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Ukraine's military intelligence said Friday that a recent drone attack on an airport in northwestern Russia which damaged several transport planes was carried out from within Russian territory.

The claim came as Kyiv said police in the capital were responding to bomb threats as children returned to classrooms for a second academic year since Russia's invasion.

The bank of screens in Ismail Aydin's Istanbul water management system control room flashes a worrying number: 29.7 percent.

That is the capacity level to which Istanbul's water reservoirs have dropped after another steamy summer put Turkey's largest city on the edge of a potential catastrophe.

Artificial intelligence and facial recognition software are seen by some as the future of crime-fighting around the world.

But British police say it has to go hand in hand with more traditional methods of detection, including the use of so-called "super-recognizers".

Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other southern Chinese megacities sheltered indoors Friday as Super Typhoon Saola threatened to become the strongest storm to hit the region in decades.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled across the region, the start of the school year was delayed in Hong Kong, and the rain-drenched finance hub's streets were deserted.

Pope Francis departed Thursday for Mongolia, beginning the first papal visit to the vast, isolated Central Asian nation landlocked between superpowers China and Russia.

The 86-year-old pontiff's trip through Monday to the Buddhist-majority nation is a gesture of support for the tiny community of Catholics numbering about 1,400.

Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher were reimagined as soulless vampires in a biting satire that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

Netflix movie "El Conde" depicts Pinochet, who ruled Chile as the head of a brutal military junta from 1973 to 1990, as a vampire sating his bloodlust by cutting out hearts and sticking them in a food blender.

Transgender woman Maya Gurung had hoped to march at Nepal's Pride parade Thursday with her legally recognized husband -- but a landmark ruling to give LGBTQ couples greater marriage rights appears stalled.

The Supreme Court in June issued an interim order to allow all same-sex and transgender couples to register their marriages, but two months on, none have been able to do so.

Six men prod and poke at dense undergrowth in eastern Myanmar with rakes and hoes -- not farmers, but a rebel unit clearing deadly landmines from the war raging between the junta and pro-democracy fighters.

A mine is spotted and one man lifts a mud-caked, palm-sized device from the earth with his bare hands and passes it to a comrade who deactivates it -- with an ordinary pair of pliers.

The US envoy to Japan feasted on fish from Fukushima on Thursday, saying that water discharged from the crippled nuclear plant was safer than that "dumped" by Chinese atomic facilities.

China banned all seafood imports from its neighbor last week after Japan began releasing wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, accusing Tokyo of treating the ocean like a "sewer".

Stephen Colbert let it drop that his mom once dated a former Nicaraguan dictator before marrying his father.

Five late-night hosts joined together for a podcast to help raise money for the striking writers and actors who haven't worked since the first week of May. Colbert joined with Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver for the "Strike Force Five" podcast, and the group got into some unique conversations.