US-ELECTIONS-REPUBLICANS Republicans are set to begin the second day of their national party convention after Donald Trump, fresh from surviving an attempted assassination, kicked off the event by announcing that JD Vance was his pick for vice president. Moving after 1500 ____ GERMANY-MEDIA-EXTREMISM Germany’s top security official bans Compact magazine, calling it a ‘mouthpiece of far-right extremists.’ Moving ____ EU-POLITICS The European Parliament overwhelmingly elects Roberta Metsola for another term as its president, with 562 votes in her favour. Moving ____ UKRAINE-CONFLICT-RUSSIA Previ…