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SYDNEY, (Reuters) – A helicopter on an unauthorised flight crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Australia’s northern tourist town of Cairns today, killing the pilot and forcing hundreds of guests to evacuate after a blaze, authorities said.

KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into the western Kursk region.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel expanded evacuation orders in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave in the dark as explosions from tank shelling reverberated around them.

KAMPALA (Reuters) – The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors.

SOUTHPORT, England (Reuters) – The parents of one of three girls murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northern England last month called for an end to the nationwide rioting that followed their deaths at an emotional funeral for their young daughter.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

VARNAVA/ATHENS, (Reuters) – Residents fled their homes in the village of Varnava near Athens today as fire crews struggled to contain a fast-moving wildfire fuelled by hot, windy weather that sent smoke clouds over the Greek capital.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said it was “deeply concerned” about an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school compound yesterday that local civil defence officials say killed around 100 people, adding to condemnation of the attack from several Arab states, Turkey, Britain and the European Union’s foreign policy chief.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – A recent surge in GPS “spoofing”, a form of digital attack which can send commercial airliners off course, has entered an intriguing new dimension, according to cybersecurity researchers: The ability to hack time.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said yesterday that the kingdom would not be a battlefield for Iran or Israel, as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by Tehran and its allies following last week’s killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Belgrade yesterday demanding a halt to Rio Tinto’s RIO.AX,

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said yesterday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee have widened to target more officials appointed during her time in office.

(Reuters) – Dozens of Russian military personnel are being trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, two European intelligence sources told Reuters, adding that they expected the imminent delivery of hundreds of the satellite-guided weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were fighting in Russia’s Kursk region and said the operation was part of Kyiv’s drive to restore justice after Russia’s 2022 invasion.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school compound housing displaced families killed around 100 people, the Hamas-run Gaza government said today, while the Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants there and cast doubt on the death toll.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippine military said today it strongly condemns “dangerous and provocative actions” by China’s air force at a contested shoal in the South China Sea.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday insisted he was with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in a fantastical story of nearly dying in a helicopter crash, despite Brown denying the incident ever happened.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, the official Palestinian news agency said last night, while the Israeli army said it had hit a Hamas command centre.

(Reuters) – Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battled a shock incursion by Ukraine’s military.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Chinese rocket stage that broke apart in space this week created more than 700 pieces of debris, putting over 1,000 satellites and other objects in a high-traffic region of Earth’s orbit at risk of hazardous collisions, analysts said yesterday.