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Malaysia’s claim that Myanmar has agreed to take back 5,000 Rohingya has raised hopes of easing pressure on the country’s strained refugee system but also drawn alarm from activists over the risks of returning members of the persecuted minority to a place still engulfed by conflict. Rights groups say any movement of refugees into Myanmar – where the military is fighting multiple conflicts and most Rohingya remain denied citizenship – will need to be voluntary and backed by guarantees of safety,.
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The attacks come after Russian strikes in Ukraine killed at least eight people overnight and Poland scrambled fighter jets.

CENTCOM believes the US military should increase the intensity of its attacks to turn the situation around, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine takes a more cautious view

Deadly clashes reported in Pakistan-administered Kashmir amid first round of voting for regional elections on July 27.

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As a result of a massive enemy strike on Ukraine overnight Thursday, 8 people were killed and more than 50 injured; people may still be under the rubble, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivsky reported.

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On Wednesday, maritime security firm Ambrey said that a drone hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at the port of Damietta.
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A UK parliamentary inquiry found that the Ministry of Defence’s 2022 breach, which exposed the personal data of more than 18,500 Afghan relocation applicants, was a foreseeable systemic failure, not an isolated mistake. MPs blamed weak procedures, inadequate training, poor data protection, and an overreliance on secrecy, and said the MoD was not equipped to run immigration relocation schemes. The breach also left some Afghans who had worked with British forces at risk for years. Source: Sky

New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”. During a debate about New Zealand’s response to the Covid pandemic on Wednesday, populist NZ First leader Peters was asked by China-born Green Party member Lawrence Xu-Nan: “Are you vaccinated?” In response, Peters said the lawmaker, who was born in the Chinese city of Tianjin but grew up in Auckland, had “come here
An 86-year-old man who sustained severe injuries as a result of a Russian attack on the Halitsynove community on July 28 of this year died in hospital, acting Head of Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Heorhiy Reshetilov reported on Thursday.

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In response to questions from Republican senators, Fauci declined to answer over 100 times, injecting new drama into partisan divides that have festered for years about the origins and handling of the pandemic.

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Dozens of weapons were found embedded within civilian infrastructure in the village of Majdal Zun, southern Lebanon. IDF Brigade Combat Team 55 uncovered the arms in the security zone. https://t.co/Hz9PDExHw0

Electric vehicle (EV) sales jumped 35 per cent in the second quarter from the first three months of this year, hitting records in 50 countries, the IEA said in a new report.

Several people evacuated after ‘large-scale, wind-driven’ fire breaks out at Dunwich Heath near Leiston A major incident has been declared as firefighters battle a large heathland fire on the Suffolk coast. Suffolk fire and rescue service was called to reports of a wildfire at Dunwich Heath, near Leiston, shortly after 5.30pm on Wednesday, and crews remained at the scene on Thursday morning. About 90 firefighters were tackling the blaze, while several people had been evacuated. Leiston is about

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Boom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in Europe He had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa. “I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager. “I didn’t even know they existed.” Continue reading...
In total, over the past day, Russians shelled settlements of the Donetsk region 13 times, killing three people and wounding seven; 899 people were evacuated from the front line, including 61 children, Head of the Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin reported on Thursday.

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Kuwait's MoD says an Iranian strike hit a building belonging to an unnamed Chinese company in northern Kuwait today, killing one worker and causing significant material damage.
The enemy launched a missile strike on Zolochiv, injuring an elderly woman, Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synyehubov reported.

Drone operators from the Unmanned Systems Department of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) struck a station belonging to a Russian Murmansk-BN coastal electronic warfare system near Cape Fiolent in temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of 26-27 July.
Iran's IRGC: With the help of Almighty God, the aggressor will be punished this very day.

Kyiv had wanted Warsaw to fund the overhauls; now it is offering a clean trade of aircraft for unmanned systems, Poland says.
By Nafisa Eltahir, Elwely Elwelly and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - A drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta signalled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to navigation through the Suez Canal, a last remaining safe export route for Saudi oil. The Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday that an initial investigation showed that an unidentified drone caused a fire on Wednesday on two vessels at Damietta port, near the Suez
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By Ebrahim Hajjaj , Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Standing on the roof of a war-damaged building overlooking the ruins of Gaza City, beekeeper Ibrahim al-Dabba gently lifts a honeycomb frame as bees buzz around him. "Bees require trees, we are raising bees amongst rubble," he said.
By Ebrahim Hajjaj , Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Standing on the roof of a war-damaged building overlooking the ruins of Gaza City, beekeeper Ibrahim al-Dabba gently lifts a honeycomb frame as bees buzz around him. "Bees require trees, we are raising bees amongst rubble," he said.
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