MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/: A drone fell down in the Daraganovka farm near Taganrog in Russia’s southern Rostov Region, damaging a one0family house and a car, the region’s governor Vasily Golubev said on Sunday.

"An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in Daraganovka farm. As a result, the roof of a one-family house and a car were damaged. No one was hurt," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the governor, Russian defense ministry specialists are working on the site to identify who this drone belonged to.

DHAKA, Jul 30 (NNN-BSS) – Police in Dhaka, yesterday fought with opposition protestors, with teargas and rubber bullets.

In a protest, demanding Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, the opposition protestors gathered in the morning to block traffic on key arterial routes in the capital.

Television footage showed the police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the gatherings and drove the protesters away from the streets.

KABUL, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's state-run Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) has launched Chinese service and begun releasing news in the Chinese language, the state media outlet said on Sunday.

The Chinese news service, according to the BNA, began in July and the media outlet releases Afghanistan's domestic news, China-related news and world news in the Chinese language regularly.

GAZA, Jul 30 (NNN-WAFA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), needs to raise millions of dollars, to bridge its deficit before the end of 2023, a UNRWA official said, yesterday.

Adnan Abu Hasna, the UN agency’s media advisor, told reporters in Gaza City that, the agency needs more support to fund health, education, relief, and other programmes for Palestinian refugees.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of cars to a temporary anchorage location off the northern Dutch coast on Sunday after smoke pouring from the stricken vessel eased, authorities said.

On Saturday night, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management had said the Fremantle Highway was unlikely to be moved because of a southeasterly wind blowing smoke from the days-old fire over tugboats.

But that changed Sunday.

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William has served up a surprise to hungry members of the public when he dished out environmentally friendly burgers from a food truck in south London.

In a video released on Sunday, the heir to the throne handed out "Earthshot Burgers" to highlight the work of last year's winners of his annual Earthshot Prize, which he set up to help develop solutions to major environmental problems.

"Coming right up," the prince said as he served up the burgers to the stunned customers. "Morning everyone, nicely cooked, ready to go."

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Voting rights activists are returning to court to fight Alabama’s redrawn congressional districts, saying state Republicans failed to follow federal court orders to create a district that is fair to Black voters.

ANKARA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people died, and 23 others were injured after a passenger bus veered off the road and overturned on a highway in the eastern Kars province of Türkiye on Sunday, state-run TRT broadcaster reported.

The passenger bus overturned into a stockade after passing the viaduct at the entrance of Karakurt village of Sarikamis district of Erzurum-Kars highway, the TRT quoted Governor of Kars province Turker Oksuz as reporting.

The passenger bus flipped over from approximately 50 meters in height and overturned, the TRT added.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. /TASS/: Moscow is ready to switch to national currencies in trade with African countries, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk said in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the second Russia-Africa Summit.

"We have successful experience of settlements in national currencies within the Eurasian Economic Union and we are ready to share this experience. We are also ready to conduct trade with Africa particularly in Russian rubles, provided that economic operators find it convenient," the deputy prime minister noted.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The Russian navy will receive 30 new ships in 2023 as the country continues strengthening its naval forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said here Sunday.

Putin made the remark at the main naval parade being held in honor of Russian Navy Day. He said 30 ships of different classes would be added to the navy, including the Mercury corvette.

DHAKA, Jul 30 (NNN-BSS) – The World Bank has approved 300 million U.S. dollars, to help Bangladesh improve the efficiency of gas distribution and end-use, through prepaid metering systems for residential and industrial consumers and reduce methane emissions along the natural gas value chain.

ABU DHABI, Jul 30 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has imposed a four-month ban on rice exports and re-exports, the country’s Ministry of Economy said, yesterday.

The ban, with effect from Jul 28, covers the free zones in the UAE and applies to all rice varieties, including brown rice, fully or partially milled rice, and broken rice, according to a statement released on the ministry’s social media account.

Companies interested in exporting or re-exporting rice must request an export permit from the Ministry of Economy, said the statement.