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Rockstar Games broke silence on the GTA 6 gameplay leaks, calling them "heartbreaking" and apologizing that this "is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game." They confirmed the game is "nearly there" and an extended look will be shown tomorrow. Release date confirmed: November 19.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Strait of Hormuz is under our control and there are no warships inside the Gulf waters.

Syrian official says SDF leaders, including Mazloum Abdi and Ilham Ahmad, will hold state positions, while Kurdish language will enter Syria's curriculum

Trump: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is GREAT. He gets it done!!!
Iran's Minister of Energy: We have rebuilt the four power plants that were attacked at the beginning of the war.

Iran's Minister of Energy: We have rebuilt the four power plants that were attacked at the beginning of the war

Lukashenka ordered a combat readiness review of the Belarusian Armed Forces, according to the Belarusian Ministry of Defense. Particular attention will be paid to testing the use of modern firearms, taking into account the experience of the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

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Rescue operations are under way after a landslide at the China-Nepal border engulfed a key border checkpoint, resulting in “major casualties”, according to Chinese state media. The landslide began in Nepal at around 9am on Wednesday and also struck Tibet’s Gyirong county, which is under the administration of Shigatse city, according to Xinhua. Footage circulating online showed the landslide engulfing the checkpoint in seconds as people on the ground fled, before mud and debris obscured the...

Ukraine's Kursk Group of Forces has rejected Russian media claims that Pysarivka in Sumy Oblast was captured, saying fighting continues there.

Two miners, Vitalii Semenov and Illia Rusanenko, were killed when a Russian drone struck the car they were travelling in as they were returning home after their shift.

Iranian president says US will 'achieve nothing' with economic pressure Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the US would "achieve nothing" with its new round of economic sanctions. "With the measures that the government's economic sectors have foreseen, America will not achieve anything with economic pressure at this stage, just as it was unable to achieve anything in the war," Pezeshkian said on Wednesday, according to ISNA news agency.

Unlike Ukraine's one-way strike boats, the V11 stays at sea a week and forward-bases other drones far offshore.
Former Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg on rumors of Zelensky being replaced by Fedorov: People in the United States probably understand across the board that this is Ukrainian domestic politics, and we do not interfere in it. All these reports claiming that he was going to be replaced or that something like that happened are wrong. It didn’t happen.
The SPLM-N says it has restored control over its stronghold of Kauda in South Kordofan following internal mutinies, denying allegations that its forces executed ethnic Otoro civilians. https://t.co/B18EP9fAJg #Sudan #SouthKordofan #Kauda #SPLMN https://t.co/N7yt6ymdL2

JUST IN: US appears to be facing difficulties convincing Iran’s neighboring countries to join its sanctions campaign against Tehran. US has contacted 16 countries bordering Iran, with 8 countries say it would be difficult to cut economic ties with Tehran because of their deep economic links, while another 8 are considering the move.

NEW: Hungary's new government formally labeled Russia a threat and endorsed Ukraine's territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, marking a clean break with Viktor Orbán's years of blocking EU action. Hungary has still not offered weapons to Ukraine and Russian energy contracts remain in place.
Former Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg: Putin will not stop until he takes not only Luhansk, but also Odesa and Zaporizhzhia. He already controls Crimea. If he wants this, he will have to fight for it. No one will give it to him.
NEW: An Israeli settler who attacked a French Catholic nun near King David's Tomb in Jerusalem was acquitted after a court accepted he was "in a psychotic state during the assault." Prosecutors said he targeted her because she was identifiable as a Christian nun and charged him with a hate crime carrying up to six years. The court ordered psychiatric hospitalization instead.
Former Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg on Trump: He personally did not pressure President Zelensky to voluntarily give up Donbas or Donetsk. I think Putin hoped that Trump would pressure Zelensky to give him the remaining parts of Donetsk. That did not happen, because Trump essentially said the same thing I did: "If you want that land, fight for it."

[Premium Times] "From the records I have, those kidnapped were a little above 60. Those who were killed were close to 30. Although the military has gone there and restored calm, some people have run away to safer areas," Abdullahi said.

Iran and Oman have agreed on a temporary shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz to allow commercial vessels to transit the strategic waterway, as Tehran dismissed U.S. claims that mines had been cleared and warned that the strait could remain closed unless its conditions are met.

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The integration of the Kurdish administration within Syria's state institutions is now complete, Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi said on Thursday, marking the end of the Kurds' long-held dream of autonomy. The announcement follows months of negotiations between the two sides after a January agreement that called for the full integration of Kurdish civil and military institutions into the state -- a move Washington deemed "historic". FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Andrew Hilliar tell

Radcliffe went to Moscow on an unannounced trip Tuesday, US media reported, becoming one of the highest ranking US officials to visit Russia since its war with Ukraine started in 2022.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki on 26 August for his letter marking Ukraine's Independence Day.
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 #Israeli forces on Tuesday raided the Qalandiya training centre, a site operated by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees #UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem. The country's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, participated in the raid. https://t.co/bvK9rGNKb3

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Efforts to rebuild domestic food production face severe challenges and have come at deadly cost As Gaza’s population of 2.1 million has been hemmed into an ever smaller slice of the territory, farmers are using every last remaining patch of unspoiled earth, no matter how tiny, in their struggle to survive. With severe shortages of water, fertiliser and pesticide, and with more than 80% of greenhouses ruined, it has taken inventiveness and determination to clear land of debris and coax new seedli
Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a Russian Kasta radar station, a UAV training center, a repair and recovery base, and several military warehouses.
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Russian forces struck the centre of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on the morning of 26 August, damaging apartment buildings. One person has been killed and five have been injured.
"Death to America" and "death to Israel" chanted at the opening of Iran's parliament in Tehran today. https://t.co/Tlgakn0W0x

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Iran urges Qatar to clarify fate of missing Iranian pilots Qatar told Tehran it was unaware of the fate of Iranian pilots missing since their aircraft were shot down after entering Qatari airspace. Iran urged Doha to step up efforts to determine their status, according to state media. The pilots were shot down over Qatari airspace at the beginning of the US-Israeli war in Iran.

CIA chief John Ratcliffe held talks with Russian intelligence officials during his visit to Moscow, but did not meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said Wednesday. President Donald Trump described Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow as a "semi-routine" mission, while implying that the intelligence chief was in the Russian capital to discuss the Ukraine war.

The dynamics in all frontline areas clearly demonstrate this, Dmitry Peskov underscored