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Ryan Routh, the gunman suspected of trying to assassinate Donald Trump this weekend at a golf course in Florida, was well known but not widely respected among the community of foreign fighters he tried to help in Ukraine. According to three of his contacts there, he spent much of his time in Kyiv over the past three years pushing a half-baked plan to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army from the war-torn nations of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I have 40 or 50 men sitting around waiting for a logical place to fight,” he wrote in a message to one of his contacts in Ukraine in early July 2022, a few months into the full-scale Russian invasion.

(BEIRUT) — Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a girl, and wounding the Iranian ambassador, government and Hezbollah officials said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Officials pointed the finger at Israel in what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack that wounded more than 2,700 people at a time of rising tensions across the Lebanon border.

A landmark new study published in the Lancet estimates that antimicrobial resistant pathogens, or AMR, will kill more than 39 million people by 2050. The study also predicts that 169 million deaths will be associated with drug-resistant infections by that year. “These findings highlight that AMR has been a significant global health threat for decades and that this threat is growing,” said Mohsen Naghavi, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the study’s author. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read More: 25% of Antibiotic Prescriptions Are Unnecessary.

BAMAKO, Mali — Extremists attacked a military training camp in Mali’s capital on Tuesday, the army said, as explosions were heard in the area. Within hours, the government said it was temporarily closing the airport in Bamako. A sweep operation was underway after gunmen attempted to infiltrate the Faladie gendarme school, the military said in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese warplanes tailed a U. S. military aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, China’s military said. The U. S. aircraft was a P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance plane, capable of conducting long-range anti-submarine warfare, according to a statement by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Chinese military forces “organized warplanes to tail and monitor the U.

AVIGNON, France — A 71-year-old French man acknowledged in court Tuesday that he drugged his then-wife and invited dozens of men to rape her over nearly a decade, as well as raping her himself. He pleaded with her, and their three children, for forgiveness. “Today I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court.