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Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 - 38 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia

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Sudan’s military leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has announced government backing for legal, security, and political guarantees to enable an inclusive intra-Sudanese national dialogue proposed by an independent mechanism. Read more: https://t.co/8YfxDaB2mt #Sudan #Burhan #NationalDialogue

Sunny (Rahiman Ma) in the front joins in a Mongolian folk dance during a visit to the Xianghe community in Urumqi. —Photo by the writer “ASSALAM-o-Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah-i-Wa Barakatuh.” This is how our tour guide greets us soon after landing at Urumqi Airport. She introduces herself as ‘Sunny’, and then tells us that her given name is Rahiman Ma. “You are Muslim?” I ask. “Alhamdolillah yes,” she smiles and nods. Urumqi, the capital and largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in N

US President Trump says that 'pretty soon' he will declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory once Iran is defeated.

No casualties were reported, Penza Region Governor Oleg Melnichenko said
Oil climbs over $1 a barrel as expert warns of ‘day of reckoning’ Crude oil futures climbed over $1 a barrel on tanker attacks and a lack of progress on a peace agreement between the US and Iran. Reuters reported that Brent futures settled at $88.52 a barrel, up $1.45, or 1.67percent. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures finished at $82.40, up $1.15, or 1.42 percent. Brent and WTI were on track for weekly gains of 6.0 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively. "We're getting a rally going into

Quake hit Indonesia’s Flores region with a depth of 10km early on Saturday morning A powerful 7.7-magnitude quake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said. No immediate casualties or damage were reported. The quake hit Indonesia’s Flores region with a depth of 10km at 5:58am on Saturday Indonesia time. It’s epicentre was 68km (42 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ende in East Nusa Tenggara province. Continue reading...
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Sudanese police have detained journalist Gurashi Awad in Berber, River Nile State, following a cybercrime complaint filed by an intelligence officer, the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate said. The syndicate condemned the move as an attack on press freedom and demanded his immediate release. https://t.co/ScrxXqtWVZ #Sudan #PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotACrime

Six Houthi ballistic missiles struck Yemen's government-held al-Makha port, killing at least four.

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Araghchi says talks with Oman about Strait of Hormuz ‘may reach conclusion soon’ Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that negotiations between Iran and Oman “may reach a conclusion soon,” Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported. Araghchi said the talks with Oman regarding the shared management of the Strait of Hormuz between the two countries “are ongoing, but this is a completely separate discussion” from ceasefire talks with the United States. He added that “a technical discussi

At least 18 civilians were killed and over 300 families fled on foot to El Obeid after a Rapid Support Forces attack on the town of Um Arada in North Kordofan, officials said. Read more: https://t.co/xHoDlfPfaF #Sudan #NorthKordofan #ElObeid https://t.co/utaJblauAB
CAIRO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday Iran had attacked an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company vessel while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported. ADNOC said no injuries were reported and that the situation was under control, according to WAM. The UAE foreign ministry called on Tehran to halt what it described as unprovoked attacks, end hostilities and fully reopen the waterway. There was no immediate comment fro
CAIRO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - UAE's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said on Saturday that one of its vessels came under attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported. The state oil company said no injuries were reported, with the situation now under control, according to WAM. The attack was the third such incident involving ADNOC vessels in less than a week. The UAE had accused Iran of being behind the earlier attacks, but there was no official
His comments came a day after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US was going to apply measures that have "never been seen" on Tehran as soon as next week.
🇺🇦🇺🇸🔥 Ukraine has informed Washington that its deep-strike campaign against Russia is entering a new phase, with the scale and intensity of attacks set to increase significantly. Kyiv is signaling that systematic destruction of Russia’s strategic rear is becoming an even larger part of its war strategy. According to Ukrainian media, the Defense Ministry delivered a memorandum to the Trump administration stating that the SBU carried out more than 100 successful strikes on strategic targets

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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has published information on 26 vessels Russia uses to transport grain from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, Russian oil and petroleum products, as well as liquefied natural gas from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project.

Donald Trump said the strait would become part of the US after Iran is defeated. He also told Americans to accept higher gas prices, which have soared since Iran closed Hormuz in response to US and Israeli attacks.
Iran has not decided on resuming US talks, ISNA citing foreign minister Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said no decision has yet been made to resume negotiations with the United States, the Iranian Student News Agency reported. Araghchi added that mediator Qatar and Pakistan were in contact with Iran and exchanging messages, but that this did not amount to negotiations.
A World War Two memorial was vandalized in Washington, DC, on Thursday after the woman graffitied the fountain and filled it with bubbly soap.

The US president said that America was investing in NATO "for so many decades," but it "wasn't there for us"

Control over the strait has been a sticking point in the ongoing ceasefire negotiations between the US and Iran.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is heading home after a deployment of more than 260 days, following scrutiny over reported conditions aboard the carrier. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the ship “crushed their deployment” and that its return is part of a “planned rotation,” adding: “The safety and security of our Sailors and Marines always comes first.” Reports have described supply shortages, rotten food, moldy showers and mental-health concerns. Cao acknowledged sailors had been “pushed to the
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The U.S. Army has temporarily grounded all Apache helicopter flights after a fatal crash near Fort Hood, Texas.
Trump on Iran: We are capable of destroying the whole place. We don’t want to do that. If they hit, we would hit back 100 times harder.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence officers have detained another agent of Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. He is suspected of directing Russian artillery and drone strikes on the city of Nikopol.

Zelensky Struggles to Find Replacement for Dismissed US Ambassador Kyiv is left diplomatically exposed after dismissing its Washington ambassador, as it urgently lobbies the US for air defense systems, arms deliveries, and potential peace terms. READ MORE

US has lost roughly 25 percent of its Reaper drones in Iran war: Report The US-Israeli war on Iran has depleted or destroyed more than $1.3bn worth of the US's MQ-9 Reaper drones, roughly translating to 25 percent of the country's pre-war fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by The Washington Post published on Friday. The report underscores how Iran's air defences have continued to be operational despite claims by President Donald Trump and his aides that they have been obli

Seriousness of remark made in New York on Friday, and whether it signaled new policy position, not clear Donald Trump has threatened to declare the strait of Hormuz as “a territory of the United States” as his administration struggles to conclude the war with Iran. During a speech at a police academy on Long Island, New York, on Friday, the US president said he would “pretty soon” designate the waterway – a crucial chokepoint for global trade, through which about a fifth of the world’s seaborne

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Trump Authorizes US Companies to Launch Cyberattacks Against Hackers Trump has authorized vetted US companies to launch offensive cyberattacks against foreign criminal hacking networks, marking an unprecedented American federal cybersecurity policy. READ MORE
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DHS Spent $464 Million on Deportation Aircraft Fleet and Never Used Them US Homeland Security executed a $464 million emergency no-bid contract for ten aircraft to handle deportation flights; months later, the fleet remains grounded. READ MORE

The latest figures underscore how Russia’s drone war is increasingly reaching NATO’s eastern flank, with Romania already forced to destroy several drones this summer.

Trump Withholds Netanyahu Endorsement as Israeli Re-Election Campaign Struggles Trump has not yet endorsed Netanyahu ahead of Israel's October vote as the Israeli prime minister trails in domestic polls. READ MORE
Trump on Iran: One of the problems in Iran is that there is nobody to negotiate with. It's a problem. It's the only country in the world where nobody wants to be president.