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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.
Trump on Iran: They had 212 very nice planes, some bought from the U.S., brilliantly, through Obama. All of their planes are gone.
Trump on Iran: Nobody has any idea how successful we are in Iran. You know who knows how well we are doing? Iran.

A US appeal court on Friday gave Chinese drone maker DJI another chance to challenge its inclusion on a Pentagon blacklist of companies allegedly linked to the Chinese military. DJI, a Shenzhen-based drone maker, has been engaged in a years-long legal battle with the US Department of Defence to be removed from the list. The latest ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit did not remove DJI from the list, but sent the case back to the lower court to reconsider one.

Defense Minister Katz called for the military to turn over to the police the responsibility for protecting Palestinians after two West Bank families were besieged by violent settlers.
Trump jokes he will probably give medals to drug traffickers still brave enough to smuggle drugs into the U.S. by sea.
Trump: When countries need help, they call America. I don't always give it because sometimes they have not been very good to us. NATO wasn't there for us, by the way.

US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns about the toll on sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, who have endured a record deployment of almost nine months, saying that the deployment had been “not nearly long enough”. The Lincoln has been supporting the US war against Iran, and reports have emerged of sailors struggling with mental health issues.

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Ukraine is preparing new sanctions packages targeting Russia's defense industry, financial networks and intermediaries that facilitate the production of missiles and drones and contribute to prolonging the war.
Trump: Chuck Schumer is a full-fledged Palestinian. I am looking for Palestinian garb. I am going to send it to him.

President Donald Trump dismissed concerns on Friday over living conditions and the mental health of service members on a US aircraft carrier deployed against Iran, while confirming the ship would soon rotate out. Asked by reporters whether family members were worried about the situation on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump said “no, they’re not”. Trump also rejected the idea that the ship – now in its ninth month at sea – had been deployed for too long. “No, no, no, not nearly enough,” he said. The

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Trump on Iran: What we are doing is a great service for the world, not only for ourselves, for the world.
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Trump on Iran: Pretty soon, I will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

The wreckage of the fourth drone in a day has been found in Romania near the border with Ukraine, the country's Defense Ministry reported. It was discovered near the village of Plauru, about two kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Trump on Iran: Very soon I will declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory.
Russian attacks on cargo vessels are threatening the supply of Ukrainian food products to Egypt and other countries in Africa and the Middle East.
Trump: In 2.5 years, somebody is gonna be elected. Will you please remember one thing? Trump is the one that did it.

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US to hit Iran hard economically, Trump says US President Donald Trump told Fox News on Friday that the United States will hit Iran hard economically as Washington and Tehran struggle to reach a deal to end a nearly six-month war. 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.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: The livelihood that our brother says, the high prices that he talks about, well, it's natural. Now we used to bring it by ship, now it covers a whole path and comes, the final price has gone up. Our income has also decreased. We used to sell oil, now we can't sell it. They have hit and destroyed some of the factories, we can't get taxes in that way either. Not only can we not get it, we have to give them money to stand on their own feet. The wheel must t
Trump jokes: I think they should run Kamala Harris again. She was a great candidate.
Trump: We represent the whole universe. There is nothing like the United States.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: I have said it many times, I say it again, and it's my belief: I will never stand against the Leader. It's not something I say just as a slogan; it's because unity is more important to me than those other values. Because if unity is broken, that power will collapse.

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In speech marking anniversary of Second Lebanon War, Naim Qassem accuses Lebanese authorities of giving up on 'dignity,' signing off on whatever Jerusalem demands The post Hezbollah chief says Lebanon-Israel deal humiliates the nation and its army appeared first on The Times of Israel.
Houthis say they targeted Aramco in Saudi Arabia's Najran with drone Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Friday that they had targeted an oil facility belonging to Saudi Arabia's state petroleum company Aramco with a drone, the group's Saba press agency reported. A military source quoted by the agency said the group had attacked a site in Najran, in southwest Saudi Arabia, "by means of a drone, and the operation achieved its objective".

3 people wounded as result of bombardment in Lozova territorial community of Kharkiv region

The list includes 13 vessels, 11 people and 28 companies
4 morts et des blessés dans des affrontements entre les FARDC et l’AFC/M23 à Kusisa, au Sud-Kivu https://t.co/7XnFyrPyT2