10 Palestinians killed and 10 wounded in Israeli raids in the West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Ban (AP) — Palestinian officials say 10 Palestinians were killed, including four teenagers, and another 10 were wounded by Israeli fire during military raids and operations across the north of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday that four people, including two 19-year-olds and a 14-year-old, were killed in an overnight raid in the village of Aqaaba in the northern West Bank. It said another four people, including an 18-year-old, were killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Jenin — a frequent flashpoint — where the Islamic Jihad militant group said its fighters were battling the army.
Meanwhile two more Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Kafr Qud, near Jenin, later Tuesday, the ministry said.
At least 19 people have been wounded in northern Israel after Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants launched drone attacks, emergency officials said. Most were hurt by an Israeli interceptor rocket that missed and hit the ground.
The attack did not appear to be linked to Hezbollah’s vow to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last week, which has raised fears of an all-out war.
Russia says it’s fighting a cross-border attack by Ukrainian forces. Kyiv officials have no comment
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities claimed that a Ukrainian force launched an incursion on Tuesday into Russia’s Kursk region but was being beaten back by troops and local border guards.
The Russian Defence Ministry said as many as 300 Ukrainian troops, supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 armoured combat vehicles, attacked Russian border positions in the area of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region.
It claimed that six Ukrainian tanks, four armoured personnel carriers and six other armoured vehicles were destroyed in the fighting.
The Russian report could not be independently verified. Disinformation and propaganda have played a central role in the war, now in its third year.
Responsibility for previous incursions, into Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions, have been claimed by two murky groups: the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
The Russian statement claimed the Ukrainian forces belonged to the army’s 22nd Mechanized Brigade, but also referred to them as “fighters” rather than “soldiers.”
Bangladesh’s president dissolves Parliament, clearing the way for elections to replace ousted leader
By: Julhas Alam And Sheikh Saaliq
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s president dissolved Parliament Tuesday, clearing the way for new elections to replace the longtime prime minister who resigned and fled the country following weeks of demonstrations against her rule that descended into violence.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin also ordered the release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia from house arrest. Zia, a longtime rival of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was convicted on corruption charges by Hasina’s government in 2018.
On Tuesday, some senior positions in the military were reshuffled. The student protesters said they would not allow any military-backed government.
The streets of Dhaka, the capital, appeared calmer Tuesday, with no reports of new violence as jubilant protesters thronged the ousted leader’s residence. Some posed for selfies with soldiers guarding the building, where a day earlier angry protesters had looted furniture, paintings, flowerpots and chickens.
Dhaka’s main airport resumed operations after an eight-hour suspension.
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Debby bringing torrential rains and flooding to southeastern U.S.
By: Russ Bynum And Jeffrey Collins
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby has moved menacingly into some of America’s most historic Southern cities, bringing prolonged downpours and flooding Tuesday after slamming into Florida and prompting the rescue of hundreds from flooded homes.
Record-setting rain from the storm that killed at least five people in Florida and Georgia was causing flash flooding, with up to 25 inches (64 centimetres) possible in some areas, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory Tuesday morning.
The storm’s centre is expected to move out over the water off the Georgia and South Carolina coast, then move back inland, so it could restrengthen Wednesday before it moves inland Thursday over South Carolina, he said.
More than 6 inches (15 centimetres) of rain had fallen through Monday at Savannah’s airport, and showed no signs of stopping Tuesday, the National Weather Service reported. That’s already a month’s worth of rain in a single day: In all of August 2023, the city got 5.56 inches (14.1 centimetres) of rain.
More than 120 people died in Tokyo from heatstroke in July as average temperatures hit record highs
By: Mari Yamaguchi
TOKYO (AP) — More than 120 people died of heatstroke in the Tokyo metropolitan area in July, when the nation’s average temperature hit record highs and heat warnings were in effect much of the month, Japanese authorities said Tuesday.
According to the Tokyo Medical Examiner’s Office, many of the 123 people who died were elderly. All but two were found dead indoors, and most were not using air conditioners despite having them installed.
Japanese health authorities and weather forecasters repeatedly advised people to stay indoors, consume ample liquids to avoid dehydration and use air conditioning, because elderly people often think that air conditioning is not good for one’s health and tend to avoid using it.
It was the largest number of heatstroke deaths in Tokyo’s 23 metropolitan districts in July since 127 deaths were recorded during a 2018 heatwave, the medical examiner’s office said.
More than 37,000 people were treated at hospitals for heatstroke across Japan from July 1 to July 28, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Cruise ship rescues 77 migrants in sailing boat found southwest of Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A cruise ship rescued 77 migrants found overnight in a sailboat in distress far off the southwestern coast of Greece and was transporting them to the nearest major port, Greek authorities said Tuesday.
A passing Maltese-flagged cargo ship found the boat 112 nautical miles (129 miles, 207 kilometres) southwest of the town of Pylos in the early hours of Tuesday, the coast guard said. In an operation coordinated by Greece’s search and rescue authority, all those on board were picked up by a cruise ship sailing in the area and were being transported to the southern Greek port town of Kalamata, authorities said.
There were no reports of any people missing. No information was immediately available on the nationalities of those on the sailboat or where they had set out from.
Wall Street rallies to bounce back from its worst day in nearly 2 years, as Japanese stocks soar
By: Stan Choe
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are bouncing back, and calm is returning to Wall Street after Japan’s market soared earlier Tuesday to claw back much of the losses from its worst day since 1987.
The S&P 500 was rallying by 1.7 per cent in afternoon trading and on track to break a brutal three-day losing streak. It had tumbled a bit more than 6 per cent after several weaker-than-expected reports raised worries the Federal Reserve had pressed the brakes too hard for too long on the U.S. economy through high interest rates in order to beat inflation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 485 points, or 1.2 per cent, as of 12:33 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.8 per cent higher. The vast majority of stocks were climbing in a mirror opposite of the day before, from smaller companies that need U.S. households to keep spending to huge multinationals more dependent on the global economy.
Stronger-than-expected profit reports from several big U.S. companies helped drive the market.
Human remains found inside a crocodile in Australia believed to be that of a 40-year-old tourist
By: Rod Mcguirk
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police said Tuesday human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia’s second fatal attack in about a month.
The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River south of Cooktown in Queensland state, his family said in a statement. The general practice doctor from Newcastle in New South Wales had been traveling on a camping vacation through Queensland with his wife Jane Hogbin and their three sons aged 2, 5 and 7 years. Cooktown is more than 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) from Newcastle by road.
Wildlife rangers on Monday euthanized a 4.9-meter (16-foot) crocodile in a creek 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from where Dave Hogbin disappeared. The crocodile had scars on its snout like those witnesses described seeing on a reptile in the vicinity of the disappearance, officials said.
The human remains found inside the crocodile during an examination in Cooktown were believed to be Hogbin, a police statement said. Further testing would be conducted to positively identify the remains.
