NOUAKCHOTT - Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani held an unassailable lead in the West African nation's presidential election with over 91% of votes counted, provisional results showed on Sunday.

Russian forces attacked the centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second- largest city, with a guided bomb, killing one person, injuring eight and setting ablaze buildings and vehicles, officials said.

A \"swarm\" of Ukrainian drones targeted Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel's facility in a raid in the early hours of Sunday, but it sustained no serious damage, a company spokesperson said.

ATHENS - A large wildfire broke out southeast of Athens on June 30 afternoon, amid warnings that the worst of the summer heat is yet to come.

LONDON - Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party, said his party was doing better than expected after a \"tough\" few days, as he addressed supporters at a rally with days to go before the country votes on July 4.

Two people died and a third person was missing on Sunday after violent thunderstorms caused a landslide in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, police said.

MADRID - Spanish police said on Sunday they had ended a search for British teenager Jay Slater, who has been missing on the Canary island of Tenerife since June 17, but that the case is still open.

Up to 80,000 people have been displaced from Shujaiya since new fighting broke out there on June 27.

WASHINGTON - Minutes before going on stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump received a phone call from the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed in Houston this month, allegedly by two Venezuelan men in the U.S. illegally.    The mother, Alexis Nungaray, was returning a voicemail Trump had left earlier in the day when she was at her daughter's funeral, a friend of the family, Victoria Galvan, who witnessed the call, told Reuters.    Nungaray's body was found in a creek near her home on June 17, after her attackers allegedly took her under a bridge, tied her up, took her pants off and strangled her, according to police and prosecutors.

MONTEVIDEO - Uruguayans take to the polls on Sunday in primary elections ahead of October's presidential race, in which the left-wing opposition is seen edging ahead according to opinion polls with voters concerned about rising inequality and public safety.