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Here are the key events on day 1,255 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Saturday, August 2:

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• Ukrainian rescuers recovered more than a dozen more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in Kyiv overnight, bringing the death toll from Thursday’s attack by Russia to 31.
• A two-year-old was among five children found dead as a result of what is now Russia’s worst air strike of the year on Ukraine’s capital, which also injured 159 people, President…

Houayxay, Laos – Fishing went well today for Khon, a Laotian fisherman, who lives in a floating house built from plastic drums, scrap metal and wood on the Mekong River.

“I caught two catfish,” the 52-year-old tells Al Jazeera proudly, lifting his catch for inspection.

Khon’s simple houseboat contains all he needs to live on this mighty river: A few metal pots, a fire to cook food on and to keep warm by at night, as well as some nets and a few clothes.

What Khon does not always have is…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a nonprofit that distributes federal funds to public radio and television stations in the United States, has announced it would be shutting down as the result of funding cuts under President Donald Trump.

On Friday, the group issued a statement saying it had launched an “orderly wind-down of its operations” in response to recent legislation that would cut nearly $1.1bn of its funding.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of…

By Robert Inlakesh

Those who have been exposed fully to the live-streamed genocide in Gaza are overwhelmingly the young people of the United States.

It is no secret that Israel’s stock amongst the global public has been plummeting since October 7, 2023. A top Israeli think-tank has now identified the trend as a “brewing crisis in bilateral relations”. However,…

The family of a United States citizen who was killed in a settler attack in the occupied West Bank is calling on the administration of President Donald Trump to open its own investigation into the incident.

Relatives of Khamis Ayyad, 40, who died in the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, on Thursday, confirmed on Friday that he was an American citizen and called for justice in the case.

Ayyad — a father of five and a former Chicago resident — was the second US citizen to be killed in the…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A leading Israeli newspaper is facing criticism for openly pushing zionists in New York to derail the campaign of Zohran Mamdani, a progressive Democratic candidate for mayor, through coordinated manipulative tactics modeled on the 2019 UK smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn.

Zvika Klein, editor of the Jerusalem Post, published a guide calling on New York zionists to unite against Mamdani. In his op-ed, Klein likened Mamdani to Corbyn, and…

Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” in the Gaza Strip by continuing to block aid deliveries and opening fire on starving Palestinians seeking desperately needed food supplies, a humanitarian official has warned.

Caroline Willemen, Gaza project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera on Friday that food remains “critically scarce” in the besieged enclave despite the increased entry of aid in recent days.

“There is little…

By Dr. Mark Brauner

It is one thing to die of hunger. It is another to die never having been held with the fullness of safety and warmth that nature intended.

In Gaza, famine is not a threat. It is a reality measured not only in calories and corpses but in something far more intimate: the silence between a mother and her child when the milk never comes. This is not only…

US President Trump alleged that the data had been manipulated to make him look bad.

United States President Donald Trump has removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.

Trump, in a post on his social media platform on Friday, alleged that the figures were manipulated for political reasons and said that Erika McEntarfer, the director of the Bureau of Labor…