Our daily hot girl walk around the world

🇭🇰 Asia’s first Gay Games kicked off in Hong Kong. The Gay Games (previously the Gay Olympics) is an international competition held once every four years since 1982 that promotes acceptance of LGBTQ+ athletes, artists, and other individuals. More than 2,300 participants from 45 countries – including the US, Britain, China, and South Korea – will participate in sporting and Chinese cultural competitions across the nine-day event, which is also being held concurrently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

💥 Israel-Hamas war update: Israel continued to launch airstrikes targeting the Gaza Strip over the weekend, with Hamas-led health officials saying over 9,700 Palestinians, including 4,800 children, have been killed in airstrikes over the past month. On the US side, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to the West Bank yesterday to meet with Palestinian Authority leaders and press for a humanitarian cease-fire. At least tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Washington DC on Saturday seeking a pause in the ongoing conflict, though Israeli officials say the fighting and airstrikes will continue until Hamas releases the remaining 238 hostages taken in the October 7 attacks.

🇷🇺 Russia says it successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from a new nuclear-powered submarine. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its nuclear submarine fired a missile designed to carry up to six nuclear warheads – but featuring none for the test – and hit a target over 3,000 miles away. The vessel belongs to the first new generation of nuclear-powered and nuclear weapons-carrying submarines launched by Russia since the Cold War. The test came one week after President Vladimir Putin signed a law revoking Russia’s ratification of a 1996 global nuclear test ban, which the US hasn’t ratified.