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 This is AP News Minute. 1. Russia’s Defense¹ Ministry² released video said to show Russian warships³ launching missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria. Russia began carrying out airstrikes in Syria last week in what it said was a preemptive (serving or intended to preempt⁴ or forestall⁵ something, especially to prevent attack by disabling the enemy) operation against terror in the Middle East. 2. Doctors without Borders call for independent and unprecedented⁶ fact-finding (especially of a committee or its activity having the purpose of discovering and establishing the facts of an issue) mission to investigate US airstrikes on a hospital run by the medical aid group in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people. The group believed Saturday’s airstrike may have been a war crime. 3. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said the death toll⁷ from massive flooding across the state has risen. Haley says the central area of the state is recovering as the water recedes⁸. But officials are keeping a close eye at the southeastern part of the state. 4. Two snow leopard⁹ cubs¹⁰ ventured out for the first in Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. The sisters have been bonding with their mother since their birth on June 16.