Headlines- Israel claims that as of Saturday, its fighters are carrying out a series of targeted attacks on Israeli forces stationed inside Lebanese territory.
- On Saturday, the Israeli military demolished portions of a Catholic convent in a border village while Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and injured others.
- The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is "likely" to resume, according to Iran's deputy chief of military headquarters, Mohammad Jafar Asadi, as "evidence shows the US is not committed to any agreements or treaties."
- The US decision to remove 5,000 troops from Germany was "foreseeable," according to Germany's defense minister Boris Pistorius, while the NATO military alliance claims to be asking Washington for clarification.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani discussed the ongoing talks to end the war in Iran on Saturday.
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As businesses start to reopen, some are turning to technology to figure out how to make workplaces safer
Russia Soviet Monuments
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Afghan Women Robotics Team Makes COVID-19...
An all-female group of robotics students in the Afghan city of Herat has developed a prototype ventilator for COVID-19 patients based on a design by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Afghan Robotics Team hopes to get approval from the authorities to produce the machines
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Afghan mothers are waging a battle to get their names on their children’s national ID cards. Despite giving birth, they are not recognized as legal guardians of their own children. As part of a campaign called “Where Is My Name,” female lawmakers and activists are challenging Afghanistan’s staunchly patriarchal society where only the father’s and grandfather’s names appear on national IDs
Immigration Artist
Artist Dominick Cocozza is only 18 years old. But his painting of two migrant children holding a sign that reads “Bring Our Mom Back” is already being displayed at the U.S. Capitol
South African Sardine
Every June or July, giant schools of sardines ply South Africa’s east coast, swimming north after spawning. The annual migration of these tiny fish, called the sardine run, delights fishermen and women – in part because it also draws in larger marine predators
COVID-19: Spain Resurgence
Spain was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in April but after imposing one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, the infection and death rates dropped. However, that trend is taking a turn for the worse. As Alfonso Beato reports from Barcelona, the cases have risen threefold in July and now restrictions are being re-imposed