🇯🇵 Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.

🌎 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined the thousands of people packed into Peace Park in the center of the city to mark the anniversary of the bombing, which killed some 140,000. This is only the second time a UN secretary-general has taken part in the annual ceremony.

🗯 "Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety - only death and destruction," Mr. Guterres said.

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🥴 A French scientist has apologized for a joke he posted on Twitter, in which he claimed a photo of a chorizo was that of a star.

▪️ Etienne Klein, who is the research director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, posted a photo last week that he claimed was of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

▪️ The telescope sent back its first full-color image showing the deepest view of the universe ever seen last month, after reaching its destination almost one million miles from Earth earlier this year.

▪️ Klein pointed to the level of detail in the image he posted and said that a “new world” was being uncovered.

▪️ But he commented on his post about an hour later to reveal the joke, saying that modern cosmology states that no object from “Spanish charcuterie” exists outside of Earth.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇳 The United States is set to take part in a joint military exercise with India less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the South Asian country's disputed border with China.

▪️ The military drills will be held in mid-October at an altitude of 10,000 feet in Auli in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and will focus on high-altitude warfare training, according to a senior Indian Army officer with knowledge of the matter.

▪️ Auli is about 95 kilometers from the Line of Actual Control (LAC), an inhospitable piece of land where the disputed border between India and China is roughly demarcated.

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❗️ Israeli defense minister has ordered to continue operation against Islamic Jihad

🇦🇫 Afghan authorities have not found a body at the site of a US missile attack on al-Qaeda leader

Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul - Taliban official
Earlier, the Taliban said they had no information about the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

* The Taliban is an organization sanctioned by the United Nations for terrorist activities.
* Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

❗️🎥 Gaza-based militants have attacked the city of Netivot, in the Southern District of Israel, located between Beersheba and Gaza

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❗️ Erdogan said that he offered Putin to hold his meeting with Zelensky in Turkey

👀🇺🇸"I didn't know I could do that!”: ABC7 meteorologist Greg Dutra was hilariously surprised when he found out he could move the weather map behind him

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❗️🎥 The IDF has attacked several Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip in the past hours

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❗️Moscow calls on Israel and Gaza to show restraint and return to ceasefire regime

⚡️ A ship with 33 tons of corn from the port of Odessa has reached Istanbul - Turkish MoD

🇦🇺 Dozens of people fell when a stadium terrace collapsed during a rugby match in Sydney, Australia.

The injured received medical treatment.

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❗️🎥 "Everything is broken and ruined": Residents of a village in the DPR describe how they have to live under the constant shelling by the Ukrainian Army

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