The Ocean Viking managed to rescue more than 600 people who were shipwrecked at sea off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, SOS Méditerranée reports. This is the largest salvage operation the ship has ever undertaken. Over the past 36 hours, 623 shipwrecked people have boarded the ship in 15 rescue missions. 14 missions took place on the route between Tunisian Sfax and Lampedusa. Among those rescued were 161 minors, 146 of them had no accompanying persons.

Six migrants died in a capsized boat in the English Channel. The British and French coastguards rescued more than 50 people. Associated Press reports. According to the publication, French authorities have noted an increase in the number of attempts to cross the bay due to milder weather. On August 10, a record 755 people crossed the English Channel. At the same time, the number of small boats decreased by 15% compared to 2022.

Over the past 24 hours, five people have been killed by shelling by Russian armed forces, and at least 12 more have been injured. Russia shelled Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkov, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye , Sumy , Nikolaev regions of Ukraine. Kyiv was also shelled, where rocket debris fell on a children's hospital. There were no injuries, says the mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko.

In Odessa, for the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, beaches were opened, reports the head of the local OBA Oleg Kiper. You can now swim on the beaches from 8:00 to 20:00; catering hours have also been extended in the city; now cafes and restaurants can be open until 23:00. The city authorities pay special attention to the safety of visitors to the seashore.

Transgender beauty blogger Milana Petrova was detained at Moscow Domodedovo airport, reported . her Telegram channel Earlier, the KitaeZa and GrUezA channel wrote that contact with Petrova had been lost. In July it became known that the girls drew up two reports for discrediting army and “LGBT propaganda” on the Internet. Petrova left Russia at the end of 2021, fearing possible persecution, writes OVD-Info. The departure was prompted by police persecution for “promoting homosexuality.”

Political journalist Maria Ponomarenko ensured her to be transferred to a colony from Krasnoyarsk to Barnaul, where her daughters live. She told about this in a letter transferred to the editor of Rusnews. According to Ponomarenko’s calculations, she will arrive in Barnaul by stage no earlier than two weeks later. The journalist also thanked everyone who writes letters to her.

UN pumped out 1.14 million barrels of oil from a disintegrating tanker that has been moored off the coast of Yemen since 2015. Since 2014, civil war has continued in the country. Thus, the organization prevented one of the largest oil spills since 1989, when an accident led to the release of 260 thousand barrels of oil from the Exxon Valdez tanker. As a result, about two thousand kilometers of coastline were polluted and an oil slick the size of Armenia was formed.

In Buryatia, the son of anti-war activist Natalya Filonova, Vladimir Alalykin, spoke about being bullied and beaten by other students at the Barguzin orphanage, where he was taken after his mother’s arrest. According to the teenager, the director of the orphanage Oleg Tsyrempilov himself organized the persecution. This became known thanks to human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina.

The death toll from forest fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui has increased to 67 people. This is the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the islands. Lahaina's historic downtown is nearly destroyed by fire and there are power outages. The fire has not yet been fully contained. According to Hawaii State Governor Josh Green, it will take several years for the island of Maui to recover.