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🌏 Asia·X/@scmpnews·3 months ago

HighMISSILE_ATTACK

North Korea conducts missile launch; upgraded weapons exports to Russia suspected

North Korea missile launch hints at upgraded weapons exports to Russia https://t.co/R87nUsxJqq

🇮🇷 Iran·Jerusalem Post·3 months ago

Iran adapted its attacks on bases in Mideast as US munitions stockpiles diminished - report

Iran has become more tactical and skilled with its strikes, learning how to evade US air defenses as the conflict has spread across the region, according to NYT reports.

HighINVASION

RSF-led coalition claims control of Qeisan city southeast of Damazin, Blue Nile

استعادة تأسيس لزمام المبادرة سودان وور مونيتور استعادة قوات تحالف السودان التأسيسي (تأسيس) لزمام المبادرة في النيل الأزرق بعد انتكاسات الشهر الماضي في الكرمك وشمال كردفان. وأعلن حساب قوات الدعم السريع، رأس الرمح في قوات التحالف، الأمس الثلاثاء عن سيطرته على مدينة قيسان جنوب شرق الدمازين، حاضرة الولاية. ولم ينشر الحساب مقاطع تثبت سيطرته على قيسان في نفس يوم الهجوم، على غير ما جرت العادة، بعد توجيهات قائده الفريق أول محمد حمدان دقلو بتغيير أسلوب الحرب ومنع التصوير في أثناء المعارك. وانتشرت صبا

🌍 Africa·X/@sudanwarmonitor·3 months ago

HighGround

Russian forces kill one resident of Donetsk region and injure thirteen others

Over the past 24 hours, on August 11, Russian troops killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded thirteen others.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·3 months ago

MediumESCALATION

Vance urges Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil tankers at Novorossiysk

Vance asked Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil tankers at Novorossiysk, citing oil market concerns. - Financial Times

🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·3 months ago

HighNuclear/Missile

North Korea missile launch hints at upgraded weapons exports to Russia for Ukraine war

North Korea’s recent missile launch may be a test of upgraded exports to Russia, observers say, as the war in Ukraine gives Pyongyang opportunities to improve its weapons. At about 6am on Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) detected a missile launched from the North’s southeastern port city of Wonsan. It flew roughly 700km (435 miles) eastward before falling into the Sea of Japan. The JCS conspicuously did not specify the missile’s launch angle or whether it should be classified

🇺🇦 Ukraine·South China Morning Post·3 months ago

🌍 Global·Interfax Ukraine·3 months ago

Enemy attack on Kherson kills 2, injures 2

Occupiers killed two civilians in Kherson and injured two more during a night attack on the city with strike drones, reported Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin on his Telegram channel.

Marco Rubio:

Marco Rubio: I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is. But there are things flying over our military installations, and they're not ours, and we should look into this.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·3 months ago

Russian attacks in Kherson region leave two killed, 14 injured over past day

In the Kherson region, two people were killed and another 14 injured as a result of Russian aggression over the past 24 hours.

Trump on Iran:

Trump on Iran: I don’t trust Iran. I’m the last person to trust Iran. They’ve lied to me constantly. We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it. And at some point, maybe they’ll do something and then they get blown away. But right now, we’re in a very good position.

Trump:

Trump: I don’t worry about anything, to be honest. Whatever it is, you know my attitude. Whatever.

Reporter: Why was it too dangerous for you to fly on Air Force One, but not for the press?

Reporter: Why was it too dangerous for you to fly on Air Force One, but not for the press? Trump: I don’t know. I think, actually, the plane that I flew on was at greater risk, because that would be the plane they would be more likely to go for.

Trump on a potential third-term run in 2028:

Trump on a potential third-term run in 2028: I’d love to run, but the law is very strong. Everybody wants me to do it, but the law is very strong.

Trump:

Trump: Darline Graham has good genetics because she is related to Lindsey, a real professional.

🇮🇱 Israel·Times of Israel·3 months ago

Board of Peace blurs Yellow Line as it wages uphill battle to advance Gaza plan

US-controlled Gaza oversight panel avoids specifying whether Israel must withdraw to original ceasefire line, opting for ambiguity in bid to get both sides on board The post Board of Peace blurs Yellow Line as it wages uphill battle to advance Gaza plan appeared first on The Times of Israel.

CriticalAerial

Wednesday briefing: Why the prison crisis is about much more than early release

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🇮🇱 Israel·Guardian World·3 months ago

Trump:

Trump: I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane. They wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say. I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats.

🇾🇪 Yemen·Al Monitor·3 months ago

HighNaval

Hormuz shipping traffic falls to one-week low amid hostilities

SINGAPORE, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The tally of vessels tracked in the Strait of Hormuz fell to a one-week low of eight on Tuesday, shipping data showed, as owners avoided the key waterway amid continued hostilities in the Middle East. The United States and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks as prospects appeared to dim for an end to the Iran war, with Tehran saying the strait would stay closed unless Washington accepted its conditions.

Trump on Iran:

Trump on Iran: Iran is going fine. Going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it. Nobody else, only us.

🇮🇷 Iran·NDTV World·3 months ago

Trump Says Iran 'Can't Borrow Money', Warns Of Possible Military Action

Donald Trump called Iran devious negotiators, weighing whether to let their economy crumble or strike hard, blaming Biden for depleted munitions stockpiles

🇾🇪 Yemen·NDTV World·3 months ago

US Military Operations Killed 153 Civilians, Wounded 243 In 2025: Pentagon

All the deaths stemmed from three strikes in Yemen, a sharp jump from just two civilian deaths the Pentagon reported for 2024.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·3 months ago

War update: 237 combat clashes on front line over past day

On August 11, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 237 combat engagements with Russian forces along the front.

🇮🇷 Iran·NDTV World·3 months ago

Trump Switched Planes Over Iran Threat, But Left Aides, Journalists Behind

While Trump was taken to safety on another military plane, Air Force One continued its journey with senior officials, military personnel and journalists still onboard.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Al Jazeera·3 months ago

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has sent proposals to US to end war with Russia

Ukraine's president also says Russia will use its election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilisation.

🇮🇷 Iran·Dawn·3 months ago

Trump says secret flight change at directives of Secret Service, plane ultimately used faced 'greater risk'

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he secretly switched planes in Turkiye last month at the direction of the US Secret Service, but that the plane he ultimately flew on was still more vulnerable than Air Force One. Following a Nato summit in Ankara, Trump was transferred from Air Force One to a military plane via a catering truck in an extraordinary deception prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, US media reported. The White House did not disclose the change and it remained a sec

CriticalGeneral

Battlefield sees 237 clashes, almost third of them on Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka fronts alone – Ukraine's General Staff

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🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrainska Pravda·3 months ago

HighNuclear/Missile

Houthi attacks in Yemen's Marib, Mocha left 'dozens killed and injured', military spokesman says

Houthi attacks in Yemen's Marib, Mocha left 'dozens killed and injured', military spokesman says Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that missile and drone strikes targeting military sites in Marib and Mocha killed and injured dozens of people. In a statement carried by the Houthi-run Saba news agency, he indicated that targets were forces linked to Saudi Arabia. The attacks left "dozens killed and injured," including Saudis.

🇾🇪 Yemen·Middle East Eye·3 months ago

HighPolitical

The Next Front in LNG Sanctions Runs Through China

Moscow will soon have to redirect a growing share of its exports to Asia.

🌍 Global·Foreign Policy·3 months ago

🇮🇳 India·South China Morning Post·3 months ago

China’s quant funds have an edge on foreign rivals, even as Beijing curbs trading speed

China’s quantitative funds have built trading strategies so closely tailored to the mainland market that foreign rivals cannot replicate them, even as a regulatory clampdown on trading speed reshapes the industry, according to a prominent economist. “If a top US quant team goes to Japan or India, they can beat virtually all the native quants,” Xia Chun, founder and chief economist at Chinese financial research firm Wiselink Group and former finance professor at the University of Hong Kong, told.

HighGround

The Houthis Are Risking Everything for Iran

Tehran’s proxy risks pushing a newly consolidated Saudi Arabia into an all-out ground war.

🇮🇷 Iran·Foreign Policy·3 months ago

🇮🇱 Israel·Al Jazeera·3 months ago

Israeli raids, demolitions continue as UN warns West Bank at breaking point

Israeli forces arrest 23 Palestinians and demolish home of man killed in confrontation with Israeli settlers in July.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrinform·3 months ago

Russian forces lose 1,260 personnel, two MLRS systems over past day

Russia's total combat losses in the war against Ukraine have reached approximately 1,461,660 personnel since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022, including 1,260 over the past 24 hours.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·EuroMaidan Press·3 months ago

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1630: Chinese modem keeping Russia’s jam-resistant drones flying

Meanwhile, grain corridors crumble as Russia halves Ukraine's export forecast.

🇵🇰 Pakistan·Dawn·3 months ago

US report calls for strengthening parliamentary oversight of Pakistan's public finances

WASHINGTON: A report by the United States State Department has said that Pakistan needs to strengthen parliamentary oversight of public finances by improving the timely disclosure of budget proposals, government debt and other fiscal information. The State Department’s 2026 Fiscal Transparency Report, an annual assessment, identified several areas where greater transparency and oversight were needed, including the timely publication of the executive budget proposal and fuller disclosure of gover

🌍 Global·Al Monitor·3 months ago

Palestinian students and staff sue Columbia University alleging discrimination

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A group of current and former Palestinian students and staff have sued Columbia University, alleging discriminatory treatment by the school against its Palestinian community since late 2023, according to a court filing in New York. • The lawsuit said the university failed to protect its Palestinian members from harassment and targeted them through what it cast as "unfair and biased disciplinary hearings."