Headlines- Saudi Arabia attacks the Houthi-held city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
- According to Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia, recent IRGC attacks in Erbil, Iraq, destroyed "almost all" US military infrastructure.
- After a vehicle drove into a crowd on Saturday during Berlin's LGBTQ celebrations, police confirmed a manhunt was underway.
- Nearly 260,000 people have been forced to flee due to uncontrolled wildfires that are blazing on Saturday in the southwest of France near Madrid, the capital of Spain prompted French government to send out its military.
- Eight people, including six children, were discovered dead inside a Michigan home on Friday.
- Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, was officially announced on Saturday as the candidate from his father's Liberal Party to challenge the incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- The most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed over 1,309 lives.
- In Syria, two buses collided, which caused at least 35 deaths and 30 injuries.
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