❗️ Two soldiers out of Fort Benning have died after a weather-related incident on Yonah Mountain in northern Georgia, US Army officials said.

▪️ A spokesperson for the US Army said the two soldiers, who names have not yet been released, were participating in a training program at the Maneuver Center of Excellence.

▪️ Three other service members were also injured. All were treated by Army medics before being transported to an area hospital.

▪️ Neither the cause of the weather-related incident nor other details have been released by the army.

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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian forces shell two districts of Donetsk - DPR

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😬 New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested he would bus New Yorkers down to Texas to campaign against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for the "good of America" in response to Abbott’s move to bus illegal immigrants from Texas to The Big Apple.

🗯 "I already called all my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their votes," Adams said during a news conference on Tuesday. "And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to, for the good of America, we have to get him out of office."

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🤫 Former Kamala Harris aide Symone Sanders, now an MSNBC weekend host, pleaded with people to stop calling the FBI search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence a "raid" on Tuesday.

🗣 "Please folks stop calling it a ‘raid,’" she tweeted, later responding to critics in amusement.

▪️ Those words may have been directed at her fellow MSNBC hosts and producers, who kept used the term "raid" on air Monday evening.

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🇨🇳 🇦🇺 China's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian told the Australian government to treat the issue of Taiwan with “caution,” saying there is “no room for compromise” over Beijing’s territorial claim over the self-governed island.

▪️ Mr. Xiao addressed the National Press Club on Wednesday as tensions intensify across the Taiwan Strait in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei.

▪️ Xiao struck a conciliatory tone about the prospect of relations improving with the new Australian government, but on the question of Taiwan remained resolute.

▪️ He said China would be prepared to use “all necessary means” for what he described as the “unification” of the island with mainland China.

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❗️ An individual armed with a knife was shot by police in the public area of terminal 2F, at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, according to the BFMTV.

▪️ AFP has reported, citing sources, that the armed suspect was shot dead.

▪️ The police confirmed the incident, saying that the individual in question was "neutralized".

▪️ "This morning officers neutralized a threatening individual in possession of a knife at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport," the Paris police department tweeted.

▪️ No further details were immediately available.

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🌐 The pro-Russian hacking group Killnet has "put down" the website of the American military company Lockheed Martin.

▪️ The founder of the KillMilk group, in his Telegram channel, published a list of systems that have stopped working as a result of the attack. Among them is an authorization system for Lockheed Martin employees, as well as some NASA services. The hacker noted that the group has no "personal" claims against the space agency, but that it must be held accountable for "helping terrorists."

▪️ Killnet hackers declared war on Lockheed Martin on August 1, 2022, promising the corporation "new level hacker attacks." Their reasons for the 'war' include the company's supply of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, which are used in military operations in Ukraine.

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😕 A safe-technology advocacy group issued a claim on Tuesday that Tesla’s full self-driving software represents a potentially lethal threat to child pedestrians, the latest in a series of claims and investigations into the technology to hit the world’s leading electric carmaker.

▪️ According to a safety test conducted by the Dawn Project, the latest version of Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software repeatedly hit a stationary, child-sized mannequin in its path. The claims that the technology apparently has trouble recognizing children form part of an ad campaign urging the public to pressure Congress to ban Tesla’s auto-driving technology.

▪️ In several tests, a professional test driver found that the software, which was released in June, failed to detect the child-sized figure at an average speed of 25mph and the car then hit the mannequin. The Dawn Project’s founder, Dan O’Dowd, called the results “deeply disturbing.”

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📹 Consequences of the hacker attack on Lockheed Martin website.

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⚡️ US to hold exercises in Baltics, adding more troops in region - Austin

❗️ Russia’s MoD latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed an ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade in the DPR using high-precision strikes.

▪️ As a result of the Russian Aerospace Forces' strikes on the temporary deployment points of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU in Kharkov Region, up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and over 20 units of military equipment have been destroyed.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue against military facilities in Ukraine.

▪️ As part of the counter-battery warfare, two Ukrainian platoons of Grad MLRS, as well as two artillery platoons of D-20 guns and two platoons of D-30 howitzers at firing positions in the DPR have been suppressed.

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft have shot down three Ukrainian Air Force aircraft in aerial combat.
Russian air defense units have destroyed nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.

▪️ Some 267 Ukrainian airplanes and 145 helicopters, 1,720 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,283 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 795 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,286 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,807 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.

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🇺🇸 🇺🇦 The US has supplied Ukraine with anti-radar missiles – a special armament for destroying radar-systems - Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl has announced. Kahl did not reveal how many missiles were sent to Ukraine or when it happened. Nor did he mention their model.

▪️ According to a media report, it could have been an AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM). If true, it would be one of the longest-range missiles that the has US supplied to Ukraine so far, despite Moscow's warnings about the consequences of arming Kiev.

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🥰 Police are trying to figure out how a dog wearing a Gilroy license tag wound up lost in a small German village.

🍀 The Gilroy Police Foundation said they received a message with a picture of a dog and its Gilroy tags in the shape of a four-leaf clover.

🤔 According to a Facebook post, they still don't know how the dog wound up in a small village in Germany but confirm that someone, albeit not the owner, had picked up the dog. The Foundation speculates the owner may be in the military, which would explain how the pup traveled more than 5,600 miles from Gilroy.

❓Any ideas?

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🇺🇸 🇸🇦 A former Twitter employee has been found guilty of spying on Saudi dissidents using the social media platform and passing their personal information to a close aide of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

▪️ A jury in a federal court in California found that Ahmad Abouammo, a dual US-Lebanese national, had acted as an unregistered agent of the Saudi government.

▪️ Abouammo was found to have used his position at Twitter to find personal details identifying critics of the Saudi monarchy who had been posting under anonymous Twitter handles, and then supplying the information to Prince Mohammed’s aide Bader al-Asaker.

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⚡️ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang over Beijing's 'increasingly aggressive behaviour' towards Taiwan

❗️ EU is discussing ban on the issuance of Shengen visas to Russians as part of the seventh package of sanctions

"Fundamentally, in the EU, we are in the process of discussing how ... the seventh package of sanctions should look like, what components it may contain. And the issues you raised [visas] play a role in that. There is still no consensus on this issue, also from the federal government, how to relate to this," German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said on Wednesday.

📹 A prominent Saudi diplomat died at a conference in Egypt.

▪️ He became ill during his speech. It was not possible to save him. The cause of his death has not been reported.

▪️ According to some media outlets, his last words were: "Wherever you are, death will overtake you."

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❗️ US year-on-year inflation in July has slowed for the first time since April to 8.5% instead of 9.1% in June

❗️IAEA head decides to cut his holiday short and take part in UNSC meeting in Zaporozhye NPP, Russian envoy in Vienna says

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🇻🇳 The Anniversary of the Agent Orange disaster: How the Vietnam Association for the Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) helps to deal with the consequences of the US’ inhumane war.

“Over the past 18 years, VAVA has raised more than 30 trillion dong (some $1,300,000) and built 26 rehabilitation and care centers for Agent Orange victims. We also create jobs, provide vocational training, and offer them livelihood opportunities,” Lieutenant General Dr. Dang Nam Dien told Sputnik.

▪️ VAVA also pays great attention to the involvement of volunteers and socio-political organizations in helping victims in dealing with the consequences of the Vietnam War.

▪️ The Vietnamese government has also taken measures to help, such as providing low-interest loans to start their own businesses and productive labor and housing at no cost to families of victims who are in difficult situations.

▪️ VAVA is actively fighting to seek justice for the victims, organizing lawsuits against chemical companies in the US.