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Israel kills three journalists in Lebanon; BRICS summit concludes, and more
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An Israeli strike killed three journalists in southern Lebanon. The country’s information minister called the attack “a war crime”. Also, Vladimir Putin ended the BRICS summit by praising the group’s role as a counterweight to the West’s “perverse methods”.
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