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At least 18 Palestinians were killed early Tuesday by Israeli occupation gunfire and shelling across the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials. Medical sources said 12 bodies were transported to Al-Shifa Hospital, while six others were taken to the Baptist Hospital. The death toll from Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 65,344, with 166,795 people wounded. The majority of casualties were women and children. These figures remain incomplete, as many victims are still trapped under rubble or lying in the streets, where emergency crews have been unable to reach them.

Medical sources reported that 20 Palestinians have been killed since dawn today due to Israeli occupation forces' airstrikes and shelling across the Gaza Strip.According to the same sources, 12 of the martyrs were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital, 3 to Al-Maamadani Hospital, 4 to Al-Aqsa Hospital, and 1 to Nasser Hospital.The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has killed 65,283 citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and injured 166,575 others, according to a preliminary toll. A number of victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced Sunday its forces had killed nearly 1,280 Ukrainian soldiers and intercepted 65 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a series of ongoing military operations across various frontlines. In an official statement, the ministry said Russian ground forces carried out targeted strikes against Ukrainian military units in multiple combat zones. The attacks reportedly resulted in the destruction of dozens of armored vehicles, artillery systems, military transport vehicles, ammunition depots, and electronic warfare stations. Additionally, the ministry reported that the Black Sea Fleet destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned surface vessels in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. Russian operational—tactical aircraft and drones also targeted what were described as transport infrastructure facilities being used to support Ukrainian military operations, as well as sites allegedly involved in the launch and storage of long-range drones. These claims come amid the continuing war that began on February 24, 2022, with both Russia and Ukraine regularly issuing conflicting reports on battlefield developments and military successes. Neither side's claims can be independently verified, and both continue to engage in intense information campaigns alongside ongoing hostilities.

Two Palestinian children were killed and several others injured today when Israeli aircraft bombed a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City.According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli drones carried out multiple strikes on the Al Sabra neighborhood in the city's northwest, coinciding with heavy artillery fire and the detonation of explosive-laden vehicles in the same area. At the same time, Israeli forces continued to demolish residential buildings around Gaza City, while warplanes launched a series of air raids on the Tel Al-Hawa district in the city's southwest.In central Gaza Strip, Israeli artillery shelled the northern parts of Al Bureij refugee camp, and occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim corridor. An Israeli airstrike near the electricity company in Al Nuseirat refugee camp caused extensive damage to several facilities and civilian infrastructure. The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, has now killed 65,174 people and injured 166,071 others, the vast majority of them women and children, amid what humanitarian agencies describe as an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

Three ISIS members were killed in an airstrike southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. A security source said that Iraqi aircraft carried out an airstrike targeting an ISIS hideout in Wadi Al-Shai, southeast of Kirkuk.The source added that the strike resulted in the killing of three members, including a prominent leader in the organization, and the complete destruction of the hideout.Iraqi security forces continue to pursue remnants of ISIS throughout the country's various provinces, particularly as its elements periodically target army and police personnel in armed attacks.

US authorities announced that three police officers were killed, and two others seriously injured in a shooting carried out by a gunman in the eastern US state of Pennsylvania before police were able to neutralize him.State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris confirmed at a press conference that five officers were shot on Thursday, three of whom were fatally wounded, while two were taken to the hospital and are in critical condition.

Seventeen Palestinians were killed and others wounded Wednesday morning as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian news agency (WAFA) quoted medical sources as saying that three Palestinians from one family were martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a tent housing displaced persons in Al-Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.A Palestinian man, his pregnant wife, and his daughter were also martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.In the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in the south, two Palestinians were martyred and others wounded when Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment.WAFA reported that in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northwest Gaza, a number of Palestinians were martyred and wounded in an Israeli attack that targeted a building, while occupation aircraft bombed a house in the neighborhood's first street.On October 7, 2023, Israeli occupying forces launched an assault on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 64,871 people, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of 164,610 others. This is a preliminary toll, with a number of victims still buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue teams.

At least three people were killed and 70 others injured when a tanker truck overturned, caught fire and exploded on a highway in southeastern Mexico City. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said on X that 70 people were injured and three died, according to the preliminary toll. A preliminary list of those hospitalized was published and will be updated as medical assessments continue. The Mexico City Fire Department later stated that the fire inside and around the overturned tanker truck, which was transporting liquefied petroleum gas, had been completely extinguished. This is the second major highway accident in Mexico this week.

At least 10 people were killed and 41 others were injured when a train collided with a bus at a rail crossing in the State of Mexico, according to authorities. Civil Protection General Coordinator Adrian Hernandez confirmed the casualty toll, noting that four of the injured remain in critical condition. Security footage showed the double-decker bus slowly moving across the train tracks. The train then suddenly appeared, ramming the bus at its midpoint and splitting the vehicle in two. The bus driver was arrested at the request of the local public prosecutor's office.

Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured by Israeli occupation forces' fire on Monday in Jenin camp, north of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that two boys (14 and 17 years old) were killed and a number of people were injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets while trying to enter the Jenin camp to inspect their homes. The ministry said that its crews dealt with a young man (22 years old) who was injured by live bullets in the abdomen, inside Jenin camp, and transferred him to the hospital. They also transferred a girl (12 years old) who was injured in her hand after being chased by occupation soldiers. Local sources said that occupation soldiers arrested a number of people and took them to a military barracks inside the camp. They also set fire to a house, amid heavy live ammunition fire. The sources added that the number of martyrs in Jenin has risen to 47 since the start of the Israeli occupation's aggression on the city and its camp on Jan. 21, which also affected several towns and villages in the governorate. During its aggression, the Israeli occupation completely destroyed more than 600 homes in Jenin camp, and partially demolished approximately 1,000 housing units, displacing approximately 22,000 residents of the camp to the city and the towns and villages of the governorate.

A gut-wrenching new film about a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year was given a 23-minute standing ovation after its premiere at the star-studded Venice Film Festival Wednesday."The Voice of Hind Rajab", a docu-drama about real events from January 2024, left much of the audience and many journalists sobbing as it screened for the first time.Franco-Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania and her cast, all dressed in black, were also in tears as they soaked in applause, cheers and shouts of "Free Palestine! at the 1,032-seat main festival cinema."We see that the narrative all around world is that those dying in Gaza are collateral damage, in the media," Ben Hania told journalists ahead of the premiere."And I think this is so dehumanising, and that's why cinema, art and every kind of expression is very important to give those people a voice and face." Her film tells the story of Hind Rajab Hamada who was fleeing the Israeli military in Gaza City with six relatives last year when their car came under fire.The sole survivor, her desperate calls with the Red Crescent rescue service -- which were recorded and released -- brief caused international outrage."The Voice of Hind Rajab" has plenty of famous names attached as executive producers -- from actors Joaquin Phoenix, who attended the premiere, and Brad Pitt to Oscar-winning directors Jonathan Glazer ("The Zone of Interest") and Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron ("Roma")."I'm very happy, and I never in my life thought that can be possible," Ben Hania said of her A-list backers.Its premiere came on the same day as a senior Israeli military official said one million Palestinians could be displaced by a new offensive around Gaza City."The Voice of Hind Rajab" makes chilling use of the real phone recordings of Hind Rajab, but tells the story through a dramatised Red Crescent team which is trying to coordinate her rescue."It is dramatisation, but very close to what they experienced," Ben Hania added.Hind Rajab was eventually found dead along with two ambulance staff who went to rescue her."Please come to me, please come. I'm scared," she can be heard sobbing repeatedly in the film while bullets fly in the background.She is described as six years old, but a death certificate viewed by AFP in Gaza showed her age as five.Deadline magazine said the film "could be the lightning rod that supporters of the Gazan cause are waiting for", while Vogue tipped it for Venice's top prize on Saturday.A critic in Variety magazine said the "shattering" audio footage "carries a brutal emotional wallop" but the mix of drama and documentary footage was "questionable."The Gaza conflict has been a major talking point at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, where thousands of protesters marched to the entrance of the event on Saturday.An open letter calling on festival organisers to denounce the Israeli government has been signed by around 2,000 cinema insiders, according to the organisers.Hind Rajab's mother, Wissam Hamada, said she hoped the film would help end the war."The whole world has left us to die, to go hungry, to live in fear and to be forcibly displaced without doing anything," Hamada told AFP by phone from Gaza City where she lives with her five-year-old son.Israel's bombardment has killed at least 63,633 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations deems reliable.Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said the circumstances of Hind Rajab's death were "still being reviewed", without giving further details.It has never announced a formal investigation into the case.The war in Gaza has regularly caused tension in the cinema world since Israel launched its offensive in October 2023 in retaliation for a storming of Israel by Palestinian Hamas group fighters.Hundreds of actors and directors signed an open letter during the Cannes film festival in May saying they were "ashamed" of their industry's "passivity" about the war.Cannes began under the shadow of the killing of Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, the subject of the documentary which was picked for a sidebar section of the festival.A day after Hassouna was told the film had been selected, an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza killed her and 10 relatives.

Flooding across northern India killed at least five people Wednesday, officials said, with more thunderstorms expected and local media reporting that 10,000 people have been evacuated from the river banks in capital Delhi.The monsoon season in India has been particularly intense this year, killing at least 130 people in August alone in north India, wiping out villages and destroying infrastructure.The latest round of flooding has hit northern Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab, where the Chenab and Tawi rivers have risen above the danger mark at several spots.The swollen rivers have triggered landslides and damaged many roads, disconnecting parts of the mountainous regions of Jammu and Himachal from the rest of India. At least five people were killed Wednesday after landslides battered Rajouri and Mandi districts in Jammu and Himachal Pradesh respectively, officials said.The India Meteorological Department warned of heavy to very heavy rain in the region with more downpours expected in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.The Central Water Commission said the swollen Yamuna had breached its danger mark on Tuesday in Delhi.Local media reported that nearly 10,000 people had been evacuated to relief camps set up by the government along the main highways as a precautionary measure for those living in low-lying areas. Residents living along the Yamuna in Delhi were evacuated in 2023 as well after floodwaters entered their homes and the river hit its highest level in 45 years.Many tourist spots in Himachal Pradesh have been hit by landslides in recent weeks, as raging rivers damaged infrastructure.Educational institutions were ordered shut, authorities said, asking people to remain indoors due to flood warnings.In neighbouring Punjab, the government said 30 people have been killed and nearly 20,000 evacuated since August 1.Water gushing through the plains in India's breadbasket Punjab state has destroyed 150,000 hectares of crops, the government said on Tuesday. Continuous rain prompted authorities to release water from dams, which has caused flooding in plains in India and Pakistan in recent days.