Speaker 1: Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today is Monday, the seventh of
Speaker 1: July twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa today, the United
Speaker 1: Nations HIV AIDS Agency Director Winnie Byanyima has said that
Speaker 1: she expects the number of deaths caused by AIDS to
Speaker 1: multiply over the next four years because of massive cuts
Speaker 1: in funding from the United States. Yannima, who is from Uganda,
Speaker 1: told The Guardian that seeing the impact of the cuts
Speaker 1: made by the government of Donald Trump has been the
Speaker 1: worst experience of her life. Last week, a United Nations
Speaker 1: report said that the abolition of USAID risks causing forty
Speaker 1: seen million deaths over the next five years, with four
Speaker 1: million of these caused by AIDS. In Kenya, the family
Speaker 1: of a police officer who disappeared while working in Haiti
Speaker 1: are demanding information about what happened to him. Some local
Speaker 1: reports from Haiti say that Benedict Courier died when his
Speaker 1: group were attacked by gang members. However, Kenya's police say
Speaker 1: that they are still searching for him. Kenya is leading
Speaker 1: an international mission to help the Haitian government retake control
Speaker 1: of Haiti, which is largely controlled by gangs. Most of
Speaker 1: the international force is made up of Kenyan police officers Americas.
Speaker 1: In the United States, at least seventy people have died
Speaker 1: and more are missing in floods in Texas. The flash
Speaker 1: floods mostly happened on Saturday, when extreme rain caused the
Speaker 1: Guadaloupe River to overflow and flood many low lying areas.
Speaker 1: Also in the United States, the world's richest person, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: has started his own political party called the America Party.
Speaker 1: Colombia's police say that they have arrested a man who
Speaker 1: convinced a fifteen year old boy to shoot the Senator
Speaker 1: Miguel Uribe one month ago, who remains in a serious
Speaker 1: condition in hospital. Police say that Elder Hernandez is charged
Speaker 1: with attempted homicide and use of miners for the commission
Speaker 1: of crimes. In Peru, there has been anger at the
Speaker 1: decision to double the salary of President Dina Bolvarte, despite
Speaker 1: her having historically low approval ratings, with some polls showing
Speaker 1: only two percent of people support her. The new salary
Speaker 1: is thirty five thousand, five hundred solis per month, which
Speaker 1: is around eight thousand five hundred euros Asia and Oceania.
Speaker 1: In India, thousands of people took part in a celebration
Speaker 1: of the Dalai Lama's ninetieth birthday this weekend. The fourteenth
Speaker 1: Dalai Lama was born in nineteen thirty five in Tibet
Speaker 1: and was recognized as the Dalai Lama when he was four.
Speaker 1: He has been in exile in India since nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 1: nine years after the communist Chinese forces took control of Tibet.
Speaker 1: The United States. Actor Richard Gere, who is a Buddhist
Speaker 1: and has been an advocate of Tibetan rights for decades
Speaker 1: and is banned from China, was at the celebration in Daramshala.
Speaker 2: We're here in Damsala to celebrate his Solidness's ninetieth birthday
Speaker 2: and his good health and his strength and his compassion.
Speaker 1: Israeli airstrikes killed at least thirty eight people in Gaza yesterday,
Speaker 1: according to hospitals. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected
Speaker 1: to visit US President Trump in Washington today, and indirect
Speaker 1: talks between Israel and Hamas are expected to take place
Speaker 1: today in Katar. In Australia, a synagogue was deliberately set
Speaker 1: on fire in Melbourne on Friday night. The twenty people
Speaker 1: inside were all able to escape without injury, and a
Speaker 1: thirty four year old man has been arrested. Police said
Speaker 1: there has been a sharp rise in anti Semitic incidents
Speaker 1: in Australia since the start of the Gaza War. A
Speaker 1: Jewish restaurant was also vandalized on Friday. Home Affairs Minister
Speaker 1: Tony Burke said that the attack on the Sine was
Speaker 1: an attack on Australia.
Speaker 2: What we see in the door that's behind me is
Speaker 2: an attack on Australia. That's what it is. The community
Speaker 2: here was harmed, the Jewish community in Australia was harmed,
Speaker 2: and we were harmed as a nation. There were three
Speaker 2: attacks that night and none of them belonged in Australia Europe.
Speaker 1: In the United Kingdom, airport staff are receiving cash bonuses
Speaker 1: for charging customers extra for bringing cabin bags that are
Speaker 1: too big onto planes, according to the British newspaper The
Speaker 1: Sunday Times. Journalists for The Times said that since November
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, staff working for EasyJet have been earning
Speaker 1: one pound twenty in commission for each person who they
Speaker 1: were able to catch with a cabin bag bigger than
Speaker 1: is allowed, EasyJet charges the customer forty eight pounds about
Speaker 1: fifty five euros. The Netherlands and Germany's military intelligence agencies
Speaker 1: have said that Russia is frequently using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Dutch Defense Minister Reuben Breegelmanns said that there should be
Speaker 1: more sanctions on Russia because of the constant use of
Speaker 1: chemical weapons, saying quote, Russia's use of chemical weapons in
Speaker 1: this war is becoming more normalized, standardized and widespread. In Italy,
Speaker 1: an explosion at a petrol station in Rome has injured
Speaker 1: over forty people, with two men in a life threatening condition.
Speaker 1: Many of the injured people are firefighters and police because
Speaker 1: they were attending the scene to attempt to extinguish a fire.
Speaker 1: And in France, the River sen In in Paris has
Speaker 1: been opened for swimming for the first time in over
Speaker 1: one hundred years. Swimming in the seen had been banned
Speaker 1: since nineteen twenty three because of poor hygiene. However, measures
Speaker 1: were taken to improve the quality of the water for
Speaker 1: Olympic swimming events last year and have continued, including improving
Speaker 1: water treatment facilities and eliminating ways in which sewage water
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