Ukraine not interested in holding Russian territory after offensive, Kyiv says
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Ukraine says it is not interested in holding Russian territory a week on from its incursion into the Kursk region, Kyiv's foreign ministry says
Russian officials say they have opened 400 temporary shelters across the country to house 30,000 evacuees - 121,000 people have left their homes so far
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said Russia "must be forced into peace if Putin wants to continue waging war so badly"
Putin has accused Ukraine of "committing crimes" against Russian people and said Kyiv would receive what he called a "worthy response"
Scarce water supply on the ground in Ukraine, MoD says
Some Russian military units fighting in Ukraine are likely experiencing drinking water shortages, according to the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) .
Ongoing Russian strikes against utilities infrastructures "is now almost certainly curtailing water supply", it says in its latest update.
The MoD adds that a pro-Russian military blogger reported on 23 July that Russian pilots had been restricted to "one litre [of water] per day" and were approaching local citizens for water.
Greece takes stock of wildfires that raged through Athens suburbs
Opposition and media turn on government as firefighters work to contain ‘scattered hotspots’
Greek authorities are continuing to battle scattered fires on the outskirts of Athens as officials take stock of the damage wreaked by a disaster that forced mass evacuations and killed at least one person.
On Tuesday, the third day of one of the worst wildfires in living memory, firefighters were helped by a drop in winds as they sought to contain the remnants of an inferno that had reached the capital’s northern suburbs and decimated homes and businesses.
“Forty hours after this extremely dangerous wildfire broke out we can now say that there is no active front, only scattered hotspots,” Greece’s climate crisis and civil protection minister, Vassilis Kikilias, said.
Tanzania opposition leaders released after mass arrests
Hundreds of leaders and supporters of the Chadema party had been arrested ahead of a planned youth day rally. Dissidents voiced concerns about a return to the repressive policies of President Hassan's predecessor.
Most leaders of Chadema have been released as of Tuesday, officials said, a day after some 520 people connected to Tanzania's main opposition party were arrested.
In a post on social media site X, Chadema spokesman John Hrema said that party chairman Freeman Mbowe and his deputy Tundu Lissu "have been returned to Dar es Salaam by police and have bailed themselves out."
Police chief of operations Awadh Haji said "all the top Chadema leaders who were arrested, after interrogation and other procedures, have been returned to where they came from."
Bangladesh opens murder case against ousted PM Sheikh Hasina over protest death
A court in Bangladesh opened a murder investigation into ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina and six figures in her administration on Tuesday over the police killing of a man during civil unrest last month. Hasina, 76, remains in India after fleeing by helicopter a week ago as protesters flooded Dhaka's streets in a dramatic end to her iron-fisted tenure.
More than 450 people were killed during the weeks of unrest leading up to her toppling.
"A case has been filed against Sheikh Hasina and six more," said Mamun Mia, a lawyer who brought the case on behalf of a private citizen.
He added that the Dhaka Metropolitan Court had ordered police to accept "the murder case against the accused persons", the first step in a criminal investigation under Bangladeshi law.
No executions carried out in Japan for over 2 years
Japan has not executed anyone for more than two years, apparently reflecting its recent cautious stance after previously hanging death row inmates every few months under the government led by the Liberal Democratic Party.
The halt in executions could be linked to the dismissal of the justice minister in 2022 over inappropriate comments about the death penalty and the ongoing retrial of Iwao Hakamata, an aging former inmate accused of a 1966 quadruple murder, according to experts.
The most recent execution in Japan was carried out on July 26, 2022, when 39-year-old Tomohiro Kato was hanged following his conviction over a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in which seven people were killed and 10 others were injured, with the order given by then Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa.
Israeli crowds storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, West Bank villages on Jewish holiday
Israeli crowds have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as villages in the occupied West Bank, as they marked a Jewish holiday.
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led a crowd of thousands into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday and performed prayers. Despite Jewish religious rites being banned at the location, Israeli police reportedly offered protection, as well as to illegal settlers involved in violence in the West Bank.
Al-Aqsa is Islam’s third holiest site and a symbol of Palestinian national identity but it is also Judaism’s holiest place. Tisha B’Av is a Jewish day of mourning for the destruction of the site of an ancient temple by the Romans in 70 AD.
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