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Over the past 24 hours, six civilians were killed, and another 30 were wounded as a result of Russian aggression in the Donetsk region.

A man was killed during a Russian artillery attack on Kherson on the morning of 25 July.
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A social media user has been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb hoax, which included threats of violence, in comments posted on the South China Morning Post’s Instagram account. The 20-year-old suspect, surnamed Hui, posted two comments under an SCMP Instagram post titled “Hong Kong Disneyland rolls out afternoon tickets, extra cooling to beat the heat” on Thursday night, claiming that he would place a bomb somewhere in Hong Kong, a source said. After other internet users commented on the...

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The annual event raises money for journalism scholarships and celebrates press freedoms as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

US president said to have abandoned Qatari-gifted Air Force One earlier this month for older jet after intelligence warned Iranian proxies posed danger to him The post Report: Trump switched planes in Turkey over ‘credible threat’ by Iranian proxies appeared first on The Times of Israel.

One person was killed and two others injured in a Russian drone strike on Sloviansk on 25 July. Local authorities are again urging residents to evacuate.

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By Tala Ramadan and Kinda Makieh DAMASCUS, July 25 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged help for Syrian reconstruction on Saturday during the first visit to Damascus by a serving United Nations chief since 2009, before the start of a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa received Guterres at the presidential palace in Damascus, state news agency SANA said, without providing further details.
By Tala Ramadan BEIRUT, July 25 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Damascus on Saturday for the first trip to Syria by a serving United Nations' chief since 2009, before the start of a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. "The United Nations stands with Syria at this pivotal moment," Guterres said in a post on X on arriving for what he described as a "visit of solidarity". He appealed to the international community to "spare no effort" t
By Tala Ramadan BEIRUT, July 25 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Syria on Saturday in the first trip by a serving U.N. chief since the start of a nearly 14-year war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions in the country. The visit represents another milestone for Syria since rebels ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, ending the war that began in 2011 and launching a transitional period steered by an Islamist-led leadership.

NYT: Trump switched planes in Turkey over Iran threat US President Donald Trump switched aircraft while leaving Turkey this month after US officials identified a credible threat from “Iranian proxies” targeting him and Air Force One, The New York Times has reported. According to the newspaper, Trump had flown to Ankara for the Nato summit aboard a Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8, which lacks some of the advanced defensive capabilities of the older Air Force One aircraft. After the threat emerged, t

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Russian drones struck two petrol stations and a fire station in the Poltava district overnight. No casualties have been reported so far.

Ukraine hopes to gain support from Japan as it looks to produce Patriot air defence systems under US licence, citing the expertise of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that manufactures the interceptors for the Japanese defence forces, according to an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We maintain political dialogue” towards seeking cooperation from Japan, which is one of the few countries granted a licence to build the Patriot surface-to-air missile system, Sergiy Kyslytsya, first...

Trains were stopped, schools were halted and residents were evacuated in southern China as Typhoon Noul headed towards the coast. The National Meteorological Centre issued an orange typhoon alert – the second highest level in a four-tier system – on Saturday morning as it moved northwest across the South China Sea at a speed of 20km/h (12mph). It was expected to land somewhere between Hong Kong and Huilai county in eastern Guangdong overnight with wind speeds of up to 151km/h and then move...

The highest number of combat clashes was recorded on the Pokrovsk and Sloviansk fronts.

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In sea pools built with sandbags and rubble, Amjed Tantesh gives traumatised children brief respite from their daily lives Swimming classes have started again in Gaza after three years of war, with hundreds of children learning to float, doggy paddle and take their first strokes in five makeshift sea pools built from sandbags and rubble. The lessons allow a few hundred girls and boys to reclaim their childhood for a few hours in a place where there are no playgrounds, no formal education and chi
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Japan has been establishing dialogue frameworks for artificial intelligence with like-minded countries and Global South partners to reduce reliance on top US and Chinese firms and promote domestic companies abroad. The outreach signals a growing recognition among those countries of the need for cooperation, rather than going it alone, to survive in the increasingly competitive field of AI. At home, Japan is seeking to foster its own domestic AI ecosystem. The move by the United States to...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has ordered the armed forces to deploy an A400M military transport aircraft as early as Saturday to help combat fires raging in the southwest, his office said. Intense wildfires have forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes in southwestern France and central Spain. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates.
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US military says it disabled a tanker that was attempting to evade the American blockade on Iranian ports.

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Lithuanian prosecutors are investigating a Lithuanian citizen suspected of spying for Russia by gathering information on military facilities, equipment, and troop movements.

A US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, 15 vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and two mortars of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also destroyed

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Overnight funerals were held for four Palestinians killed near Nablus.

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US President Donald Trump told the White House press corps at its annual gala dinner on Friday that “the show must go on”, three months after an earlier attempt was interrupted by an assassination attempt. This time the mood was significantly different. Security was stepped up, far fewer journalists were there, the war against Iran that the mercurial president started with Israel continues and his attacks on the media have become more pronounced. In a speech that lasted almost an hour, Trump...

Ukraine's General Staff has updated data on Russian losses: Russia lost 1,450 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claim that civilian sites were targeted in Saudi strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeida. Saudi Arabia says it hit military targets. DW has more.

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On the night of July 25, Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones; there are casualties.
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the U.S. next week. Trump's comments came in his speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Friday, while he was falsely casting U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer as Palestinian. "I am going to send him (Schumer) a beautiful Palestinian outfit tomorrow, so he can greet Bibi Netanyahu when he comes to town next week," Trump said.

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ISLAMABAD: In a first, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday awarded DHA City, located on M-9 motorway, two parallel licences for electricity distribution and supplier of last resort (SoLR) for a period of 21 years. This is the first of its kind move under which a privately owned entity — DHA Energy Supply Company (Desco) — got licences to have both responsibilities of distribution of electricity and the supplier of last resort under the revised Nepra regime for comp