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Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meet in Jeddah at the request of "Palestine and Iran", as regional tensions soar following the killing of Hamas chief and Hezbollah top commander. IMAGES
The first passenger train arrives in Kherson since Russian forces withdrew from the city on November 11. Arriving with a one hour delay, the train from Kyiv pulled in at ten o’clock as people waved flags from a bridge and relatives waited with flowers on the platform. IMAGES
In contrast to annual pompous military parades, this year Ukraine is parading destroyed Russian military equipment, in an exhibition for the country's upcoming 31st Independence Day on 24 August. IMAGES
The EU has so far frozen nearly 30 billion euros in assets from blacklisted Russian and Belarusian individuals and companies under sanctions imposed for Moscow's war in Ukraine, it says. SOUNDBITE
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe lists sanctions applied to the Belarus Athletic Federation over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which "will take immediate effect and continue for the foreseeable future". SOUNDBITE
Crowds flock outside the train station of the western city of Lviv as as many aim leave Ukraine to escape Russia's ongoing invasion of its pro-Western neighbour. The United Nations estimates that over 2 million people have fled the conflict so far. IMAGES