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Singapore (AFP) – Singapore’s two adult pandas will stay in the city-state after their zoo signed an agreement with Chinese authorities to extend their 10-year loan.

Buenos Aires (AFP) – After a man pointed a gun at Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner, President Alberto Fernandez calls the attempted attack the “most serious thing that has happened since we restored our democracy”, and claims Kirchner is only alive by chance. “The gun, which had five bullets in it, did not fire even though the trigger had been pulled” he adds.

Berlin (AFP) – German Finance Minister Christian Lindner announces that the G7 group of countries will move towards the implementation of a price cap on Russian oil imports, in order to stop Moscow from raking in huge profits from soaring energy prices.

Chengdu (China) (AFP) – Residents in the Chinese city of Chengdu formed long queues on Thursday to be tested for Covid-19, while the city’s street market was crowded with shoppers stocking up on food, after the megacity announced a shutdown to combat a new wave of infections.

Philadelphia (AFP) – US President Joe Biden took fierce aim Thursday at Donald Trump and his “extremist” supporters, labeling them enemies of American democracy in a prime-time address that sought to fire up voters ahead of key midterm elections.

Irpin (Ukraine) (AFP) – As children across Ukraine get back to school, President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a surprise appearance to visit a classroom in Irpin – whose school building was bombed back in March in the Russian invasion.

Paris (AFP) – Speaking to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron says preserving European unity is key in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, as “the division of Europe is one of Russia’s war aims”.

London (AFP) – Conservators at the British Museum in London have revealed eight pieces of ancient glassware that they have repaired after they were shattered in the Beirut port blast of 4 August 2020.

In space (AFP) – The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new picture released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The infrared technology of the telescope, launched in December 2021, has allowed for an even clearer view of the so-called Phantom Galaxy than astronomers had ever seen before.

Stuttgart (Germany) (AFP) – The last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who introduced historic reforms but presided over the collapse of the Soviet empire, died in Russia on Tuesday at the age of 91. Mikhaïl Gorbatchev