Fri 28 August 2026: Thousands of patients in the Gaza Strip are still awaiting medical evacuation for urgent treatment, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency last week supported the evacuation of 106 patients, including 19 children, through the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings. […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: Senior Israeli military officials have warned that failure to secure additional defence funding could force the army to scale back reserve deployments, intelligence operations and preparations for a potential renewed confrontation with Iran, according to Israel’s Kan News. One senior military official said insufficient funding could lead to the suspension of some […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: Israeli political and security officials are reportedly monitoring efforts led by Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan to establish a broad political and electoral alliance involving several Palestinian factions, including Hamas, ahead of planned legislative elections. According to a report attributed to the Spanish newspaper El Medio Oriente, recent months have seen intensified contacts […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: Iran is experiencing the “worst conditions” of economic warfare, President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday, stressing that the country continues to carry out development projects despite mounting pressure. “Although we are experiencing the worst conditions of economic warfare, everyone sees the missile war, but perhaps not everyone sees the economic pressures. Nevertheless, […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: The Israeli authorities are continuing to rename streets, landmarks and historic sites in Jerusalem as part of a policy aimed at replacing traditional Arab place names with Hebrew ones, the Jerusalem Governorate said Wednesday. The governorate said that Israeli authorities had installed a sign reading “Old Gate” while removing signs bearing […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: Hamas and other armed factions in Gaza have agreed — for the first time — to surrender their weapons and transfer full civilian and security authority to a UN-recognized transitional administration, Nikolay Mladenov, the Gaza Peace Board’s high representative, said Wednesday. Mladenov made the remarks at a UN Security Council briefing […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but has sustained severe injuries to the left side of his body. “He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing,” Trump told political commentator Glenn Beck. He […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad al-Alimi on Wednesday ordered the closure of any port or border crossing operating outside government law as part of measures to combat smuggling and disrupt arms and financing networks supporting the Houthis, according to Yemen’s official Saba news agency, Anadolu reports. Al-Alimi issued the order while chairing […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The US Treasury Department on Wednesday designated the British group Palestine Action as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Anadolu reports. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for administering US economic sanctions, added the group to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN). The designation was made […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: A picture taken by a Palestinian photographer was removed from a sports photography festival in the French coastal city of Deauville after organizers got requests from unnamed sources, reports said Monday. The photo at the Deauville Sport Images Festival was replaced with an image of cyclists, local newspaper Le Pays d’Auge […]
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