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Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip on the ruins of a school destroyed by an Israeli strike On Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces struck the building where Hamas terrorist Jaber Aziz was hiding. In recent years, he commanded the Al-Furqan battalion. This was reported by The Jerusalem Post. The Israeli strike also killed several other terrorists located in the Hamas command and control center. The center was located in the Hassan Salameh and Nasser schools in Gaza City.

Iman Khelif (right) at the Paris Olympics A female boxer from the Algerian national team, who faced public insults at the Olympics, called for an end to the bullying of athletes. Iman Khelif said the wave of hateful attention she has faced due to her gender is an affront to human dignity. In an interview with Associated Press sports video partner SNTV on Sunday evening, the Algerian athlete spoke about her ordeal.

Fedor Krasheninnikov The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put political scientist Fyodor Krasheninnikov on the wanted list. Information about this appeared in the department’s database, Mediazona reports . The wanted card says that Krasheninnikov is wanted under a criminal article. Which one exactly is not specified. The political scientist opposes the war and criticizes Vladimir Putin, cooperates with independent media.

Vladimir Putin and Irek Magasumov Irek Magasumov, a participant in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, who was previously convicted in the case of the murder of an 18-year-old girl in Lugansk and was stripped of the title of Hero of Russia, returned to the front. Tatar-inform reports this. Magasumov also appeared in a video in which he interrogates a captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier.

Detention of Afgan Sadigov in Tbilisi The head of the independent Azerbaijani news agency and YouTube channel Azel.TV, Afgan Sadigov, was arrested in Tbilisi. OC Media writes about this. Georgian authorities intend to extradite him to Azerbaijan. Sadigov and his family have lived in Georgia since December 2023. In mid-July he was not allowed to leave Georgia for Turkey. According to the journalist, he was informed that he could only fly to Azerbaijan.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius at the 2012 Paralympics in London The Russian Paralympic Committee submitted applications to the International Paralympic Committee for the participation of Russian athletes in the Paralympic Games in Paris. This time Russians will be able to compete only in individual disciplines under a neutral flag. According to the Paralympic Committee, 92 athletes have submitted applications to participate.

View of the main temple of the Russian Armed Forces in Patriot Park The director of the Patriot park near Moscow, Vyacheslav Akhmedov, was arrested in a criminal case of fraud, the Investigative Committee reports . Also detained was the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Vladimir Shesterov.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrey Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin (from left to right) at a press conference in Bonn On August 2, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin, released by exchange, held a press conference in Bonn. At it, Pivovarov and Kara-Murza, among other things, said that they would fight to ensure that Western sanctions were directed only against the Putin regime, and not against ordinary people, since sanctions “against the entire country” are counterproductive and unfair.

Kim Jong -un and daughter are examined by ballistic missiles, archival photos The border parts of the DPRK received 250 launchers of the new tactical ballistic missiles "Shzason". In the weapon transfer ceremony, the country's leader Kim Jong -un participated, transferred to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (Tsat).

Elon Musk's company Neuralink has successfully implanted its device into the brain of a second patient, Elon Musk said in a podcast by American journalist Lex Friedman. Musk said that the operation went very well: “There are a lot of signals, a lot of electrodes,” the entrepreneur noted. Musk also said on the podcast that the company plans to operate on a total of 10 patients this year. The Neuralink device is a coin-sized microcomputer that is implanted into a person's brain.

An illustrative photo Mali authorities break diplomatic relations with Ukraine, accusing the country of supporting international terrorism. This was reported in the communique on the website of the transition government.

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The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the former deputy head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Timofey Sobolevsky, on the wanted list. The wanted card was discovered by the Russian state agency RIA Novosti. It is reported that in 2015, the sports functionary left for the United States. According to TASS , the search is related to a criminal case of obstruction of justice, the maximum penalty for which is up to four years in prison.

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