Photos show destruction after Russia’s deadliest strike on Ukraine this year

By The Associated Press
August 30, 2026 | 10:07 AM

MYLA, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on a warehouse triggered massive explosions and fires, killing 37 people and damaging dozens of nearby homes and buildings in the deadliest Russian attack in Ukraine this year.

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Hong Kong’s independent bookstores, a refuge for Chinese readers, are under threat

By The Associated Press
August 30, 2026 | 10:19 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese university student Fleming Cheng found the political books he had only glimpsed online in a Hong Kong bookstore last year. Before visiting Greenfield Book Store, Cheng had only managed to see the books' covers online after bypassing Beijing's internet censorship using a VPN. At the store, he picked up a title offering a critical account of China. He stood there devouring dozens of pages from another, about a pro-reform Chinese leader who fell from power for sympathizing with the protesters during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in 1989. Cheng said he saw perspectives diverging from the mainland’s official narrative. “A space of freedom,” he said.

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