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7/28/2026, 8:39:45 AM
Topics: Middle East Conflict, US Iran Relations, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Global Security, International Law, Energy Markets, Refugee Crisis, US Politics
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026 – Attacks reported in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Explosions reported in Saudi Arabia; drone attacks on Jordan.
Hormuz talks continue as Oman reportedly puts forward joint management proposal.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson discusses U.S. “quagmire.”
President Donald Trump says talks with Iran are “ongoing.”
Shipping remains severely constrained in Hormuz and Bab-al-Mandab.
Two more executed in Iran.
Ansarallah claims strike on major Saudi oil facility in Abqaiq.
Saudi Aramco shuts down Jazan refinery after Ansarallah attack.
At least eight Palestinians killed since Thursday as Israeli raids and settler attacks escalate across the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz orders army takeover of another West Bank refugee camp.
Sixty Palestinian prisoners released to Gaza, many showing signs of abuse.
Rescue teams salvage additional bodies from Gaza wreckage.
Israeli soldiers remove U.S. citizens from home in West Bank assault.
Gaza groundwater too polluted to drink.
Hamas delegation heads to Cairo.
Israel continues military operations in Lebanon despite “ceasefire.”
Deported couple found bound, shot dead in Guatemala.
Senator Mitch McConnell says he won’t return to the Senate this week.
Venezuelan men sue U.S. aviation firms that flew them to notorious Salvadoran prison.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces plan to use city grocery stores to relieve rising prices.
ICE arrests over 12,000 after tips from child migrant agency, Reuters finds.
Six House members bought SpaceX stock days after IPO.
ACLU: Los Angeles immigration agents used racial slurs, targeted Latinos in raids.
Fresh clashes erupt in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Dozens killed in air strikes on North Kordofan civilian sites.
At least 30 killed in armed attack on Nigerian village.
Keiko Fujimori sworn in as Peru’s president.
Chad pulls out of ICC.
White phosphorus leak triggers brief evacuation near U.S. base in South Korea.
Afghan provincial official assassinated in Badakhshan.
A Palestinian boy sits on a concrete barrier near armed Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on July 25, 2026.
Photo by Mosab Shawer / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images.
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Attacks reported in Iraqi Kurdistan: Iranian forces reportedly launched a wave of drones toward Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Monday night, with repeated explosions and interceptions reported over Erbil.
Kurdish journalist Scharo Bajalan reported at least two impacts: one in the Alana Valley near Soran, where a Komala opposition camp is located, and another north of Erbil.
He said drones were launched from both Iran and areas controlled by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces.
Footage circulating online appeared to show U.S. forces intercepting at least one drone over Erbil.
The extent of any casualties or damage remains unclear.
Explosions reported in Saudi Arabia; drone attacks on Jordan: Explosions were heard in eastern Saudi Arabia and drones attacked Jordan overnight, an Iranian state-linked outlet reported on Tuesday.
At least 6 “powerful explosions” struck the eastern region of Saudi Arabia near oil and gas facilities, Nour News, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported early Tuesday.
The Saudi government has not confirmed the attack
In a separate report, the outlet said local sources had described “extensive” drone attacks in the eastern desert of Jordan.
Jordan’s military said it shot down a drone that entered its airspace over the eastern desert near the borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, without identifying its origin.
Separately, the Israeli military said it intercepted a drone near the Jordanian border that did not enter Israeli airspace and that it was investigating where it was launched from.
Hormuz talks continue as Oman reportedly puts forward joint management proposal: Iran, Oman, and Gulf states stepped up diplomatic efforts over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held separate phone calls with Oman’s Badr Albusaidi and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
According to IRNA, the ministers reviewed regional developments and stressed strengthening diplomatic cooperation to restore stability and address “insecurity” in the Strait.
Oman presented Iran with a proposal for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz with voluntary user fees, Reuters reported.
Under the proposal, which reportedly has regional backing, Iran would no longer exercise sole control over the waterway.
Foreign ministers from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries also held a virtual meeting on the ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations on Tuesday.
Oman’s Foreign Ministry said they stressed the need for closer coordination on freedom and safety of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz while prioritising political and diplomatic solutions to strengthen regional security and stability.
Iranian FM spokesperson discusses U.S. “quagmire”: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei spoke to reporters on Monday about the U.S.’ current position, saying that he did not believe they were “managing” the conflict well.
“This war was supposed to force Iran to surrender,” he said “but five months later they remain trapped in a quagmire.”
Baghaei reaffirmed that Iran would “not allow the United States to decide when war and peace begin and end.”
The spokesperson also criticized Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who announced actions this weekend against Russian ships he claimed were being used to transport supplies to Iran.
Baghaei compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s conduct to anarchists who carried out dramatic and dangerous acts before World War I, calling his actions “theatrical” and saying that they “exaggerated” his “limited weight in international affairs.”
“Zelenskyy’s patrons must rein him in,” he said.
Trump says that talks with Iran are “ongoing”: President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Monday that the U.S. was in “very deep talks” with Iran, and that there was a “good chance” of reaching an agreement, but that military action could resume if no deal is reached, saying that the U.S. would “go back to what we were doing two days ago.”
Neither Tehran nor Washington acknowledged any direct meetings, but indirect talks primarily involving Iran and Oman, and secondarily involving Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, reportedly remain ongoing, according to Axios.
The current negotiations are focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restarting talks on a comprehensive nuclear agreement, according to the outlet.
Trump also said that the U.S. had “taken in billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela,” and threatened that he would do the same with Iran.
The comments follow reporting from the Financial Times last week that of the $13 billion in oil revenue seized by the U.S., $7 billion remains unaccounted for.
When asked about this by reporters on Monday, he said the money he was being used to “run the country.”
Shipping remains severely constrained in Hormuz and Babl-Mandab: Windward recorded seven Strait of Hormuz crossings on July 27, two of these inbound and five of them outbound, all using the northern Iran-run corridor.
14 vessels entered the Red Sea through the Bab Al-Mandab and 21 exited on July 26, Windward reported.
Inbound traffic into the strait has collapsed by nearly 70%, and outbound traffic has fallen about 28%.
Two more executed in Iran: Iran executed two men convicted on charges of killing police officers and damaging public properties during the mass protests in January, according to the state affiliated agency Mizan.
The two men were identified as Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi.
Iran hanged two other men convicted in the same case earlier in July.
Iran has executed dozens of people so far in 2026.
Ansarallah claims strike on major Saudi oil facility in Abqaiq: Ansarallah claimed responsibility on Monday for a drone strike on Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq crude-processing facility, the kingdom’s largest.
Abqaiq stabilizes the bulk of Saudi crude before export, making it one of the most critical nodes in the kingdom’s oil infrastructure.
It was also the target of the September 2019 drone and missile attack that briefly cut roughly 5% of global oil supply, causing a major shock in oil prices.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry confirmed the attack, but attributed it to Iran-backed militias operating in Iraq.
Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, Iraq’s prime minister, directed security agencies to investigate Saudi Arabia’s claim, according to the Iraqi News Agency.
The Iraqi government said it would be examining the evidence and would pursue legal action against anyone found to have been involved
Saudi Aramco shuts down Jazan refinery after Ansarallah attack: Saudi Aramco shut down its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery following an Ansarallah attack, Reuters reported, citing consultancy IR.
The attack reportedly damaged the refinery’s integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) complex and oil tank area, with repairs expected to allow an initial restart by August 15.
Killed and wounded in Gaza: Over the past 24 hours, four Palestinians were killed—three in new attacks and one due to wounds sustained in earlier attacks—and 14 were injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 73,333 killed, with 174,023 injured.
Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,207 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 3,914, while 803 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble.
Israel attacks Gaza on Monday and Tuesday:
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded several others on Monday, shelling the northern and central parts of the Strip, according to Felesteen Online.
An Israeli drone attack on Monday also wounded three fishermen near the Gaza port gate.
An Israeli military vehicle fired on Deir-al-Balah on Tuesday, wounding two Palestinians, according to WAFA.
At least eight Palestinians killed since Thursday as Israeli raids and settler attacks escalate across the occupied West Bank: Israeli forces and armed settlers continue to intensify their attacks across the occupied West Bank following Friday’s settler attack in Tal.
At least eight Palestinians, including a child, have been killed since Thursday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.
On Tuesday, raids, assaults, land seizures, and settler violence were reported across multiple governorates, according to WAFA, with at least 22 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs office.
Bethlehem: A Palestinian was injured after Israeli settlers beat him with an iron pipe near Al-Minya village.
Israeli forces separately raided Tuqu’ and Husan.
Ramallah: Israeli forces raided Shuqba, west of Ramallah, on Tuesday morning and demolished a residential building, leaving the families who lived there homeless.
Hebron: Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians in the Khallet Al-Hamam area of Yatta, beating residents and firing tear gas.
Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian father and his two sons after the attack.
Forces also demolished two residential buildings.
A Palestinian man in Masafer Yatta seized a weapon from a violent Israeli settler on Tuesday, becoming the third to attempt to do so in the last four days.
Salfit: Israeli settlers established a new settlement outpost on Palestinian land in Yasuf, erecting a tent roughly 50 metres from residents’ homes.
Read Zena Tahhan’s on-the-ground report from the occupied West Bank, which covers the attacks, the military raids, and the rapid expansion of illegal settler outposts here .
Nablus: Israeli settlers uprooted thousands of trees near Madama, southwest of Nablus, the village council’s head reported.
Occupied East Jerusalem: Israeli forces raided the UNRWA Qalandia Vocational Training Centre for the second time in less than a month on Monday, detaining dozens of students and staff inside the facility.
Israeli forces also arrested the son of Jerusalem Governor, after raiding Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Monday evening, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
On Monday, Israeli forces demolished four homes, 18 shops, two inhabited apartments and a livestock facility in Jenin, Ni’lin and occupied East Jerusalem.
Katz orders army takeover of another West Bank refugee camp: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued instructions to expand the scope of the military assault on the occupied West Bank and to prepare to occupy another Palestinian refugee camp under the model of the army invasions of the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps in early 2025.
According to Israeli news outlets , Katz issued the order following a security assessment on Monday attended by military commanders and senior security and intelligence officials.
Last year, Human Rights Watch found that Israel’s forced displacement of over 30,000 residents of the three refugee camps in the northern West Bank amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Sixty Palestinian prisoners released to Gaza, many showing signs of abuse: Israel released 60 battered Gaza prisoners on Monday after they had spent months in detention, with many showing signs of abuse.
Red Cross teams transferred them through the Karam Abu Salem crossing to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for urgent medical examinations.
The group included 40 Palestinians held under harsh conditions in the Negev desert prison and 20 Gaza workers arrested inside Israel after October 7.
Rescue teams salvage additional bodies from Gaza wreckage: Rescue teams recovered the remains of 99 Palestinians from beneath a destroyed home belonging to the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood on Monday.
The building had been struck in multiple Israeli airstrikes, including in October 2023 and June 2025.
Crews said recovery operations are severely constrained by the destruction and Israel’s total ban on heavy machinery, with around 8,000 Palestinians still believed to be buried beneath rubble across Gaza.
Israeli soldiers remove U.S. citizens from home in West Bank assault: Israeli soldiers forced two U.S. citizens from their home in Turmus Ayya, in the occupied West Bank, so troops could use it as a lookout position, their son, Dr.
Said Shukri, told Drop Site News.
The home belongs to Dr.
Hassan Said Shukri, a neurologist based in Syracuse, New York.
Shukri said soldiers carrying M16s pointed a gun at his 61-year-old mother and gave his parents one hour to pack.
He contacted the U.S.
Embassy, which said it could do nothing and refused to contact the Israeli military.
His parents have since returned after the soldiers abruptly left.
“It is only because of the public pressure that they were able to return to their home,” Shukri said.
He said soldiers had occupied the neighboring family’s home for four days before moving directly into his parents’ house.
Gaza groundwater too polluted to drink: Gaza’s groundwater is becoming too salty and contaminated to drink, the Gaza Ministry of Health said on Monday.
Groundwater now contains an average of 3,588 mg of dissolved salts per liter, more than three times the level generally considered acceptable.
19% of municipal wells are bacterially contaminated and 40% are not effectively chlorinated, Gaza Health Ministry Director General said, noting that nearly half of reported diseases are now linked to unsafe water and environmental conditions.
Hamas delegation heads to Cairo: A Hamas negotiating delegation traveled to Cairo on Tuesday to continue second-phase negotiations on the Gaza ceasefire agreement, senior Hamas official Basem Naim announced in a social media post.
Naim said talks with mediators would focus on consolidating the ceasefire and implementing first-phase commitments, particularly Israel’s humanitarian obligations, before moving to phase two of President Donald Trump’s plan.
Israel continues military operations in Lebanon despite “ceasefire”:
An Israeli drone strike Tuesday hit a residential apartment in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, in Nabatieh, setting it ablaze, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
Israeli forces also carried out a large demolition in the village of Al-Qusayr in the Marjayoun district.
In Tyre, explosions continued to echo into the morning as Israeli forces carried out demolitions in the villages of Majdal Zoun, Al-Mansouri, and areas of Bint Jbeil.
Deported couple found bound, shot dead in Guatemala: Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz were found bound, gagged and shot to death in a sugarcane field in southern Guatemala weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to join her husband, who ICE had deported from Missouri last year, according to St.
Louis Public Radio.
Their 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body and is recovering from dehydration, according to the Guatemalan news outlet ABC Stereo.
“I felt that they took the thing I wanted most,” Paz’s brother said.
“I felt a huge pain because it was my brother, my sister-in-law—people that wanted to work, to fight.”
McConnell says he won’t return to Senate this week: Sen.
Mitch McConnell , 84, who was hospitalized for six weeks following a fall at his Capitol Hill home last month, said Monday he won’t return to the Senate this week or attend Kentucky’s annual Fancy Farm picnic, an event he’s attended for more than four decades.
McConnell’s extended absence has complicated Republicans’ narrow Senate margin, particularly on the Appropriations Committee.
Venezuelan men sue U.S. aviation firms that flew them to notorious Salvadoran prison: More than 230 Venezuelan men expelled by the Trump administration to El Salvador last year are suing CSI Aviation and GlobalX, accusing the companies of helping carry out illegal “rendition flights” to the Cecot maximum-security prison, José Olivares reports for The Guardian.
The lawsuit says the firms transported the men despite a federal judge ordering the planes to return and despite knowing they faced a foreseeable risk of torture.
The men were held for four months and reported beatings, sexual assault, pepper spray and rubber-bullet attacks.
CSI, ICE’s largest contractor, received $1.23 billion from the agency in 2025 and subcontracted the three flights to GlobalX.
Mamdani announces plan to use city grocery stores to relieve rising prices: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled plans on Monday to sell essential groceries at prices 30% below typical retail rates through five city-owned stores, one in each borough.
The discount will cover all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, along with 20 pantry, dairy, and refrigerated staples, including milk, cheese, and bread.
Prices will be set at the beginning of each month and remain fixed throughout it, with no income restrictions for shoppers.
The city has allocated $70 million to develop the stores and will cover rent and property taxes, while private contractors operate them.
The first is expected to open in Hunts Point in the Bronx by late 2027, followed by La Marqueta in East Harlem by 2029.
All five are planned to open before Mamdani’s term ends.
The administration estimates the program could save an average household about $1,000 annually.
The stores will not sell alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, or hot food, partly to limit competition with neighborhood bodegas.
ICE arrests over 12,000 after tips from child migrant agency, Reuters finds: More than 12,000 people, including unaccompanied migrant children’s sponsors and household members, have been arrested by ICE following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement since January 2025, according to internal government data reviewed by Reuters, which found ORR shared more than 460,000 “leads” with ICE during that period.
Former ORR deputy director Jen Smyers said safeguards against such data sharing have been “completely reversed,” and accused the administration of “weaponizing a child welfare program for the purposes of more deportations.”
Six House members bought SpaceX stock days after IPO : At least six House members or their immediate families purchased between roughly $83,000 and $245,000 in SpaceX shares within six days of the company’s June 12 IPO, CNBC found, with five of the buyers serving on committees overseeing aspects of the company’s business, including defense and AI.
The trades, which include purchases by Reps.
William Timmons (R-S.C.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.) themselves and by spouses or children of Reps.
John McGuire (R-Va.) , Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), and John James (R-Mich.), come as the House passed legislation Wednesday restricting future individual stock trading by lawmakers, though critics have pointed out the measure’s weaknesses, including its non-extension to current holdings.
ACLU: LA immigration agents used racial slurs, targeted Latinos in raids : Body camera footage and text messages obtained through court discovery show ICE and Border Patrol agents in Los Angeles using slurs like “tonk” and “wet” to refer to Latinos, according to a 42-page motion filed Monday by the ACLU.
The filing argues evidence “flatly disproves” government claims that stops were based on intelligence rather than race, describing a shift toward mass “collateral” arrests through “roving patrols” at locations like Home Depots and car washes, and asks a federal judge to bar agents from relying on perceived Latino ethnicity to conduct stops.
Valdez endorses Lawrence: Claire Valdez , who recently won a Democratic primary in New York’s 7th district, endorsed progressive William Lawrence in his Michigan primary on Monday.
Moskowitz refuses to debate Larkin: Rep.
Jared Moskowitz has pulled out of Monday night’s debate with progressive challenger Oliver Larkin , hosted jointly by the Broward and Miami-Dade Democratic Black Caucuses.
Larkin said he would still attend to address voters directly, declaring that he will be “debating an empty lectern.”
His campaign accused Moskowitz of avoiding scrutiny of his voting record and noted that the incumbent has not held a town hall in Florida’s newly redrawn 25th Congressional District.
Michigan Senate debate: Abdul El-Sayed and Rep.
Haley Stevens went head-to-head in a debate on Monday night, with both candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the open Senate seat in Michigan.
The primary is next Tuesday, August 4.
El-Sayed pointed out the $60 million in outside spending backing Stevens’ campaign, saying she has been “bought off” by corporations that “expect to own your next U.S. senator.”
Abdul El-Sayed also blasted the record $46 million in AIPAC money backing Haley Stevens, saying it was spent because “they know she’ll be a reliable vote,” pointing to her vote last week for another $3.3 billion in aid to Israel.
More highlights from the debate are available on our X feed, here .
Other International News
Fresh clashes erupt in Pakistan-administered Kashmir: Clashes broke out Monday in Rawalakot, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, as thousands of supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee tried to march toward regional capital Muzaffarabad, part of weeks of protests demanding electoral reform ahead of a three-phase regional election that began the same day.
The protests have called for the reallocation of parliamentary seats reserved for Kashmiris living elsewhere in Pakistan to those actually living in Azad Kashmir.
The J.A.A.C. claimed several of their supporters died in clashes with police, though the deaths could not be confirmed as of Tuesday, bringing the reported death toll since protests began in early June to at least 30.
Dozens killed in air strikes on North Kordofan civilian sites : Dozens of civilians were killed across a series of air strikes in Sudan’s North Kordofan state between July 24 and 26, according to the rights group Emergency Lawyers, which reported drone attacks on a water station, a civilian vehicle, and a water well, health center and school, along with a bombing of a fuel-carrying vehicle in Um Badr.
The strikes coincided with an escalation in clashes following an army ground offensive that cleared Rapid Support Forces from key routes.
At least 30 killed in armed attack on Nigerian village: Gunmen killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in a nighttime raid on Naridon village in Nigeria’s Kaduna state early Monday, residents told Reuters.
A local leader said attackers opened fire on women, children and the elderly before setting houses ablaze and fleeing, with security personnel arriving only hours later.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Keiko Fujimori sworn in as Peru’s president : Keiko Fujimori is set to be inaugurated as Peru’s president on Tuesday, becoming the country’s 10th leader since 2016 after narrowly defeating leftist congressman Roberto Sanchez in June runoff election
Fujimori, who has expressed interest in joining Trump’s proposed “Shield of the Americas” regional security initiative, named former central bank board member Elmer Cuba as her economy minister on Tuesday, and Carlos Espa, a former U.S. embassy employee and presidential candidate, as her foreign minister.
Fujimori inherits a fragmented, newly bicameral Congress where her Popular Force party holds the largest minority bloc.
Chad pulls out of ICC: Chad pulled out of the ICC on Monday under U.S. pressure, complicating an ongoing probe into the genocide in Darfur.
Chad’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had notified the UN secretary-general of its decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the treaty underpinning the International Criminal Court, calling the court’s record “limited and uneven” and focused on Africa.
Chad said the request came from Washington, and that the U.S. deputy secretary of state for African affairs had urged it to reconsider its membership in a phone call last Thursday.
The withdrawal could shield actors in the war in neighboring Darfur, where the U.S. and a UN fact-finding mission have both found the RSF committed genocide against non-Arab communities.
Chad has been accused of serving as a conduit for arms reaching the RSF from the UAE.
Chad is the fifth country to move toward withdrawal in recent months, after Venezuela on Friday and the September exit by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
White phosphorus leak triggers brief evacuation near U.S. base in South Korea : South Korean authorities briefly ordered residents living close to Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, near Seoul, to evacuate Tuesday following a reported white phosphorus leak detected around 5 p.m., lifting the order hours later after decontamination was completed, the AP reported.
The U.S. 51st Fighter Wing did not confirm a phosphorus leak but said it established a 1,000-foot safety cordon “due to a ground mishap and out of an abundance of caution,” denying reports of a general base evacuation.
Afghan provincial official assassinated in Badakhshan : Zabihullah Amiri, director of Badakhshan’s Information and Culture Department, was assassinated Tuesday by two armed attackers near provincial capital Fayzabad, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said.
Amiri’s guards killed one suspected attacker in a shootout while a search for the second continued.
The ministry did not attribute blame to any specific group.
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