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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
German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: More than one million Ukrainians in Germany are receiving welfare benefits. It is actually unbelievable, and none of this is financially sustainable anymore. These Ukrainians also have to return. Especially the young Ukrainian men of military age — we’re talking about numbers in the six figures — those young men should kindly go back.

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Ukraine’s railway operator has said the train carrying Western political and security figures left Yahodyn station early, minutes before a drone struck a locomotive at the same location.
German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine: We will stop payments to Ukraine and all support for the war, and we will also make substantial repayment demands on Ukraine.

Shake-up at Japan nuclear plant operator after quake data scandal

Poland will not block the opening of clusters in Ukraine's EU accession negotiations, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has stated.

The former UK PM said "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".

Country heads to the polls as latest polling shows 0.3-point gap between left and right wing blocs You would think it’s a sort of self-explanatory thing, right? Well, you would be wrong, as Sweden has a fairly complex seven-step process for casting your votes. Voters take pick ballots from a station with many available options. Yellow ballots are for the national parliament, Riksdag, white for the municipal assembly, and blue for the region assembly. Continue reading...

On the final day of the Jewish New Year, approximately 240 Israeli settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem under heavy police protection, raising Israeli flags and performing rituals. The visit coincided with increased Israeli military measures that restricted Palestinian movement in the area, which has seen ongoing tensions over access and practices at this contested religious site.
BIG | 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️‼️ President Donald Trump is publicly pressuring Ukraine to stop striking Russian diesel-producing infrastructure, arguing that Kyiv’s highly effective campaign against Russia’s refineries is worsening the global fuel shortage. Trump said he had already raised the issue directly with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged Ukraine to choose other targets while leaving diesel infrastructure untouched. He argued that the disruption is being driven primarily by the Russia-Ukrai
Polish PM Donald Tusk: The coming weeks and months will be a period of greatly intensified Russian activity, and unfortunately we cannot rule out that this escalation will also affect our territory.

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Boris Johnson: I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning. What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day - even on civilian railways. So far Putin has been responsible for the deaths of 1700 staff of Ukrzaliznytsia - Ukrainian Railways. They and their daily passengers are absolutely heroic.
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: Putin literally imagined that he would undo the collapse of the USSR and make Russia a superpower again, part of the triad ruling the world, Yalta II. I think he understands now that's not achievable.