August 5, 2026

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Gaza medics struggling in face of ‘overwhelming disaster’ as vital supplies run low: WHO– news.un.org

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“We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it’s not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, it’s not enough,” said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, UN World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Palestine.

Speaking in Geneva on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, the senior WHO official echoed widespread international condemnation of the Israeli airstrike at a camp for displaced people at Tal as-Sultan northwest of Rafah, that left scores dead on Sunday.

“WHO actually deplores this attack, this attack on displaced people. And it demonstrates that there is no safe place in Gaza at all,” he told UN News, as video from the field hospital treating victims distributed by the UN aid office, OCHA, showed an injured father weeping as he described the moment his children died.

Việt Nam, Laos step up cooperation in technology, innovation– vietnamnews.vn

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VIENTIANE The first session of the Việt Nam -Laos Committee for Cooperation in Technology and Innovation took place in Vientiane, Laos, on May 28.

At the meeting, Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Huỳnh Thành Đạt and Lao Minister of Technology and Communications Boviengkham Vongdara agreed to expand bilateral technological and innovative cooperation. They discussed diversifying forms of joint work to meet the sustainable development strategies of each country and the new international context, in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and current global development trends.

The two sides agreed to systematically consult on the organisation and management of technology and innovation to effectively utilise the potential of both countries in this field.

Trump promises crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests if elected | Israel-Palestine conflict News– www.aljazeera.com

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Trump tells donors that the student demonstrators are part of a ‘radical revolution’ and promises to defeat them.

Former United States President Donald Trump has promised that he will crack down on pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses if he wins the 2024 US presidential election.

Earlier this month, the likely Republican nominee told a small group of predominantly Jewish donors that he would expel student demonstrators, who he claimed were part of a “radical revolution”, from the US if he is elected, according to a report by The Washington Post released on Monday.

“If you get me elected, and you should really be doing this … we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” Trump said, according to the report, quoting people at the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Prosecutor argues each story Trump tried to have buried amounts to unlawful campaign contribution – live | Donald Trump trials– www.theguardian.com

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Manhattan district attorney prosecutor Josh Steinglass argues each of the three stories that Donald Trump tried to have buried were actually unlawful contributions to the Trump campaign.

“It was an illegal corporate campaign contribution,” Steinglass says of the first story proffered by the doorman Gino Sajudin about Trump having an illegitimate child. “And it was done in collusion with the campaign.”

“Election day was still 10 months away, but Sajudin had been neutralized for the remainder of the campaign,” Steinglass argued.

Israel’s offensive in Rafah has not crossed red lines, US says– www.euronews.com

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Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight on Tuesday. The attacks targeted the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians, according to witnesses, emergency workers and hospital officials.

The fire at the tent camp has drawn widespread international outrage, including from some of Israel’s closest allies.

The Israeli military suggested Sunday’s blaze in the tent camp may have been caused by secondary explosions, possibly from Palestinian militants’ weapons. The results of Israel’s initial probe into the fire were issued on Tuesday. Military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the cause of the fire was still under investigation but that the Israeli munitions used were too small to be the source.

US Ally Intercepts Chinese Military Attack Drone– www.newsweek.com

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Japan’s Self-Defense Forces scrambled F-15 fighter aircraft on Monday to intercept a Chinese Air Force drone making its first appearance near the country’s southwestern islands, its Defense Ministry said.

The Joint Staff Office in Tokyo said Japanese Air Force jets were launched to head off a possible airspace violation by a Wing Loong-10 unmanned aerial vehicle, which had entered Japan‘s air defense identification zone but not its territorial airspace.

A Newsweek map, created using the Joint Staff’s geospatial data, shows the flight path of the military drone, which Japan identified as a reconnaissance and attack aircraft, during a sortie in the East China Sea.

Tokyo said the WL-10 approached from China’s east coast and circled the waters at least twice before returning to the Asian continent.

Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza’s Rafah as offensive expands– abcnews.go.com

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on Tuesday — pummeling the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians — according to witnesses, emergency workers and hospital officials.

The tent camp inferno has drawn widespread international outrage, including from some of Israel’s closest allies, over the military’s expanding offensive into Rafah. And in a sign of Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage, Spain, Norway and Ireland formally recognized a Palestinian state on Tuesday.

(India) 94 percent want governments and technology companies to collaborate to protect election integrity: Report– www.storyboard18.com

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Adobe released findings of its Future of Trust Study for India, which surveyed over 2,000 Indians about their experience encountering misinformation online and concerns about the impact of generative AI. Tied to its work on Responsible Innovation, Adobe commissioned the study to understand public perceptions and sentiment about the societal impact of generative AI and misinformation, including its implications within the context of the ongoing elections in India. Among the findings, the study highlights strong desire from consumers to have tools to verify the trustworthiness of digital content and the urgent need for proactive measures to address misinformation’s potential impact on election integrity in the country.

‘We have nothing.’ As Israel attacks Rafah, Palestinians are living in tents and searching for food– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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DEIR AL-BALAH: The tent camps stretch more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and sprawling into empty lots, fields and streets. Families dig trenches to use as toilets. Fathers search for food and water. Children dig through garbage and wrecked buildings for wood or cardboard for their mothers to burn for cooking.
Over the past three weeks, Israel’s offensive in Rafah has sent nearly a million Palestinians fleeing the southern Gaza city.Most have already been displaced multiple times during Israel’s nearly 8-month-old war in Gaza, which is aimed at destroying Hamas but has devastated the territory and caused what the United Nations says is a near-famine.
The situation has been worsened by a plunge in the amount of food, fuel and other supplies reaching the UN and other aid groups to distribute to the population. Palestinians, who relied in part on humanitarian aid even before the war, have largely been on their own to find the basics for survival.

US tweaks its strategy to contain China: Squad now completes the trident with Quad and AUKUS | Opinion Analysis News– www.news9live.com

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Bengaluru: The formation of a US-led new security alliance in Asia – known as Squad to counter the hegemonistic aims of China has raised questions whether the old grouping of Quad that included India has been reshuffled to include Philippines in place of India. Such speculation may not be based on facts. India, despite its independent foreign policy which expressly forbids joining any security alliance, is important to the US and its Asian allies. India’s sheer size, its population which is the largest in the world, its economic clout as the fifth largest economy and its positioning as the southern neighbour of China sharing a 4,000-km border across the Himalayas, makes it critical for any strategy seeking to check China’s expansionist and aggressive ambitions.

India has always been reluctant to security alliances, not because of its diffidence in its military capabilities, but it fears that being drawn into one grouping or the other curtails its freedom of choice and its decision-making capability regarding its enlightened national interest, and that it could be drawn into conflicts that are not of its making, nor in its interest. During the Cold War, India refused to be drawn into either of the two blocs led by the US and the Soviet Union, even earning US dislike for its non-aligned policy.

Russia underscores need for enhanced trade with Iran– www.tehrantimes.com

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TEHRAN – Russian Consul General in Isfahan Andrey Zhiltsov has highlighted the need to increase the trade volume between Iran and Russia, saying the current trade volume does not live up to the capacities.

Zhiltsov said in an exclusive interview with IRNA that the trade volume between Iran and Russia is a little over four billion dollars, which is insignificant considering the existing capacity.

He said the joint Iran-Russia economic commission emphasized the need to expand bilateral cooperation in space, aviation, shipbuilding, peaceful nuclear energy, oil and gas production and refining, transportation, science, medicine, agriculture, finance, education, culture, and tourism sectors.

NATO allies brace for possible Trump 2024 victory– www.cbsnews.com

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Poland Wants NATO to not Rule out Putting Troops in Ukraine

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The Polish Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, has declared that Poland is willing to put troops into Ukraine to help the country’s fight against the Russian invasion. He also added that NATO should essentially have the same approach, saying “We should not exclude any option. Let Putin be guessing as to what we will do.”

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Poland’s Foreign Minister says the NATO nation should not exclude the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine and should keep Russian President Vladimir Putin in suspense over whether such a decision would ever be made.

Radek Sikorski made the comments in an interview published on May 28 in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

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Biden’s Gaza Port Destroyed by Bad Weather

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The $320 million temporary pier being built in Gaza to ostensibly help Palestinians in need has been destroyed by bad weather, according to the Pentagon. All activity has been temporarily suspended.

Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said “Unfortunately, we had a perfect storm of high sea states, and then, as I mentioned, this North African weather system also came in at the same time, creating not an optimal environment to operate.”

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President Joe Biden’s $320 million gesture to Hamas is a washout.

The temporary pier built off the Gaza coast is being taken to the repair shop after it was not able to handle the weather, the Pentagon said Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

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EU Follows U.S. Out of Niger

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The West in general is making an exit from much of Africa, including Niger where the EU has decided not to renew its military partnership with the country following the 2023 coup. This move follows the U.S’s decision to not contest Niger’s wishes to have them leave the country as well.

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Following the July 2023 military coup in Niger, the European Union has decided not to renew the mandate of its military partnership mission in the country, APA learned on Monday.

The European Union Council is drawing the line on its military mission in Niger.

In a statement received by APA on Monday, the EU announced its decision not to extend beyond 30 June 2024 the mandate of its Military Partnership Mission (EUMPM) deployed in a Sahel country plagued by jihadist insurgency.

The mission was set up in December 2022 at the request of the former Niger authorities to strengthen the army’s capacity to fight the terrorist threat.

However, following the military coup of 26 July 2023 that overthrew democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, the EU immediately condemned the seizure of power. In October 2023, targeted sanctions were even slapped on the coup plotters.

The deterioration in relations continued when the military junta gave notice in December 2023 of the end of the legal agreement governing the presence of the European missions EUCAP Sahel Niger and EUMPM Niger on its territory. EUMPM personnel were then redeployed.

Faced with this serious political and security crisis, the Council of the European Union has decided that it would be preferable to end its military mission in Niger when it expires on 30 June.

The future of relations between Brussels and Niamey hangs in the balance.

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WHO Pandemic Treaty Shelved… For Now

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Effort to Draft WHO Pandemic Treaty Fail

After more than two years of negotiations, World Health Organization member states failed to reach an agreement on a draft global treaty that would fight future pandemics.

WHO officials had hoped to present the draft at its yearly meeting of health ministers in Geneva this week.

The accord’s aim was to set guidelines for how the WHO’s 194 member countries might stop future pandemics and better share resources. But experts warned there were virtually no consequences for countries that don’t comply.

The co-chairs of the treaty-drafting process didn’t specify what caused the logjam, but diplomats have said vast differences remained over sharing of information about pathogens that emerge and the sharing of technologies to fight them.

The latest draft had proposed that WHO should get 20% of the production of pandemic-related products like tests, treatments and vaccines and urges countries to disclose their deals with private companies.

Earlier this month, U.S. Republican senators wrote to the Biden administration, arguing that the draft treaty focused on issues like “shredding intellectual property rights” and “supercharging the WHO.” They urged Biden not to sign off.

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Russia Signals Baltics Might be Next?

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MSM outlets have been reporting anonymous sources from within Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cabinet are claiming there are plans to expand the war against Ukraine to target, initially, the coastlands of Baltic States like Finland, Estonia, and Sweden. As of now, the claims are partially substantiated by recent statements from the defense ministry that these coastland claims “do not fully correspond to the current geographic situation.”

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… the latest concern out of Russia revolves around Putin’s defence ministry announcing a shock bid to change Russian maritime borders with Finland and Lithuania.

Russia is looking to once again make their own version of history by redrawing their territorial waters.

In a similar vain to how Putin invaded Crimea and Ukraine as he saw them as Russian states rather than independent ones, Russia is now set to extend their waters at any costs necessary.

Moscow is believed to be to gearing up to steal the inland sea waters in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland as well as near the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenodradsk in the Kaliningrad region…

The Russian defence ministry has made sensational claims calling the current maritime map used by everyone as outdated and incorrect.

They have said it is based on geographic coordinates made in 1985 which now “do not fully correspond to the current geographic situation” due to the break up of the Soviet Union.

Moscow are now said to be calling the maritime borders “invalid” despite the decades-old agreement by the Soviet Cabinet who regulated the borders in the Baltic Sea region.

The Moscow remarks were published as part of a report this morning that has since been deleted as panic set in across Europe.

Justice Department sues Live Nation, parent of Ticketmaster– www.cnbc.com

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The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to break up Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, over alleged antitrust violations.

The lawsuit, joined by 30 states and filed Thursday, follows a DOJ investigation into whether Live Nation maintains a monopoly in the ticketing industry, a probe launched in 2022 and bolstered by fan complaints after a botched rollout for tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

“We allege that Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans, artists, smaller promoters, and venue operators,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement. “The result is that fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts, smaller promoters get squeezed out, and venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.”

UK PM Sunak calls snap general election — RT World News– www.rt.com

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All About China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan– www.ndtv.com

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China considers the democratic island part of its territory. (File)

Shanghai:

China on Thursday announced two days of war games around self-ruled Taiwan, encircling the island with naval vessels and military aircraft.

Here’s what you need to know.

Why has China launched these drills?

Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, when nationalists fled to the island following their defeat by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a civil war on the mainland.

Beijing considers the democratic island part of its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control.