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The battlegroup's units destroyed two Stryker armored personnel carriers, seven field artillery weapons and 39 ground robotic systems over the past 24 hours

Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam: No date set for resuming direct talks with Israel.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapaty held a conversation with Chair of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone.
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The Israeli Air Force has received its second of six Boeing KC-46 “Gideon” refueling aircraft. The new tankers will replace aging Boeing 707s.

Germany's gas storage facilities are only 50% full as traders bet that wholesale prices will fall if the Iran war ends. With around three months until winter, DW asks whether the country can refill its reserves in time.

The UAV can carry a warhead weighing over 50 kg
Zelensky: Overnight Ukrainian strikes hit oil refineries in Perm, the Marinovka airfield in Volgograd, a drone storage and launch site in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and damaged a Su-34 at Akhtubinsk. https://t.co/yFrqGiN1MG

Ukraine's Army Chief, Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi said NATO’s Military Committee is expected to visit Ukraine in October, its first visit in 8 years. Talks will focus on long-range strikes, air defense, and battlefield tactics.

Note: SCMP Plus subscribers can attend an exclusive event with Zhou Bo, a retired People’s Liberation Army senior colonel, in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Zhou will discuss China’s military modernisation as the PLA works towards its 2027 centenary goal. SCMP Editor-in-Chief Chow Chung-yan will host the fireside chat. Zhou is now a senior fellow at Tsinghua University. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sought to boost ties with South Korea amid signs of strains in the long-standing US-South Korean...

Iran parliament chief visits graves of allied Iraqi fighters Iran’s parliament speaker has paid tribute to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis during a visit to Iraq, according to Iran’s Student News Network. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf visited al-Muhandis’s grave at Wadi al-Salam cemetery in the Iraqi city of Najaf on the third day of a trip by an Iranian parliamentary delegation. The speaker also visited the burial sites of other members of Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups, the network reported. Al-Muhandis ser
Ukraine’s Defense Forces continue long-range strikes against Russian territory, returning the consequences of war to where it originated, reported President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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The battlegroup's units eliminated over 210 Ukrainian military personnel, two Kozak armored fighting vehicles and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer

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DUBAI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Iranian parliament speaker Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf said on Friday that Iran must plan to overcome "unjust sanctions", a day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced what he described as the toughest sanctions ever imposed on Iran. Bessent said on Thursday the measures would be detailed on Monday, suggesting they could lessen the need for further major military operations.

Police allege Australian-Russian citizen joined Ukrainian military seeking to send information to Russian intelligence.
Russian forces attempted to break through Raihorodok toward Sloviansk but failed to make any gains.
Russia conducted military drills on the disputed Kuril Islands, deploying a nuclear submarine and a cruiser and firing Bastion anti-ship missiles at ranges over 300 km. The exercise followed Putin's first visit to the islands. Japan called it unacceptable and a violation of its territorial integrity.

Russia has begun to military threaten Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands territories after Putins visit recently multiple warships have violated Japanese territorial waters and Russia also began yesterday firing missiles from Submarines in test exercises of their coast.

Iran and Iraq will resist foreign interference, Ghalibaf says Iran’s parliament speaker says efforts by “enemies” to drive Iran and Iraq apart will instead deepen their relationship. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told an Arbaeen ceremony in the city of Karbala that history, geography and shared religious beliefs bound the countries together. “We were two nations that refused to become a footnote in others’ narratives and did not allow our destiny to be written in western capitals,” he said. Ghalibaf

The battlegroup's units eliminated up to 200 enemy personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle and three armored combat vehicles over the past 24 hours
Zelensky: This night, our strikes hit oil refineries in Perm, over 1600 kilometers from the border, and the Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region. We also have confirmed that a Russian Su-34 aircraft was damaged at the Akhtubinsk airfield, approximately 600 kilometers from the front line. And in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, almost 180 kilometers away, a storage, preparation, and launch site for attack drones used by the Russians to target our people was hit.

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The Ukrainian defence forces struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Perm and the Marinovka military airfield in Russia's Volgograd Oblast on the night of 20-21 August.

Aisha Wahab won California's 14th Congressional District special election, becoming the first Afghan American elected to the US Congress. She defeated moderate Democrat Melissa Hernandez 53-47%. AIPAC's super PAC spent millions backing Hernandez after Wahab called Israel's actions in Gaza genocide and supported ending US military aid. The two will face each other again in the November general election for the full term.

Unprecedented downpours cause deaths, evacuations and transport chaos. Plus, Hurricane Lala batters Hawaii South Korea and Japan were hit by extreme rainfall late last week and into this week. On 13 August in the city of Chiba near Tokyo there was a record-breaking 115mm of rainfall in just one hour, while the nearby city of Sakura broke its own record with 97mm in one hour. A level five emergency warning for heavy rain was issued by local authorities – the highest alert level and the first time

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has ordered political aspirants and other political actors to remove its logo from campaign materials within five days, warning that continued use will attract action.
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Lebanese channels: IDF struck the village of Barashit, roughly 9 km west of Menara. https://t.co/TA1yEtwd7j

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Carolus Winfridus was asleep when an earthquake struck off Indonesia’s island of Flores, as he was awoken by intense rumbling and saw his wardrobe doors flying open. He and his family quickly scrambled for a way out of their house in the town of Maumere, Sikka Regency, one of nine regencies hit by Saturday’s devastating 7.7-magnitude quake that killed almost 80 people and displaced nearly 100,000. Survivors and officials describe how blocked roads, power cuts and relentless aftershocks have...

The 'unacceptable' E1 plan carries 'legal and reputational consequences' for those participating, European nations warn.

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Ukraine sanctioned five Russians and four organizations linked to the production and distribution of Masha and the Bear, accusing the cartoon of spreading pro-Russian narratives. The sanctions target the studio Animaccord, its executives, creators, and rights holder.
The number of people injured in a Russian drone attack on the building of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Zhytomyr region on august 19 has risen 59.

Reports suggested a Lukoil-operated oil refinery was targeted in a drone barrage on the Ural Mountains region of Russia.