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Corruption investigators reach the President's Office again in a new wiretap probe.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Türkiye: Now, is Türkiye giving an imminent threat to Israel? Maybe not. Probably not. But this is a tense region. Everybody is quite nervous, and so if anyone sees actions that they feel like could be a threat to them, there are reactions.
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: I think that Türkiye, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia believe it will be helpful to them to band together for security purposes. So, I don't see it having a destabilizing impact. They don't seem to have a desire to start any conflict.

A Russian double strike on the police headquarters in Zhytomyr killed two officers and injured 40 people, Ukraine's interior minister says.

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Four China Coast Guard vessels (CCG 14609, 14531, 14608, and 14530) entered Kinmen’s restricted waters in two columns at 15:00 on Aug. 19, approaching from east of Liaoluo and south of Lieyu. Taiwan’s Coast Guard deployed patrol boats for one-to-one monitoring, issued Chinese- and English-language warnings, and expelled all four vessels by 17:03. The CGA described the operation as gray-zone harassment and said it had pre-positioned forces after China’s summer fishing moratorium ended on Aug. 16
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US envoy warns Israel's strike could have sparked direct confrontation with Turkish forces.

Officials say all seven people onboard killed, including Telemundo executive and Ecuador intelligence chief Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and the state department. Among the dead were an executive with Telemundo, the US-based Spanish-language network owned by NBC Universal, and the director of Ecuador’s national intelligence service. Continue reading...

The US president said "very draconian sanctions" were being considered

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The country’s small-scale gold mining sector has been booming in recent years, leading to a series of deadly accidents.

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Sudan is pursuing a dual diplomatic push with a new strategic pact in Riyadh and military talks in Ankara for advanced drones, seeking regional backing and financial support as fighting intensifies in Kordofan and Darfur. https://t.co/78KbmLPisr #Sudan #SaudiArabia #Turkey #RedSea #SAF

Axios: U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through the Strait of Hormuz

Ecuador's intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and NBCUniversal journalist Jose Suarez are among the dead.

Remains of 11 Palestinians recovered from rubble in Gaza City, report says Gaza’s civil defence recovered the remains of 11 Palestinians killed in earlier Israeli air strikes on the al-Sawafiri house in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Al Jazeera reported. Gaza’s civil defence recovered the remains during a three-day operation, Al Jazeera reported. Muhammad Abu Dan, executive supervisor of the recovery unit, said specialised teams have begun searching for more remains at another site in Gaza
Trump on Iran: We have things that we could sanction on Iran. We have very draconian sanctions, and we’ll see what happens.
Trump on Switzerland: I have the absolute right to cut off all business with a country like Switzerland. There’s 60 countries like that. They live off the United States. Why are we paying higher interest rates than them?
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has told Congress it is sending more than $206 million for a proposed Gaza peacekeeping force, the first significant funding for the stalled U.S. plan to rebuild the devastated enclave.
Trump on Switzerland: If you take our business away from Switzerland, they have problems. Why are they paying half a point, and we’re paying much more than that?
Trump: I didn’t like the fact that we are doing these massive military exercises against North Korea. We were doing a massive war exercise. I thought it was very insulting to somebody that, frankly, has been very well behaved.
More than 40 people were injured in a Russian attack involving jet-powered drones on Zhytomyr, while two police officers were killed.
Trump on Iran: Right now, the strait is open. A lot of boats are coming through. People aren't reporting that.
Trump on Iran: A lot of pipelines are being built. I think the Hormuz Strait is not going to be quite as important as it was in the past.

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Trump: If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of the state, and I had the chance to get a big AI plant or a data center in, I would absolutely want it. The jobs are enormous, and the taxes are enormous. If you don’t take it, you are gonna be left behind.

Russia-Ukraine War: Prisoner exchanges and repatriations of soldiers' remains have been among the few areas of cooperation between Russia and Ukraine since Moscow launched its offensive in February 2022.
Trump on AI: It’s gonna create a lot of jobs. It’s gonna create success, tremendous innovation medically. They came up with something having to do with a pretty unstoppable disease, and all of a sudden, they are coming up with answers they never thought were possible.
Ukraine is preparing the next stage of prisoner exchanges, as well as a new package of sanctions.

Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United States and Iran. They consider why the fighting has settled into a stalemate and dig into which figures in the Iranian regime have influence over Iran’s approach to the war. Afshon unpacks the implications of Mohsen Rezaei’s recent appointment as head of Ir

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Major radar changes mean 'illuminators' are needed to help Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles protect the carrier. The post Future Ford Class USS John F Kennedy Brings Back Key Feature From The Nimitz Class appeared first on TWZ.
Trump jokes: I signed the GENIUS Act. I named it after myself. I didn't want to use my name, so I just called it the GENIUS Act.
Ukrainian soldier downs a Russian attack drone at point-blank range with an MG 3 machine gun. @Osinttechnical https://t.co/zhNsnaCiL6

Chinese-made DJI drones are "like the new AK-47," one expert said, because of their near-universal use in modern combat zones. The post Air Force security teams want to train with Chinese-made drones at nuclear base appeared first on Task & Purpose.
The key tasks for Ukraine's new defense minister are to streamline the country's defense production, procurement and military supply systems, as well as expand the scope of long-range strike capabilities.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had initially sent a message "in general terms" against a Turkish military presence at an airfield near Aleppo, close to the Turkish border.