Tens of thousands in Sydney demand aid into Gaza
Tens of thousands marched across Sydney's Harbour Bridge in the rain, advocating for peace and for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza, as the enclaves starvation crisis deepens. The protest, supported by prominent figures like Julian Assange coincides with increasing international diplomatic pressure on Israel.
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Hear from Israeli hostages' families after meeting with Witkoff
Steve Witkoff, the United States' Special Envoy to the Middle East, held a nearly three-hour meeting with the families of those still being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, telling them that the US' 'first priority' is getting the hostages back to Israel, the forum said. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive. CNN has reached out to Witkoff's team to confirm that he made these comments.
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Young Catholics flock to Rome for Youth Jubilee
Pope Leo XIV received a rock star's welcome and led a prayer vigil with young people participating in the Jubilee of the Youth in Rome. CNN's Christopher Lamb reports.
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Witkoff visits controversial Gaza aid site
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff spent over five hours in Gaza, and visited the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site. He said the purpose of the visit was to give Trump 'a clear understanding of the humanitarian situation and help craft a plan to deliver food and medical aid to the people of Gaza.' CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
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United Nations' Relief Chief: If anyone can shift Israeli Government, 'It's of course, the Americans'
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that if anyone can shift the Israeli government, it's the US, and addresses reports of how food aid is being intercepted.
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Amusement park ride splits in half in Saudi Arabia
At least 23 people were injured, three of them critically, when a fairground ride buckled in Saudi Arabia, sending passengers crashing to the ground, according to state media.
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Soldiers in Ukraine battle Russian drones
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports from the frontlines of Ukraine, where soldiers rush to bring in the wounded as drones constantly look for a target.
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US diminished a key weapons stockpile fighting Iran
The US used about a quarter of its supply of high-end missile interceptors during the Israel-Iran war, exposing a gap in supplies, and raising concerns about US global security posture. CNN's Tamara Qiblawi reports.
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Carney says Canada will recognize Palestinian state
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has joined France and Britain in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations, as international pressure builds on Israel over the ongoing war and starvation crisis in Gaza. President Donald Trump reacted to the announcement by threatening to derail trade talks with Canada.
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Two leading Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of genocide
Two leading Israeli human rights groups have accused Israel of 'committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,' becoming the first such organizations to make the claim. B'Tselem's Executive Director Yuli Novak and Physicians for Human Rights Israel's Executive Director Guy Shalev tell CNN's Christiane Amanpour what was behind their groups' decisions to use the word genocide.
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Watch F-18 fighter jet perform evasive maneuvers to avoid crashing into audience at airshow
A video verified by Reuters shows the moment when a Spanish F-18 fighter jet was forced to perform "evasive maneuvers" to avoid crashing into attendees during the Gijón Air Festival. The military praised the pilot's actions which ensured the safety of the attendees.
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Mothers risk their lives to get food in Gaza
Palestinian women face an awful choice between risking their own lives, which could deprive their families of their only remaining provider, or watching their children starve. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
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Medics perform surgery during earthquake
Video shows medics in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, continuing a surgery on a patient despite a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's far eastern coast on July 30.
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Tsunami warnings triggered after major earthquake
The strongest earthquake on the planet since 2011 has triggered tsunami warnings for parts of Russia, Japan, and Alaska, as well as all of Hawaii. CNN's Will Ripley reports on the 8.8-magnitude quake.
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Israeli settler kills activist who worked on Oscar-winning film
Odeh Hathalin, a prominent Palestinian activist who had worked on an Oscar-winning documentary, was killed on Monday during an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to local journalists and officials. CNN's Jeremy Diamond explains video circulated on social media that shows the gunman firing a hand gun in the vicinity of where Hathalin was said to be killed.
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Fans in England celebrate Women's Euro 2025 final win
Fans celebrate in London as England has been crowned champion of Europe for the second successive time after defeating Spain 3-1 on penalties in the Women's Euro 2025 final.
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Breaking down Israel's aid drops into Gaza
In the midst of a hunger crisis in Gaza, Israel and other countries have begun dropping aid by plane into the area. CNN's Nic Robertson breaks down how much effect this measure can offer, while the UN calls for substantial relief to come from aid trucks moving in quickly through open corridors.
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People fight for scraps of food in Gaza
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the scarce food conditions in Gaza, with children and mothers fighting off starvation as soup kitchens face shortages.
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More Relief Supplies Enter Gaza, but Aid Groups Warn of Bottlenecks
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Mapping key regions in Ukraine as Trump and Putin prepare for Alaska summit
US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin are meeting Friday for a summit in Alaska aimed - on the US side at least - at bringing an end to the grinding war that has followed Russia's full-scale invasion of 2022. Any peace deal around Ukraine would need to involve agreement on territory, with Russia currently occupying almost a fifth of Ukraine's land. Last Friday, Trump suggested a ceasefire deal could involve 'some swapping of territories,' but it is not yet clear what areas he was referring to, and Ukraine has categorically rejected ceding parts of its land. Russia, too, has rejected the idea. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trump was 'very clear' on a call with European leaders that Washington wants to obtain a ceasefire and that Ukraine's territorial issues cannot be negotiated without its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Here's what maps tell us about what's at stake. One proposal, elements of which have emerged over the past week, reportedly presented to US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, would have Ukraine give up the remainder of the eastern Donetsk region and Luhansk, together known as the Donbas, in exchange for a ceasefire. But this week, the situation in Donetsk has rapidly deteriorated, with Russian forces making important advances to the north east of Dobropilia, altering control of the area Witkoff has been discussing with the Kremlin. Kyiv has downplayed the advances as infiltration by small groups of Russian forces, but sent reinforcements. Other Ukrainian sources in the area paint a more dire picture, in which months of persistent Russian pressure has culminated in a weak spot to exploit. It would be politically toxic for Ukraine's Zelensky to order tens of thousands of civilians and troops to voluntarily leave Donetsk region. Many could refuse. The practical elements of it would be impossible – evacuating tens of thousands of civilians in days or weeks, to fit the timetable of a peace deal hatched during a Russian summer offensive where Moscow's forces are gaining ground. There are few obvious options for Moscow to concede back. They hold slivers of border land to the north – near Sumy and Kharkiv – both of which are called 'buffer zones' by the Kremlin head, and are the result of less-than-successful incursions designed to drain Ukraine's manpower. But they are tiny and, as Ukrainian officials point out, also part of Ukraine, not Russia. So they are not an obvious or equal 'swap.' Some of the confusion around Witkoff's Kremlin meeting was whether Putin had stepped back from his maximalist war goals, and had conceded a potential ceasefire purely in exchange for Donetsk. Putin has always wanted way more, and indeed Russia's constitution has perpetuated the false narrative that Ukraine is historically Russia, by adding all four partially occupied regions of Ukraine to its territory. Moscow holds most of Donetsk and nearly all of Luhansk. But it only controls about two-thirds of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia respectively, the former liberated in part from Russian forces in late 2022. Would Putin agree to leave the Ukrainian-held parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia under Kyiv's control? That remains unclear. But Ukraine ceding this territory would be another non-starter, requiring vast tracts of land to be handed over to Moscow and indeed the entire bustling city of Zaporizhzhia to evacuate or become Russian. Zelensky has also warned that territory conceded to Russia would simply be used as a springboard for further invasions, as happened with Crimea, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and used as a launchpad for the full-scale war in 2022. The statements of Ukraine's European allies have suggested the current line of contact be the starting point for negotiations. That is not quite a concession, but an important change in tone. For years, Europe and Kyiv – along with the Biden administration – have declared they will never recognise or accept Russian control over occupied parts of Ukraine. But since the return of Trump to the White House, they have softened their position, quietly entertaining the idea that the front lines might be frozen. In truth, that would be a good outcome for Kyiv now. While Russian advances near Dobropilia in the past days are inconclusive, across the front lines as a whole they are turning months of incremental progress into more strategic gains. Putin is clearly playing for time, both over the past months of slow-rolled diplomacy in Istanbul, and in Alaska, where the White House has reframed a summit aimed at an immediate peace deal to avoid hard-hitting sanctions into a softer 'listening exercise.' For Kyiv, the best outcome would be Trump asserting, as he has hinted he could, that 'in the first two minutes' of the meeting it's clear there is no deal to be had, and then imposing the secondary sanctions against Moscow's big energy customers – India and China – that he promised to implement last Friday. But Trump and Putin's relationship is founded on an opaque connection that seems to often override the United States' longer-term security interest, and so the outcome of their meeting in Alaska is likely to be less in Ukraine's favor, and certainly a high-stakes dice roll. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reported from Kyiv, with graphics from Rachel Wilson and Lou Robinson in London.
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Council's bid to block hotel housing asylum seekers to be heard on Friday
A council's bid to be granted a temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from being accommodated at a hotel is expected to be heard on Friday. Epping Forest District Council said on Tuesday that it had filed documents at the High Court requesting an interim injunction stopping migrants from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. It follows a series of protests in recent weeks outside the hotel, after an asylum seeker was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. PA news agency understands the injunction bid is due to be heard on Friday by Mr Justice Eyre at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, with the case involving the council and Somani Hotels Ltd. The council said in a statement on Tuesday that it had seen 'unprecedented levels of protest and disruption' in connection with asylum seeker accommodation. It continued that it had issued the injunction bid because of the 'clear risk of further escalating community tensions and urgency of the need for the present situation to be brought under control'. Councillors had voted unanimously last month to call on the Home Office to close the hotel, the council added. Chris Whitbread, leader of the council, said the situation 'cannot go on' but the Government 'is not listening'. He said: 'The use by the Home Office of the premises for asylum seekers poses a clear risk of further escalating community tensions already at a high, and the risk of irreparable harm to the local community. 'This will only increase with the start of the new school year. 'In our view, placing asylum seekers in the Bell Hotel is a clear breach of planning permission. It is not in use as a hotel, and it doesn't function as a hotel. 'The establishment of a centre to accommodate asylum seekers in this particular location, in close proximity to five schools, a residential care home, and the shops and amenities of the market town of Epping, is not appropriate in planning terms.' The protests outside the hotel came after a man who was staying at the hotel, Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was charged with sexual assault. Kebatu, who is accused of attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl, denies the charges and will stand trial this month. A second man who resides at the hotel, Syrian national Mohammed Sharwarq, 32, has separately been charged with seven offences. At a hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, he denied a count of sexual assault after being alleged to have kissed a man on the neck. He indicated guilty pleas to a further two counts of common assault and four of assault by beating, with all of the offences said to have taken place at the hotel between July 25 and August 12. He was remanded in custody until a trial at the same court next month. Six men charged in relation to disorder outside the hotel will also appear in court next week.
