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Hamas denounces Israel's killing of top Gaza police official Hamas condemned Israel’s killing of Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, director of the civil police force in the Gaza governorate, calling it “a continuation of the brutal crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people," according to Al Jazeera. The group said the killing was part of Israel’s “pathetic and failed attempts to spread chaos and lawlessness in the Gaza Strip." Israel has killed more than 1,250 Palestinians in nea
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has called on members of the CIS observer mission for the Russian State Duma elections not to visit the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Greater use of private rental properties would form part of PM’s plan to spread accommodation more evenly across UK Ministers are considering paying higher prices for housing asylum seekers in private rental properties as part of Andy Burnham’s plan to spread accommodation more evenly across the country. The shift towards more private rental accommodation, known as “dispersal”, and the use of former military barracks, are cheaper than expensive hotels for asylum seekers. Continue reading...
Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil, a Hamas commander who took part in the October 7 massacre, was eliminated in an airstrike in Gaza City earlier today. The operation was carried out by the IDF under Shin Bet direction. https://t.co/xGT4xn0Zc1
A combination of current and retrospective data spanning nearly 20 years indicates that the Russian government's decisions in the budgetary, tariff, monetary, and foreign economic spheres form a coherent picture and represent a deliberate long-term choice, made 15-20 years ago, and that ending the war in Ukraine and normalizing relations with the West are not part of the Russian government's plans, according to a report on Kyiv Security Forum (KSF) website on Thursday.
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Yemen faces its most serious threat of a return to large-scale war since a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022, U.N. envoy Hans Grundberg warned on Thursday, as the world body said more than half the country's population was experiencing acute food insecurity. The warning follows an escalation in hostilities between Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group and its internationally-recognised, Saudi-backed government that has raised fears of a broader return to war and a fuelling of wider regi

Russia ordered the assassination of an American citizens in Warsaw Poland but the plot was stopped by Polish security services who arrested a Russian suspect today.

Israel killed head of police force, Gaza’s ministry of interior says An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in western Gaza City killed Gaza City police chief Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, 43, and critically wounded two others on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported, citing Gaza’s interior ministry. Abu Kamil was one of two Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday, according to Reuters. An earlier Israeli strike on a motorbike in western Khan Younis killed one person and wounded another. An Israeli

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Hegseth's comments suggest he is advising US President Donald Trump that the US military can keep applying economic pressure on Iran for as long as needed to help so-far failed negotiations to end the conflict, begun in February.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan: Are there other alliances in the region being formed against us? Yes, there are. Before we signed the Mecca Alliance, as you know, Israel, the Greek Cypriot administration, and Greece came together and established a security alliance in the Mediterranean. We all know what the objective of this alliance is. Türkiye lies to the north of the Mediterranean and Egypt to the south, and there is an alliance drawing a line right through the middle. The purpose of

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said Ukraine condemns Russia's recent violations of Polish and Romanian airspace and expressed solidarity with NATO member states.

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Exclusive: UK Charity Commission criticises synagogue for hosting Great Israeli Real Estate Event The UK's Charity Commission has criticised trustees of the Edgware United Synagogue in London for hosting a real estate event that promoted properties in illegal Israeli settlements in June, Middle East Eye can reveal. The charity regulator has also decided to review a recent decision to close a compliance case on the charity. The commission told MEE that "should any further concerns about the cha
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Gaza: We see that Netanyahu and his team are increasingly escalating policies that trample on human dignity and are adopting an attitude that is virtually provoking the entire international community. The policies pursued by Netanyahu and his associates have become not merely an issue concerning Gaza, the Middle East, or the region, but a security problem that concerns the entire international community.
Germany should step up pressure on Russia in response to Russian hybrid threats, including by launching training for Ukrainian troops on the use of Taurus missiles and imposing new sanctions on Russia.

Kyiv said to have suggested agreement in apparent attempt to reopen crucial grain corridor, according to Reuters Ukraine has proposed a deal with Russia that would see both sides halt their attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea, Reuters has reported, in an apparent attempt to reopen a crucial grain corridor. Kyiv is said to have made the offer via a third party. Moscow has yet to respond, the news agency added. The busy waterway is a key export route for both Russia and Ukraine, used to tra

Mali says 82 soldiers held captive since deadly attacks in April have been freed by armed groups, in a rare breakthrough as the country battles jihadist and rebel insurgencies. The junta also pardoned a French embassy official accused of spying and ordered his expulsion.

French Vice-Admiral Olivier Lebas, former commander of France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, died at 62 in a mountaineering fall in the Pyrenees. He fell from ~2,700m on the Pic des Spijeoles.
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According to Ukrainian reports, 90 missiles were launched at Kiev in a single day, on May 26

Following Colombia’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake, the government initially delayed accepting some foreign rescue teams, saying its own personnel were sufficient. It later requested specialized rescue teams from only four countries: the United States, El Salvador, Ecuador and Israel, drawing criticism over the delay as the critical 72-hour survival window narrowed.
On the night of August 13, the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes against enemy military targets on enemy territory and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Russian occupiers have expanded the area under their control on Ukrainian territory near the village of Markove in Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region on Kramatorsk sector of the frontline, according to the OSINT project DeepState.

Russian Representative at UN: We Demand a Complete Lifting of the Maritime and Land Blockade of Yemen.
The Saudis insisted they would not normalize relations until Israel and the Palestinians had made credible progress on negotiations toward statehood, something Netanyahu rejected.

CENTCOM: CENTCOM is creating Task Force Falcon Strike, its first multinational, multi-domain attack drone unit. Led by U.S. Special Operations Command Central, it will combine U.S. and regional partner drones operating in the air, on the sea, and underwater. The force builds on Task Force Scorpion Strike and aims to create a unified drone-based deterrent across the Middle East.

Kyiv and Moscow have been trading attacks on each other's grain warehouses, as concerns mount that global food prices could rise as a result. Russia struck Ukraine's largest grain shipment port on the Danube overnight, causing damage and setting off a fire. The attack came a day after Ukraine hit Novorossiysk, a major grain hub in Russia's part of the Black Sea.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth specified that the US Navy planned to rotate ships maintaning the blockade

The supreme leader’s new government appointments reveal the outlines of his military strategy.

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The Ministry of Social Policy, Family, and Unity of Ukraine has received over UAH 2.2 billion from UNICEF and the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) for its humanitarian response and resilience fund.

The drought roasting much of Europe this summer is taking a heavy toll on crops across the continent, from potatoes in the Netherlands to corn in Bosnia. Triodos, a Dutch bank with a focus on sustainability, has warned that this could reduce gross domestic product across the EU by 1 percent for 2026 – or around €180 billion.
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A widening deficit and Ukrainian strikes are testing Russia's economy, even as war in the Middle East lifts oil revenue.