🇲🇽 Hurricane John is wreaking havoc along Mexico's Pacific coast. Footage shows Acapulco and the state of Guerrero beset by devastating floods and landslides.

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Police in the German city of Munich police aren’t missing out on the fun at the Oktoberfest beer festival. But that may not be good for security, especially in light of the August 23 terrorist attack in Solingen. During during a festival celebrating the city's 650th anniversary, a terrorist stabbed attendees, killing three and injuring eight. The attack was claimed by ISIS*

*banned in Russia

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📹 A demonstration is taking place in Australia’s Sydney against the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill proposed by the Labor Party led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

If approved, the bill would allow the government to fine digital platforms up to 5% of their annual turnover for not censoring so-called “misinformation”.

However, critics warn that the bill would enable the government to crack down on free speech with little accountability.

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Israel-Lebanon escalation: here’s what happened overnight

▪️ Israel’s military launched a wave of attacks on southern Beirut during the night after warning residents living “near Hezbollah interests” to evacuate. Hundreds are reported to have fled the Lebanese capital’s Dahiyeh district – a densely populated civilian area.

▪️ Israeli fighter jets carried out air raids in the neighborhoods of al-Kafaat, Hadath, Laylaki, Choueifat, and Ghobeiry in Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to the news outlet Al Mayadeen.

▪️ The Israeli military has said the precision strikes targeted Hezbollah’s "central headquarters" and alleged weapons depots in underground complexes in the suburbs of the Lebanese capital. A series of seven explosions was heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

▪️ Muhammad Ali Ismail, commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, along with his deputy, Hussein Ahmad Ismail, were killed in the air strikes, the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson stated in a post on X.

▪️ Hezbollah has denied Israeli claims that weapons were stored in the bombed buildings.

▪️ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the head of the movement’s executive council, Hashem Safieddin, were not injured in the Israeli air strikes on Beirut, Tasnim News Agency reported.

▪️ As around 65 rockets were launched at Israel from Lebanon, a 68-year-old woman sustained injuries from shrapnel in the city of Safed, the IDF and local medics reported. According to the Israeli military, sirens sounded in the northern Israel’s Upper Galilee area after 10 rockets launched from southern Lebanon were detected.

▪️ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denounced Israel's air strikes as a "flagrant war crime" in a statement published by the country’s official IRNA news agency.

▪️ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged during a UN Security Council meeting that Israel had used US "bunker buster" bombs in its attacks on Beirut.

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