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Reports from Syria: The Abu Al Duhur military base in Idlib, reportedly struck by Israel, is still burning with secondary explosions reported hours later. https://t.co/JTjQLr61fv
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit Seoul days after Donald Trump called for the US to scale back military exercises with South Korea, sending ripples of unease through US allies in Asia. On Sunday, the United States president posted his decision to social media, raising questions about the durability of Washington’s security commitments in a region increasingly defined by competition with Beijing. He offered several rationales, including cost-saving considerations, a goodwill...

ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said that hepatitis C screening had been made compulsory for all employees of his ministry and the salaries of untested employees would be withheld next month onwards. Kamal was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Prime Minister’s Hepatitis C Elimination Programme in Islamabad, where he too got tested for hepatitis C, with his result coming out negative. The programme was jointly launched by the World Health Organisation and the health min

The Israeli army is advancing towards the Bat al-Warda hill overlooking Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside. https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2026/18-august-11-the-israeli-army-is-advancing-towards-the-bat

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Andy Burnham on Ukraine: We support Ukraine 100% against this illegal war led by Vladimir Putin. We are providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself, and that's been the British position all the way through this conflict.

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The Israeli army is advancing towards the Bat al-Warda hill overlooking Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside.

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A Syrian court on Tuesday handed a death sentence to Wassim al-Assad who appeared in the dock, a cousin of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who was himself sentenced to death in absentia last week. The 46-year-old relative of Assad was convicted over atrocities committed under the autocrat’s rule during the country’s nearly 14-year civil war. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Assad’s cousin was convicted of multiple murders and “murder accompanied by torture and brutality … classified as crimes...

Competition and Markets Authority raises concerns about ‘passive pricing strategies’ used by some petrol stations Business live – latest updates Some petrol stations are still not passing on changes in wholesale prices quickly enough and more than 1,000 warning letters have been sent to retailers failing to give prices to the Fuel Finder service, the UK competition watchdog has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) raised concerns in its latest quarterly update on the fuel market o

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[New Dawn] MONROVIA -- Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has called for equal accountability across Liberia's security sector in the ongoing fight against illicit drugs, warning that selective justice and alleged protection of senior officials could undermine public confidence in the government's anti-narcotics campaign.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim: This hypocrisy cannot be tolerated. The hypocrisy of the West, of the superpowers. And this has been happening. Don't talk about Gaza today. They've been there for the last 70 years. And now you expect an emerging country like Malaysia to solve that problem that's been there for 70 years.

UK PM Burnham: "100% against this illegal war," reaffirming support for Ukraine in response to Russia's warning.

Israeli artillery shelling targets the western outskirts of the town of Houla
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim: I see Taiwan as part of China. Period. We may disagree, there are some excesses. Yes, express your view. It is one China. It’s accepted by all.

Israelis are second least wanted migrants in UK after Russians, poll finds Almost half of Britons want the UK to allow fewer Israelis or none at all to move to the country, a new study has revealed. Israelis have become the second most unwanted group in Britain after Russians. The YouGov poll released last week showed that Pakistanis, Indians, Turks, Egyptians and Nigerians rank above Israelis in popularity among the British public, although all these groups are relatively unpopular. Only one

Trump: Hormuz is a "new US territory"

Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed bin Mohammed Al Ansari stressed that Iranian aircraft had entered Qatari airspace to strike Doha and were shot down after their pilots failed to respond to warnings

The Supreme Court directed the relevant authorities on Tuesday to shift jailed PTI founder Imran Khan to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital for a complete medical checkup in the next few days. A three-member SC bench, headed by Justice Shahid Waheed and comprising Justices Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Ishtiaq Ibrahim, issued the ruling on several petitions seeking Imran’s hospitalisation as well as his meetings with family members. Imran had approached the SC in May, seeking directions for his

A man from eastern China has spent a decade travelling with his partially paralysed wife, claiming that life on the road has made her “100 times” more spirited. Liu Peijin, 69, a former serviceman from Weifang in Shandong province, dedicated 18 years to the military, much of that time away from his wife, who was his primary school classmate, as reported by Hongxing News. As newlyweds, they dreamed of exploring China together in retirement. However, in 2010, complications from diabetes left Liu’s

Trump administration official Rodney Mims Cook Jr. quietly held talks with Kremlin officials during a June visit to Russia’s St. Petersburg Economic Forum. Carrying a diplomatic passport, Cook reportedly met senior Russian officials as part of an unofficial effort to reopen U.S.-Russia dialogue over the Ukraine war, presenting the trip publicly as a cultural mission. Source: FT

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Iran and Oman, both coastal states on Hormuz, have for weeks been discussing the future of navigation through the strait, with Tehran saying the geographical coordinates of the route envisaged by both countries "have been agreed upon".

US Syria envoy says Israeli strikes on Syrian base 'unnecessary escalation' The US special presidential envoy for Syria and Iraq has said that Israeli air strikes on the Abu al-Duhur military air base in northwestern Syria constitute an "unnecessary escalation" that does not advance regional stability. In a statement on X, Tom Barrack said the US was deeply concerned by the attacks, and added that Washington was encouraging all parties to prioritise "logical discourse" over further military inc

Nearly 15,000 people risk losing their homes in Karachi, Hyderabad and Lahore to make way for Pakistan’s most ambitious railway project: Main Line-1 for which work will kick off in January. The estimate of families at risk was done by Karachi Urban Lab with satellite data which was ground truthed in neighbourhoods sitting along the track between the Karachi and Lahore corridor. If at least 25 feet of the track need to be clear on both sides, over 2,400 people will have to vacate it. These are th

Taiwan’s army has for the first time used first-person view (FPV) drones against armoured vehicles in a live-fire exercise, adopting tactics pioneered during the Ukraine war to strengthen its asymmetric capabilities against the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The exercise on Monday highlighted efforts to broaden strike options beyond traditional firepower such as rocket systems and heavy artillery. The Army Unmanned Systems Training Command brought together six units from the military’s...

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Municipal records show that there were a number of zoos in Gaza before the Israel-Hamas war erupted, displaying exotic and wild animals, including lions and eagles.

Escalating violence in Sudan has displaced nearly 10,000 people across North Kordofan and Blue Nile states in recent days, UN agencies warn. Clashes have forced relief work to halt in cholera-hit areas, while the 2026 humanitarian appeal remains just 41% funded. https://t.co/uFTHf4ZjZg #Sudan #HumanitarianCrisis #OCHA

Saudi Arabia deletes 'the Muslims will never give up Jerusalem' from its textbooks Elis Gjevori on Tue, 08/18/2026 - 10:09 Israeli organisation still condemns Saudi lessons describing Israel as an occupation and recounting a Zionist bribery attempt to abandon Palestinians Muslim devotees with their children gather at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on 27 May 2026 to mark the start of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Off An Israel-based organisation has praise
Russian forces struck a combine harvester in a field in the Komyshuvakha community of the Zaporizhzhia region. One agricultural worker was killed and another was injured. Police evacuated the body of the deceased.

SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top military officer visited units near...