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Latest news bulletin | August 3rd, 2025 – Morning

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00:00Ukraine claims attacks on Russian drone storage airbase and military plants,
00:05just as two people were killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine's Kherson region.
00:10Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics gathered in Rome on Saturday for an evening vigil,
00:15outdoor slumber party and morning mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV.
00:20Ukraine on Saturday said its drones hit a Shahid storage airbase and a military plant in Russia.
00:27According to Ukraine's security service, the attacks hit the Primozko-Aktask military airbase in Krasnoda-Krai,
00:35just as two people were killed by Russian strikes on Kherson.
00:40Kiev claims the electoral pre-bill plant in Penza works for the Russian defense industry.
00:46According to Ukrainian special services, the facility contained equipment for digital networks and military command systems
00:53and devices for aviation, armoured vehicles, ships and spacecraft.
00:58The Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said,
01:05while Ukrainian officials reported two people were killed by Russian shelling in Kherson.
01:10The deaths in Kherson were the latest in the barrage of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine,
01:16including that of the capital, Kiev, early Friday, that killed 31 people, among them five children.
01:27Planes dropped aid from European countries and beyond into Gaza over the weekend,
01:32though both aid groups and Palestinians say changes have been only incremental.
01:38Dozens of tons of food and medical aid was dropped by Germany, France and Spain.
01:42Both Italy and the Netherlands are set to join efforts to airdrop aid into Gaza next week,
01:49according to the country's governments.
01:51However, officials warned that enough relief can only be provided by land.
01:57At least 18 people were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, according to local hospitals,
02:02eight of whom were reportedly aid seekers.
02:05An Israeli strike also hits a family house in an area between Zaweda and Deir al-Bala,
02:10killing two parents and their three children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
02:15Another strike reportedly hit a tent where the displaced have sheltered in Khan Yunus,
02:20killing a mother and her daughter.
02:22Israel's military did not immediately respond to questions about the strikes or deaths.
02:27The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said nothing happened near their sights.
02:32The export of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Syria via Turkey began this weekend.
02:43At the pipeline's inauguration ceremony,
02:46Turkish Energy Minister Al-Parslan Bayraktar said the electricity supply to Syria
02:51would now increase from three to four hours a day to ten hours a day.
02:56He also called on other European nations to step up their help of Syria.
03:01We will take the production of the production of Syria, especially in Halep,
03:07and the electric supply will be compared to 5 million units.
03:12Of course, the demand is a lot of the demand.
03:13The demand is a lot of the demand.
03:15The demand is a lot of the demand.
03:15That's why the European countries, European countries, European countries,
03:19countries that need to support those projects in order to normalize their lives.
03:24and support these projects.
03:29Syrians have been struggling with serious energy shortages
03:33since the start of the civil war.
03:37The conflict paralyzed the country's electricity grid,
03:39more than halfing its capacity to generate electricity.
03:48Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics
03:50gathered in Rome on Saturday for an evening vigil,
03:53outdoor slumber party and morning mass
03:55celebrated by Pope Leo XIV.
03:59For the past week, the pilgrims have descended on Rome
04:02for their special jubilee celebration.
04:04On Saturday, they arrived at the Torvogata field
04:08for its culmination, the encounter with Pope Leo.
04:12He hosted an evening vigil on the field.
04:15The young Catholics were then able to spend the night
04:17on the lawn there as they awaited the Pope's morning mass on Sunday.
04:21They reportedly come from 146 countries,
04:25with 68% of them coming from Europe.
04:29There were also young people from conflict zones
04:31including Lebanon, Iraq, Myanmar, Ukraine,
04:35Syria and South Sudan.
04:37There was one tragedy before Saturday's vigil began.
04:41The Vatican confirmed that an Egyptian 18-year-old
04:44had reportedly died of a cardiac arrest.
04:47The Pope met with her group and extended his condolences
04:51to her family on Saturday.

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