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WorldIsraeli forces kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, medics say
Dozens killed on Saturday include 38 Palestinians seeking aid at controversial distribution sites, according to sources.
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WorldFrom president to provocateur: The long journey of Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev has traveled a long way from his time as Russian president, when he once stood beside then-US President Barack Obama and declared that “the solution of many world problems depends on the joint will of the United States and Russia.”
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WorldIsraeli hostage families hold emergency protest after Gaza militants release videos showing emaciated captives
Protestors gathered in Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square” on Saturday to stage an emergency protest following the release of propaganda videos showing emaciated Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
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WorldSyrian government, Kurdish-led SDF trade blame over northern Syria attack
Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring four army personnel, three civilians in rocket attack near Manbij.
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WorldSyria's defence ministry and Kurdish-led SDF trade blame over attack in northern Syria
The defence ministry accused the SDF of carrying out a rocket barrage on one of the army's outposts in the city's countryside, injuring four troops and three civilians, according to the state news agency SANA. The U.S.-backed SDF said in a statement they were responding to "an unprovoked artillery assault targeting civilian-populated areas with more than ten shells" from factions operating within Syrian government ranks. In March, the SDF signed a deal with the Damascus Islamist-led government to join Syria's state institutions.
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WorldRescuers recover body of trapped worker at Chile copper mine
One of five miners trapped after a partial collapse at the world's largest underground copper mine has been found dead, Chile's state-owned Codelco group announced Saturday.Chile is the world's largest copper producer, responsible for nearly a quarter of global supply with about 5.3 million metric tonnes (5.8 million tons) in 2024.
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WorldYoung Catholics give rock star welcome to Pope Leo at vigil
Hundreds of thousands of young faithful feted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic Church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter.- Open-air confessional - Throughout the week, attendees have participated in Church-planned events, such as confession at Circus Maximus, one of Rome's top tourist spots.
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WorldPope Leo tells hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to build a better world
ROME (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of young people filled a vast field on the outskirts of Rome on Saturday to see Pope Leo, in the largest event yet of the new Catholic pontiff's tenure, as part of a special weekend aimed at energizing Catholic youth. Young people from more than 146 countries, some wearing colourful bandanas to ward off the hot summer sun, were pressed against fences in the Tor Vergata field as Leo toured the crowd in his white popemobile in late afternoon. "Dear young people ... my prayer for you is that you may persevere in faith, with joy and courage," Leo said in remarks later to the crowd.
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WorldHamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Evyatar David
The video shows 24-year-old musician Evyatar David looking severely emaciated in an underground tunnel.
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WorldNigerian nurses end strike following deal with government
LAGOS (Reuters) -Nurses in Nigeria's public hospitals suspended their seven-day "warning strike" on Saturday after reaching an agreement with the government over the implementation of their demands, the nurses' union said. The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives said in a statement that the government has responded to their demands and provided "clear timelines" for putting them in place, but added that they would be monitoring the implementation of the signed memorandum of understanding. The nurses' union held a meeting on Friday with representatives of the government led by Minister of Health and Social Welfare Ali Pate and his counterpart in the Labour and Employment Ministry, Muhammad Dingyadi.
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US'No obvious front-runner.' Why Harris' exit has scrambled the race for California governor
With Kamala Harris out of the California governor's race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner. Some analysts said that's "ludicrous," and that no one stands out yet.
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LA Times
USOver 64,000 pounds of butter recalled over undeclared milk, FDA says
Bunge North America recalled more than 64,000 pounds of its NH European Style Butter Blend due to potential undeclared milk allergens, the FDA said.
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USA TODAY
WorldHamas denies it expressed willingness to disarm, slams Witkoff’s Gaza trip
Palestinian group says right to resist Israeli occupation ‘cannot be relinquished until full national rights restored’.
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WorldPalestinian boy, 17, dies of Israel-induced starvation in Gaza
Atef Abu Khater’s weight dropped to just 25kg (55lbs) before he died of malnutrition, his family says.
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WorldUS envoy meets Israeli hostage families in Tel Aviv
US envoy Steve Witkoff met anguished relatives of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza on Saturday, as fears for the captives' survival mounted almost 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas's October 2023 attack.Of the 251 hostages taken during the Hamas attack, 49 are still being held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead.
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NewsPhotos from Kyrgyzstan show traditional hunters with eagles at the Salbuurun festival
Hundreds gathered Saturday on the southern shore of Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul for the annual Salbuurun Festival. Held in the village of Bokonbaevo, the festival showcased nomadic traditions including archery, horseback acrobatics and traditional wrestling. As well as more athletic pursuits, visitors watched performances of throat singing, epic poetry and lute music, along with demonstrations of falconry and exhibitions of sculptures and handmade crafts.
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WorldFrance to deport Palestinian woman over antisemitic post featuring Hitler, halts Gaza evacuations
France is halting its evacuations of Gazans as outrage grows over a Palestinian student's antisemitic posts. The country's foreign minister said the student "has no place" in France.
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WorldDmitry Medvedev: Russia's hawkish ex-president
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, whose comments prompted US President Donald Trump to move two nuclear submarines, was once seen as a liberal reformer but has become one of the Kremlin's most prominent anti-Western hawks.In June, after the US launched air strikes on nuclear facilities in Moscow-allied Iran, Medvedev suggested that "a number of countries" were willing to provide Tehran with nuclear warheads, prompting an angry Trump to accuse him of "casually" threatening a nuclear strik
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WorldMyanmar military courts sentence 12 to life for human trafficking, including Chinese nationals
Myanmar military courts have sentenced a dozen individuals — including five Chinese nationals — to life imprisonment for their involvement in multiple human trafficking cases, state-run media reported Saturday. In one case, five people — including two Chinese nationals identified as Lin Te and Wang Xiaofeng — were sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court in Yangon, the country’s largest city, on July 29.
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WorldPope thrills hundreds of thousands of young Catholics at Holy Year youth festival
Pope Leo XIV urged hundreds of thousands of young people on Saturday to have the courage to make radical choices to do good, as he presided over his first big encounter with the next generation of Catholics during the highlight of the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year. Leo encountered a sea of people as he arrived by helicopter at the Tor Vergata field on Rome’s outskirts for a vigil service of the Jubilee of Youth.
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WorldDeath toll rises to 2 as rescue efforts continue at collapsed Chile mine
Search continues for remaining workers trapped at world’s largest underground copper mine after partial collapse.
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WorldProtesters in Bangkok demand resignation of court-suspended prime minister following deadly conflict
Protesters rallied Saturday in the Thai capital to demand the resignation of court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and in support of the armed forces following a violent border dispute with Cambodia that killed more than three dozen people and displaced over 260,000. Gathered at Bangkok’s Victory Monument despite soaring temperatures, many sang patriotic songs and listened to speeches denouncing Paetongtarn and her father, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister, and voiced their backing of the country's army, which has always retained substantial power in the Southeast Asian country.
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WorldTurkey starts supplying Azerbaijani gas to boost Syria's power output
Turkey on Saturday turned on a supply of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Syria, whose infrastructure was ravaged by civil war, with annual deliveries expected to reach up to two billion cubic metres. "In the initial phase, up to two billion cubic metres of natural gas per year could be exported to Syria," Bayraktar said at the ceremony in the southern province of Kilis near the Syrian border.
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Jordan says two armed people killed after 'infiltration attempt' via Syrian border
The Jordanian Armed Forces did not provide further details in its statement but said that the rest of the armed group were pushed back to the Syrian territory. Jordan's armed forces often report foiling border infiltration attempts, sometimes for drug smuggling. In January, Jordan and Syria agreed to form a joint security committee to secure their border, combat arms and drug smuggling and work to prevent the resurgence of Islamic State militants.
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WorldDRC, Rwanda agree economic framework outline as part of peace deal
Neighbours agree on terms of economic cooperation in several areas, including energy and mineral supply chains.
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WorldIsraeli fire again kills Gaza aid-seekers as US envoy meets with hostages' families
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and health workers said Saturday. The violence came a day after U.S. officials visited a GHF site and the U.S. ambassador called the troubled system “an incredible feat.” Another 19 people were shot dead as they crowded near the Zikim crossing from Israel in the hope of obtaining aid, said Fares Awad, head of the Gaza health ministry’s ambulance and emergency service.
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WorldOne in three Palestinians in Gaza going days without food, UNICEF says
UN agency warns of grave risk of famine as the number of starvation deaths hits 162 Palestinians, including 92 children.
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WorldAnalysis-Leader for life? El Salvador's Bukele headed that way, critics say
(Reuters) -There was no shortage of warning signs that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele would attempt to stay in power indefinitely, his critics say. There was the time Bukele stormed the legislative assembly with armed soldiers during his first year in office. Or a year after that, when his allies in the congress removed top Supreme Court judges and the attorney general and replaced them with Bukele loyalists.
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USThe US said it had no choice but to deport them to a third country. Then it sent them home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration says that some serious criminals need to be deported to third countries because even their home countries won't accept them. President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and his administration has sought to ramp up removals to third countries, including sending convicted criminals to South Sudan and Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, two sub-Saharan African nations. This appeared to be the case with the eight men deported to South Sudan and five to Eswatini, although some had been released years earlier.
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WorldA viable Palestinian state remains far off, despite growing international clamor
The latest moves by US allies France, Britain and Canada – while in many ways largely symbolic – have left Washington increasingly isolated over its backing for Israel.
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World‘When We See Refugees, We Should See Opportunity’
Inside efforts to harness the potential of the displaced.
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Mali ex-prime minister to stand trial over social media post, lawyer says
BAMAKO (Reuters) -A Malian court has detained and charged former Prime Minister Moussa Mara over a social media post criticising shrinking democratic space under military rule in the West African nation, his lawyer said late Friday. Mara is one of few public figures in the country who has been willing to openly question moves taken this year to dissolve political parties and grant the military government, led by Assimi Goita, a five-year mandate without elections. Last month, authorities formally approved Goita's five-year term and said it could be renewed as many times as necessary as Mali struggles to respond to a long-running jihadist insurgency.
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Armenia, US to hold joint military drills On August 12-20, Interfax reports
The Eagle Partner 2025 exercises will focus on peacekeeping tasks and medical evacuation procedures, the ministry was quoted as saying. Armenia is a treaty ally of Russia and traditionally a close partner, although bilateral relations have become strained in recent years as Yerevan grows closer to the West.
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WorldEx-Mali PM charged over X post supporting jailed critics of military rulers
Moussa Mara, the PM for eight months in 2014-2015, has been charged with ‘undermining the credibility of the state’.
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WorldNew push to reach plastic pollution pact
Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.IPEN's Beeler said negotiators want to avoid another round of talks, but that does not assure an all-encompassing deal will be reached.
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NewsA day in the life, in photos, of one family's search for food in Gaza
The Sobh family lives in a seaside refugee camp west of Gaza City after being displaced multiple times during the war between Israel and Hamas. The family of eight spends its days searching for food and water. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
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LifestyleFrom dawn to dusk, a Gaza family focuses on one thing: finding food
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Every morning, Abeer and Fadi Sobh wake up in their tent in the Gaza Strip to the same question: How will they find food for themselves and their six young children? The predicament of the Sobhs, who live in a seaside refugee camp west of Gaza City after being displaced multiple times, is the same for families throughout the war-ravaged territory. Israel enforced a complete blockade on food and other supplies for 2½ months beginning in March.
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USDeSantis set a Florida record for executions. It's driving a national increase
In the final moments of a life defined by violence, 60-year-old Edward Zakrzewski thanked the people of Florida for killing him "in the most cold, calculated, clean, humane, efficient way possible," breathing deeply as a lethal drug cocktail coursed through his veins. With his last breath, strapped to a gurney inside a state prison's death chamber, Zakrzewski paid what Florida had deemed was his debt to society and became the 27th person put to death in the U.S. so far this year, the highest number in a decade. Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has executed nine people in 2025, more than than any other state, and set a new state record, with DeSantis overseeing more executions in a single year than any other Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
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WorldJapan sweats through hottest July on record
Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began in 1898, the weather agency has reported, warning of further "severe heat" in the month ahead."The next month is expected to continue to bring severe heat throughout the country," the weather agency said.
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Israeli fire again kills Gaza aid-seekers as US envoy meets with hostages' families
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WorldBoris Johnson blasts PM Keir Starmer for ‘absurd’ stance on Gaza
Starmer has said the U.K. would recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not back a ceasefire in Gaza.
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PoliticsCongressmen Don Davis, Tim Moore meet with Mexican President Sheinbaum
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNCT) — Congressman Don Davis (NC-01) traveled to Mexico with a congressional delegation including former North Carolina Speaker of the House and current Congressman Tim Moore. They met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, her cabinet members and other officials. The purpose of the visit was to discuss several issues including the border, fentanyl […]
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WorldJournalist tries to set record straight on Gaza food distribution
Israel has faced increasing pressure in its war with Hamas as images of starving people have emerged from Gaza.
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WorldPeruvian informal miners suspend talks with government due to disagreements in negotiations
LIMA (Reuters) -Informal miners in Peru suspended talks with the government and may resume protests due to disagreements in negotiations, one of the protest leaders said on Friday. CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal "powder magazines." He said 20,000 miners who cannot meet the deadline would be excluded from a government program to formalize their work.
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SportsPop-A-Shot tournament back at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports
Pop-A-Shot is hosting its second annual national tournament in Orlando tonight, after a 25-year hiatus, with eight competitors including Josh Caputo from Montgomery, Illinois, and will be broadcasting live on ESPN.
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USMusk's X must face part of lawsuit over child pornography video
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's X of becoming a haven for child exploitation, though the court said the platform deserves broad immunity from claims over objectionable content. While rejecting some claims, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said X, formerly Twitter, must face a claim it was negligent by failing to promptly report a video containing explicit images of two underage boys to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The case predated Musk's 2022 purchase of Twitter.
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Rwanda, Congo agree on outline for economic framework as part of peace deal
WASHINGTON/DAKAR (Reuters) -Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday agreed on an outline for the regional economic integration framework, according to the U.S. State Department, as the two countries take steps toward delivering on a peace deal signed in Washington in June. The tenets agreed on Friday summarize the framework, which includes elements of cooperation on energy, infrastructure, mineral supply chains, national parks and public health, the State Department said in a statement. Rwanda and Congo signed a peace deal in Washington in June at talks held by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which aims to bring an end to fighting that has killed thousands and attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich in tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper, lithium and other minerals.
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USHow watches stolen from Keanu Reeves in Los Angeles ended up in the hands of a gang in Chile
Six watches that had been stolen from actor Keanu Reeves in Los Angeles were handed over to the FBI this week at the US Embassy in Santiago, Chile, nearly 9,000 kilometers away, to be returned to their owner.
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WorldAnother US citizen killed by Israeli settler attack in West Bank: Family
Relatives of slain Chicago resident Khamis Ayyad urge Trump administration to launch probe into 40-year-old’s killing.
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