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At a meeting in Turkey, Erdogan advised Lebanese President Joseph Aoun against rushing into any agreement with Israel, claiming Israel has no interest in peace with anyone. He urged Aoun to strengthen ties with Syria and to visit Damascus, and offered to deploy Turkish forces to southern Lebanon once UNIFIL's mandate ends. Reported by Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar, affiliated with Hezbollah.
LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - A dual British-Azerbaijani national has been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying on a British air base on the Mediterranean island and passing information to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, London police said on Friday. Rashad Sultanov, 44, from Islington in north London, was arrested on July 17 by Cypriot authorities and is being held in custody as extradition proceedings progress, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

[Dabanga] Bara / El Jamama -- At least 24 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on the village of Sharshar west of Bara in North Kordofan on Wednesday, according to local witnesses and rights groups. Hours later, a separate paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on El Jamama left at least nine people dead and triggered a fresh wave of displacement.

[Dabanga] Bara / El Jamama -- At least 24 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on the village of Sharshar west of Bara in North Kordofan on Wednesday, according to local witnesses and rights groups. Hours later, a separate paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on El Jamama left at least nine people dead and triggered a fresh wave of displacement.

QUETTA: Rescue teams recovered 32 bodies overnight from two coal mines in the Sorange coalfield near Quetta after a methane gas explosion, while the search for two more miners was under way on Friday, an official told Dawn. The explosion occurred on Thursday at a private coal mine in the Sorange coalfield, about 30 kilometres northeast of Quetta. The methane gas explosion triggered a fire, caused the mine to collapse, and affected another nearby mine. Chief Inspector of Mines Balochistan Muhamma
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[HRW] Nairobi -- Apparent Indiscriminate Attack in Village Held by Islamist Armed Group

[HRW] Nairobi -- Apparent Indiscriminate Attack in Village Held by Islamist Armed Group

[HRW] Nairobi -- Apparent Indiscriminate Attack in Village Held by Islamist Armed Group

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, that looked important in isolation but had negligible strategic or political effect, or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars they were part of.Some battles never end. Their impact is debated endlessly, sometimes for centuries, as they take on new life with new generations of historians and swindlers alike. Few battles better exemplify this eternal lifespan

Cuba is beginning to implement major economic reforms as U.S. sanctions and an oil blockade deepen its crisis. The changes would give private businesses more freedom to operate in fuel, agriculture, tourism, and imports of medicine, while allowing some foreign investment. However, President Díaz-Canel says strategic sectors like healthcare, science, culture, and essential services will remain state-controlled. Source: Reuters

A British man has been arrested in Cyprus for allegedly spying on the UK’s RAF Akrotiri base for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. He is accused of conducting surveillance and sharing intelligence, and now faces extradition and charges under the UK’s National Security Act. Source: BBC

Alexander Stepanov said that it transforms European organized criminal groups and communities into paramilitary combat units equipped to carry out a wider range of tasks

Trump told the Financial Times he is "not sure" whether the US will license Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptors, saying Washington must be "a little bit careful of who we licence to." Zelensky had said Trump "accepted that he will give us licences" after their White House meeting.
Russian troops launched four guided air bomb strikes on the Sumy community this morning, resulting in large-scale fires in the industrial sector.

A super typhoon named after Hong Kong’s Chinese white dolphins is set to bring very hot weather to the city in the latter part of next week, according to the Observatory. Super Typhoon Dolphin, currently over the western North Pacific, is expected to move towards the waters south of Japan in the next few days, although its subsequent trajectory remains uncertain, the forecaster’s senior scientific officer Kong Yu-chau told the South China Morning Post on Friday. “We expect it will have a higher.

Live, rolling coverage as British oil company looks for buyer amid political dispute over future drilling licences Economic uncertainty dampened UK house price growth in July as prospective house buyers remained cautious about interest rates amid the ongoing US war with Iran in what should be peak housebuying season. House prices rose by just 0.1% in July from a month earlier, according to lender Nationwide, while annual price growth slowed to 1.8% this month, down from 2.2% in June. Market acti
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How transactional is the massive shift in their relations and how sensitive is it to the Ukraine war?
Q: Do you know how many Russians have been killed in this war? Do you have an estimate? Zelensky: Total Russian losses are 1,600,000, and about 700,000 have been killed. About.

JD Vance and Netanyahu held a private meeting Tuesday in Washington to address months of growing tensions over Israel's war strategy and U.S. policy toward Iran. Israeli and U.S. officials described the meeting as frank, direct, and ultimately cordial, saying both sides agreed to continue cooperating on shared Middle East priorities. Source: Axios

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According to the statement, the air base in Kuwait plays a vital role in US air reconnaissance and support operations

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found. Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium calculated. The finding is the latest to pin the blame for
In Volgograd, Russia, a Wildberries logistics center is on fire following a Ukrainian strike; the Volgograd Refinery (Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka) was also attacked.

Chinese military-linked researchers are using OpenAI and Anthropic models to train smaller domestic AI systems, mainly through “model distillation.” The systems are being adapted for things like surveillance, cyber warfare, drones and military targeting, helping China make use of advanced U.S. AI despite limits on access to chips and models. Source: Reuters

Settler raid in Nablus leaves 10 wounded, including children At least 10 people, including four children, were reportedly injured during a settler raid, accompanied by Israeli forces, in the Junaid neighbourhood west of Nablus. Tear gas was thrown at residents, leaving several suffering from suffocation. According to local media, dozens of settlers and Israeli forces stormed areas across the occupied West Bank. The raids were accompanied by damage to Palestinian properties, attacks on resident

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GILGIT: Four bodies were found on Friday as a search operation was underway to locate climbers, including renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and Pakistani climber Sohail Sakhi, who went missing on Broad Peak a day earlier after an avalanche struck around midday. The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) said that the 10-member team included six Nepalese climbers, a Pakistani, an Omani, an American and a climber from China. The climbers from Nepal were identified as Purja, Pur Bahadur Gurung, Kili

Iran has continued its attacks on Gulf states, in what it calls retaliation for US strikes on Thursday.
Over the past 24 hours, on July 30, 269 combat clashes were recorded between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the front lines, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Kostiantynivka sector.
A Ukrainian soldier threatens to burn more Iranian-linked ships and vows Ukraine and its American allies will keep fighting Tehran. He ends with "Glory to Ukraine! Death to Iran!" https://t.co/HhIMVC4gzM

The move comes after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said they were imposing a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia and claimed attacks targeting Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea.

Thousands of migrants streamed into the Moroccan town of Fnideq near the border with Ceuta overnight, despite a reinforced deployment of security that foiled most attempts to cross into the Spanish enclave. Spanish state television TVE said between 2,000 and 3,000 people crossed into Ceuta on Thursday. Most of those who succeeded in crossing appeared to have done so before midday, according to residents of Fnideq. Ceuta, along with Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco, re

Islamic Jihad is rejecting the reported deal between Hamas and the Peace Council. Overnight on its official Telegram: "The reports in the media about an agreement reached between the factions and the enemy are not accurate, and we disapprove of it in its current version being circulated."

Palestinian militant group Hamas confirmed Friday that it had agreed to a deal with Israel that would lead to the group's disarmament in return for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. Here's what we know so far.

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The injury toll after the Russian military’s strike on Lviv has increased to 38; one person has died.

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