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The US and UK representatives have withdrawn from attending the annual Nagasaki atomic bombing memorial after local authorities did not invite Israel. The decision not to invite Israel's ambassador to Nagasaki comes amid protests in Hiroshima against the presence of Israeli officials at a similar commemoration earlier this week. We hear from Peter Kuznick, Head of the Nuclear Studies Institute at Washington DC's American University, on the issue at hand.

The crew of Russia’s Ka-52 attack helicopter conducted airstrikes against Ukrainian troops' personnel and military equipment using S-8 and Vikhr missiles, successfully hitting all targets.

Russia’s Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system successfully intercepted and destroyed an aircraft-type, ammo-carrying UAV.

Thousands took to the streets of Dhaka on Wednesday as the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a rally just days after PM Sheikh Hasina resigned from post.

A home security camera captured a dog in Oklahoma unintentionally starting a house fire after chewing on a portable lithium-ion battery power bank. In the footage from the Tulsa Fire Department in Oklahoma, two dogs and a cat are seen in the living room. One dog chews on the battery pack, causing it to spark and ignite a fire. The pets escaped uninjured through a dog door, and the family was safely evacuated.

Russian boxer Azalia Amineva has put out a message to Imane Khelif, challenging the Algerian to a rematch a year after the pair faced off at the World Championships in India. During their bout in 2023, Amineva knocked her opponent down, but ultimately lost the match. Now Amineva is calling for a rematch after seeing Khelif’s fight with Italian Angela Carini at the Paris Olympics, which saw Carini abandon the match after just 46 seconds, in tears and scared for her safety. Amineva has vowed to avenge ‘all the girls you got in the way of,’ in reference to the ongoing row over Khelif’s gender. Khelif’s participation in the women’s boxing events at the Paris Olympics has seen heavy backlash, as many accuse them of being ‘male.’ Khelif, along with Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, had previously failed a gender eligibility test, reportedly being found to have male XY chromosomes. The International Olympic Committee, however, disagreed with this ruling and allowed the pair to compete alongside women.

Russia is conquering New York with Somalians. You all knew it was coming, don’t be shocked. In all seriousness, the Russian 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade, formerly known as ‘Somalia,’ has taken the settlement of New York, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic. A drone video shows a soldier scaling one of the settlement’s buildings in order to replace the Ukrainian flag with a Russian one.

French police have dismantled a homeless camp set up next to the Olympic Rings in Paris. About 100 homeless individuals, reportedly displaced by evictions ahead of the 2024 Olympics, had established the campsite as a protest against what activists call ‘social cleansing’.

Russian forces have halted Kiev's advance into the Kursk direction, the Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces reported to President Putin. Valery Gerasimov also stated that the operation will conclude with the defeat of Ukrainian forces and the restoration of control up to the state border.

Locals reportedly set fire to Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party office in Dhaka after the former Bangladeshi PM resigned from her post and fled to India, ending her 15-year tenure

The US, Philippines, Australia, and Canada conducted joint air and naval drills in the South China Sea. On the same day, China carried out its own air and sea combat patrols in the region.

The Arctic group of the Northern Fleet has conducted an anti-submarine defense exercise near the Northern Sea Route. During the drills, the crew of the anti-submarine ship Vice-Admiral Kulakov performed submarine search operations, practiced anti-submarine maneuvering techniques, and tracked underwater objects. Additionally, the crew of the Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopter deployed hydroacoustic buoys and used a hydroacoustic station to search for underwater targets.

Giant plumes of smoke erupt from the reawakened Park Fire in California as a massive blaze emerged after several days of slumber and grew by as much as 20 square miles (53 square km) in about 12 hours

Ukrainian troops are indiscriminately firing at civilian targets, Putin stated as he began his meeting with government members addressing the ongoing situation in Russia’s Kursk region.

People gather at the Chiayi Air Base to see the Taiwanese Air Force showcase its upgraded F-16V BLK20 fighter jets for the upcoming military air show and demonstrate breathtaking stunts

A Russian Msta-B howitzer delivered a precision strike on a Ukrainian position, destroying platoon strongholds and UAV crews.

People stand in line at blood donation stations in Kursk as sirens ring out throughout the city

Two PETA activists interrupted Pope Francis's general audience in Vatican City, calling for an end to bullfighting. In a written statement, PETA argued that 'gruesome spectacles are often held 'in honor' of Catholic saints and on holy days,' urging the Catholic Church to condemn the practice.

Russian forces have thwarted an attempted border incursion by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Kursk Region, according to acting governor Aleksey Smirnov. He reported that Kiev’s troops tried to cross from the Sumy Region into Russia, with fighting occurring in the Sudzhansky and Korneevsky districts. Russian border guards and regular forces successfully prevented the breach. According to Mash, about 100 Ukrainian saboteurs, armed with American M4 rifles and C4 explosives, approached the border in armored vehicles, including US-made Humvees. Prior to the incursion attempt, the Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian town of Sudzha, injuring five people, including three children. The Russian border regions of Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk have frequently been targeted by Ukrainian missile, mortar, and drone attacks since the conflict began in February 2022, and have suffered multiple incursions, however, all incursion events have failed so far.

A group of men have been caught trying to flee Ukraine in a refrigerated meat truck, in an attempt to avoid military conscription. The truck was intercepted on Tuesday in the Odessa town of Stanislavka, on its way to the border with Moldova. 16 men were reportedly found hiding behind cuts of beef in the back, while two foreigners, whose nationality is not yet known, were in the cab. According to Odessa police, each of the men paid between $6,000 and $8,000 to be smuggled out of the country, while services to help with official paperwork were also offered. In a separate incident, a truck reportedly containing 42 Ukrainian men was stopped near the border on Wednesday, all of whom had been trying to flee the draft. Such incidents have been common in recent months, with Ukrainian officials estimating that over 100 military-age men have been trying to leave the country daily, although the real figure is suspected to be much higher.

Zelensky claims that Kiev and its partners are working towards a peaceful resolution, hoping to end the crisis by year-end, despite continuing to push for more direct Western involvement in the conflict. RT contributor Rachel Marsden reports.

Hundreds of protesters wave Russian flags around in Kaduna to urge Moscow to help amid the soaring inflation rate in Nigeria

Hundreds gathered in Saida, southern Lebanon, to celebrate the appointment of Yahya Sinwar as Hamas's new leader. The appointment follows the assassination of his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh.

Türkiye is set to officially join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Turkish lawmaker leading the delegation says the move is a strong show of support for the Palestinian people. RT’s Yasin Eken reports.

Have you been keeping up with the death of the UK? The British media has been desperately trying not to. State media outlet the BBC only barely covered second-city Birmingham’s day-long largely peaceful riots, merely acknowledging ‘some disturbances’ after ‘false reports a march was planned.’ False reports shared, as it turns out, by Britain’s own MPs, and Labour Party affiliated charities, that convinced Birmingham’s largely peaceful Muslim population that gangs of white people were going around with acid (which was entirely untrue). The BBC blamed ‘misinformation’ for the ‘some disturbances,’ neglecting to mention that it was entirely down to the Muslim gangs who started largely peacefully assaulting any white people they could see after their largely peaceful conquering of part of the city, including one of its hospitals, where staff were forced to shelter inside, albeit largely peacefully. Sky News were left in a much more difficult position, literally. As they reported on the ‘largely peaceful’ protests, several largely peaceful protesters began largely peacefully harassing a Sky News mouthpiece live on air, forcing them to cut the broadcast. Armed with largely peaceful knives, a largely peaceful protester largely peacefully slashed their tires. Radio station LBC fared even worse, being largely peacefully chased out of the largely peaceful city by a largely peaceful gang brandishing weapons, which, according to reports, were largely peaceful. Following this, all three stations blamed the ‘far right.’ Who, after all of the scaremongering, never actually turned up. The BBC, in their final report on the matter, described the protests as, and we quote, ‘largely peaceful.’