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Here are the key events on day 1,242 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

This is how things stand on Sunday, July 20:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a missile attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two people and damaging “an outpatient clinic, a school and a cultural institution”, according to the central region’s governor, Serhiy Lysak.
• Another Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa killed at least one person overnight and wounded six others, including six…

Syria’s government has cleared Bedouin fighters from the predominantly Druze city of Suwayda and declared an end to the deadly clashes there, hours after deploying security forces to the restive southern region.

The announcement on Saturday came after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered a new ceasefire between Bedouin and Druze groups, following a separate United States-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention in the clashes.

Shortly before the government’s…

Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Daniel Dubois of United Kingdom to unify the heavyweight title belts in London.

Oleksandr Usyk has cemented his status as the outstanding heavyweight of his generation with an emphatic fifth-round knockout of Daniel Dubois in their undisputed world title bout at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Victory on Saturday saw Ukraine’s Usyk extend his unbeaten professional record to 24 fights as the WBA, WBC and WBO champion added his British opponent’s IBF belt…

By Jeremy Salt

Weiss’s god is as inhumane as she is, and outside her twisted self-serving inhumane fantasy world, obviously no god at all but a devil.

A friend calls to say Israel has just bombed a five-storey residential building next to land owned by her extended family in northern Gaza. Razed it to the ground. The building consisted of family apartments, full of men, women, and children. No connection with Hamas,…

A Palestinian baby has died of starvation in Gaza as Israel maintains its blockade on aid supplies and fires on people forced to seek food at controversial United States-backed aid sites described as “death traps”.

The 35-day-old infant died of malnutrition at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, director Muhammad Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera. The unnamed infant was one of two people who succumbed to starvation in the facility on Saturday.

The deaths occurred as Gaza’s Ministry of Health…

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is under fire after voting against a congressional amendment that would have slashed $500 million in weapons aid to Israel. Her justification? The amendment would have allegedly “cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities,” while doing nothing to stop offensive US-made weapons being used in Gaza.

But critics say her logic doesn’t hold up. In fact, many argue that so-called “defensive aid” is inseparable from Israel’s offensive war…