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Moscow is trying to repulse Kyiv’s biggest cross-border ground offensive since Russia’s invasion....

Growing emphasis on military training for civilians reflects heightened nationalism under Xi Jinping – and a growing risk of war over Taiwan...

India’s largest budget carrier, IndiGo, is the first airline to trial a feature that lets female passengers book seats next to other women to avoid sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with a man in a move designed to make flying more comfortable for female passengers, according to a CNBC report....

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”...

White House “deeply concerned” about civilian casualties after the IDF said it had struck a command room that terror operatives set up at a Gaza City school where displaced Palestinian civilians were sheltering

Russia imposes security regime on border regions...

The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City.

Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan is leaving his position, with other Supreme Court justices also likely to resign. Student protesters are still making demands after they pressured PM Sheikh Hasina to flee....

Ukrainian troops have apparently entered Russia’s Belgorod Oblast during the ongoing incursion into Kursk oblast, Ukrainian media reported based on a video published on the morning of Aug. 10....

China’s foreign exchange reserve increased by about 1.06% to $3.26 billion as of the end of July, according to data from the country’s forex regulator released Thursday....

At least 21 bodies have been recovered from the site of a plane crash in the Brazilian state of São Paulo which killed everyone on board....

Russia has imposed a “counter-terrorism operation” regime in three regions to try to halt a surprise cross-border incursion by Ukrainian troops....

Heavy rainfall triggered the collapse of the landfill in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Rescue operations are ongoing as the search for more victims is underway.

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At around 4:30am during dawn prayer on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the IDF “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian...

There is also this shitterlink video related to this (sourced the news from worldnews), but I don’t speak Arabic and can’t say if this is a deepfake or not x.com/AlArabiya/status/1821912782033309739