Explosions reported near US Consulate in Iraq; Iran claims responsibility (abcnews.go.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed it was targeting “the headquarters of spies.”...
Switzerland to host Ukraine peace summit at Zelenskyy's request (www.ctvnews.ca)
Egypt's Suez Canal revenues down 40% due to Houthi attacks (www.reuters.com)
Dollar revenues from Egypt’s Suez Canal are down 40% from the beginning of the year compared to 2023, canal authority head Osama Rabie said on Thursday, after attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthis caused major shippers to divert away from the route....
India shipped over $1 million of navy-grade fuel to Myanmar since coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/13379697...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard deployed in Yemen (www.semafor.com)
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Indian workers heading to Israel will receive no medical coverage or employment guarantee: Report (scroll.in)
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Myanmar Military Bows to Powerful Ethnic Army, Gives it More Towns Near China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/13378133...
Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Maldives supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification (psmnews.mv)
Gov't initiates creation of company dedicated to transshipment business (avas.mv)
Revisiting Dresden and parallels to Gaza (www.mindingthecampus.org)
There is a longstanding myth from the Second World War that the Allies killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by the sudden and shameless aerial bombing of Dresden, a beautiful city remarkable for its history and culture. That the bombing was a shameful war crime against innocent civilian German non-combatants was told by...
Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea (apnews.com)
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza....
US delegation praises Taiwan's democracy after pro-independence presidential candidate wins election (apnews.com)
Retired U.S. officials met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday and praised the island’s democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force....
UK Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group (www.bbc.co.uk)
Exclusive: Hamas, Islamic Jihad accused of using child soldiers in war against Israel (www.foxnews.com)
Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing. According to the United Nations website for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
Russia Threatens 'Imminent Retaliation' for Latvia’s Seizure of 'Moscow House' (www.themoscowtimes.com)
He Warned of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. Then He Was Thrown in a Russian Jail and Tortured (www.wsj.com)
Now in exile in Boston and working for MIT, Andriy Tuz wonders if he will ever be able to go home again...
Missile fire strikes a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, UK military says (abcnews.go.com)
A missile fired from Yemen struck a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, private security firms told The Associated Press....