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U.S. Democrats are opening their national convention Monday, a four-day virtual affair with delegates and speakers scattered across the country. The party has one united mission: helping presumptive nomineee Vice President Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump in the November election.

Russia indicated it was ready to provide military assistance to embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, even as massive crowds protested an Aug. 9 election they claim was rigged.

The death toll from Sunday’s attack and subsequent hourslong siege at a beachfront hotel in Somalia has risen to at least 15. The al-Shabab militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.

VIDEO: One hundred years ago, U.S. women were granted the right to vote through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was introduced to Congress in 1878 and took more than 40 years to be passed and ratified by three-quarters of the states. 

New findings out Monday show an alarming spike in attacks against humanitarian workers last year, including in part of Africa’s Sahel region where some of the latest attacks against French and Nigerien nationals took place last week