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Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration is monitoring two China Coast Guard vessels operating east of Green Island in waters where the EEZ claims of Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines overlap. The patrol vessel Chi An was dispatched to shadow CCG vessels Putuoshan and Daishan, operating 105 and 74 nm east of Green Island, respectively. The CGA rejected Beijing’s description of the deployments as “routine law-enforcement patrols,” characterizing them as part of China’s expanding presence and cogniti

6 people wounded as result of Russian strikes in Kyiv

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Dozens of civil rights and advocacy groups are urging Congress to scrap a defense bill provision that would deepen U.S.-Israeli military technology ties, according to a letter seen by Reuters, at a time of growing U.S. skepticism toward the longtime ally. The provision would deepen cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors by accelerating joint military technology development and other partnerships. The bill passed the House of Repre

Seven Kurdish opposition members accused of planning armed operations in western Iran had weapons seized, IRGC Intelligence in Ilam province says. https://t.co/gnYKlDoOrU
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Isolated by war, they nevertheless are taking part in an exhibition at The Brick, paired with local artists who interpreted and realized their work.

Several Ukrnafta production sites were struck overnight, causing fires and equipment shutdowns. Staff were in shelters and no casualties were reported.

4 people wounded as result of Russian strikes in Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has warned Russia could use Belarus for provocations against NATO, citing Oreshnik missile infrastructure.
“The path to physical violence first passes through verbal violence,” Amit told a special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, convened following the killing of attorney Arbel Feldman.

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Each member state would have to judge individual cases, and the bloc set itself a June deadline for the plan that its council still cannot approve.

Two Palestinian teens were killed in the occupied West Bank as Israeli settlers and snipers surround a village.

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A Jerusalem cafe picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to shut on the Sabbath, bowing to demands despite counter-protests by secular Israelis. The coffeehouse opened in June near a neighbourhood of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who strictly shun working, exchanging money and using electricity on Saturdays. Cafe Basimta had drawn increasingly heated protests, separated by police, as secular Israelis shouted down ultra-Orthodox protesters.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that during his meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, they discussed ending Russia’s war against Ukraine and the situation in the Black Sea. According to Zelensky, India has a clear position: peace is needed.

A Hong Kong Nepalese man is searching for his cousin who is missing after the catastrophic flood struck the Himalayan border between Nepal and Tibet. Y.B. Gurung, a 64-year-old retiree, told the South China Morning Post that he last spoke with his tour guide cousin Raju Gurung, 40, at 8am on August 26, shortly before a massive glacial collapse triggered the flash flood that washed away villages and left at least 1,225 people dead. “I cannot sleep every night. I am praying every day that he was..

Trump: It is very good for Canadian Politicians like Prime Minister Carney to make President Donald J. Trump “the enemy,” until their Economy collapses, then it will prove to be very bad for Politics — Worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician. Just watch!

Pentagon to Keep 50,000 Troops Deployed in Middle East Deep into 2027 Pete Hegseth is extending military deployments in the Middle East into 2027, adding pressure to a force already stretched by six months of operations against Iran. READ MORE

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The six died during a wave of US attacks on Tuesday, the report said, without specifying where they were killed.

Fragmented infrastructure and reliance on US continue to hinder ‘defence readiness’, says European court of auditors Europe live – latest updates The EU’s ability to respond to a foreign invasion by 2030 remains in doubt due to a continuing reliance on the US and fragmented national defence systems, according to a report from its official auditor. The European court of auditors (ECA) said the EU was much better prepared than before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine of 2022, but achieving

Trump: The people and Media Outlets that keep harping on the fact that we have no ammunition (And they are 100% wrong!), are actually treasonous. They do it because they would rather see the United States LOSE a War that we’re easily WINNING, than see me WIN!

Trump: For the treasonous SCUM that refuses to accurately report on our Military Operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunition, far more than we could ever use for this, or for any other War (which is highly unlikely!), that could improbably take place. In addition, we are producing Munitions at levels never seen before. We are stockpiling and preparing for any contingency that could happen. We are taking them for ourselves, the U.S.A., rather th

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Russian propaganda claims that the Russian Sever (North) military grouping has allegedly captured the settlements of Vasylivka, Dovzhanka, Blahodatne and Slyzneve and “closed the Vovchansk cauldron” are false.

The Trump administration has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones, targeting China’s dominant drone industry and pushing for more U.S. production. Drones over 55 pounds or equipped with thermal imaging face the highest tariff, while smaller drones face 25% tariffs. The policy is drawing criticism from police, firefighters and businesses that rely on Chinese-made drones, with industry groups warning that U.S. manufacturers cannot currently fill the gap. Source: NYT

A team of cybersecurity experts has announced they successfully compromised the latest Starlink user terminals, crossing the security boundaries of the world’s largest satellite constellation. In a post on its social media account on Tuesday, Darknavy, an independent cybersecurity research institute headquartered in Singapore and Shanghai, said it had used sophisticated hardware attacks to gain full administrative control over the terminals, allowing it to run any custom code on the...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will meet Pete Hegseth in Washington on September 15, after Hegseth had previously rebuffed a meeting between the two. The meeting coincides with Pistorius's trip to Texas for a rollout ceremony marking the delivery of Germany's first F-35 fighter jets. The talks follow strained U.S.-German relations after Trump ordered 5,000 U.S. troops withdrawn from Germany in May following Merz’s criticism of the U.S. war with Iran. Source: POLITICO

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An Iranian drone attack damaged a residential building in Kuwait, authorities say, with no casualties reported.
By Saurabh Sharma and Joseph Campbell TARKESHWAR, Nepal, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Dhan Bahadur Tamang was at work in a hydropower project near Nepal's border with China when he sensed a sudden air pressure change in the underground tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower project. Under the industrial floodlights, dust started to rise, the 32-year-old recalled: "Something was coming."
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday the deaths of six more military personnel from U.S. strikes this week, bringing the military death toll to at least 13. The U.S. strikes on Tuesday were the most extensive for weeks. In the latest report on military deaths, Tasnim said six members of the regular military, including three pilots, had been killed in southern Iran. It gave no additional detail on the location.

Russian drone reportedly hit warehouses belonging to Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine plant in Kyiv Oblast.
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