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UK foreign secretary says international community including US shares ‘frustration’ at Israel’s failure to constrain illegal settlers British intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli counterpart that information sharing with the UK will continue as before, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary has said. The disclosure counters predictions that his decision to impose a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements will lead to a collapse in cooperation between the agencies. The exchange

Explosions heard near Bandar-e-Jask, Iran https://t.co/QkYQCrzY8B

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and seven other Arab and Muslim countries on Wednesday welcomed Britain’s decision to ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, urging the international community to follow suit and take concrete action against settlement expansion. The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkiye, Qatar and Egypt said they hoped the British move would mobilize other countries to take similar measures consistent with internati

Israeli defence minister says troops 'not moving' Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz delivered a message to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday during a visit to Israeli soldiers occupying southern Syria, vowing that troops would not withdraw from the territory. "We are here sending a very strong and clear message to the President of Syria, who sits 35km away down there in his palace in Damascus: we are here on Mount Hermon, we are in the security zone, and we are not moving from he

Vahid: U.S. USV spotted in the Strait of Hormuz near Oman’s Salamah Island on Wednesday, September 9. https://t.co/dMEDeDYhDQ

China and Syria celebrated 70 years of diplomatic relations, which were formally established in 1956. The occasion was marked late on Tuesday with a reception at the Syrian Embassy in Beijing, attended by senior Chinese officials and diplomats, including Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu, and representatives of the Syrian-Chinese Business Council, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. Mohammad Zakaria Lababidi, charge d’affaires of the Syrian Embassy and minister plenipotentiary, said the occasion
Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe may take on a more prominent role in Washington's diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war against Ukraine, as President Donald Trump's administration is considering changing the composition and division of responsibilities within its negotiating team, the Financial Times reports.

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Researcher Patrick Kaczmarczyk on Germany’s AfD: The German government is actually doing everything it can to reinforce the anger that is fueling the rise of the AfD. Germany’s economic growth model is dead. It had basically created a lot of fragilities which are now falling back on Germany. We have about 15,000 jobs in industry that are being lost each month. The AfD has been in power indirectly for a couple of years now — by setting the agenda, by setting the direction.
Greece thought its €3 billion Israeli air-defense deal came with the keys. Israel just said it doesn’t.

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Lebanese Army accuses Israel of escalating strikes across Lebanon and says at least 12 people, including women and children, were killed in Kafr Rumman. The army says it has begun implementing the framework agreement, while Israel has committed roughly 7,700 violations since it was signed. It says continued Israeli strikes are preventing its full deployment and undermining its credibility inside Lebanon.
The Ai-Petri technical reconnaissance countermeasures system, which is being supplied to the Ukrainian military, was unveiled for the first time at the MSPO 2026 security and defense technology exhibition, which is taking place in Kielce, Poland, according to Petro Poroshenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and leader of the European Solidarity party, whose foundation is involved in supplying these systems.

Though Warsaw did not disclose how the new money will be spent, it could be put toward an acquisition of 32 additional F-35s, in support of an air superiority program requirement.

Russian attacks on Mykolaiv over nearly 24 hours killed two people and injured 12, including a toddler, while damaging port and civilian infrastructure.
As an ethical matter, Elbit officials said that humans will and must remain in the loop to sign off on targeting decisions and to reduce collateral harm to civilians.

A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an industrial facility in Russia’s Arctic Yamalia region, marking the longest-range attack on Russian territory since the conflict began.

Analysts say UK move far from enough to drive momentum for Palestinian statehood.
Eight nations welcomed Britain's ban on Judea and Samaria settlement imports: Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Indonesia.

A diplomatic rift grows between the UK and Israel after Britain led a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements

During one strike, a drone flew into Moldova toward Romania and NATO jets scrambled.

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Recent attacks by the U.S. and Iran have shattered a month of relative calm, with both hitting military, shipping and energy assets.
Recent attacks by the U.S. and Iran have shattered a month of relative calm, with both hitting military, shipping and energy assets.

Netanyahu claims Iranian leadership 'very close' to being toppled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the Iranian government is close to collapse, in comments made while visiting Israeli-occupied Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon) in Syria. “There is still work to be done - the main task is to bring down the terror regime in Iran. We are very close to that. We know that the entire axis will ultimately collapse,” he said, adding that “we will not allow any terrorist army

It was never normal for Anna Zavertailo to shelter in her restaurant’s basement kitchen alongside her employees and diners as drones flew overhead. But after multiple attacks damaged her popular family-run businesses in Kyiv, safety has become the top priority. Her restaurants-cum-bakeries, Zavertailo and Honey, which Anna runs with her husband, Stas, have been victims of three separate attacks in just over a year. But the couple has been selling carefully crafted cakes and pastries to foreigne

The Emirati president reportedly warned that a planned attack could cause bloodshed, destabilize the region and threaten the Abraham Accords.

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights turned acrimonious on Wednesday as PML-N Senator Abid Sher Ali and Awami National Party (ANP) chief Senator Aimal Wali Khan clashed over the questioning of Suthra Punjab officials in connection with the death of a Gujranwala waste management worker. Chaired by Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri, the committee was reviewing the death of an employee of the Gujranwala Waste Management Company (GWMC), who allegedly died by suicide afte
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A jet-powered Shahed drone has struck a children's toys warehouse in Kyiv belonging to KiddiSvit, a Ukrainian marketing and distribution company specialising in toys and children's goods.

In this interview, The Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell speaks with Mykola Bielieskov, senior analyst at Come Back Alive and research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, about why Russian advances have slowed, how Ukraine’s drone tactics are reshaping the battlefield, and the limits of relying on manpower alone.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: The leader of the opposition was effectively suggesting an armed response to the Ceuta migrant crisis. To me, that seems like an absolute barbarity. First of all, because we are not talking about invaders. We are talking about people who, for the most part, are looking for a better life, for opportunities they do not have on the other side of the border, because social inequalities exist between the two sides.

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U.S. military officials in the past two weeks have sunk six large fishing vessels accused of providing fuel to fast boats carrying drugs from South America.

DUBAI: The US has accused Yemen’s Houthis of triggering the latest escalation in violence in the country, as renewed fighting threatened to unravel years of relative calm and draw it deeper into the wider regional conflict. The US Embassy in Yemen said on Wednesday that the Iran-backed group had brought “nothing but suffering” and accused it of turning Yemen into a base for Iran to “undermine Arab unity and security.” “The terrorist Houthis and their Iranian backers miscalculated by underestimat