NewsNews overnight: Kamala Harris backed for president; Biden shifts nuclear strategy

News overnight: Kamala Harris backed for president; Biden shifts nuclear strategy

Here’s what happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what the world agencies reported from Tuesday to Wednesday night.

It happened at night. Democrats chose Harris.
It happened at night. Democrats chose Harris.
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Maciej Zubel

  • Five thousand delegates at the Democratic Party’s election convention in Chicago symbolically cast their votes to approve Kamala Harris’s nomination as the candidate for the office of President of the USA. The binding vote of the delegates was held virtually at the beginning of August.
  • US President Joe Biden approved a highly classified strategic plan regarding nuclear weapons, which for the first time shifts Washington’s strategy to deter China, which is expanding its nuclear arsenal.
  • A ship sailing on the Parana River in Argentina was quarantined near Rosario due to suspected monkeypox (mpox) infection in a crew member.
  • Over 12.4 miles of trails were closed by police in Madeira due to a fire raging for a week, which tourists were trying to approach.
  • The Mexican association representing over 1,400 judges announced that they are joining the indefinite, nationwide strike against the judicial reform proposed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
  • During a conference in Guayaquil, the President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, called on Latin American countries to “jointly oppose the growing power of organised crime” in this part of the world.
  • Over 80 skulls and other human remains, taken to Sweden 150 years ago for racial research purposes, were returned to a church near Tampere. The skulls were transported from the Karolinska Institute in Solna by ship to Finland.

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