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Sri Lanka may not top Israel’s Asia agenda but its location, its ties with India, and its emerging role in the Indian Ocean make it a strategic opportunity hiding in plain sight.
BREAKING | 🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️‼️ A senior Russian strategic aviation commander has survived an assassination attempt in Saratov Oblast and is now reportedly in critical condition. According to the available information, Major General Nikolai Varpakhovich, commander of Russia’s 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, was attacked at around 07:00 on September 3 near a private residence in the settlement of Probuzhdeniye. The assailant opened fire and fled the scene. Varpakhovich was seriously wounded
The message, delivered last month, highlights Iran's continued direct involvement in the ground fighting in southern Lebanon and its readiness to retaliate against Israeli attacks there.
BIG | 🇷🇺🇺🇦🌊‼️‼️ Russia is completing what appears to be its first dedicated naval-drone base in occupied Crimea, creating a new threat axis toward Odesa, Mykolaiv and Ukrainian shipping in the Black Sea. New satellite imagery from Lake Donuzlav shows a network of shelters apparently built for Russian unmanned surface vessels. OSINT analyst H I Sutton counted 21 hangar-like structures along the site, with construction dating back to February. The base could be used to store, prepare and lau

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine says a disinformation campaign involving paid media and bloggers aims to discredit the agency and its units.
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: In Germany, in Leipzig, they found some fallen drone at the airport. They decided that the drone resembled those drones used by the Russian Federation. On the basis of this assumption, supposition, guesswork, if you like, they made an official decision to close our last remaining consulate general in Germany.

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Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: NATO is frantically looking for new pretexts to prolong its already entirely artificial existence. The West does not like structures where it has to be part of a consensus, because the West more and more — and this is characteristic of Europe, of the Anglo-Saxons, the British first and foremost, but also of the Americans, including the current administration — is characterized by a desire to continue dictating its will.
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: Europe has never lived on its own means and by its own mind. It has always lived at the expense of others.

Norway seizes Russian ship to enforce $4.22 billion Ukrainian compensation claim ➡️ https://t.co/6WhzJUXmmE https://t.co/fl00sX2TuR

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Claim relating to infamous apartheid-era shooting of protesters part of wave of litigation for apartheid-era crimes The day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be. Abraham Mofokeng joined the march, one of dozens organised nationwide by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a brea

An assassin has ambushed and shot a high ranking Russian airforce officer in the town of Probuzhdenie near Engles he drove up to the house on a motorbike and opened fire. The official is reportedly in critical condition being flown to Moscow the attacker is on the run.

Giorgia Meloni's hard-right government has been in power for 1,413 days. She surpassed the record set by Silvio Berlusconi between 2001 and 2005, making her government Italy's longest serving uninterrupted government since World War II, after a period of intense instability. Italy has had 68 governments in the last 80 years. Giorgia Meloni and her party will celebrate the feat on Friday with a huge pre-election rally in the southern city of Bari. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta tells more.

Katz: Israel is well prepared defensively and offensively for all eventualities, and the Israeli army is ready to carry out the mission.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has codified and authorised 1,526 new items of weapons and military equipment for supply to Ukraine's defence forces in the first eight months of 2026, which is 543 more than during the same period last year.

Norway said Wednesday it had seized a Russian ship as part of a Ukrainian effort to recover $4.22 billion awarded to state energy firm Naftogaz over Russia’s seizure of its assets in Crimea in 2014. The Professor Molchanov vessel was detained off the Arctic Svalbard archipelago after a Norwegian court ordered its arrest.

Germany in response to Russian sabotage attempts on its territory has pledged to send thousands of attack drones to Ukraine and potentially share it with battlefield intelligence in order to coordinate counterattack operations and strike coordinates. Wow...
BIG: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: If Iran attacks the State of Israel, this will release Israel from any existing restrictions in attacking Iran. We will strike all national, military, and civilian infrastructures in Iran, including energy infrastructures, and return Iran deep into the Stone Age and darkness.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Poverty, desperation, political conflicts and wars are forces that no wall can stop indefinitely. It does not stop them on the southern border of the United States, it does not stop them in Eastern Europe, and it will not stop them in North Africa, where, incidentally, some of the greatest inequality in the world is concentrated.

Public sentiment is turning against Zelensky amid corruption concerns and years of war.

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, September 3rd

The Russian president said this measure is necessary, while the special military operation is ongoing

Houthis control large areas of the Mawza district, west of Taiz.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Numerous disinformation campaigns joined in and amplified the Ceuta crisis with false images and distorted testimonies. The European External Action Service has documented the participation of accounts and publications linked to Russian and pro-Israeli information ecosystems. These were also joined, unfortunately, by some figures from the international far right and, I regret to say, from the Spanish far right, who took advantage of the tragedy to spread fear and hat

Defense Minister Israel Katz warns that if Iran attacks Israel, the military will target all of the regime's infrastructure, "including energy infrastructure." "There are signs we are seeing that indicate that the heavy economic pressure Iran is under and the fear of an uprising and the fall of the regime could push them to desperate measures," Katz says at a Jewish New Year toast with Defense Ministry employees."An Iranian attack on Israel will free us from all constraints, we will strike all infrastructure - including energy infrastructure - and return Iran to the Stone Age and darkness," he says.Katz adds that "Israel is well prepared, defensively and offensively, for every possibility - and the Israeli army is ready to carry out the mission."

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An R-60 missile fired from a Ukrainian MiG-29MU1 took down a Russian S8000 "Banderol" cruise missile. https://t.co/DlN4UeB1o7
BIG | 🇺🇦🇷🇺🌊‼️‼️ Ukraine’s maritime drone campaign has reached Sochi, with a morning USV raid striking the Russian-flagged support vessel NEFRIT near the city’s seaport. Photos from the attack show the aftermath of the Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel operation. The target was an MPSV, or Multipurpose Supply Vessel, designed to support offshore oil and liquefied-gas operations. Open-source data indicates that NEFRIT had been operating around Novorossiysk and the wider Black Sea region befo

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: We’re back to the days when Netanyahu doesn’t want to be photographed with me.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: The terrorist prisoners are afraid of crocodiles. They’re afraid. I want them afraid. That’s how I want it. That’s governance.

Officer of Russian Air Force was wounded in suspected assassination attempt in a village near Engels
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: I’m the most heavily protected minister in Israel, the most threatened minister in Israel. They tried to murder me ten times.

El Nino could be the strongest since records began four decades ago, the United Nations’ climate agency warned on Thursday, with the UN chief warning the world is in the “danger zone of extreme weather”. The naturally-occurring weather phenomenon is set to become “very strong” in the months ahead and is near certain to persist through to February, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said. El Nino warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, bringing wor
Q: What is one dream you still have? Ben Gvir: To encourage people to leave Gaza — by buses, planes, convoys.

Denmark Deploys Conscripts to Greenland as US Tensions Rise Danish conscripts have deployed to Greenland for the first time in recent history, as Copenhagen strengthens its military posture following repeated US demands to acquire the territory. READ MORE
A video of Hadi al-Amiri saying "the resistance stood bravely in the face of (the October fitna, as it was dubbed) and preserved the state and political system,” began circulating.

Sergey Lavrov also addressed the status of the Russian language and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region