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People donate blood for those who were injured by their exploded handheld pagers.

Experts explain how hundreds of pagers exploded at once in Lebanon and Syria

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Michael Biesecker, and others

FILE – During a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, a Russian soldier stands guard atop a military truck as foreign journalists observe farmers at the Voznesenka-Agro farm harvest grain in a field near Melitopol, southern Ukraine, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Russia is funding Putin’s war by smuggling stolen Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million

By Michael Biesecker, Sarah El Deeb, and others