Tigst Assefa broke the women’s world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for the fifth time but couldn’t break his own record. Ethiopian runner Assefa, the winner in Berlin a year ago, ran the race in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women’s record of 2:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.
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Gas station explosion injures dozens in Russia’s Dagestan region
At least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured when a fire caused an explosion at a gas station in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan. Russia’s emergency situations ministry said the blaze started at a car repair shop on Monday night then spread to the nearby fuel station on the outskirts of Dagestan’s capital of Makhachkal.
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The EU Sanctions Tajikistan : “Paper Tiger” or “Snow Leopard”
European Parliament members have strongly condemned ongoing repression by the authorities of Tajikistan against journalists, activists and protesters in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). A history of violence escalated extending several years, following confrontational events in November 2021 and May 2022 where dozens of civilians were killed. The European Parliament has since passed a resolution on 7 July 2022. European deputies called on the Tajik government to “put an end to repression against the residents of GBAO”.
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Russia will move towards the abolition of visas with Caribbean countries
Equal and mutually beneficial economic cooperation is a goal during the third day of a meeting at the First International Parliamentary Conference Russia – Latin America. Director of the Latin American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Shchetinin said that Russia will move towards the abolition of visas with Caribbean countries.
