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The Strasbourg-based 46-member Council of Europe condemned Azerbaijan’s “aggressive military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh” and called for an immediate ceasefire. Marija Pejcinovic Buric, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, wrote: she is “deeply concerned” by reports of military escalation around the Karabakh region (95 percent inhabited by Armenians – ed.).

There are already 1,037 dead and 1,200 injured after the earthquake that shook Morocco at 11:00 local time on Friday.

Several buildings, including the minaret of a mosque, collapsed in the old town of Marrakesh, a World Heritage site at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and people fled in panic when a huge earthquake shook Morocco last night.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced at the beginning of the summer that El Niño had officially begun. It is an irregular but natural climate phenomenon that repeats every 2-7 years and amplifies the consequences of human-caused global warming.

Two explosions took place on Saturday evening (26th August) at a car gas filling station in the settlement of Crevedia in Dambovita county, Romania.

Donald Trump turned himself in on Thursday at the Atlanta, Georgia prison, where he was registered following the criminal indictment last week, after which he will be free to leave on bail.

The son of Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, a popular actor couple in Spain, is accused of dismembering a Colombian man on the Thai resort island of Ko Phangan.

From August, flights between Tashkent and Budapest will be operated by the Uzbek Qanot Sharq Airlines, airportal.hu reports.

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The UN held the AI for Good global meeting last week in order to explore the limits of artificial intelligence and harness its potential for human progress. A more tangible example is how robots can help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.