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Emergency service staff and locals tend to the injured, at the site of an attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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Israel says Hezbollah rocket kills 11 at football ground
A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 11 people including children on July 27, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to respond against the Iran-backed Lebanese group.
Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike, the deadliest in Israel or Israeli-annexed territory since the start of the conflict in Gaza.
“The Hezbollah attack today crossed all red lines, and the response will be accordingly. We are approaching the moment of an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Axios.
Hezbollah denied any involvement in the incident, but had earlier announced several rocket attacks targeting Israeli military positions in other locations from Lebanon.
Russian shelling kills at least four in Ukraine
Russian shelling killed at least four civilians on July 17 in separate regions of Ukraine, officials said.
In the northeastern Sumy region, a border area frequently under Russian attack, a 14-year-old boy was killed and 12 other people wounded in a rocket attack on the small town of Hlukhiv, the Ukraine prosecutor's office said.
The attack on the town near the Russian border hit apartment blocks, houses, an educational institution, a shop and vehicles just after noon. Six of the wounded were children.
Trump vows return to holding outdoor rallies
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump said on July 27 he will return to holding outdoor rallies with additional Secret Service protection, two weeks after he was injured in an assassination attempt at an open-air campaign event.
“I will continue to do outdoor rallies, and the Secret Service has agreed to substantially step up their operation. They are very capable of doing so,” Trump said, on his Truth Social platform .“No one can ever be allowed to stop or impede free speech or gathering,” he added.
His remarks came after the Secret Service reportedly encouraged Trump’s campaign to stop scheduling outdoor campaign events following his assassination attempt, opting instead for large indoor arenas.
Cybercrimes team called in on Israeli athletes data leak
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France’s cybercrime unit has been asked to remove leaked private data for several Israeli athletes competing in the Paris Olympic Games from social media, police sources said July 27.
Data including blood test results and login credentials were published on Telegram on July 26, in an apparent doxing cyberattack, the sources said. Doxxing is the malicious publication of private details online.
Hackers also leaked personal information revealing Israeli athletes’ military status on social media on July 25.
‘Dream come true’ for Olympic debutant, 58, despite loss
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Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying said her “dream came true” on June 27 after making her Olympic debut aged 58, despite suffering defeat for her adopted Chile.
Zeng represented China, the country of her birth, as a young player, but retired at 20 and moved to Chile, where she has lived for the past 35 years.
She did not touch a table tennis bat for decades until she began playing again during the pandemic, and she quickly rose through the ranks to become one of South America’s best players.
