— 🇹🇷 NEW: Turkey was officially invited to attend this year's BRICS summit in October, after the country applied for membership in the bloc

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: This morning, following a call to action by Columbia University's Apartheid Divest group, around 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at the university's entrance at 116th Street and Broadway to stage a protest on the first day of classes.

The demonstrators, urging students to join their ranks, chanted slogans such as "Don't cross the picket line" and "Palestine will free us all."

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades release the final message recorded by Israeli hostage Ori Danino before his death.

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— 🇺🇸 Our updated prediction of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

We will be releasing two more predictions, one in October and one 24 hours before Election Day.

Our most recent prediction sees former President Donald J. Trump narrowly winning the election, taking Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona as crucial swing states, while Vice President Kamala Harris holds onto Nevada, Michigan and Georgia.

In past days, polls were influenced by the Democratic National Convention, its extensive media coverage and the excitement around Harris' new VP pick, Tim Walz. Our prediction disregards this temporary positive shift in sentiment for Harris, as the 'DNC bounce' slowly fades.

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— 🇮🇶/🇮🇱 NEW: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announce that they targeted Haifa with drones a few hours ago.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: Israeli podcast hosts Eytan Weinstein and Naor Meningher publicly advocate for ethnic cleansing, with Eytan saying, “If you gave me a button to erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow—I would press it in a second.”

He also adds that maybe only 20 people in all of Israel care about the suffering of Palestinian children.

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Russia struck a training center in Potlava, Ukraine where NATO trainers were present in the center.

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— 🇮🇳 The average Indian movie plot:

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— 🇮🇱 Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid: 'As long as this government exists, the war will continue, they don't know how to bring peace, and they don't want to bring peace'

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: The vast majority of Israelis do not believe that their government will successfully reach a deal that will bring home its hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, according to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute

The IDI's monthly Israeli Voice Index found that 73% of respondents described themselves as pessimistic regarding the chances of a deal succeeding, while only 21% said they were optimistic

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— 🇹🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: A Turkish drone strike killed three people in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish security sources and a local official said

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Russia's foreign ministry warned the West and Ukraine that Moscow will give an immediate and extremely painful response in the event of long-range strikes on Russian territory by Ukraine

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦/🇵🇱 NEW: Polish and allied aircraft were activated early today for the third time in eight days to ensure the safety of Polish airspace after Russia launched air strikes on Ukraine

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— 🇩🇰/🇵🇸 NEW: 21-year-old activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested by Danish police at a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Copenhagen.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades release the final messages recorded by Israeli hostages Carmel Gat and Alexander Lobanov before their deaths.

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