PPN World News Headlines - 28 Jul 2024
• Israel strikes Gazan school • Olympics' opening abomination
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00:18Near simultaneous strikes in multiple locations across southern Lebanon.
00:23Israel said it targeted Hezbollah's weapons depots and infrastructure.
00:29A message, but not the response promised by Israel for the rocket attack that killed
00:33civilians in the Israeli-controlled Syrian-occupied Golan Heights late on Saturday.
00:41Hezbollah denied carrying out the strike, but Israel is unconvinced, saying the mass
00:46casualty incident was the most significant event since October 7.
00:59Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 30 people have been killed and more than 100
01:05injured in an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering.
01:11Israel's military says Hamas militants were using the compound in the central town of
01:15Deir al-Bala to launch attacks against troops and added that it had warned civilians in
01:22advance.
01:23Most of Gaza's estimated 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once in the past
01:29nine months of war.
01:39Well, most significantly, we've heard from the deputy prime minister himself, the leader
01:44of the right-wing anti-immigrant party, the League Party, Matteo Salvini.
01:49He took to social media on Saturday saying that opening the Olympics insulting millions
01:55of Christians in the world is really a bad start.
01:59Dear French people, it's squalid.
02:02Now he posted this message together with two photos, one showing the apparent drag queen-led
02:09parody of The Last Supper, which was seen in one of the scenes during that Olympic opening
02:15ceremony, and he contrasted that with the actual image of the painting of The Last Supper
02:22by Leonardo da Vinci.
02:32Three warships from Russia's Baltic fleet have docked in the capital Havana, the second
02:36such visit to Cuba in less than two months.
02:40Cuba's Ministry of the Armed Forces reported the arrival of the ships as a historical practice
02:45but gave no details about their purpose there.
02:49This visit comes after three different ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, docked
02:54in Havana in mid-June to take part in military drills.
02:58They're expected to remain in dock in Havana until August 30.
03:11Turkey's parliament has approved a motion to deploy its armed forces to Somalia, including
03:16to the country's territorial waters.
03:19The two-year operation aims to support Mogadishu's counter-terrorism operations and comes months
03:25after the two countries signed a defence and economic cooperation deal.
03:30Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab has been waging an insurgency against the Somali government
03:34since 2006 in a bid to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state.
03:40This morning, an astonishing, chaotic wildfire raging out of control, scorching more than
03:55300,000 acres across Northern California.
04:01The Park Fire, burning in California's Butte and Tehama counties, has quickly become the
04:06state's largest fire so far this year.
04:09This as firefighters struggle to gain an upper hand, with zero percent contained.
04:14At least 134 structures destroyed and more than 4,000 people evacuated.
04:21Firefighters across the state descending on the city of Chico at a newly created base
04:25camp, working up to 36-hour shifts to contain flames in the north that have turned the sky
04:30into a fiery red for miles.
04:39At least 7,000 inmates are to be granted conditional release from the Makalo Central Prison in
04:47the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to ease overcrowding at the facility.
04:52Located in Kinshasa, it's the country's largest jail.
04:56Makalo was built for 1,500 inmates in 1957, but now holds more than 15,000 people, including
05:03children and women.
05:05Conditions are notoriously bad, with inmates crammed into cells, eating poorly and some
05:10suffering from water and respiratory diseases.