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Support for Israel among Democratic voters has plummeted, candidates critical of Israel are winning Democratic primaries, and even moderate lawmakers are increasingly willing to challenge US support.

Iran was planning on firing a ballistic missile at a Ukrainian port in response to Ukraine hitting arms ship but backed out last second after diplomacy. Wow…
A pro-Iranian militia headquarters in Nineveh, northern Iraq, was struck overnight. https://t.co/QA2WRKsYdU

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington D.C on July 28 as Netanyahu flew over for the funeral of US Senator Lindsay Graham. It was the first time the two have met in person since launching their joint war against Iran in February. Despite rumours of tensions between Trump and his ally prior to discussions, both sides praised the meeting.

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China has overtaken the United States in terms of positive perceptions among young Africans, though Washington is still seen as more influential than Beijing, according to a survey published on Wednesday. The African Youth Survey polled 4,901 respondents aged 18 to 24 and split equally between males and females, in 16 of Africa’s 54 countries, asking them which foreign powers had influence on their country. The report said 81 per cent agreed that the US was influential, while 79 per cent...

Jordan's army said it intercepted five Iranian missiles on July 29, Tehran's first regional strike in days following a pause in fighting between it and the United States. Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed the attack, saying it was in response to "the aggressive actions" of the United States, without elaborating. The attack was the first Iranian strike on regional countries in days. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson tells us more.

GCC condemns attacks on Saudi Arabia by Iran-aligned Iraqi groups Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi has condemned the “continued terrorist attacks” against Saudi Arabia by Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq. AlBudaiwi described the attacks as a “dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty, and [is] a direct threat to its security and stability and to regional security and peace”. He said GCC members stood firmly with Saudi Ara

The United States and Saudi Arabia said they had struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq in response to attacks on US forces and Saudi oil facilities.

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According to the region's emergency response center, fifteen people have been hospitalized, with six in critical condition

After a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan on July 28, the country's Prime Minister said thirteen people had died, including five in a factory, so far and many were injured. The rescue work is ongoing to find those still missing. The earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu. Japan is one of the world's most seismically active countries, sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific "Ring of Fire".

Open-source analysts worked through eyewitness frames to place the blaze at the complex the marketplace calls Ryazan: Tyushevskaya. Later in the morning, the drones reached a Perm refinery 1,500 km from Ukraine.
MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and had issued an international warrant for his arrest. The FSB said that the charges related to Telegram's failure to remove material "used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations within the
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MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity, alleging that his hugely popular messaging app was being used by Ukrainian spies to organise attacks inside Russia. In response, Telegram's official account on X posted an image of the Russian-born billionaire making an obscene gesture with his middle finger. The charges, announced by the Federal Security Service (FSB), marked the culmination of a long investigat

Moscow on Wednesday said it had issued an international wanted notice for Russian-born Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for "complicity in terrorism". Russian security services accused Durov of failing to remove "channels, chats and bots" on the popular messaging platform allegedly used by Ukraine to recruit people for deadly sabotage operations across Russia.

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Russian invaders carried out a FAB-500 airstrike on Sloviansk, resulting in injuries to a civilian.
Combat engineers demolished an underground Hezbollah command center in southern Lebanon this week, the IDF says. The 55-meter tunnel, found in the village of Haddatha inside the IDF's buffer zone, held three rooms and sat beneath a construction material factory. A pit with dozens of weapons was located nearby.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East haven't yet crippled global food supplies. Add a powerful weather pattern like El Nino, however, and the risks multiply.

Over 20 aircraft have been deployed to fight new fires west of Bordeaux, and Spanish firefighters fear two fires could merge west of Madrid. Scientists say climate change is fueling more extreme fires across Europe.

The situation in the Middle East came under discussion as Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar met Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who is on an official visit to the country. According to the Foreign Office (FO), the two held a “warm and productive” tête-à-tête at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The two leaders reviewed the full spectrum of Pakistan–Kuwait bilateral relations and reaffirmed their shared commitment to further strengthening the longstanding brotherly

The US and Saudi Arabia launched joint air strikes on Iraq, targeting ‘Iran-aligned’ groups.

NEW: An IDF engineering vehicle was hit by an explosion overnight in the Ali Taher Ridge area of the south Lebanon buffer zone, the army says. The military is investigating whether a Hezbollah explosive drone was behind it, which would mark the first such incident since the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement.

Israeli forces heavily shell southern Lebanese town Israeli forces have launched heavy artillery attacks on Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon, the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. The artillery fire came from an Israeli military position in the Tel al-Nahas area, near the occupied Lebanese border village of Kfar Kila. The NNA described the shelling as “intense and concentrated”. Israel carried out the attack despite its “ceasefire” agreement with the Lebanese governm

RWB Group, the owner of the Russian online marketplace Wildberries, has begun searching for warehouse facilities in Kazakhstan following a series of Ukrainian drone strikes on the company's warehouses in Russia.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared the shift of the initiative in the Russian-Ukrainian war from Russia to Ukraine.
Head of the City Military Administration Yaroslav Shanko reported on Wednesday about an attack on a residential quarter in Tsentralny district of Kherson by "Shahed" type strike UAVs.

Trump said he has little interest in updating the USMCA, arguing the U.S. doesn't need Canada and Mexico as much as they need the U.S. Meanwhile, Canada is sending senior trade officials to Washington for talks as both sides try to ease tensions over new U.S. tariffs, while major labor unions are urging the Trump administration to reconsider tariffs on Canadian goods. Source: Reuters
In the temporarily occupied city of Kerch, on the night of July 29, a drone attack caused fires at a seaport warehouse and a small civil aviation airfield, where Russian air defense systems are stationed; a fuel and lubricants depot and a power substation are also likely on fire.

Authorities fear progress in containing the fires in the Gironde and Madrid regions may be set back by temperatures expected to hit the low 40s France and Spain are braced for the fourth heatwave of the summer to hit just as they were making progress battling destructive wildfires, with temperatures once again expected to cross into high 30s and low 40s celsius later today. Sophie Brocas, the prefect of Gironde and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, said overnight that the fire remained contained t

South Korea has formally completed system development of its indigenous KF-21 Boramae 4.5-generation fighter. The first mass-production aircraft is due to be delivered to the ROKAF in September, with 40 Block I jets planned by 2028 and 120 total by 2032. The program took 10 years and cost around $6 billion, running six prototypes through more than 1,600 test sorties with zero accidents.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, their first meeting since the start of the Iran war five months ago.

The PPP on Wednesday once again levelled rigging allegations against the PML-N in the first phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections and assailed the AJK Election Commission for allowing it to happen. The PML-N won nine out of a total seats up for grabs in Monday’s election, according to provisional results. The polls are being held in three phases over security concerns. On Tuesday, the coalition partners in the Centre traded barbs, with Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s party alleging widespread

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Senate Minority leadership has presented a major committee reshuffle seeking to drop Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna and Vihiga's Godfrey Osotsi from two of the House's most influential financial oversight committees, in changes set to be considered for adoption by the Senate.

India's Supreme Court has accepted the request of the father of Air India Flight 171 captain Sumeet Sabharwal about the final report on the June 2025 Ahmedabad crash, which killed 260 people. The report will not be made public. Instead, it will be submitted to the court in a sealed cover. The father, a retired Air Force officer, is fighting to protect his late son's reputation. The preliminary report noted both engine fuel-control switches moved from RUN to CUTOFF seconds after takeoff. Tha

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In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce informed the Dutch company ASML that it suspects one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has reached China, an accusation that ASML denied, and for which no supporting evidence has yet been made public. ASML is the sole global producer of the machines capable of making the most advanced microchips. Whether China obtained a full extreme ultraviolet lithography scanner, major subsystems, or just related components, the strategic question is the
Early this morning in Kherson, Russian troops attacked a bread truck with a drone, killing the driver.