☀️🌧🌊🌫An international team of climate scientists at the World Weather Attribution group said that rainfall in the worst-hit Pakistan regions had increased as much as 75 percent in recent decades and concluded that manmade activity likely boosted record levels of August precipitation in Sindh and Balochistan provinces.

The flooding affected over 33 million people, destroyed 1.7 million homes, and killed nearly 1,400 people.

To determine what role global heating played in the downpours, the scientists analyzed weather data and computer simulations of today's climate to determine the likelihood of such an event occurring at the roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming that human activity has caused since the Industrial era.

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▪️A senior federal judge with experience handling US national security matters was named Thursday as an independent arbiter to vet records seized by the FBI from former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate in an ongoing criminal investigation.

Senior US District Judge Raymond Dearie, based in Brooklyn, was appointed by Florida-based US District Judge Aileen Cannon as a special master in the case.

Dearie, 78, is tasked with deciding whether any documents are privileged –due to attorney-client confidentiality or through a legal principle called executive privilege – and should be off limits to federal investigators. Trump is under investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records – some of which were marked as highly classified, including “top secret” – at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach after leaving office in January 2021.

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🔎Hundreds of thousands of dollars have poured into a fundraising site for a human trafficking victim convicted of killing the man she said repeatedly raped her.

A GoFundMe fundraiser created to support 17-year-old Pieper Lewis raised more than $405,000 from about 10,500 donations on Thursday afternoon.

Lewis pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury for stabbing to death Zachary Brooks, 37, who she says raped her multiple times in 2020 when she was 15.

During a sentencing hearing Tuesday, she received five years of probation and a deferred judgment, meaning her record could be expunged if she meets the conditions of her sentence.

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😗California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants voters to reject a new tax on rich people that would pay for more electric vehicles in the nation’s most populous state, warning in a new statewide TV ad that a measure on the ballot this November won’t help the environment but is instead “one company’s cynical scheme to grab a huge taxpayer subsidy.”

Proposition 30 would raise taxes on people who make more than $2 million annually. It would generate up to $5 billion in new tax money each year, and most of that money would go to programs that help people buy electric cars and install charging stations. A smaller amount would go to wildfire prevention response and prevention programs.

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📹 Mi-35 attack helicopters in combat action during the special military operation in Ukraine (Russian MoD footage)

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🇰🇬🇹🇯 Latest update on what is happening on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan:

▪Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan agreed to a ceasefire from 4am (GMT) but, according to statements from both sides, the shelling continued;

▪However, the intensity of shelling has declined, Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security said;

▪Foreign Ministers and intelligence agencies of the two countries have discussed the conflict on the border;

▪The parliament of Kyrgyzstan will hold an extraordinary meeting

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📹 Russia's Airborne Forces destroy Ukraine's military personnel and equipment using drones and artillery (Russian MoD footage)

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❗Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has told Russia's President Vladimir Putin that the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border remains tense; issues related to enacting the decisions taken in connection with Armenia's appeal to the CSTO have been discussed - Armenian government

⚡Uzbek president announced start of procedures for granting Belarus membership in SCO

⚡Bahrain, Maldives, Kuwait, UAE and Myanmar to receive SCO dialogue partner status on Friday - President of Uzbekistan

⚡ The President of Uzbekistan has announced at the SCO summit that a memorandum on Iran's accession to the organization would be signed today

❗Two police officers hospitalized after being stabbed in central London

🇮🇳💰 It's official!

India's billionaire Gautam Adani is now the 2nd richest man in the world, according to Forbes' real-time billionaires list.

He is now only behind Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who remains the world's richest person with a networth of $273.5 billion

🇨🇳 Xi says important to prevent attempts by external forces to organize 'color revolutions' in SCO countries