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The UK government’s funding for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain has more than doubled this year through Persian Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF) for unknown reasons, according to a report. GSF spending for Saudi Arabia increased from £813,605 to £1.8m and from £710,028 to £1.8m for Bahrain in 2021-2022, the Foreign, Commonwealth and …

Syria’s air defenses have repelled yet another Israeli act of aggression targeting the Arab country’s western areas. The Israeli aerial assault took place at 19:15 local time (16:15 GMT) against the countryside of the cities of Tartus and Hama on Thursday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, adding …

European natural gas prices have hit new records in the aftermath of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector, prompting several European countries such as Italy and Spain to take new measures to bring the crisis under control. Europe’s benchmark Dutch TTF gas contract advanced to 318 euros per megawatt on Thursday, …

The Greek government said on Thursday that some 25,000 migrants had tried to enter the country through its border with Turkey in August, as it announced plans to dramatically extend a wall between the two neighbors. Athens will extend a 40-kilometer (25-mile) long wall built along the Greek-Turkish border at …

Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country’s climate change minister said on Thursday, calling the situation a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions”. Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it …

A military facility housing US occupation forces in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under attack for the second time in a few hours when rockets fired from nearby areas hit the facility. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that a …

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has ordered an update of his country’s wartime operational plans to counter alleged threats from North Korea. On Thursday and the fourth day of the Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) military drills between South Korea and the United States, Yoon ordered the update to address Pyongyang’s …

Russia is set to ramp up the size of its armed forces from 1.9 to 2.04 million as the war in Ukraine intensifies. According to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the increase includes a 137,000 boost in the number of soldiers to 1.15 million, which comes …

47 percent of Europe is under warning conditions with a clear deficit of soil moisture, European Drought Observatory says. Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production, and the yields …

Iran will stage large-scale drone drills across the country with the participation of different units of the Army, says a senior Iranian Army commander. Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari made the announcement on Tuesday, saying the massive exercises will kick off on August …

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a resurgence of the Ebola virus after a new case was confirmed in the country’s eastern province of North Kivu. The new case was identified after samples from a 46-year-old woman in Beni, a town located in North Kivu, tested …

The United States is expected to announce as early as Wednesday a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The $3 billion weapons assistance package would be the largest that Washington has generated for Ukraine in the six months since Russian …

The northern section of the grain silos damaged two years ago by a blast at the Beirut port collapsed early on Tuesday after warnings the structure was leaning too far to stay up. The crash sent a cloud of brown-grey dust billowing over the waterfront, the LBCI television station reported. …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has lambasted Turkey’s declared plans to launch a new military campaign in northern Syria, stressing that an escalation of military actions in the war-ravaged country would be “unacceptable.” Lavrov made the remark at a press conference alongside his visiting Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, in the …

Yemeni news sources on Tuesday morning reported that the Saudi-led coalition has violated the ceasefire in Yemen 132 times in the past 24 hours. The Saudi aggressor coalition violated the UN-brokered ceasefire by carrying out surveillance flights over the provinces of Ma’rib, Ta’iz, Al Jawf, Saada, Al Hudaydah, Dhale, Al-Bayda, …

Warrant Officer Paul Carney said soldiers should prepare their families for the possibility of being sent to Ukraine to fight Russia. The UK’s top ‘other ranks’ soldier has said that British troops must be ready to fight Russia and should prepare their families for the prospect of an “extended” deployment, …

Europe faces fresh disruption to energy supplies due to damage to a pipeline system bringing oil from Kazakhstan through Russia that was reported by the pipeline operator on Monday, adding to concerns over a plunge in gas supplies. CPC, which handles about 1% of global oil and whose largest shareholder …

European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, says Iran’s answer to the bloc’s proposal on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was “reasonable.” “There was a proposal from me as coordinator of the negotiations… and a response from Iran …

Amid economic decline, a record number of people have rated their lives as poor The percentage of Americans who say that they are “suffering” rose to 5.6% in a Gallup poll published on Monday. This number has been climbing steadily since last summer and is currently higher than at any …

Israel has demolished eight under-construction houses owned by Palestinians in the village of al-Dyouk al-Tahta of the occupied West Bank. The official Wafa news agency reported that the military forces of the regime raided the village on Monday. Issam Smeirat, a veteran activist against Israeli settlements, said most of the …