July 17, 2023: Russia halts grain deal, Attack on Crimean Bridge kills two, Manchin speech, China 52.2, Heatwave

1. Russia halted participation on Monday in the year-old U.N.-brokered deal which lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea.

2. A Russian couple were killed and their 14-year-old daughter was wounded on Monday in what Moscow said was a Ukrainian attack as they drove across the Crimean Bridge at night for what they hoped would be a family holiday on Crimea's Black Sea coast.

3. Maverick Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is set to address a bipartisan group in New Hampshire, a critical early-voting state in the 2024 presidential primary elections, feeding speculation that he could be weighing a third-party candidacy.

4. A remote township in China's arid northwest endured temperatures of more than 52 Celsius (126 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, state media reported, setting a record for a country that was battling minus 50C weather just six months ago. Temperatures at Sanbao township in Xinjiang's Turpan Depression soared as high as 52.2C

5. An extreme heatwave peaked in the western United States on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 128 Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) in the California desert, while flash flooding continued to menace the Northeast, killing at least five people.

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