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Newest first · UTC+11:00US federal judge halts order for Trump to turn over financial records to BBC
Judge issues temporary pause while he considers Trump’s request to revise his libel lawsuit against BBC
· Marina Dunbar
Is Israel’s Netanyahu preparing to fight Iran alone?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – facing a crucial election later this year – has hinted that he may be considering taking unilateral action to prolong a costly war with Iran, even as Washington and Tehran appear to be close to an interim deal to open the Strait of Hormuz.
· Simon Speakman Cordall
Shock for safety: Zempilas calls for graphic ad campaign to save lives on WA roads
WA opposition leader Basil Zempilas has suggested a more graphic road safety advertising campaign could grab the attention of the state’s drivers and raise awareness of the dangers on our roads.
· Michael Philipps
Iranian lawmaker says parliament reviewing bill to ban ‘hostile’ vessels from crossing Hormuz
An Iranian lawmaker said on Thursday that the country’s parliament committee is reviewing a preliminary bill to ban US, Israeli and other “hostile” vessels from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Fars news agency.
· Middleeasteye
Fauci contempt vote shows lasting power of pandemic politics
Dr. Anthony Fauci departs after appearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
· Ali Swenson
Trump’s tech ties come under bipartisan fire following limited response to AI agents going rogue
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Donald Trump's conservative supporters both blame the president's ties to the tech industry for his administration's limited response to recent hacks carried out by OpenAI and Anthropic's AI agents.
· REUTERS
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed tours Abu Dhabi's 100-bed floating hospital dedicated to trauma care | The National
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, on Thursday stepped aboard a floating hospital primed to set sail to support humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
· The National
Iran war teaches importance of Gulf cooperation with Europe for maritime security, ISPI says
Iran’s attacks on Gulf nations and its disruption of maritime security should encourage closer cooperation between Europe and the Gulf, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in partnership with the Gulf Research Center.
· DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
'Right, enlistment, unity': Ex-UN ambassador Gilad Erdan launches new party with Edelstein
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Tuesday launched a new Right-wing party ahead of the upcoming elections, alongside MK Yuli Edelstein, who recently departed from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party.
· KESHET NEEV, SAM HALPERN
Myanmar leader seeks better ties in Thai visit
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s former junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met with Thailand’s head of government in Bangkok on Thursday, his first visit to the neighboring nation as civilian leader, as he seeks a return to the diplomatic fold for his pariah state.
· Agence France-Presse
Iglesia Ni Cristo history as insight into Philippine history
ON July 29, 2026, I witnessed the unveiling of the historical marker for the former central office of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) in San Juan, led by National Historical Commission of the Philippines Chairman Regalado Jose and Executive Director Carminda Arevalo, together with Deputy Executive Minister Br. Angelo Er…
· Van Ybiernas
Takaichi's tax cut plan exposes fault line with US over fiscal policy
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke together on the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in October. (Photo by Mayumi Tsumita)
· Staff Writer
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister opens first honorary consulate
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· The Manila Times
CamSur’s P3.5B loan demands answers
THERE is a dreadful disease that has infected our top officials in government for a very long time now. They always mistake public office entrusted to them by the people as their personal empire.
· Charlie V. Manalo
Hamas calls on US, mediators to stop Israel ‘sabotaging’ Gaza agreement
Hamas has welcomed the joint statement from several Arab countries following a meeting of foreign ministers in Amman which condemned Israel’s escalation in Gaza, saying it “underscores the gravity of the escalation and violations perpetrated by the occupying government, which threaten the future of the entire agreem…
· Middleeasteye
Coco Gauff calls for nuanced conversation on WTA Tour's gene-testing policy
United States’ Coco Gauff eyes a return ball to compatriot Kayla Day during a National Bank Open tennis game in Toronto on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
Yemeni official accuses Houthis of ‘regional aggression’
Deputy Chairman of the Yemeni Consultation and Reconciliation Authority for Yemen’s Saudi-backed government Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi condemned the Houthi attacks on government positions in Hadramout and Marib on Thursday.
· Middleeasteye
US to shut five consulates as critics fear China could fill diplomatic vacuum
State department informs Congress of planned closures in Canada, Grenada, Japan, Indonesia and Cameroon
· Roberttait
Spain’s far-left and far-right unite to oppose Morocco’s bid to co-host 2030 World Cup
Anger over Morocco’s suspected role in the surge of 72,000 migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta has brought the Spanish far-left and far-right together in opposing Rabat’s bid to co-host the 2030 World Cup alongside Spain and Portugal.
· Aitor Hernández-Morales
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s anti-Israel rhetoric threatens Kurdish-Jewish relations - opinion
Kurdish politics has undergone a dramatic transformation since Turkey launched its so-called “terror-free Turkey” initiative in October 2024 by engaging with the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
· VEYSI DAG, OFRA BENGIO
Netanyahu's ultra-Orthodox alliance shows signs of fracture before crucial election
For nearly three decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on ultra-Orthodox parties as one of the pillars of his political survival.
· Middleeasteye
Hourly workers could see a major overtime pay bump if new Senate bill passes
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· Aurielle Weiss
Ghana opposition protests over claims of ‘democracy under attack’
Ghana’s main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has staged protests accusing the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of undermining democracy, restricting free speech and targeting political opponents.
· AfricaNews
Houthis say they carried out attacks on ‘Saudi military deployments’
Yemen’s Houthis said on Thursday that they carried out missile and drone attacks on “Saudi military deployments” in Yemen's Saudi-backed government controlled areas of Marib and Hadramout.
· Middleeasteye
US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing
Anthony Fauci’s lawyer condemned the vote from the Republican-controlled committee as a ‘crude political stunt’
· Roberttait, Robert Mackey
Bangladesh blasts India over ex-PM’s media address
The Bangladeshi government has reacted angrily after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a virtual media press conference in India, describing it as “detrimental to the development of harmonious bilateral relations.”
· RT
Netanyahu's ultra-Orthodox alliance shows signs of fracture before crucial election
For nearly three decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on ultra-Orthodox parties as one of the pillars of his political survival.
· Middleeasteye
Leipzig drone bomb was found near Ukrainian plane carrying ammunition, say police
Germany investigating whether foreign state involved as minister says ‘ripped’ detonator stopped device going off
· Deborah Cole
Majority of citizens believe election integrity is in danger, Israeli Voice Index reveals - poll
The majority of Israelis believe that there is danger to the integrity of the upcoming elections, the July 2026 Israeli Voice Index revealed on Thursday.
· TZVI JASPER
Turkey’s PKK amnesty could ease Kurdish tensions, expand regional reach, expert tells ‘Post’
Turkey’s draft law set to offer amnesty to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would allow Ankara to shift its intelligence and economic resources from its “long-running counterterrorism campaign” to other regional priorities, Turkish foreign policy analyst Burak Can Celik told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
· DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, REUTERS
Developing next surprises: Defense Ministry officials discuss defense-tech future with top startups
As orders from Israeli defense tech companies reached approximately $330 million in exports, the government met on Thursday with CEOs of some of the country's top defense startups to discuss Israel’s defense strategy, which includes munitions independence, pushing for the development of "the next surprises," and inc…
· TOBIAS HOLCMAN
Russia Rolls Back Fuel Quality Standards to Quell Domestic Shortages
The Russian government has authorized the temporary production, import and sale of low-grade gasoline that was banned more than a decade ago, the Energy Ministry said Thursday, framing the move as an “anti-crisis measure” amid a nationwide fuel shortage.
· The Moscow Times
Minns said he wouldn’t ‘gloat’ about Icac hearings into the Liberals. Instead, he’s quietly taken out the trash
Amid revelations that could damage the Liberals’ state election hopes, the NSW government dropped key documents on three contentious issues
· Penry Buckley
Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President's Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme
Two Republican governors with a long history of clashing with Donald Trump are working with Democrats on a plan to hand migrant workers state-issued work permits instead of deportation notices, a direct challenge to the president's immigration crackdown that the four laid out on camera. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Okl…
· Tyler Durden
Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left
It was hardly the first time that someone on social media called someone else fat. But it may have been the first time that a vice president of the United States did so.
· Peter Baker
Haiti pushes ahead with elections despite gang violence
Haiti has expanded voter registration as the government presses ahead with long-delayed elections despite worsening gang violence. While Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé says the state is fully mobilised, many voters fear insecurity could undermine the credibility of the ballot.
· AfricaNews
Musk Responds To French Green Leader's Demand That X Be Shut Down
Update (1100ET): Upon seeing this exclamation from the dismally-polling Green leader. Elon Musk took to X (the platform she demands be shutdown for too much free-speechifying) to make some demands of his own...
· Tyler Durden
Polanski gaffes turbocharge the Greens’ moderates vs. radicals fight
LONDON — The Green Party’s breakthrough at the last U.K. general election was driven by its moderates. But a new guard, loyal to leader Zack Polanski, is betting that only a radical turn will push the party forward.
· Isabel Loubser
A crisis of the genre: why Western sponsors are scaling back their support for the Russian ‘opposition’
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Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report
Palantir Technologies, the United States data analytics and artificial intelligence company which has contracts with the country’s military and intelligence apparatus, has “engineered its corporate structure” to pay no US federal corporate income tax, according to a new report.
· Caolán Magee
Vincent Kompany says English Premier League still king, but Bundesliga next best
Bayern Munich boss poised to lead team against Aston Villa at Kai Tak Stadium on Friday, acknowledges venue confusion.
· Paul McNamara
Vincent Kompany says English Premier League still king, but Bundesliga next best
Bayern Munich boss poised to lead team against Aston Villa at Kai Tak Stadium on Friday, acknowledges venue confusion
· Paul McNamara
Michigan's Arab Americans went from 'problem' to kingmakers | The National
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election, Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. It was a close contest – a nail-biter, as we say – but it was a pivotal moment in US politics. He beat Ms Stevens by barely a percentage point, 49 per cent to 47.
· James Zogby
I do not want Israel to have a Zionist government. It needs a democratic one - opinion
As Israel approaches elections, too many politicians are promising to form a “Zionist government.” The phrase is presented as self-evidently virtuous, as though liberal democratic Israeli could not possibly object to it.
· GERSHON BASKIN
Houthis attacks on Yemeni government forces reportedly kills at least 30
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have killed at least 30 people in missile attacks on Yemeni military camps in Hadramout and Marib governorates.
· Al Jazeera Staff
When atrocities return: The cost of failed accountability in Tigray
When Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan forces signed the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in November 2022, it appeared that one of Africa’s deadliest conflicts had finally come to an end.
· Al Jazeera
Israel needs a Haredi draft compromise that protects Torah study and security - opinion
Nearly three years after the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel’s national debate has been trapped in an exhausting and polarizing loop: how to address severe military manpower shortages while resolving the long-running dispute over military service for the Haredi community. Despite mounting Supreme Court intervention, …
· ELI PALEY / THE MEDIA LINE
National AI Directorate announces 'Project Nexus' to develop, build quantum computer in Israel
Israel will focus its development efforts on quantum computing and physical artificial intelligence, with the objective of becoming a leading nation in both areas, the Prime Minister's Office National AI Directorate and the Finance Ministry Accountant General's Department announced on Tuesday.
· TOBIAS HOLCMAN
Senate Panel Holds Fauci In Contempt For Refusing To Answer Questions
Anthony Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, after he repeatedly refused to answer lawmakers' questions about funding risky research to genetically manipulate bat coronavirus in Wuhan China, and his role in the ensuing lockdown quagmire that cratere…
· Tyler Durden