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On the night of Saturday, August 30, drones attacked the Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation. There are reports of a strike and a fire at an oil refinery in the city of Kirishi. An explosion was heard in the Bezhitsky District of Bryansk.
US Envoy to the UN Mike Waltz: You are either against us or you're with us. You don't want to be siding with Iran.

Russian forces attacked port infrastructure in Mykolaiv with drones and cruise missiles on 29 August. No casualties were reported.
Police raided several homes, including that of Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Abad, who was involved in an attempted suicide attack in Jerusalem in 2002.

104 years ago today, Turkish forces under Mustafa Kemal Pasha won the decisive Battle of Dumlupınar, crushing the invading Greek forces and securing the success of the Great Offensive. The victory paved the way for the liberation of Anatolia and the birth of a sovereign Turkish Republic. Today, Türkiye commemorates 30 August as Zafer Bayramı — Victory Day.

The Karachi police chief has sought a report within three days on a recent scuffle between two apartment residents in Defence Housing Authority’s (DHA) Phase 6 and the alleged involvement and “misconduct” of police personnel in the matter. His directive came on Sunday, after the CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media. Karachi Additional Inspector General (AIG) Azad Khan ordered a “complete and unbiased” inquiry into the incident, instructing the South deputy inspector general to
Western officials say Russia has captured Ukrainian drones and could potentially use them in false-flag attacks on NATO countries, making the attacks appear to have originated from Ukraine and sowing confusion or political pressure within the alliance. Source: WSJ

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Israel, US 'sworn enemies of Muslim unity', Mojtaba Khamenei says Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, has described the United States and the Israeli regime as “sworn enemies” of unity among Muslims, stressing the need for greater solidarity and cooperation across the Islamic world, IRNA reported. In his written statement released Sunday, Mojtaba Khamenei said, the US and Israel “strive to turn various racial, cultural, social, economic, political, and geographica

The Trump administration has agreed for the U.S. government to take a 35% passive stake in a Venezuelan oil company, giving Washington preferential access to some of the country’s vast oil reserves. The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital would finance the investment, while the company could develop 17 oil fields holding an estimated 65 billion barrels of reserves. The deal aims to revive Venezuela’s oil industry and secure U.S. crude supplies, but critics say it may violate Venezuela’s c

One person was killed and five others injured, some seriously, in a shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss city of Aarau, police and local media reported Sunday. A major police operation is underway at the scene, with authorities urging residents to stay away from the area.

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One person was killed and five others were wounded, some of them seriously, in a shooting at a rave party in northern Switzerland, local police said on Sunday.

Amnesty, IPSC rally support for Palestine at Ireland’s Electric Picnic Ireland’s Electric Picnic festival became a platform for Palestinian solidarity, with rights organisations and attendees backing campaigns against Israel’s Gaza genocide. A walk organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) during Ireland’s popular Electric Picnic music festival received “massive solidarity” from the onlookers, IPSC said in a post on X. Global Green went for a walk through the Electric Picnic
In the Kherson region, three people were killed and 17 others were wounded in enemy attacks over the past 24 hours

The history of political communication demonstrates that tools designed for campaign mobilisation often make poor instruments for governance. A strong case study in this regard is the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) as a ruling party from 2018 till its removal in April 2022. Having risen to power through a powerful digital campaign that redefined political participation in Pakistan, the PTI government revealed a stark example of how the mechanisms that drive social media engagement

One person was killed and five others were wounded, some of them seriously, in a shooting at a rave party in northern Switzerland, local police said on Sunday. “The search for the perpetrators, whose identities are currently unknown, is under way,” they said on social media, adding that the motives and exact circumstances were not yet known. Police launched what they called a “large-scale response” to find the perpetrators after the incident in Aarau, north of Zurich. Armed officers were...

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Over the past 24 hours, on August 29, Ukraine’s Defense Forces recorded 221 combat engagements with Russian forces along the front line.

Conditions are deteriorating in city of El Obeid and camps on its outskirts, with more people arriving every day Humanitarian conditions in the Sudanese city of El Obeid and two camps on its outskirts are dire and deteriorating, according to people on the ground, as civilians displaced by fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia continue to pour in from the surrounding countryside. The UN says more than 15,000 families have arrived since mid-July, joining

China and the Philippines have been urged to resume joint South China Sea energy exploration as a way of easing tensions in the disputed waters. A joint report by Chinese and Philippine analysts also said the two countries should work together in other “low-sensitivity” areas such as marine environmental protection and combating crime at sea. The report, published on Monday by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies think tank, said the relationship between the two countries was at a..

Armando Mema emphasized that the direction in which Stubb is leading Finland "remains uncertain and very dangerous"

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are due in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a two-day summit, joined by the leaders of Iran and India. The gathering comes as several members face war, sanctions and trade tensions with the West, underlining the bloc’s growing geopolitical weight.

A manhunt is under way after one person was killed and five others were injured after a shooting at an event in Switzerland, police say.

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Three people have been killed and another 24 injured in Russian attacks on Kherson and Donetsk oblasts over the past day.
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US energy companies have reaped billions from rising oil price, but their assets in the region remain at risk.
Russian forces struck warehouse facilities in Zaporizhzhia on Sunday morning, sparking a fire.

At least 750 people have died and more than 3,000 remain missing after devastating floods struck Nepal and Tibet near the Chinese border, local authorities said Sunday. Rescue efforts are entering a fifth day, with thousands rescued but hundreds of foreign nationals and hydropower workers still unaccounted for. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

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Dnipropetrovsk region held a farewell ceremony for Mykola Bereziuk, a KORD (rifle unit) police officer who was killed in the war.

The Chinese authorities said on Sunday that 261 foreign citizens were missing after last week’s deadly floods along the border between Tibet and Nepal. The Tibetan authorities said that the missing foreigners were from 23 different countries and included 104 Nepalese citizens. They also included 49 from India; 33 Latvians; 18 from the United States; 15 from Britain; six each from Canada and Australia; four from South Africa; three each from Malaysia, Germany and Russia; two from Ireland,...

Meanwhile, Ukraine's aviation commander says a new generation of domestically built aircraft is nearly ready for service.

Rebel fighters in Myanmar lose key towns as conscription, relentless air raids and Chinese support bolster the military.

• PM’s 30pc target stalls as OMCs expand outlets without chargers • Petrol demand stays robust on two-wheeler boom KARACHI: The government is considering several options to reduce the fuel import bill, the latest being the upgrade of refineries at an estimated cost of $6 billion. Earlier efforts to reduce petrol imports by promoting compressed natural gas (CNG) in the automotive sector faltered due to gas shortages. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for a 30 per cent shift to electric veh

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