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Update: On the evening of August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court removed Yabloko from the ballot for the State Duma, the lower house of the country’s parliament, ruling in favor of a suit filed by the Rodina party.What’s happening with Yabloko ahead of the election?Yabloko last cleared the threshold for the State Duma in 1999, when it won 5.93 percent of the vote — above the 5 … Read more

An Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which he secretly flew from Turkey on an alternate military plane while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Washington Post has learned.

Donald Trump has said he will demand that Iran pay compensation for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and Iranian civilians themselves killed over the past decades, in the latest sign that his negotiations to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz have reached an impasse. The US president is trying to … Read more

Hunter Biden sat in on a lengthy two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson that premiered today, during which he called President Donald Trump an “existential threat” to the United States, while mildly criticizing people who say he’s simply a symptom of broader political rot. “The only existential threat I think we face, as a country, is … Read more

Benjamin Netanyahu’s public rejection of a US-backed deal for Gaza drew scepticism in Israel, amid reports he was personally hammering out details of a pilot military withdrawal days earlier.The Israeli prime minister is struggling to balance incompatible demands on Gaza policy from his key domestic and international allies.The far-right Israeli politicians who prop up Netanyahu’s … Read more

Several patients are trapped under the rubble of a partially fallen hospital in Cali, western Colombia, according to a local official. Some sections of the Cali’s University Hospital “have collapsed,” the governor of Valle del Cauca, Dilian Francisca Toro, told local media. “Consequently, there are people trapped,” she said in a video posted to X. … Read more

Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan unlikely to be final word BBCNetanyahu calculates upsetting Trump is his least-bad option cnn.comNetanyahu Walks ‘Political Tightrope’ on Trump’s Gaza Disarmament Deal The New York TimesNetanyahu rejects Trump-backed Gaza plan for Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal The Washington PostWhy Netanyahu’s ‘coup’ against Gaza plan risks endless war Al … Read more

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded Monday in western Colombia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with tremors felt in several cities across the country. The epicenter was located in San José del Palmar, in the department of Chocó, about 280 kilometers west of Bogotá, at a depth of 107 kilometers at 7:34 a.m. (local … Read more

Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia’s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 75 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) … Read more

A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been discovered 3 miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.Italy’s cultural heritage police, the Carabinieri, investigated the wreck with the help of divers and underwater cameras after receiving a tip-off from fishers. The vessel was found at a depth of about 46 metres … Read more