70-year-old member of the US Senate, Bob Menendez, was found guilty of 16 counts, including bribery, extortion, fraud, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent. During the search, about 500,000 dollars in cash, gold bars, expensive cars and furniture were seized from him and his wife Nadine Arslanyan. The senator is also accused of selling classified US information to Egypt.

At least 40 people were killed and 347 others were injured as a result of floods caused by heavy rains in Nangarhar province in the east of Afghanistan.

Amnesty International has accused France of violating international human rights law by banning women from wearing hijabs at the Summer Olympics in Paris. In September last year, France's sports minister told French athletes that religious symbols, including headscarves, would be banned during events.

A ship loaded with 2,408 tons of humanitarian aid prepared by Turkey's Natural Disasters and Emergencies Agency (AFAD) left Turkey's Mersin International Port for Sudan.

Polish lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a new law that would allow the military and border guards to fire live ammunition at migrants trying to cross into the country illegally from Belarus. The law was passed last week following the tragic death of a Polish border guard who was killed by a spear thrown by an immigrant from the territory of Belarus.

The deputy representative of the United States at the UN reported that the Myanmar regime is using displaced people, including Arakan Muslims, as human shields. He noted that since the coup in Myanmar, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has increased from 1 million to 18.6 million.