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The leaders have made a call for a ceasefire in Gaza, BRICS countries, including Presidents of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but, perhaps most importantly, they discussed an alternative, non-Western payment system.

Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain on April 23, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus.

University of Oxford researchers gave injections to volunteers in a study that eventually aims to include hundreds in hopes of telling not only if the vaccine is safe but if it works. 

The pilot of a helicopter that went down in New York's East River Sunday is the sole survivor of the crash, after all five passengers died, authorities say, quoted by CNN. 

Three of the passengers had been taken to hospital with critical injuries after surviving the crash, but the New York City Fire Department confirmed their deaths early Monday.

Police and witnesses say a man deliberately drove a rented truck onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring at least 12 others, then emerged from the vehicle screaming and brandishing imitation firearms before being shot by police. The suspect was wounded and taken into custody, reports cbsnews. 

Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein accused British Prime Minister Theresa May on July 5 of setting the peace process back decades after a further delay in talks to form a new government for the province.

Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Fein's leader, said an agreement between May and the Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs in the London parliament to prop up her minority government was at fault.

Jack O’Neill, a Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit, has died.

Mr O’Neill died of natural causes Friday at his Santa Cruz, California home, his family said in a statement. He was 94.

Investigators are trying to figure out why an armed veteran slipped through a side door of a federal building in New York City, fatally shooting a security guard before killing himself.
                 

Members of the Advantage Travel Partnerships, the UK?s largest independent travel agency partnership, will hold their annual conference in the Aegean province of Bodrum through May 15-18.