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Trump: Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!
Ex-Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, says restoring ties with Israel amounts to applauding the Gaza genocide.
One person was killed as a result of the incident itself; two others were shot and killed by Israeli security forces.
Trump disclosed more than 1,000 stock trades in June, including million-dollar purchases of Berkshire Hathaway, Visa and Mastercard and sales of Meta and Motorola. The White House says Trump and his family do not direct the trades; independent managers use automated, index-tracking strategies such as direct indexing.
An Israeli security official says Israel and Türkiye are holding secret talks to prevent friction, stressing that Israel does not want Türkiye as an enemy. Source: Kan News

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Six EU countries urge windfall tax on energy firms as profits soar due to Iran war Six European Countries are stepping up calls for a bloc-wide windfall tax on oil companies as profits soar due to the Middle East war, according to a letter seen by AFP. The finance ministers of Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal, along with Spain's economy minister, sent the joint letter to the finance minister of Ireland, which holds the current EU presidency. "Oil companies are enjoying overall profi
Kinshasa et de l’AFC/M23 ont convenu de mettre en place un mécanisme chargé d’examiner les progrès accomplis et de relever les défis liés à la mise en œuvre des obligations et des engagements pris au titre de l’accord-cadre de Doha. Les deux parties ont réaffirmé leur engagement à poursuivre les discussions en vue d’une paix globale. https://t.co/pRiIBOTGJQ
A major fire has broken out at an industrial site near St. Petersburg, Russia, while an Ozon warehouse in Orenburg, Russia, was also reportedly hit in a Ukrainian attack.
The “ATESH” partisan movement has documented preparations at Russian military training grounds for a new wave of mobilization.

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Ukraine's General Staff has updated data on Russian losses: Russia lost 1,310 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.

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US set to remove Syria from 'sponsors of terrorism' list Syria is set to be removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list after nearly 47 years. A mandatory 45-day congressional review period expired on 22 August without reported action to block the move. The remaining step is formal publication of the rescission in the Federal Register by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Washington designated Syria a state sponsor of terrorism on 29 December 1979, citing support for international terror

Rodion Miroshnik added that his working trip to Novorossiya confirmed information about attempts to blockade entire cities, complicate logistics, disrupt the delivery of food, priority goods and medicines, and the supply of energy and water

Friends close to Margarita Reutt are shocked she could allegedly plant bomb that killed Ukrainian defector Robert Shageev, while others recall a stubborn grit to see any plan through It was just after dawn in Sevastopol when a powerful explosion tore through a quiet square in a residential district of the Russian-occupied Crimean port city. Hidden inside a rubbish bin, a bomb containing the equivalent of about 500g of TNT detonated on 13 August as Robert Shageev, the deputy commander of a Russia

China’s secondary school students are dropping history as an exam subject, a trend that could leave the public more vulnerable to distorted narratives in the future, an academic at a top university has warned. The note of caution comes as Beijing steps up efforts to counter “historical nihilism” – the official term for narratives that contradict or undermine the state’s official historical line – as well as pseudo-history, such as claims that Ancient Greece did not exist. “History education in..

Trump reposts: We've escorted over 1000 ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

LAST month, at its 49th meeting, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, chaired by the chief justice, recommended establishing an ‘International Commercial Court of Pakistan’ through a new Article 212A in the Constitution. Its stated aims — swift resolution of commercial disputes, stronger enforcement of arbitral awards, investor confidence, and Pakistan as a credible destination for capital — are exactly right, and I welcome the ambition. But as one who has spent years close to this work

Coal-dependent Indonesia is reviving decades-old plans to build nuclear power plants that were put on hold following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, as it seeks to meet its decarbonisation targets. Some members of the public and experts, however, have voiced concerns about the risks of a nuclear disaster in the quake-prone country, despite one of the leading candidate sites being an uninhabited island considered not to be in an active seismic zone. The government began discussing..

KARACHI: The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) has set Sept 5 as the deadline for existing virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to submit applications for no-objection certificates (NOCs), warning that those failing to do so would have to cease operations. “Existing virtual asset service providers must submit their NOC applications by Sept 5, 2026 or cease operations,” PVARA said in a press release. Virtual assets or virtual currencies are not popular at the mass level in P

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 26 km E of Letpandan, Burma (Myanmar)

GILGIT: Pakistan Customs collected Rs15 billion in revenue on imports from China through the Khunjerab Pass during the fiscal year 2025-26, breaking the previous record, while goods worth Rs2.8bn were exported to China and Central Asian countries through the border crossing. Wajid Ali, Pakistan Customs Collector Gilgit-Baltistan, told Dawn that Rs14.93bn in revenue was collected on imports through the Khunjerab Pass at the Sost Dry Port during FY26. In FY25, Pakistan Customs had collected Rs13.6

Hardliner Mohsen Rezaei also threatens American economic interests in first interview since appointment to supreme national security council The new leader of Iran’s top security body has warned its neighbours against joining new US efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy, and threatened US commercial interests in the region, as Donald Trump doubled down on his fanciful view that the strait of Hormuz was a new US territory. Mohsen Rezaei, the hardline new leader of Iran’s supreme national security c

Palestinian commission: Illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank reach 592 by July The number of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank has reached 592 by the end of July, according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. The sites comprise 192 settlements and 400 outposts, including 231 pastoral outposts. The commission said nearly 780,000 Israeli settlers were living in these settlements: around 333,600 in Jerusalem settlements and 446,400 el

• Prevention of illegal immigration, cybercrime discussed • Zardari calls for deepening strategic alliance between the countries ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Malaysia on Saturday agreed to establish a joint working group between their interior ministries to promote institutional cooperation, with a focus on counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, cybercrime and the prevention of illegal immigration. The understanding was reached during delegation-level talks between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and M

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No abnormal situations were recorded at the nuclear facilities, the fire service reported

Aipac told to stay away from pro-Israel Mike Rogers' campaign, report says Allies of Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, have asked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) not to run ads on his behalf, according to Axios. The request came after Rogers spoke with Aipac chair Michael Tuchin in Los Angeles last week. The next day, Aipac shelved an already-prepared video ad targeting Rogers' Democratic rival, Abdul El-Sayed, an outspoken critic of Israel. Axios said t

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QUETTA: A security official embraced martyrdom and six others sustained injuries in a roadside bomb explosion in the Khad Kocha area of Mastung district on Saturday, police said. Officials said that an explosive device planted in the Gro area of Khad Kocha along the Quetta-Karachi National Highway was detonated when security vehicles were passing through the area. One of the vehicles was hit in the blast, resulting in the martyrdom of a security official and injuring six others, a senior police

French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday welcomed Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman for a two-day visit, hosting him at the Esports World Cup before a second day focused on bilateral deals and the situation in the Middle East. A French presidential official said several agreements, on health, transport and energy, will be signed on Monday alongside talks likely to focus on Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron late Sunday was to welcome Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman for a two-day visit, criticised as a "provocation" by journalist groups. The official agenda for the visit ranges from esports to the war in the Middle East, and a French presidential official said several agreements, on health, transport and energy will be signed on Monday. But three journalists' unions on Sunday protested against France hosting the Saudi strongman, who is kno

Iran has asserted control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one fifth of the world's oil and LNG exports passed before the war.

In 2007, the so-called ‘Lawyers’ Movement’ in Pakistan mobilised immense pressure against then military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, whom Musharraf had arbitrarily dismissed. Backed by opposition parties, these protests catalysed a somewhat ‘fair’ 2008 general election, which brought the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to power, closely followed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Leveraging their combined parliamentary majority, the two major pa
On the broadcast that aired August 16, 2026, Keane recounted the events leading up to the war between the US, Israel, and Iran, which began on February 28 this year.

Tear gas shelling, detentions, property theft reported during West Bank raids Israeli settlers and the military have continued raids in the occupied West Bank, including the one in which eleven 11 Palestinians, four children among them, suffered from suffocation caused by tear smoke inhalation. * Wafa reported that during an Israeli military raid on the city of Tubas and the village of Tayasir, east of the city, 11 residents suffered suffocation due to inhalation of tear gas smoke. They were tr
Barghouti is a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a terrorist organization that carried out many suicide bombings and shooting attacks during the Second Intifada.

Washington has pushed its allies to jump aboard Donald Trump's new campaign to isolate the Iranian economy.