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Russia has attacked 16 regions of Ukraine over the past week, using 1,900 drones, 1,600 aerial bombs and 144 missiles.

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Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight killed at least eight people after hitting several residential buildings, local authorities said Sunday. Seven people were also killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, a day after Hamas said it had agreed to the latest deal on ending the war.

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Vitalina Yarovenko, a 20-year-old student, who had arrived with a medical battalion to help those injured, was killed in a Russian double-tap attack on Kyiv on the night of 31 July-1 August.

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Gaza authorities said that seven people were killed in Israeli strikes Saturday that also damaged a hospital's medical supplies, a day after Hamas said it agreed to the latest stage of a deal to end the war.

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Three children among nine killed since dawn in Gaza Three children are among nine Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since dawn, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. The attacks were in Gaza City, Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.

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Colombia’s government has blamed rebel groups for a truck bomb that wounded 14 people near the border with Venezuela. The attack came less than a week before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella is due to take office. He has said he plans to end the current administration’s peace negotiations with various armed groups. Morgan Ayre reports.

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Mali's international Mamadou Sangaré is heading to the Premier League following a stellar season with french club Lens. He has officially joined Brentford in a landmark €48 million transfer, setting a new record sale for the French club.

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Prolonged drought and extreme heat across Europe have also triggered an energy crisis. For the first time ever, Hungary announced the shutdown of the country’s only nuclear power plant, after water levels in the Danube fell to a record low. Peter O’Brien explains.

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A blast near the centre of Moscow has killed at least three people and injured 21 others. It happened at around 8pm local time, when a homemade explosive device detonated as a woman tried to enter a restaurant and was stopped by a security guard, according to Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee. Both the woman and the security guard were killed, along with a visitor at the restaurant, which was hosting a private function. Authorities have not said who they believe was the target, but Russian independent media report it may have been a military official. The attack is also suspected of being linked to the war in Ukraine. In recent years, several senior Russian military figures have been assassinated in and around Moscow, with the Kremlin blaming Kyiv for those attacks. Morgan Ayre has this story.

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Israel carried out overnight strikes in Gaza, killing at least eight people. This is a look at the Strip this Sunday morning. In one attack, an Israeli military helicopter struck an apartment, killing a husband and wife. In another, an elderly man and a child were killed. Earlier on Saturday, at least seven people were killed in strikes that also damaged medical supplies at a hospital. The attacks came after Hamas said it had agreed to the latest stage of a deal aimed at ending the war. Morgan Ayre reports.

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The effects of human-made climate change are being felt across Europe during this sweltering summer, from record heat-related deaths in Austria, Britain, France and Germany, to tinderbox conditions fuelling historic wildfires in Spain, France and elsewhere. Charlotte Hughes takes a look at the situation in Greece.

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Here in France, a wildfire in the mountainous southeastern Var department, which had been brought under control three days ago, flared up again on Friday, forcing authorities to evacuate nearly 2,500 people overnight. Meanwhile, our reporter James Andre visited Gironde, where France’s biggest wildfire in more than 70 years was recently brought under control.

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All the threats cannot be neutralized, Alpha counter-terror group veteran Sergey Goncharov told

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US president claims ‘perimeters of a deal’ to end conflict have been agreed days after he threatened to attack

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Ukraine's defence forces struck the Saratov oil refinery, the Engels airfield, a fuel depot in Kaluga Oblast and a number of other Russian military facilities on the night of 1-2 August.

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Ukrainian troops have struck a Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile and seven radar stations in Russia, including near Yeysk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

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Ukrainian drone strikes killed at ⁠least two people in ⁠Russian regions along the ⁠Volga River overnight, hitting targets including a warehouse belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, regional officials said on Sunday. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had downed ‌635 Ukrainian drones during the night. Kyiv’s drones attacked a Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region, around 800km (500 miles) from Ukraine’s most advanced military positions inside Ukrainian territory it...

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French firefighters have won out over a massive blaze, with almost 200,000 evacuees returning home. But Europe's climate-fueled wildfire season is far from over.

social demographic · education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will construct a new medical building and its 10th constituent college near the city’s technology hub in Pak Shek Kok to boost research capabilities, aligning with government plans to improve transport connectivity in the area. Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, CUHK president, said on Sunday that high housing costs remained a key weakness for the city’s scientific research sector. To address this, he said the university planned to provide more hostel facilities and...

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A Wildberries logistics centre in Russia's Samara Oblast caught fire following a drone attack; no injuries reported.

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China increased the death toll caused by flash flooding in the northwestern province of Gansu last week as large parts of the country continued to battle the impact of heavy rainfall and swollen rivers. On Sunday, the state news agency Xinhua said the death toll in Gansu’s Weiyuan county had risen from 10 to 25, adding that the flash floods which struck last Sunday had also injured a further 23 people. The National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief has asked the provincial...

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Israeli forces claim Hamas commanders killed in Gaza The Israeli military said it has killed two Hamas commanders during air strikes on Friday and Saturday in Gaza. The military said Salem Jamal Abd al-Rahman Abu Labad, a cell commander in Hamas’s Nukhba special forces, who was killed in southern Gaza on Saturday, had taken part in the October 2023 attack. In a separate air strike in central Gaza on Friday, the military said its forces also killed Muhammad Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib, a commander in Hamas’s Maghazi Battalion.

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Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which an inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said. Deputy police inspector-general Sanjeewa Medawatte said the situation was under control after inmates destroyed multiple buildings on Saturday inside Mahara Prison, just outside the capital Colombo. “We got reinforcements from the armed forces and the Special Task Force commandos to restore order and send the inmates back...

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Tehran’s military raised the stakes with Washington by further expanding the battle across the Middle East

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On Friday, Trump had said he was "losing faith" in the prospect of a peace deal and threatened to hit Iran "very hard."

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Morning recap Good morning Middle East Eye readers, US president Donald Trump said he would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz completely. His statement came after Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that he has informed his Turkish, Pakistani and Saudi counterparts that the Islamic Republic will act "decisively" in the event of any further US "aggression". Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that its Aerospace Force targeted the US F-35 repair hangar and ramp at Al-Azraq Base in Jordan with multiple ballistic missiles. In Gaza, meanwhile, despite Trump’s announcement of a breakthrough agreement, Israeli strikes killed eight Palestinians overnight, including two children. Here are the latest developments: • Saudi Arabia expressed concern over US President Donald Trump's plans for massive strikes against Iran and sought clarity on the proposed course of action, US outlet Axios reported. • Israeli forces detained three young Palestinian men during a raid on the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. • A fire has broken out in the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah in the northern Kurdish region following a drone attack. • Authorities in Gaza have said that civil defence teams recovered the remains of 112 more people from rubble in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City after 136 hours of digging, much of it by hand. • Iran’s foreign ministry said the country would use all means to “legitimately defend the nation’s rights and security”.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on partners to supply Ukraine with missiles for Patriot air defence systems, as well as to introduce new sanctions against Russia.

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Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast “Sometimes books tell you more than the content,” says Tim White, as he lines up carefully dust-jacketed books and pamphlets in plastic sleeves on temporary shelves in Melbourne University’s Wilson Hall. He’s preparing his stall for this weekend’s Melbourne Rare Book Fair . For people like White, who runs independent bookshop Books for Cooks, the book as a physical object is just as important as what’s inside it. Continue reading...

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For decades, the Philippine Sea has been seen as the gateway through which US and allied forces would sail to Taiwan’s defence in a war with the Chinese mainland. But with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) increasingly pushing into the western Pacific, experts say Beijing would seek to place aircraft carriers in the waters east of Taiwan to complicate any intervention. Rather than a gateway, the Philippine Sea could be a critical battleground. Northeast Asia is home to land-based missile...

social demographic · culture

Israeli settlers cut electricity poles in Nablus, report says Israeli settlers cut and damaged electricity poles during a predawn attack on the village of Madama, south of Nablus, causing a power outage in parts of the community, Wafa reported. During the past two weeks, several areas in the occupied West Bank witnessed settler attacks on Palestinian homes, agricultural farms and religious places, desecration of graves and widespread arson. An Israeli police officer films Israeli activists protesting in Tel Aviv on 1 August 2026 against West Bank settler attacks. (AFP)