Links to two reports from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, YEMEN, ALL OF IT and MEDIA, and down for UKRAINE 8-8-26.) — MCM

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Russia, Ukraine exchange overnight strikes that leave 7 dead, many injured. From AP. KYIV — Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. Large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have become . . .  Click HERE for report with several photos. Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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FROM AUG. 8  Ukraine honors its ‘collector of souls’ volunteer killed while recovering the war dead, by Volodymyr Yurchuk and Efrem Lukatsky | AP  KYIV — Ukraine paid tribute on Saturday to Oleksiy Yukov, a volunteer who spent more than two decades recovering bodies of civilians and soldiers — many of them Russian — killed by war. He was 40. An Orthodox Christian service was held at . . .  Click HERE for report including photos. Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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