Republican who voted against Donald Trump&s bill won&t run again

Republican senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said yesterday he will not seek re-election next year, an abrupt announcement that came one day after he staked out his opposition to president Donald Trump&s tax breaks and spending cuts package because of its reductions to health care programmes.

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Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill over 50 as ceasefire calls mount
GAZA CITY - Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 51 people, including 24 at a seafront rest area, as fresh calls grow for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
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France expecting peak temperatures as heatwave hits Europe
PARIS - Paris was on red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heatwave gripped Europe.
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Southern Europe roasts as temperatures soar
ROME - Spain and Portugal reported record temperatures Monday as Italy and France braced for several more days of a punishing heatwave that has gripped southern Europe and Britain, sparking health and wildfire warnings.
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Twenty bodies, some headless, found in Mexican cartel bastion
CULIACAN, Mexico - The bodies of 20 people, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said on Monday.
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NGO loses bid to block UK export of military equipment to Israel
LONDON - The High Court in London rejected a legal challenge on Monday brought by a Palestinian rights group seeking to block the UK from supplying components for Israeli F-35 fighter jets.
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