Europe

STRASBOURG, France, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Ursula von der Leyen was elected to be the next president of the European Commission on Tuesday with a slim majority.

PARIS (AP) — Finance officials from the Group of Seven rich democracies will weigh risks from new digital currencies and debate how to tax tech companies like Google and Amazon when they meet at a chateau north of Paris starting Wednesday.

Those issues, raised by the impact of digitalization on the world economy, are at the top of the agenda for a two-day gathering hosted by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and including U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

London, Jul 16 (AFP/PTI) The two candidates vying to become Britain's next prime minister both condemned on Monday US President Donald Trump's xenophobic tweets about progressive Democrat congresswomen as "totally offensive" and "totally unacceptable".

But front-runner Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt refused to call the tweets racist when pressed to do so during their last debate before next week's announcement of who will succeed Prime Minister Theresa May.

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/: Over 5,000 servicemen from 200 teams will take part in the 2019 International Army Games (ARMI-2019), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"The 2019 Army Games will include 32 competitions on the territory of 10 countries (Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Iran, India, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan). Over 5,000 servicemen from over 200 teams will take part in the games," the defense ministry said.

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/: The press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry has confirmed that a light aircraft had fallen on a single-family house in a village in Chechnya.

"At 07:58 Moscow time, a report came that a light aircraft had fallen on a single-family house in the village of Novoshchedrinskaya in Chechnya’s Shelkovskoy District for an unknown reason, there was no fire. According to preliminary data, four people have been injured," the ministry said.

SEVASTOPOL, July 16. /TASS/: Ukraine’s threats to destroy the Crimean Bridge are unrealistic because its army’s capabilities are only enough to conduct military exercises against an imaginary enemy, Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) deputy Dmitry Belik, who represents the Crimean city of Sevastopol, told TASS on Tuesday.

16 July 2019; DW: An investigation into far-right extremist groups in Italy led to the police finding an air-to-air missile, machine guns and rocket launchers. The huge weapons haul was almost without precedent, authorities said.

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained two members of the Islamic State terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in the Rostov Region, the FSB Public Relations Center informed TASS.

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/: Russian Ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova will discuss the issues of mutual protection of citizens' rights and dialogue between human rights bodies with her Ukrainian counterpart Lyudmila Denisova, Moskalkova’s official website reported on Monday.

The announcement pointed out that the Russian Ombudswoman had arrived in Kiev on July 15 to support RIA Novosti Ukraine Editor-in-Chief Kirill Vyshinsky at his hearing.

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/: Tehran is reducing its commitments to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in order to launch a diplomatic mechanism to save the nuclear deal, Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Behrouz Kamalvandi said on Monday.

"We are taking these steps not out of stubbornness but in order to give a chance to diplomacy," he said, as cited by Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). According to Kamalvandi, "other participants in the deal should resume compliance."