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A drone struck a Panama-flagged tanker in Iraqi waters. It was carrying 2 million barrels of fuel oil, two port officials say.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: In the past, there were blood libels: they said that Jews slaughtered Christian children and used their blood to make matzah for Passover. Today, the blood libels are that we practice apartheid and genocide — whether in Gaza or in the West Bank.
As of 12:45, the number of injured as a result of a Russian drone hit on a passenger train in the Izyum community of Kharkiv region has risen to seven, all of whom have been hospitalized, reported Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synyehubov.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We need a huge campaign, and we need to mobilize all the Jews around the world. You can create an enormous network so that everyone becomes a kind of "network army." And here in Israel, we will establish a war room and provide the real answers.
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) destroyed three Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad weapon storage facilities and a launch pit from which rockets were fired at Israel during the war.

The Houthis said Saudi Arabia retaliated with strikes on Tuesday after the group targeted oil facilities, wounding dozens, as deadly fighting reignited in Yemen after a Houthi offensive towards the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandab chokepoint. The rapid round of strikes and counter-strikes follows the unravelling of a four-year truce between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government in July.

Ukrainian company KORT has presented its Hunter Killer strike drone family, with variants capable of ranges up to 1,200 km and carrying 70 kg warheads
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: Arabs in the West Bank will not become Israeli citizens after we apply Israeli sovereignty there — certainly not in the next fifty years. We cannot give them what they failed to achieve by force: sovereignty — the ability to enter Israeli democracy and destroy us from within.

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Britain, France and Canada said Tuesday they will ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with a UK minister accusing Israel of turning a blind eye to the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians there. The moves prompted a furious Israel to unveil immediate counter-measures targeting Britain, as Jerusalem-based journalist Jordana Miller reports.

Pakistan will try to salvage something from the wreckage of a woeful tour of England as they field three debutants in the third and final Test at Edgbaston on Wednesday. England won the toss and elected to bowl first, with Pakistan making four changes to the side that suffered a 194-run defeat at Lord’s and went 2-0 down in the three-Test series. Domestic cricket veteran and pace all-rounder Imran Randhawa, upcoming fast bowler Razaullah and wicketkeeper Ghazi Ghori were handed Test debuts, whil

The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the EU has thrown out Orban's attempt to block military aid for Ukraine as "it does not fall within the jurisdiction" of the court.

Israel announced it would close the consulate after UK said it was imposing sanctions on illegal settlements.

Iran has not surrendered, and the war’s original aims remain unmet.

In Ukraine, the war is not being fought solely on the battlefield. This summer, Russian strikes severely affected the publishing industry, destroying dozens of warehouses and logistics centres. Millions of books and textbooks have been lost. For many Ukrainians, these attacks are part of an effort to erase their linguistic and cultural identity, as FRANCE 24’s Yegor Terletzkyi and Emmanuelle Chaze report.

CENTCOM: No U.S. Navy warship has been struck; all IRGC attempted attacks failed. Meanwhile, U.S. forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian tankers in just the last week. These vessels were part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network that funds the IRGC, and Iran cannot defend them.

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are going to have to go to war in the West Bank, disarm the Arabs there and leave weapons only in the hands of the State of Israel. They can manage their own lives as long as they have no weapons at all—no army, no police—and as long as they accept Israel as a Jewish state. Whoever engages in terrorism will either leave or simply die, because the army will defeat him.

IDF strikes in Wadi Zebkin, southern Lebanon, per Lebanese reports. https://t.co/367QJwEt2c

Iran launched fresh attacks against US targets in the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian oil tankers, dragging the foes deeper into war. Tehran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday they attacked 20 US vessels trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the world's oil and gas that Iran has largely controlled since the war erupted. The United States and Iran are locked in a stalemate six months into the war, with Iran maintainin

Netanyahu threatens legal action over Haaretz report on UAE warning before 7 October Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered his lawyers to take legal action against Haaretz, journalist Shlomi Eldar and “other individuals”. The newspaper reported that UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu of a potential Hamas attack before 7 October, but that the Israeli leader failed to inform the military and the Shin Bet security agency. Netanyahu rejected the account, sayin
🇺🇦 📚 Russia has ramped up its attacks on #Ukraine's book publishers in recent weeks. These strikes come as a significant blow to the sector, which has managed to keep up production despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine. FRANCE 24's @EmmanuelleChaze has the details ⤵️ https://t.co/2rDd66J2lp

If mastering drone-swarm technology was not difficult enough, China is now tackling the more complex task of integrating uncrewed land, sea and air platforms, according to the country’s leading developer in the field. In an article posted on China Electronics Technology Group Corporation’s (CETC) social media account on Sunday, the company’s Intelligent Technology Research Institute said drone-swarm technology was not merely “many drones flying together”, but an intelligent, distributed combat..

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CENTCOM: 🚫 CLAIM: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces have claimed they struck two U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the Middle East. This is completely FALSE. ✅ FACT: No U.S. Navy warship has been struck; all IRGC attempted attacks failed. Meanwhile, U.S. forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian tankers in just the last week. These vessels were part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network that funds the IRGC, and Iran cannot defend them.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on the West Bank: This is our land. Our right to this land also gives us the right to use force in order to realize that right. We have to be strong there, establish settlements there and apply our sovereignty over the entire area. Tell ourselves and the world: friends, forget about it. We will not divide the land and we will not hand territory over to our enemies.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Su-33 carrier-based fighter jet, a Mi-8 helicopter, and two electronic warfare systems belonging to the Russian invaders in Anapa.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: In Gaza, they say there are "uninvolved civilians"—I don’t accept that term at all. The entire population there supports and encourages Hamas. There is actually a lot that is immoral about risking the lives of our soldiers in the name of some distorted morality of trying to harm fewer civilians on the other side.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported a strike over the past 24 hours against the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, as well as warships and Kalibr carriers.

Russian drone strike near Ukraine-Moldova border kills at least two as Ukraine targets oil terminal ➡️ https://t.co/YlvCnMuF0V https://t.co/gGo3J0Iggz

An overnight Russian drone strike at a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova killed at least two people, Odesa's regional governor said Wednesday. Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tofan said that 17 drones had hit Moldovan territory in August alone as both Kyiv and Moscow ramp up long-range strikes on military and energy infrastructure.

Military operations in Yemen intensified on Wednesday with clashes expanding across several fronts, according to reports by Saudi-owned news channels Al Arabiya and Al Hadath. The Yemeni armed forces reported that fighting with the Iran-backed Houthi militia has been continuing on the Taiz fronts of Toil and Al-Barah, and claim to have inflicted heavy losses on the group. Al Arabiya and Al Hadath have reported that Yemeni government forces have captured areas in southern Mahreb, as well as sever

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Miliband condemns Israel’s closure of UK consulate in Jerusalem UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has described Israel’s decision to close the British consulate in Jerusalem as “regrettable and damaging”. Israel announced the closure after the UK imposed sanctions targeting Israeli settlements. “We anticipated this might happen because we saw other countries, the Dutch, for example, who had announced sanctions, who had seen these reprisals from Israel. I think they’re regrettable and damaging,”
DUBAI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Several merchant vessels in the northern Gulf and Gulf of Oman were hit by disabling fire during military activity in the region overnight, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Wednesday. The British navy-affiliated UKMTO said it was unable to confirm any casualties or environmental impact.
Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israel will open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday in a sign of warming relations after populistJanez Jansa formed a centre-right government following elections in March. The rapprochement comes as Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation elsewhere over its policy in the West Bank includingimport bans from Britain, France and Canada on products from Israeli settlements.
Sept 9 (Reuters) - A tanker carrying about 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters on Wednesday, port officials said, and British navy-affiliated UKMTO reported that several merchant vessels in the Gulf had been hit by disabling fire overnight. A fire broke out aboard the Panama-flagged oil tanker New Andros after it was hit in Iraqi waters at around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Wednesday, two Iraqi port officials told Reuters. There were no reports of casu
Merz's ally CSU leader Markus Söder: Every crime, every knife attack, is heavily amplified online, creating the impression that this country is on the brink of chaos. I can say, for example, that in Bavaria we are in the safest situation since 1978. An impression is being created that this is somehow a completely unstable country.