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Royal Navy operations monitoring Russian activity in UK waters and the North Atlantic increased by 25% in July, amid concerns over potential threats to British shipping.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Flores Island, resulting in two fatalities and prompting a tsunami warning. The quake, recorded by the USGS at 5:58am local time, had an epicentre 68 kilometres north-northwest of Ende, causing extensive damage and injuries. Authorities urged coastal residents to evacuate to higher ground.
Netanyahu rejects a US-led Gaza plan, distancing himself from Trump to solidify support ahead of elections.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the RAF carried out targeted strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen due to their ‘reckless actions risking lives at sea’.
Ex-President Donald Trump held a town hall and a press conference around his civil fraud trial shortly after his wife Melania’s mother died.
An elderly couple were discovered dead in their home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with their heater reaching 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The US and UK have launched strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, in the first offensive action taken against the Iran-backed group since the they began attacks in the Red Sea.
‘A case that underscores the very essence of our shared humanity’.
A chance discovery in a Lithuanian church cellar in 2017 led to the unearthing of a collection of lost stories of Jewish teenagers depicting their lives in the 1930s. Ken Krimstein, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, was so moved by the autobiographical accounts that he travelled to Vilnius to read them in person.
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