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President Donald Trump says that US generals have told him that the powerful explosions which rocked Beirut appear to have been caused by a "bomb of some kind." [COMPLETES VIDI1WA5GM_EN] SOUNDBITE
Donald Trump says he instantly knew he was "under attack" during the assassination attempt on his life over the weekend, in the former US president's first speech since the incident. "I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack," he tells the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. SOUNDBITE
Donald Trump blasts President Joe Biden over Iran's major attack on Israel, alleging that his rival in November elections showed American "weakness" in the Middle East. "God bless the people of Israel. They are under attack right now. That's because we show great weakness," he says at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. SOUNDBITE
The White House sends its condolences to the victims of a "terrible" shooting at a concert hall in the Russian capital Moscow. "Our thoughts are with the victims of this terrible, terrible shooting attack," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters. "The images are just horrible and just hard to watch," he adds. SOUNDBITE
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
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