World's oceans hit record-high July temperatures

Aerial view of strip of beach in Greece and oceanImage source, Getty Images

ByJessica Rawnsley

The world's oceans hit their hottest ever recorded temperatures for July, partly fuelled by developing El Niño conditions in the Pacific, according to the EU's climate monitoring service.

Netanyahu rejects US-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan | First Thing

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Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump. In a statement, Israel’s prime minister said he was confronting a “wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts” and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran without Israel’s buy-in.

At least 13 killed in Ukrainian drone strike deep into Russia

At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, local officials have said.

They confirmed one child was among those killed, with 75 more people injured as drones hit Nizhnekamsk, more than 1,100 kilometres (680m) from the Ukrainian border. Ukraine's Armed Forces said the city's Tanevo oil refinery had been hit.