Israeli troops push deep into Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis (www.bbc.com)
Israel says its troops have reached the southernmost area of Khan Younis, as they expand their operations in the Gaza Strip’s second biggest city....
Family marks the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage taken into Gaza (www.cnn.com)
Youngest Hamas hostage turns 1 in captivity 08:17 - Source: CNN
Kate and William ‘never shout’ at their children – despite Louis’ public ‘tantrums’ (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Kylian Mbappé Expresses Concerns Over European Soccer Schedule Expansion, Advocates for Player Welfare (www.usasocialite.com)
Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV station shot and killed (www.theguardian.com)
César Suárez killed in brazen daylight attack in Guayaquil as country shaken by dramatic recent surge in violence...
China Banks Tighten Curbs on Russia After US Sanctions Order (www.bloomberg.com)
Chinese and Turkish banks are in the news for tightening curbs or severing ties with Russian banks in response to US authorization of secondary sanctions on overseas financial firms that aid Moscow’s war effort.
US, South Korea and Japan conduct naval drills as tensions deepen with North Korea (apnews.com)
The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted combined naval exercises involving an American aircraft carrier in their latest show of strength against nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korea’s military said Wednesday, as the three countries’ senior diplomats were to meet in Seoul to discuss the deepening standoff with...
Italy's regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean (apnews.com)
Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike (apnews.com)
Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children (www.reuters.com)
Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza while deal emerges to deliver medicine to hostages (apnews.com)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave.
US military says it seized Iranian weapons bound for Houthis (www.theguardian.com)
US Navy Seals seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week in which two of its commandos went missing, the US military said on Tuesday....
U.S. forces recovered Iranian warheads in Navy SEAL mission gone awry (www.washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. military said the arms shipment, intercepted off the coast of Somalia, was destined for militants in Yemen blamed for attacks in the Red Sea...
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
UK Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group (www.bbc.co.uk)
Missile fire strikes a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, UK military says (abcnews.go.com)
A missile fired from Yemen struck a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, private security firms told The Associated Press....
Northern Group Rejects Call For Suspension Of Security Chiefs - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
NUPRC Boss Seeks Collaboration With Police To Combat Oil Theft - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
FG Expresses Commitment To Reposition Minerals, Metals Sector For Development - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, amid an intensified campaign against corruption.
‘You don’t feel alive’: Ukraine veterans struggling with the trauma of war (www.theguardian.com)
Serhii Dovbysh was defending his home in Chernihiv when something inside him snapped. The Russians were a few kilometres away. Enemy planes bombed the city. Shells landed among its gold-domed cathedrals. And young soldiers under his command were dying in battle. Dovbysh, a major in Ukraine’s armed forces and a deputy...
