Many years before either Emily in Paris or, indeed, the #MeToo movement, SATC protagonist Carrie Bradshaw was sexually harassed…

Women’s Open first-round leaderboard -5 C Hull (Eng); -4 N Korda (US), R Yin (Chn); -3 A Lee (US), L Vu (US), M-H Lee (Kor), J Shin (Kor), P Tavatanakit (Tha), M Saigo (Jpn); -2 H-J Kim (Kor), M Osato (Jpn) Selected others: -1 G Hall (Eng); E L Woad (Eng*); +1 L Maguire (Ire), B Law (Eng); +5 C Matthew (Sco) England’s Charley Hull shot a superb five-under-par 67 to lead the Women’s Open after the opening round at St Andrews. The 28-year-old hit four birdies on the back nine at at the Old Course and leads by one stroke from American Nelly Korda and China’s Ruoning Yin. Hull is seeking her first…

Democrats have rejected demands from demonstrators to allow a Palestinian to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Uncommitted delegates – who oppose US support of Israel’s war in Gaza – began a sit-in protest just outside of the arena doors on Wednesday night. But by 18:00 local time on Thursday – the deadline protesters had set to hear from Kamala Harris’s campaign – activists said they had not received a response to their requests for a Palestinian to be allowed to take the stage. The sit-in protest on the final night of the convention came as thousands of…

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is showing some love for Taylor Swift supporters in Austria. On Wednesday, the band kicked off the first of four concerts at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium where Martin, along with singer Maggie Rogers, sang an acoustic cover of Swift’s 2008 hit “Love Story.” According to video footage posted on social media, Martin also invited “two genuine Swifties” on stage while he and Rogers performed the song.“We sing this song with so much love for Taylor and so much love for Swifties,” Martin told the audience. Coldplay appears to be the first major act to headline a concert at the Austrian…

Moderna and Pfizer said updated mRNA shots will be available in pharmacies and clinics in the days ahead. “Vaccination continues to be the cornerstone of COVID-19 prevention,” Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a statement. “These updated vaccines meet the agency’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality. Given waning immunity of the population from previous exposure to the virus and from prior vaccination, we strongly encourage those who are eligible to consider receiving an updated COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants.” A CVS representative…

Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a strategically important location, amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly. Communities in and around Pokrovsk are being urged to flee within the next two weeks as Russian forces push forward – which comes despite Ukraine’s own incursion into Russian territory that has taken Moscow by surprise. On Thursday, Russia insisted it had thwarted another Ukrainian attempt to push into the border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine continues to make advances into the Kursk region. In Ukraine’s Donetsk region, children with their parents…

Kamala Harris has helped America see joy and now she needs to make America see a president. Her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night will represent her most exacting test yet in a dizzying month that rocketed her to the threshold of an historic presidency that could reshape American politics. The vice president will offer the country a new beginning and a chance to move to a different place — beyond the prolonged funk brewed by years of Donald Trump’s dark rhetoric and public exhaustion after a once-in-a-century pandemic and consequent and punishing high prices. More broadly, she’s proposing to restore the elusive…