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🇷🇺 Russia continues to strike at Ukraine with missiles and kamikaze drone attacks. Ukrainian officials said three Iranian-made suicide drones struck an unspecified infrastructure facility in the Kyiv region, while six others were shot down by the country’s military. It follows days of airstrikes on Ukraine, ordered by Moscow as retaliation for explosions last weekend that damaged a $3.7 billion bridge linking Russia with Crimea.

🇨🇳 China’s 20th National Congress begins on Sunday. The six-day meeting, held once every five years, represents the highest leading body of the Chinese Communist Party. President Xi Jinping, 69, is expected to secure an unprecedented third term as party leader and commander-in-chief. Separately, a rare anti-government protest against Xi and China’s strict no-Covid policy popped-up... and then was quickly shut down yesterday.

🌎 The world's wildlife populations have fallen 69% over the past five-plus decades. That’s according to a new study from the World Wildlife Fund, which analyzed data from 32,000 wildlife populations across 5,000 different species going back to 1970. Animals from Latin America and the Caribbean were hit especially hard (-94%), while North America (-20%) and Europe and Central Asia (-18%) were the least affected.