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Between January and August 2026, personnel of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces (DSHV) and other participating units carried out an effective offensive operation on the Oleksandrivka direction.

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UAE Offers to Deploy Dark-Transit Tactics to Shuttle Iraqi Crude Through Hormuz Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. is utilizing dark-transit shipping tactics to shuttle Iraqi crude through the Strait of Hormuz. READ MORE

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died on Wednesday at the age of 97. Zhu became premier in 1998 and swiftly lived up to his reputation as a hard-hitting free marketeer. Among his best-known reforms were a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the privatisation of urban housing and the promotion of home ownership. He passed away from illness in Beijing late Wednesday morning “after medical

Ecuadorian fishermen say mysterious English-speaking men wearing U.S. flag patches attacked their boats with explosive drones, leaving some dead or missing. NYT flight-data analysis found a privately registered maritime patrol plane based at a Salvadoran military facility repeatedly tracked the boats before the attacks. The U.S. and El Salvador deny involvement, but the plane’s links to military facilities and the attackers’ apparent organization have raised questions about whether a U.S.-li

First Deputy Foreign Minister Jang Kum-chol called South Korean nuclear submarine program "a serious challenge" to the security and maritime sovereignty of North Korea

Taiwan’s 3rd Theater of Operations conducted a wartime fuel-resupply drill in New Taipei on Aug. 11, using both civilian gas stations and military M978 fuel tankers to sustain combat units. Troops used military fuel cards to refuel 3.5-ton trucks at civilian stations, while M978 tankers replenished CM34 Clouded Leopard vehicles at dispersed sites, testing military-civilian logistics coordination and fuel resilience during sustained operations. 📸: Wang Jinfu, Military News Agency

FPV drones are still a central precision-strike weapon in Ukraine's war against Russia, while Ukrainian forces claim a separate advantage in bomber drones.
There is ongoing routine dialogue between the current and former heads of the Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence - Oleh Ivashchenko and Kyrylo Budanov - and reports of a "struggle for influence" between them are media speculation, sources in military intelligence told Interfax-Ukraine.
Hamas employs physical violence, blackmail, psychological threats and harm, prolonged isolation, and a range of other forms of mistreatment, the IDF said.

Bogota’s move marked a foreign policy shift under new right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella, reversing Petro-era policies that strained ties with Israel.

EDF halts Gravelines reactors as jellyfish swarm blocks cooling system, affecting power generation.

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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Severe drought has "killed thousands of livestock and left over 4,000 hectares of farmland" without satisfactory yields in Abergelle Yechila district in the Central Tigray Zone, as persistent rainfall deficits continue to threaten agricultural production and livelihoods in the war-torn region.

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NYT reports Rubio among those on plane when it was cleared to fly despite threat of attack; outlet says US had intel on man with missile in area, Iranians knew Trump's hotel floor The post Trump’s Air Force One Ankara decoy flight put top officials, reporters at deadly risk — report appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The EU and 26 countries condemned Iran's execution of protesters in a joint statement, per the French Foreign Minister. They called on Tehran to listen to its people, end the death penalty, and release those arbitrarily detained.

Organizers said the Dronnitsa event would require diverting air defenses and security personnel from other locations.

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Ukraine's Air Assault Forces have provided details of the offensive on the Oleksandrivka front and published a list of settlements liberated since January 2026.

Ukraine has recaptured 26 villages and 745 square km since January, Zelensky says.

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Golani reconnaissance troops have wrapped nearly 50 days of operations in the Beaufort area, seizing operational control of a former Hezbollah stronghold and destroying over 300 terror sites. The unit is now rotating out for refit. - IDF https://t.co/XfZ9nZWuq9
Iranian General Mohammad Reza Naqdi: The longer this war lasts, the more experience we gain. We had never seen a real war to gain real experience, to learn how to fight with America. In these five months, we have learned how. We have also seen how the American military is weaker than what we perceived. Source: PBS News

Two US officials familiar with the intelligence told the New York Times that US agencies had received multiple streams of information pointing to a specific threat involving a surface-to-air missile targeting Air Force One.
Maniema : l'ONG Tearfund distribue une aide financière à plus de 1 300 déplacés et retournés à Punia https://t.co/K85Di3SR2z
The Nord Stream pipelines could be considered a legitimate target from both a military-strategic and moral perspective in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Russian invader losses in July of this year were the largest in the past year and a half, while enemy vehicle losses last month were the highest since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports.

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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos Marji Mansfield, a 70-year-old grandmother of seven, has been waiting for British counterterrorism police to show up at her door. The anxiety sharpens between five and seven in the morning, when police usually conduct dawn raids, particularly if she has her grandchildren stay overnight. “It’s been really, really quite scary not knowing when there's going to be the knock at the door,” Mansfield to

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened retaliation over the West’s seizure of commercial vessels. Speaking aboard a Russian warship, Putin described the measures targeting Russia as an act of piracy and robbery. France 24 International Affairs editor Philip Turle shares further insights.
MOSCOW, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Ukrainian strikes on Russian grain and agricultural infrastructure were pushing up global food prices and exacerbating grain shortages, something she said served the interests of some Western countries. Zakharova made her comments in a statement issued after a wave of Ukrainian strikes on Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk forced major grain terminals in the city to stop working.
By Parisa Hafezi and Elwely Elwelly DUBAI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it. The comments were a further blow to hopes of a swift resolution to the crisis, following attacks on shipping in the region on Tuesday that pushed oil prices higher
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Q: Why has Mojtaba Khamenei never been seen in public during this war? Iranian General Mohammad Reza Naqdi: The strategy belongs to him. Our enemy is criminal and doesn't abide by any law. Q: So is it because of security reasons? Naqdi: Naturally it is due to security. Certainly there is no other reason. Q: Have you seen him? Naqdi: Let's leave this matter alone. Source: PBS News

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[Liberian Observer] United Nations Resident Coordinator and Deputy Chair of Liberia's ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID) National Steering Committee, Christine N. Umutoni, has warned that Liberia must fundamentally change the way it finances national development, urging the country to compete for investment rather than remain dependent on dwindling traditional development assistance.

[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Senator Amara Konneh has welcomed the nomination of retired Major General Daniel Dee Ziankahn Jr. as Director General of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), but says a change in leadership must be accompanied by transparency and accountability in ongoing narcotics investigations.