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Pakistan Test captain Babar Azam is set to return to the country’s domestic red-ball circuit for the first time since 2019, with the batter featuring for Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) in the ongoing President’s Trophy Grade-I, the department’s sports head Farah Batool confirmed to Dawn on Monday. Babar’s last domestic first-class appearance came when he led Central Punjab to the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy title, beating Northern by an innings and 16 runs in the final on Dec 30, 2019.
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree claims Yemen used indigenous air defense missiles to engage two formations of Saudi Typhoon and F-15 fighter jets that had taken off from Khamis Mushait and Taif bases. The confrontation forced an immediate withdrawal from Saada's airspace.

With lingering questions regarding the depleted U.S. stockpiles due to the war with Iran, the U.S. military is looking to build the “right mix” of weapons.

With lingering questions regarding the depleted U.S. stockpiles due to the war with Iran, the U.S. military is looking to build the “right mix” of weapons.

Without immediate donations, shelter and aid relief supplies could be depleted by the end of the month, says IOM.
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German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Russia: We have to obtain fossil fuels from wherever natural gas and oil are cheapest — namely, from Russia. It is in our own security interests as well as our economic interests to have good relations with Russia.

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Even if most soldiers followed the rules, some would need to pay a legal price for their actions, both because that is the IDF's value and because such accountability may yet save the Jewish state.
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The US has just imposed sanctions on Russias second largest bank due to its connections with Iran.
IDF Northern Command sources said Hezbollah has been targeting areas the military never formally entered, with Israel countering the activity through airstrikes, artillery, and combat engineering uni

Ukraine could lose out on "a significant portion" of $29.5 billion in planned funds if parliament fails to advance the necessary legislation in time, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi warned.
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Russia's VTB Bank under Iran sanctions authority E.O. 13902, part of Operation Economic Outcast. Treasury says VTB opened offices in Iran, built correspondent ties with sanctioned Iranian banks, moved billions in frozen Iranian assets, and set up a rial-ruble settlement system to expand trade. The new Iran designation raises secondary-sanctions exposure for any foreign bank dealing with VTB.

IRGC says supertanker on fire after hitting mines in Strait of Hormuz A supertanker caught fire after hitting naval mines while trying to cross a restricted zone south of the Strait of Hormuz, Fars news agency reported, citing a statement by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC navy identified the vessel as the Algaya and said efforts to control the fire had failed, leaving the entire ship engulfed in flames. The statement said it had warned vessels against using the route

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The U.S. imposed Iran-related sanctions on Russia’s VTB Bank, accusing it of helping Tehran evade sanctions. VTB, Russia’s second-largest lender, has already been under U.S. sanctions since 2022.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: Thank God our Supreme Leader is alive, and he’s doing his job within the same framework. Since they cannot locate his exact place, they are spreading speculation regarding our Supreme Leader.
President Trump privately met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, after Altman requested the meeting. Their discussion focused mainly on AI and its growing capabilities. Days later, Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei all called for slowing frontier AI development over safety concerns. Trump rejected new guardrails, arguing that regulation would hurt U.S. innovation and saying AI only needs “a strong and smart president.” Source: MS

KHARTOUM: The World Food Programme’s funding for Sudan — the world’s largest hunger crisis — has fallen by about half this year, its acting head told Reuters, as war drives more people into hunger while the regional crisis raises prices and aid budgets plummet. Speaking from the Darfur region after a trip across the country, acting Executive Director Carl Skau said that while access had represented humanitarians’ largest obstacle in the past, now “we have (a) presence that we are not fu

The Ukrainian military struck it as part of a deep-strike operation, according to military intelligence.

FP’s editor in chief on the mood in Ukraine—and what it means for the future of war.
Washington first began imposing sectoral sanctions against VTB back in 2014

Twelve European countries meeting in Finland on Monday urged the European Union to beef up its presence in the Arctic, a geopolitical battleground caught between Russia and US President Donald Trump. FRANCE 24's Eliza Herbert reports.
Zelenskyy has hinted today that Ukraine despite Trumps statements will not stop strikes on Russian energy until Russia stops first.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Colonel Konstantyn Humeniuk to lead the Armed Forces’ Medical Forces, replacing Anatolii Kazmirchuk
Zelensky: Currently, there is a strong proposal from the United States regarding a mutual cessation of strikes on critical infrastructure. If our American partners can ensure Russia's real willingness to stop this war of destruction and do so truly and in the long term, Ukraine will take its own de-escalation steps. Peace is needed. Energy, food transportation routes, and critical infrastructure – all of this must be part of the discussion on ending the strikes. A strong, fair solution is ne

US imposes Iran-related sanctions on Russia's VTB The United States on Monday imposed Iran-related sanctions on Russia's VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company, accusing it of involvement of Iranian sanctions evasion, according to a statement. VTB was previously sanctioned in 2022 in Ukraine-related action.
In fact, Miliband's statement of policy was not only an embarrassing presentation of lies in place of facts, but he made assertions about the future which are unsubstantiated.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged the EU to maintain individual sanctions on Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov, warning against easing pressure on people linked to the Kremlin.

NEW: IRGC Navy says Supertanker EL GAIA hit a sea mine while attempting to pass through a "prohibited zone" south of the Strait of Hormuz. Firefighting efforts failed and the entire tanker is engulfed in flames. IRGC says it had previously warned about the danger of the illegal passage route, and declares Hormuz "remains closed and under our intelligent control."
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Saudi civil defense has issued an emergency warning in the Najran region over a possible threat.
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Zelensky: Currently, there is a strong proposal from the United States regarding a mutual cessation of strikes on critical infrastructure. If our American partners can ensure Russia's real willingness to stop this war of destruction and do so truly and in the long term, Ukraine will take its own de-escalation steps. Peace is needed. Energy, food transportation routes, and critical infrastructure – all of this must be part of the discussion on ending the strikes. A strong, fair solution is ne

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NATO chief Rutte insists Western allies will not be intimidated by Russian attacks meant to 'scare' them off.

Saudi Arabia has struck Yemen around fifty times in 24 hours, Houthis say Houthi fighters claimed on Monday that Saudi Arabia had carried out 54 strikes towards Yemen in 24 hours, as the movement had inflicted significant setbacks on Yemeni government forces and their Saudi ally in recent days. "The Saudi criminal aviation carried out 54 airstrikes in the past 24 hours using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from Saudi bases," said Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree, specifying that th

Israel’s top military officer on Monday ordered lawyers to examine steps against the filmmakers behind the Gaza war documentary NAZA that took the jury’s special prize at the Venice Film Festival. Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir instructed the military prosecutor to “examine and advance possible legal measures concerning the film and those involved in it”, the military posted on social media. The statement cited “the spread of false claims about soldiers of the Israeli army as well as...

The use of a Chinese-made DF-15A missile in Yemen would mark a major development for Riyadh’s shy ballistic missile arsenal. The post Saudi Arabia Appears To Have Used Its Secretive Stash Of Ballistic Missiles For The First Time appeared first on TWZ.