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The United Kingdom has imposed fresh sanctions on 13 individuals and entities, six vessels and several financial institutions accused of supporting Russia or its energy exports.
Head of the MFA of Ukraine Andriy Sybiha stated that Kyiv wants to restore the pre-war volume of bilateral trade turnover with Azerbaijan, which has currently reached around 600 million dollars.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out strikes on Russian oil refineries in Bashkortostan and the Yaroslavl region, and also struck two military patrol boats and shadow fleet vessels in the Black Sea.

Western allies are more hesitant to give up interceptor missiles they may need for their own defense as war rages on multiple fronts.

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Sanae Takaichi emphasized that the Japanese government would continue to uphold the three non-nuclear principles - not to possess, produce, or import nuclear weapons
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara opposes sending Syrian forces into Lebanon alone, telling the Qatari-owned Lebanese paper Al-Modun that any presence there must involve several Arab states under regional and international oversight. He is also seeking talks with Hezbollah on disarmament, aiming to fold the group into the Lebanese army.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, warehouses storing military equipment belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet burned near Sudak, close to the village of Krasnokamianka.

Beijing has launched a cybersecurity review into products sold in China by US technology firm Palo Alto Networks, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced on Thursday. The administration said the probe was being conducted to “ensure the secure and stable operation of critical information infrastructure, prevent cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, and safeguard national security”. Palo Alto Networks is a leading US cybersecurity and cloud computing provider, whose solutions are used.

The South Korean military is analyzing the range and other flight data

Holidaymakers are sticking closer to home as the conflict rages, while tourism operators adapt.
Q: Do you still believe that some kind of regime change is possible in Iran? Mike Pompeo: 100%.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: There are those within my party, the Republican Party, who think President Trump made a mistake... They would describe this as a war of choice. That's just a false, straw man argument, right? This was no war of choice. We've been at war with Iranians for decades. It was time to make sure that they didn't have the capacity to become like North Korea—impenetrable, unattackable.

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In just two months, Yale graduate Edward Kuperman went from being praised by Chinese state media to being bombarded with accusations that he was a spy. It began with a June 18 article from state news agency Xinhua, in which he was described as an eager 24-year-old sinophile who made the unconventional choice of spurning China’s eastern metropolises and choosing to live in Dunhuang, in the country’s northwestern Gansu province, an oasis town on the ancient Silk Road. His interest in China started
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US House Speaker Mike Johnson: We're going to win this election whether we resolve the Iran situation before the election or not.

In the 1930s, Japan found itself battling against the spread of leprosy. Faced with the infectious disease, which attacks the nerves and deforms the body, the authorities confined leprosy patients to sanatoriums – some of them on the island of Nagashima. Even after the first treatments appeared in the late 1940s, it would take until 1996 for the government to end the forced confinement of patients who had in fact been cured for decades.

Eight wounded in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon's Burj Shemali as talks enter third day Eight people have been wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Burj Shemali, the country's health ministry is reporting. Earlier today, Israeli forces escalated attacks on southern Lebanon, with state media reporting a "wide-scale aggression" on the city of Tyre. MEE reported earlier that, as a result of the strikes across several areas in the city, four people were wounded and tran

China announced new drone supply chain export controls and counter-sanctions against seven American firms in retaliation for US trade restrictions imposed last week targeting Chinese companies. Sales to United States entities of “drones, their key components and related technologies” will be subject to “strict case-by-case scrutiny”, the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday, with the measures taking effect immediately. They amount to a tightening of restrictions first implemented in 2023 and..

Japan’s public broadcaster, citing sources in the Defense Ministry, reported that the missile fell outside the country’s exclusive economic zone

Eight people were killed in a Russian missile attack on Kvitneva railway station. Among them was Vita Horkavenko, mother of two children.

Poland is preparing its 50th military aid package for Ukraine, Vasyl Bodnar said. Deliveries of equipment continue.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb plunged on Wednesday, with just three vessels crossing the key waterways as Houthi attacks and the Iran war disrupted regional trade.
North Korea fires unidentified projectile, South Korea says https://t.co/wGMaThDmtn

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Aug 6 (Reuters) - Israel said two of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon on Wednesday while Lebanese authorities said Israeli retaliatory attacks killed at least one person, a flare-up in violence that coincided with the latest round of talks between the two countries. The Rome talks, which began on Tuesday and are expected to continue through Thursday, come after the two countries agreed in June to a U.S.-brokered security arrangement intended to ease hostilities along the border.

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A Philippine Navy personnel who previously served aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, one of Manila’s most sensitive military outposts in the South China Sea, is under investigation over alleged illegal drug use, sources have told This Week in Asia. The 34-year-old sailor was also involved in resupply missions to and from the grounded warship, which has long served as an Armed Forces of the Philippines outpost at the Second Thomas Shoal, which Manila calls the Ayungin Shoal. One source who tipped off..
Russian troops launched a Gerbera drone strike yesterday against a food processing plant in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region.

While the drop in water levels offers historians a rare glimpse into Europe's past, local authorities face an urgent challenge.
🚨🇺🇦🔥 Ukraine has launched another major strike on Russia's energy infrastructure. Kamikaze drones targeted the Yaroslavl Oil Refinery, igniting a large fire at one of the facility's most critical processing units. According to the available information, the attack struck the refinery's primary crude oil processing installations, with footage from the scene showing intense flames engulfing part of the complex. The Yaroslavl refinery is an important component of Russia's petroleum processing
German prosecutors: a 33-year-old Ukrainian national detained on suspicion of espionage tied to sabotage.
Israel was preparing a significant strike in Lebanon after the recent incident, N12 reports. The Trump administration intervened to hold it back and preserve a third day of negotiations in Rome. Those talks will continue, though several points of contention remain unresolved.

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Health Emergency Operations Center: Israeli raids on the town of Burj al-Shamali resulted in the injury of 8 citizens. https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2026/6-august-08-health-emergency-operations-center-israeli-raids
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