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BREAKING Israeli ministers in prime minister Netanyahu's cabinet are meeting now, reportedly to agree on the full-scale occupation of Gaza. This is despite strong opposition from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who is warning that “the lives of the hostages will be in danger” with that plan.

A rapidly-moving wildfire in southern France has already burned 16,000 hectares near the Spanish border. It's the second biggest fire in France in 50 years.

A new Guardian investigation into the 72-hour April attack in Sudan by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on north Darfur’s largest IDP camp "Zamzam" indicates mass executions, large-scale abductions, hundreds missing, and more than 1,500 massacred.

Since dawn on Thursday, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 23 Palestinians, many of them seeking food aid. One more child has starved to death, bringing the total that have starved since October 7, 2023 to 194.

Under pressure from Donald Trump, Apple's CEO Tim Cook has agreed to bring parts of the supply chain of Apple products to the U.S. This reportedly brings Apple's total commitment in U.S. domestic manufacturing to $600 billion.

Despite overwhelming contradictory evidence, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is opening a grand jury investigation into members of the Obama administration on allegations that they manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference to help Donald Trump.

More than 100 people are missing and at least one has died after heavy rain and flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

As the United Nations warns that all children under the age of five in Gaza are at risk of life-threatening malnourishment, Gaza’s Health Ministry continues to report more cases of malnutrition-related paralysis.

After the cabinet of Israeli prime minister Netanyahu voted unanimously on Monday to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, their action was immediately frozen by Israel's High Court until the justices can rule on its legality. The situation is widely seen as a threat to the country's democracy.

Eighty years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing as many as 140,000. Most were civilians. It remains to date the only use of nuclear weapons in the world.

Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for an end to the war in Gaza and to free the Israeli captives still held there. That was after Hamas released videos showing two of the Israeli captives appearing as emaciated as many Palestinians in Gaza.

Norway, Sweden and Denmark have announced a plan to jointly finance €430 million in air defense, ammunition, and other military support for Ukraine in compliance with the U.S.-NATO "Prioritized Ukraine Requirement List" that was agreed with Donald Trump last month.

252 Venezuelan deportees were returned to their country at the end of July from the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador after the U.S. and Venezuela reached a prisoner swap deal. Most of them had no criminal history, and many had followed proper procedure in applying for asylum in the U.S. All reported sexual abuse, daily beatings, rotten food, beatings and told they would "never come out."

The U.S. State Department has announced a 12-month pilot program requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the U.S. The bond exempts those in the Visa Waiver Program.

Dozens of U.S. Texas Democrats have left their state in order to break quorum, denying Texas House of Representatives Republicans the ability to redraw the congressional map and improve their chances of taking additional seats in the U.S. Congress in 2026. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to arrest them.

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