World Briefs: Zelenskyy: Russia should attend next peace summit
KYIV—Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday he aimed to have a plan ready in November to enable Kyiv to hold a second international summit on his vision of peace in Ukraine, and he said representatives of Russia should attend. Ukraine hosted a first summit in Switzerland last month but Russia was not invited. He made the remarks after returning from a visit to Washington for a NATO summit last week.
—REUTERS
Doctored images of Trump shooting exposed
Images of Donald Trump and Secret Service agents smiling on stage in the immediate aftermath of the shooting during his campaign rally in Pennsylvania have surfaced and have been debunked as altered. The fake images were shared to support claims that the assassination attempt had been “staged” as a ploy to boost Trump’s popularity in November’s election. The original photographs were captured by an Associated Press photographer and show Trump and the agents with serious facial expressions.
—REUTERS
World’s rarest whale washes up in New Zealand
WELLINGTON—The body of a spade-toothed whale—a species so rare it has never been seen alive—appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach, scientists say. The remains of the obscure, five-meter long, beaked creature were found near a river mouth in southern Otago province on July 4, government researchers said. It was identified by experts from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation and the national museum as a male spade-toothed whale.
—AFP
