Kuwait News Agency: Air defenses are currently intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks.
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A giant statue of football superstar Lionel Messi erected in India to mark his visit last year is “swaying in the wind” and will be removed, a lawmaker has said.⁠
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Workers have scrambled up the 21-metre (70ft) golden-coloured statue in the eastern city of Kolkata in West Bengal, throwing ropes around its shoulders to secure it.⁠
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Iran’s IRGC says it struck an “American airbase” in response to a US attack near Bandar Abbas, warning any further “aggression” will face a “more decisive” response, Tasnim reports.
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The #US Central Command said it shot down four Iranian drones and struck a factory where it said a fifth was being readied for launch. ⁠
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India’s interior minister has ordered the demolition of buildings along the border with Pakistan, as well as actions to combat a variety of “trans-border crimes”.⁠
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Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Wednesday that buildings deemed “illegal” would be destroyed. In a statement, he explained that means that buildings within 15km (nine miles) of the border will be torn down.⁠
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Parisians cooled off in the city’s Saint-Martin canal as an unprecedented heatwave pushed temperatures across #Europe far above seasonal norms. Swimmers ignored long-standing bans, swimming outside designated bathing sites.
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The US government has reinstated sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, after a judge temporarily blocked the designation earlier this month.⁠
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Six activists were arrested Wednesday after staging a protest outside Congress demanding the release of Palestinian detainees, who are often cruelly mistreated in Israeli dungeons.

In a powerful act of civil disobedience to mark Eid, the group knelt in a stress position, reenacting the treatment that members of the Global Sumud Flotilla endured in Israel.

In recent days, the pose has become a global symbol of Israel’s repeated crimes. Similar demonstrations have taken place inside Australia’s Parliament and in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden, to demand an end to Tel Aviv’s total impunity.

Local police chose to hold the group overnight and filed multiple charges, including “resisting arrest,” although TRT World footage of the peaceful protest showed no apparent resistance from demonstrators
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A Norwegian man named Lasse Lund has gone viral after claiming he spent part of his childhood homeless in Mumbai — a story drawing attention because he speaks English with a strikingly local Indian accent.

His claims remain unverified, but the internet is fascinated.
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An illegal Israeli settler shoved a Palestinian mother and her child to the ground during a raid on their home in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank
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Israeli forces assaulted and forcibly removed the hijab of a Palestinian girl near Bab Hutta while she was trying to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, after which she was arrested.
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US President Donald Trump threatened Oman, saying the Gulf country must “behave” or face an attack from the US, while also claiming that the Strait of Hormuz is “international waters” that “nobody’s going to control.”

Iran strongly condemned Trump’s remarks and expressed solidarity with Oman, which sits on the southern tip of the strait, directly across the critical waterway from Iran.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned that in today’s wars, starvation is increasingly being used as a deliberate weapon — including in Palestine's Gaza, where he said some seek to win wars by starving entire populations.

He made the remarks at a summit of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome.
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