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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says he does not see the Saudi Arabia-Türkiye-Pakistan Mecca Alliance as destabilizing, adding that the three countries “don’t seem to have a desire to start any conflict.” Source: Al Arabiya

With the warning of a yet-to-materialize missile test in the Southern Ocean, is Russia playing an old joke on New Zealand?

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Large language models are expert in intelligence work, able to quickly mine key data and analyse weapons performance – tasks that once took analysts huge amounts of time and effort. But engineers at China’s AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Research and Design Institute, developer of the People’s Liberation Army’s backbone J-20 and next generation J-36 stealth fighters, have urged caution. In a paper published on June 20, engineer Zhang Xianzhe said that “AI models can invent aircraft specifications –...
Investigators examined five major cases, resulting in two criminal probes, two disciplinary probes, and the closure of one file.

Russia attacked Zhytomyr with several drones. HQ of regional police damaged

According to the Russian president, another area of focus is the construction of power grids
Hamas terror infrastructure and 5 launch pits destroyed by Paratrooper Brigade combat team forces. - IDF https://t.co/Gx28ZSv8lT

Israeli authorities have since filed an indictment against Avior Zaken, identified in a community appeal as the grandson of the elderly couple for whom Acharya worked. The accused is in custody as the case proceeds through the Israeli judicial system.

A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia at Germany’s request over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts. German prosecutors allege he was one of the divers who planted the explosives, making him the second suspect arrested in the case. Kyiv has repeatedly denied involvement. Source: BBC
PARIS, Aug 19 (Reuters) - French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot condemned on Wednesday violence in the West Bank by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, and added that this justified France's recent sanctions against Israel's far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. • "What is happening today in the West Bank is utterly disgraceful and should fill us all with revulsion," Barrot wrote on X. • "This is why we have sanctioned Israeli minister Ben-Gvir, whose recent comments are unacceptable

The Russian president claimed that the damage caused by ongoing attacks on industrial and commercial sites has not been critical.

The Russian president claimed that the damage caused by ongoing attacks on industrial and commercial sites has not been critical.

Russian forces have attacked Zhytomyr with drones, hitting the building of the Main Directorate of the National Police. Information about casualties is being confirmed.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the settlement was liberated on August 19

Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.

The Israeli military said Wednesday it had ordered a criminal investigation into the 2024 killing in Gaza of five-year-old Hind Rajab, whose death drew international outrage after a harrowing recording of her last words. Hind's body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024.

Warnings are multiplying that violence could break out between rival political camps ahead of Israel's October 27 election, with powerful figures including top government ministers accused of incitement against opponents. Israel was rocked in 2023 by mass protests against a judicial overhaul widely seen as an attempt to curb the courts' powers. Protests flared again after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, this time against the government's conduct of the war in Gaza and the stalemate in hostage n

The Israeli military on Wednesday admitted its troops fired on a car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza in 2024, saying it had ordered a criminal investigation into the killing which drew international outrage. Hind Rajab's body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024. The Israeli military had previously denied its troops were present in the are

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Kim Yo-jong says she is unaware of any recent communication between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump.

ISLAMABAD: In a significant move, PPP, a major ruling coalition partner, and the opposition PTI on Wednesday agreed to maintain contact and cooperate on legislative matters in the parliament. The agreement was reached when PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Allama Raja Nasir Abbas at the Parliament House in the NA opposition leader’s chamber, PPP said in a post on X. PTI Secret

US seeking ‘honourable exit’ as regional influence fades, says Iran Iran’s parliament speaker says foreign powers are losing their grip on the Middle East as a regional order takes shape. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf linked the shift to two commanders assassinated by the United States in January 2020. “Dear Abu Mahdi and Haj Qassem! This is the fruit of your struggle and your blessed blood,” he wrote on X. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis served as a commander in Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, while Qass

Six F-35s, five tankers, two AWACS and a G550, from the North Sea to Poland, with no announced exercise. We asked why. Here is what NATO and the U.S. Air Force told us, and what they wouldn't. NATO airpower concentrates over Baltic region first appeared on UK Defence Journal.

China has completed the first phase of construction on Antelope Reef in the disputed South China Sea, creating a nearly 6-km-long artificial island with a deep-water harbor and what could become a runway. While Beijing says the site will support civilian activities, analysts believe it could significantly strengthen China’s military presence and surveillance capabilities in the region, including in a potential Taiwan conflict. Source: Reuters

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Russian occupying forces killed an elderly woman in a drone strike in Kherson, regional military administration head Oleksandr Prokudin has said.

IDF: A Hamas commander involved in the October 7 invasion was struck in Nuseirat. Additional terrorists planning attacks on IDF forces in Gaza were hit in the Daraj Tuffah area.

MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday announced its candidates for seven of the eight reserved seats in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. The special seats, for which elections have been scheduled for August 24, comprise five for women and one each for Ulema-i-Din or Mashaikh, Jammu and Kashmir state subjects residing abroad, and technocrats and other professionals. Polls are being held in three phases amid unrest in the region. So far, in the direct

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A Russian drone struck a car in Kherson on 19 August, killing a woman and injuring a man.

It is extremely difficult for trucks to get through the Israeli blockade, let alone for drivers to reach aid warehouses.
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Russia leader Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian government to adopt a programme to restore logistics and warehouse facilities damaged by Ukrainian attacks, which he described as "terrorist".

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Israeli drone strike kills nine in Gaza City The number of people killed in an Israeli drone strike on central Gaza City has increased to nine, an ambulance official has told Al Jazeera correspondents. The latest update raises the death toll from six reported earlier in the attack.
US war on Iran puts Cambodian children’s education at risk