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Alexey Likhachev drew attention to the rapid growth in energy consumption in the association’s member states

The US President said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".
Houthi Bani Hashish tribes pledge readiness to march on Marib, the last major government stronghold in northern Yemen. Footage shows long columns of armed Toyota technicals massing in the desert. https://t.co/C34qU5iHq4
Trump announces he will drop the 15% tariff on Irish whiskey.

Ukraine and Poland on Sunday condemned Russian strikes near close to the Polish border as an "escalation" in the war, after drones struck a Warsaw-bound train and near a frontier checkpoint. Ukraine's rail operator said former British PM Boris Johnson and ex-US CIA director David Petraeus were at a border train station nearby around the time the train was hit.
A passenger train's locomotive was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine's Volyn region, 2 km from the Polish border. No one was injured after a monitoring group warned the crew in advance, per Ukrainian Railways. https://t.co/dp4QvhV6o3

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: We are not in war with Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have their own problems.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Russia's escalation is approaching Poland's border and called for heightened readiness after 13 drone strikes near the border on 13 September.

The Punjab government on Sunday imposed a ban on all kinds of gatherings across the province until September 17 (Thursday), citing “multiple threat alerts” regarding possible terrorist activities. According to a notification issued by the Home Department, the ban on gatherings, among other restrictions, was imposed under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The notification said, “Credible reports have been received from law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and intelligence agencies
Yemen's Houthis Spokesperson: If tensions escalate, we can target oil infrastructure to completely halt even the limited amount of Saudi oil exports through the Suez Canal.

Ukraine’s state railway operator said top Western figures – including former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-CIA director David Petraeus – were at a west Ukrainian railway station just before Russia struck a Warsaw-bound train there. “Shortly before the locomotive was hit at the Ukrainian-Polish border, a diplomatic train was at Yagodyn station,” Ukraine’s rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia said in a statement. “There were, among others, security advisers from several EU member states and...
UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell: I see no cracks in British public opinion, young or old, on Ukraine. It’s one of the most resolute countries in Europe or anywhere else in terms of supporting it. There’s absolute consensus, with the exception of very small fringe right-wing groups and actually very extreme left fringe groups.
US-supplied gear is among the equipment the Houthis are parading after their western coast takeover. The hardware had been sent by Saudi Arabia to allied forces who since collapsed. https://t.co/WRjOX63Qxy
UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell: The so-called Anchorage compromise is firmly dead. That’s gone. We can stop worrying about it. It’s finished.

Former presidential press secretary Yuliia Mendel has called sanctions against Ukrainian citizens unconstitutional after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sanctioned her.
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Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman has asked regional countries for help in confronting Yemen's Ansarullah and preventing them from blocking the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The request included an indirect appeal to Israel made through US central command for intelligence and other support against Ansarullah, according to Israel Hayom. US president Trump has already declined the request for direct US strikes against Ansarullah.
Russia based the original Geran, which carries a 20-kilogram warhead and has a top speed of 185 kph, on Iranian-designed Shahed drones.
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin: Trump is looking at it from a perspective of looking in on the island of Ireland and logically saying, "To me, it seems inevitable that it should be unified."

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"I anticipated the possibility of sanctions. This does not change my position," Iulia Mendel said.
Polish soldiers will now be deployed with full protective gear and evacuation drills to nearby shelters due to Russia's recent increasing attacks near the Polish Border. They are preparing for escalation...

France Televisions has removed the replay of a programme after actress Adèle Haenel denounced the Gaza genocide.
Reporter: Did you tell Trump that what’s happening in Gaza was a genocide? Did you use that term? Irish PM Martin: No, I didn’t use that term specifically. But that’s not like — no, but this is again the campaigners kind of trying to denigrate people unfairly.
BIG | 🇸🇦🛢️🌍‼️‼️ Damage to Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline now threatens to remove the equivalent of roughly 4–5% of global oil supply from an energy market already under severe pressure, Reuters reports. The pipeline has recently been carrying around 4–5 million barrels per day to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, allowing Saudi Arabia to bypass the heavily disrupted Strait of Hormuz. Reuters sources say repairs could take as long as five to six weeks, while available storage may su

Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 129 others were missing after a ferry capsized in rough seas on Sunday, with one survivor recounting scenes of panic as passengers scrambled for life jackets. The Virgo Transport 8 — which authorities said carried 213 passengers and 30 crew — lost contact with its shipping company early Sunday after departing from Surabaya in East Java. Basarnas, Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency, said six people were killed and 129 other

Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 129 others were missing after a ferry capsized in rough seas on Sunday, with one survivor recounting scenes of panic as passengers scrambled for life jackets. The Virgo Transport 8 — which authorities said carried 213 passengers and 30 crew — lost contact with its shipping company early Sunday after departing from Surabaya in East Java. Basarnas, Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency, said six people were killed and 129 other
Earlier today, Lithuania briefly closed Vilnius airport and NATO scrambled a fighter jet after a suspected drone was detected in its airspace. The object turned out to be a flock of birds, and the airport reopened 38 minutes later after the NATO jet visually identified it. Source: Reuters

DOONBEG, Ireland: President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday the United States could stay in Iran and “keep the oil,” drawing a parallel with a US push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. On a trip to Ireland for meetings and to watch golf, he reiterated that he still expected the Iran war to end this year, possibly just after midterm elections due in the United States in November. Speaking at the Irish Open golf championship, Trump added that the price of gas

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council sanctioned Iuliia Mendel, former press secretary to President Zelensky.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on Yuliia Mendel, who previously served as his press secretary.
US Defense Secretary Hegseth and political officials reportedly pushed for the airmen to take part in the CBS program, while military officials raised concerns over security and political messaging.

EU foreign policy chief says Israeli settlements should be treated like Russian-occupied Crimea The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said that the EU should treat illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories in the same way as it treated Russia’s invasion of Crimea. Kallas told The Irish Times on Friday that Europe could not be taken seriously as long as it remained divided on a response to the actions taken by the Israeli government and violent se
German AfD leader Alice Weidel on Syrians in Germany: For Syrian citizens who came to us, as soon as the reason for fleeing no longer exists in their country of origin, these people have to go back. Asylum is a temporary right, and when the reason for asylum ceases to exist, these people have to return and must not be naturalized. Under an AfD government, these people — Syrian citizens — will have to return to their country and not remain in Germany as, according to the Syrian foreign ministe

The base, home to the Navy’s 5th Fleet and a major logistics hub, was targeted repeatedly at the start of the war. The post Iran ‘blew the hell out of’ base in Bahrain, acting Navy Secretary admits appeared first on Task & Purpose.
Iran and the UAE are seeking to improve relations strained by the Middle East conflict, as announced after a meeting between Iranian and Emirati leaders during the BRICS summit in India.
NATO is neither a values-based alliance nor a defensive alliance," foreign policy expert Sevim Dagdelen of the German BSW party said

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court’s Justice Ayesha Malik has been conferred the International Leader/Lifetime Award at the Justitia Awards 2026 held in Vienna, Austria. The prestigious award recognised her distinguished contribution to the development of law and justice, as well as her sustained efforts to advance equality, human rights and the meaningful participation of women in the legal profession and institutions of justice. Presented before judges, lawyers and legal professionals from different jur

Key developments on Sept. 12-13: * Russian drone hits Kyiv-Warsaw train near Polish border * Russian drones target Volyn, Rivne oblasts in rare mass attack in western Ukraine * Russian strikes hit 2 major Ukrainian steel plants, killing 2 and injuring 6 * Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike * Ukrainian naval drone destroys Russian unmanned boat in Black Sea, Navy says A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv–Warsaw train near