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China has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi for the Brics summit this weekend, his first visit to India in close to seven years and the latest leg of the Chinese leader’s busiest run of summitry in years. Xi’s India visit follows closely on a packed diplomatic travel schedule that took him first to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, then to Egypt last week for this first state visit there in a decade. He is expected to travel to...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: Any attack against Israel, for any reason and from any location, will be met with a powerful response that will inflict severe damage on Iran on a scale it has not experienced to date, including strikes on key energy facilities. Such a war would set Iran back decades.

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With its sweeping victory in a key state election, the far-right Alternative for Germany is putting pressure on the ruling federal coalition and could nudge Berlin towards a more pragmatic approach to China, analysts said. By securing 43.8 per cent of the vote in the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt – more than double its 2021 result – the AfD sent shock waves and piled further pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In the state it has...

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Britain and Norway disclosed in April that they had uncovered a covert Russian operation in Arctic waters. But the discovery of the new weapon and the location of the operation had not been reported.
Russian forces launched another strike on Dnipro, hitting a food industry facility. There are casualties and injuries.
Aftermath of Ukraine's successful strike on Makhachkala port. https://t.co/vjasDc0nrR
The Ukrainian military struck eight Russian infrastructure facilities that serve to support the war against Ukraine over the past day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported.

Israeli military checkpoints are choking the West Bank economy, devastating local businesses and daily life.
Ukraine has struck Makhachkala, Russia's only ice-free deep-water port on the Caspian and the entry point for Shahed drones shipped from Iran 🚀

President Xi Jinping has called for urgent search and rescue efforts.
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The IDF confirmed that the Military Police and Israel Police are investigating the incident in coordination, and the findings will be submitted to the Military Advocate-General Corps for review.

[Horn Diplomat] Washington (Horndiplomat) -- Somaliland is prepared to contribute as many as 2,000 soldiers to a proposed international stabilisation force in Gaza if formally requested by the United States or Israel, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" has said.

[Horn Diplomat] Washington (Horndiplomat) -- Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" has denied that his government discussed allowing Israel to use Somaliland's territory or airspace for military operations against the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen.

DeepSeek has released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs and boosting speeds – the latest salvo in China’s aggressive price-and-performance war. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer said on Thursday that V4.1 Flash used a new “Causal-Encoder-Decoder” architecture. While built on a massive 552 billion-parameter framework, it relies on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design. In traditional AI, every query runs through the entire...
The secretive trade mechanism, in which Iranian oil is exchanged for credits for Chinese imports, has provided a financial lifeline for Tehran in recent years.

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Russia's Medvedev: I would like future generations and the citizens of our country to assess this period as the time when we preserved the country. Not simply preserved it, but brought it back into the ranks of the great powers. Our country can survive only as a great power. Either a great power, or nothing.
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The enemy is attempting to capture Orikhiv and has massed around 150,000 troops in the area.

The Government has confirmed that it has accepted the recommendation not to extend the service lives of the Royal Navy Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines beyond their intended end-of-service dates. Government again commits not to extend Dreadnought sub life first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
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The Houthi militia, the Yemeni government, Iran and Saudi Arabia all have reasons to escalate the conflict.

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Yemen: The Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mocha early Thursday after government forces pulled out. Control of the coast lets them threaten Bab el-Mandeb shipping and raises the threat to Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/oDxQdseJbY
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Pakistan’s four-member boxing squad — two men and two women — is set to depart for the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, next week, with the sport’s federation secretary acknowledging the scale of the challenge ahead and calling for a long-term strategy to end a decade-long medal drought. The squad heading to the 20th edition of the Games, which formally open on September 19, is among Pakistan’s smallest boxing contingents at a major Games in recent memory. Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) secretary

If Xi finally decides to participate in the annual summit, it will be his first trip to India in seven years and a showcase for attempts to set aside disagreements to project a strong front while the US is mired in conflict with Iran.
Now, a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered America’s global “war on terror,” US President Trump is entangled in an unpopular conflict of his own making.

Family of four killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza A family of four, including two children, were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Thursday, according to Palestinian hospital and security sources. "The bodies of four members of the Ahmad family were recovered in pieces after an Israeli strike hit a house in the Beit Lahia Project area in the northern Gaza Strip," an official at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told AFP. He said the children were aged 12 and eight.

À Kwamouth, dans le Maï-Ndombe, des éléments présentés comme réfractaires au désarmement et à la démobilisation ont installé cette semaine de nouveaux chefs coutumiers dans des villages, dont Mbutie et Kimomo, selon des sources locales. Lire ➡️https://t.co/xdKaPy9USF https://t.co/9RodcQRYBo

Russian forces struck a food industry business in Dnipro twice on 10 September, killing two people and injuring two others in the second attack.

One person was killed and two others were injured in a Russian drone attack on Kyiv Oblast on 10 September, with houses and civilian facilities damaged.