Three people killed and eight wounded in Brooklyn lounge shooting, police say

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The 11 victims ranged in ages from 27 to 61 after multiple gunmen opened fire inside Taste of the City in Crown Heights

Three people were killed and eight others wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire inside a crowded Brooklyn hookah lounge and restaurant early Sunday morning, according to authorities.

Police officers responded to reports of a shooting inside the Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights just before 3.30am, New York police department (NYPD) commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said at a press briefing later Sunday.

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Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?

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A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report on it for the first time

Images of Palestinian children in Gaza, emaciated by hunger under the blockade imposed by Israel, and of families grieving the more than 61,000 people killed in the territory have stirred outrage among foreign governments and much of the global public. Inside Israel, however, the reaction has been markedly different.

In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either “not very troubled” or “not troubled at all” by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.

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Thousands of firefighters battle blazes in Spain and Portugal – Euronews.com

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  1. Thousands of firefighters battle blazes in Spain and Portugal  Euronews.com
  2. Spain battles 20 major wildfires amid scorching heat, deploys more troops  Reuters
  3. Spain’s Sanchez Calls for National Climate Pact as Fires Rage  Bloomberg.com
  4. Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal as heatwave continues  BBC
  5. What to Know About the Heat Wave and Wildfires in Southern Europe  The New York Times
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‘Stunning survival story’: Police rescue California man trapped behind waterfall for two days

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Ryan Wardwell was rappelling down Seven Teacups falls when ‘extreme hydraulics’ trapped him behind a cascade

A California man who recently became trapped behind a waterfall for two days while climbing was dramatically rescued by police utilizing a helicopter.

Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, went to waterfalls known as the Seven Teacups on 10 August with plans to rappel down, the sheriff’s office of Tulare country said in a social media post. But the “extreme hydraulics” of the waterfalls pushed Wardwell off his rappelling lines and trapped him behind a cascade of the Kern river, according to the sheriff’s office.

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High-tech drones turn Ukraine’s front line into a kill zone. Medics can’t keep up – The Independent

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  1. High-tech drones turn Ukraine’s front line into a kill zone. Medics can’t keep up  The Independent
  2. High-tech drones turn Ukraine’s front line into a deadly kill zone, complicating evacuations  AP News
  3. In Ukraine, swarms of Russian drones and missiles are transforming combat  The Christian Science Monitor
  4. The Dawn of Automated Warfare: Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Key to Victory in Ukraine—and Elsewhere  Foreign Affairs
  5. Unmanned ground vehicles ‘really crucial’ in fight against Russia: Ukrainian official  Breaking Defense
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