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Jared Kushner will meet Hamas representatives in Cairo with Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators present. Hamas says it's ready to hand weapons to a Palestinian technocratic body. Netanyahu rejected the plan's sequencing, insisting on full disarmament before any Israeli withdrawal. Source: Al Jazeera

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Israel extends mandatory IDF service from 30 to 32 months, citing operational needs. The change applies to relevant soldiers who enlisted from July 2024, with additional compensation for the extra 2 months. https://t.co/zJDZTOv82q

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Israel facilitated the entry of 5 UAE aid convoys into Gaza, with 67 trucks carrying 683 tons of humanitarian supplies. https://t.co/iFeMcN1Oty

Asia has not forgotten the lessons of history, and nobody will allow them to be rewritten to serve political ambitions, Natalya Nikonorova said
"Additional details regarding Sunday’s incident remain under investigation, but the drone appears to be Russian," said NATO spokesperson US Army Colonel Martin O'Donnell.
🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦🔥🇷🇺 British-made attack drones are now being used for Ukrainian deep strikes inside Russia for the first time, marking another significant expansion of London’s military support for Kyiv. Multiple Ukrainian military sources confirmed to The Times that drones produced by British companies have participated in long-range operations against targets on Russian territory. The British systems have been deployed against strategic infrastructure supporting Russia’s war effort, including o

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Footage from Primorskoye, near Vilkovo in Ukraine’s Odesa region, shows the aftermath of a reported Russian strike. https://t.co/AkxUKTEAaC
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Pope Leo called on Sunday for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, amid a surge of attacks by militant settlers and a siege in the territory's village of Qusra. Israeli settlers encircled houses after cutting off water and electricity, in what rights groups have said is a concerted effort to seize more land, and further eat into territory where Palestinians aim to establish a state.
Over the years of the full-scale war, Ukraine has gone from a country that constantly asked its partners for help to a nation that now has strategic trump cards of its own and has become an important pillar of European security.

More rain and thundershowers, accompanied by gusty winds, are expected across the upper and central parts of the country from Aug 17 to 21, with occasional breaks, the Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said, citing the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). According to the Met Office, monsoon currents are continuing to penetrate the upper parts of the country and are expected to persist over the coming days. It added that a westerly wave was likely to enter the upper par

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reportedly considering a ban on Chinese optical transceivers, signalling that the US-China tech war is expanding beyond the focus on semiconductor chips to shadow even the smallest link in the chain of essential artificial intelligence (AI) hardware. Optical transceivers are small devices that use fibre optic technology to send and receive data as light. The key application of these optical modules is the quick transmission of large amounts of...

Iranian Army Chief General Hatami: The sacred Strait of Hormuz is a God-given geopolitical asset for the Iranian people, and this leverage will never return to its previous state. One of the legacies of the U.S. president is the activation of the Strait of Hormuz’s potential. We knew about this potential, but without this conflict, it would not have been activated. This leverage is one of the prerequisites for ending the war in a way that removes the threat of war hanging over Iran.

Iranian Army Chief General Hatami: The expulsion of the United States has been carried out, and they are no longer permitted to enter the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone should know that American bases will never be able to return to their previous state, and Iran will never allow this to happen.

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The Israeli Air Force struck a terrorist in Khan Yunis a short time ago. N12 https://t.co/iebexcrFYQ
Yemen’s Saudi backed government says it carried out 181 operations against the Houthis in 24 hours, using drones, artillery and rockets as fighting in the civil war intensifies. Reports of over 200 Houthis terrorists eliminated https://t.co/UVhV6hsinx

Iranian FM Araghchi: “We currently have no negotiations with the United States” No decision made to resume talks until Washington ends MoU violations and makes amends. https://t.co/xruI4fMYs9

Shahram Sadeghi sentenced to death over incident in which 7 were wounded during January protests that turned deadly The post Iran executes man who allegedly rammed cops ‘in support of the Zionist regime’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

A Yemeni military source to state TV: Houthi struck Yemen government forces concentrations and weapons depots at camps in Marib overnight, and hit weapons depots in the Mokha area and the western coast today.

Hamas’ new chief Khalil al Hayya meets Egypt’s intelligence chief Hassan Rashad in El Alamein to discuss Gaza. al Hayya is high up on Israel’s list. https://t.co/2RteshBkZp

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A solar eclipse seen across parts of Europe, ongoing search-and-rescue efforts in Colombia after a devastating earthquake killed at least 300 people and left hundreds missing, and escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, condemned by the US ambassador to Israel as "acts of terror": FRANCE 24 takes a look at the week's most striking images.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday came to the defence of two government officials who drew flak after a video of them riding in a horse carriage during an Independence Day parade in Islamabad went viral on social media. In the widely circulated video, Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman retired Lt Sohail Ashraf and the Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi are seen riding into the parade in what appears to be the presidential buggy. Even as the attend
🇺🇦🔥🇷🇺 Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign is increasingly moving upstream into the industrial foundations of Russia’s war machine, hitting not only refineries but facilities directly involved in producing the fuel and components needed for Russian missile weapons. Ukrainian forces struck the Kamensky Plant in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, a defense-industrial facility producing solid rocket propellant for Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S multiple-launch rocket systems, as well as components f

China should speed up plans to commandeer civilian ships for wartime operations, drawing lessons from Britain’s use of commercial vessels during the 1982 Falklands conflict, according to a defence researcher at Beijing’s top economic planning agency. As maritime security threats and great-power competition grow, Beijing should make greater use of civilian ships to support military operations, according to an article published last month in Defence Industry Conversion in China. “As China’s...
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The Ukrainian military struck the Russian military-industrial complex enterprise “Kamensky Plant,” which produces solid rocket fuel for the “Uragan,” “Smerch,” and “Tornado-S” multiple launch rocket systems.
A Russian missile hit a branch of Ukrainian retail giant Epicentr in Odesa. https://t.co/wNXCrNkQV7

The number of executions in Iran has risen since the start of the Middle East war, which broke out on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes against Iran.

The Trump administration has varying degrees of closeness with all those countries except Afghanistan, but that border is mountainous and extremely difficult to patrol anyway.

West Bank homes left without water or electricity Three homes under siege in the town of Qusra in the occupied West Bank have been left without electricity or water. Al Jazeera reported that Qusra's mayor said Israeli soldiers had prevented technical teams and activists from reaching the homes.

Millions of Iranians struggle to make ends meet as war with US devastates the economy and sends prices soaring.

A Hamas delegation began a meeting with Egypt's spy chief on Sunday to discuss ways to advance the implementation of a post-war plan for Gaza, an official from the Palestinian group told AFP.
“The project’s success was caused by motivation; what caused success was motivation; giving of your own milk, giving part of yourself while nursing your own baby is the height of unconditional love.”