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The town of Ainatha in the Bint Jbeil district was subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.

Israeli forces advance near Wadi al-Raqad in the Yarmouk Basin in the Daraa countryside, southern Syria

For months, Masoumeh Zakeri has endlessly replayed the last night she spent with her nine-year-old daughter before she was killed in a strike on her school during the opening hours of the US-Israel war with Iran. Motahreh excitedly talked about coming holidays, planned weddings and the clothes she wanted to buy. She had a Ramadan pre-fast meal shortly before dawn and then Zakeri tucked her into bed. “I never saw her again. (That was) the last time,” the 44-year-old mother told Agence...

A violent explosion in Zawtar al-Sharqiya

GILGIT: Four women mountaineers from Gilgit-Baltistan, joined by a Romanian climber and a male mountaineer from Punjab, successfully summited 7,027-metre Spantik Peak without the assistance of high-altitude porters, marking an inspiring achievement amid challenging conditions in the region. The Alpine Club of Pakistan confirmed that the four-member local women’s team reached the summit and safely returned to Skardu on Monday. The successful climbers were Shama Baqir and Samana Rahim of Shimshal

UK prime minister ‘likely’ to travel to US in September, after meeting Zelenskyy and saying supply problem is ‘fixable’ Andy Burnham has said he plans to travel to the US next month to join European leaders lobbying Donald Trump to supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles. The UK prime minister told Bloomberg he was “looking forward to going to New York” in September, which is when the UN General Assembly will meet. He said details of the trip were not “fully confirmed” but it was “likely” to go ahe

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The US has proposed a new US$103,265 fee for H-1B visa petitions – a move that could ramp up the cost of hiring skilled foreign workers, with Chinese and Indian professionals particularly hard hit. It comes at a sensitive time for US-China relations, with visas already a long-running source of friction and Beijing stepping up efforts to attract global tech talent as competition intensifies between the world’s two largest economies. The US Department of Homeland Security proposed the additional..

Explosion was reported at the Amur natural gas processing plant

A rescue team resumed its trek at Spantik on Tuesday to recover the body of Pakistani mountaineer Dr Asma Mushtaq, who died while descending the 7,027m peak in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Shigar district. The 34-year-old died at an altitude of around 6,250 metres on Aug 20, while descending from the mountain also known as Golden Peak, after suffering from high-altitude sickness. Her body remains at Camp 3. Efforts to retrieve her body were earlier disrupted due to severe weather. Alpine Club of Pakistan

A rescue team resumed its trek at Spantik on Tuesday to recover the body of Pakistani mountaineer Dr Asma Mushtaq, who died while descending the 7,027m peak in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Shigar district. The 34-year-old died at an altitude of around 6,250 metres on Aug 20, while descending from the mountain also known as Golden Peak, after suffering from high-altitude sickness. Her body remains at Camp 3. Efforts to retrieve her body were earlier disrupted due to severe weather. Alpine Club of Pakistan

The latest attack comes as Haiti prepares for general elections scheduled for December 13 — the country's first in more than a decade. Voter registration is underway, but experts have warned that widespread insecurity could make holding credible elections extremely difficult.

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On Monday evening, Russian troops attacked the center of the city of Mena, Koryukivka district, Chernihiv region; preliminarily, 12 local residents are known to have been injured, including four children, reported the press service of the National Police of Ukraine.
Ukraine's Defense Forces neutralized 124 enemy drones overnight into Wednesday, though hits from strike drones and missiles were recorded at 17 locations, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Wednesday morning.

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[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dragged to the Constitutional Court over his appointment of 10 senators, with two applicants accusing him of packing the Upper House with politicians instead of independent professionals as required by the Constitution.

A Lebanese report says Iran is leaning toward appointing its ambassador in Lebanon, Mohammad Reza Shibani, as special envoy to Syria and Lebanon. This would bypass the earlier Lebanese decision barring him from remaining as ambassador. Shibani has refused to leave despite a Foreign Ministry order months ago to expel him. His diplomatic residence permit expired today, after which General Hassan Choucair, head of Lebanon's General Security, granted him a six-month civilian residency permit. Shiba

Recent attacks in the UK and the US demonstrate critical vulnerabilities that governments need to urgently address.

[DW] The US has called for a UN arms embargo for Darfur to be broadened to the whole of Sudan. The change would require Security Council approval, with Russia warning it would hurt the Sudanese army.

Last night, UKMTO reported an oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile 9 nautical miles northeast of Ash Shishah, Oman, damaging its engine room and disabling the vessel. The crew was reported safe. https://t.co/tn9LTiOCdo

Five senior IRGC commanders now carry U.S. bounties of up to $10 million each for information: • Ahmad Vahidi: IRGC Commander-in-Chief • Ali Abdollahi: Chief of Iran's Central Military Command • Sa'id Aghajani: IRGC Aerospace Force Commander • Hamidreza Lashgarian: Chief of IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command • Majid Khademi: IRGC Intelligence Chief Per the State Department.

An adviser to Putin has said British factories could be attacked by what he called unknown sources, as part of a possible Russian response to UK military support for Kyiv. Putin adviser raises attacks on British drone factories first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir discussed regional peace and ways to reach a negotiated settlement to disputes, the statement added.

While Russia’s May 9th Victory Day parade in Moscow was conspicuously short on military equipment, Ukraine’s Independence Day parade took military equipment to a whole new level. Offering a glimpse of military parades to come, the August 24th parade consisted entirely of uncrewed systems. A diverse display of uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs), driving in tight ... The post World’s First Military Drone Parade: What We Saw On The Water appeared first on Naval News.

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Beijing could soon hold carmakers legally responsible for traffic violations when autonomous driving systems are in use, marking an important step towards clearing regulatory hurdles to wider commercialisation. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, is set to review an amended Road Traffic Safety Law on Tuesday. For the first time, the document was set to include a dedicated chapter on governing autonomous vehicles and advanced driving systems,...
On August 24, 209 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian forces were recorded across the front.
"Hamas remains the main obstacle to further improving the situation in the Gaza Strip," a senior COGAT official said.
By Seher Dareen, Anushree Mukherjee and Robert Harvey LONDON Aug 25 (Reuters) - Almost half the world's oil comes from countries affected by conflict in 2026, Reuters calculations show, underscoring that current disruptions have eclipsed previous energy crises. Six months ago, U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran triggered what has become the largest oil supply crisis on record, with no clear end in sight. At the same time, the Russia-Ukraine war has forced production and refining cuts, including i

Russian forces attacked a business in the Koriukivka district overnight, triggering a fire covering more than 3,000 sq m. No casualties have been reported

On paper, the agenda is set to focus on trade, development financing, and reform of global institutions, but behind closed doors, the Middle East conflict and differences between Iran and the UAE are likely to dominate the meetings.

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Pakistan and Iran discuss restoring MoU, as Islamabad says 'significant progress' made in talks

Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik specified that 407 people, or 99% of the total number of casualties, were affected by attack drones

NuScale Power, Oklo, BWX Technologies, Centrus Energy, X-Energy, Nano Nuclear Energy, and Lightbridge are the seven Nuclear stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. “Nuclear stocks” are shares of publicly traded companies involved in the nuclear-energy industry, such as uranium mining, reactor design and construction, nuclear fuel production, and plant operations. Investors […]

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Russia’s total combat losses in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to August 25, 2026, amount to approximately 1,479,300 personnel, including 1,230 over the past 24 hours.

State-affiliated cyber groups more than doubled the amount of attacks they carried out since they began delegating mundane tasks to AI and using it to develop advanced malicious software, according to TeamT5, a Taiwanese research firm.