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Opening channels to Kabul as leverage dwindles and repression deepens

Five years after the takeover, Kabul invites U.S. reengagement while neighbors explore trade links and Western capitals pursue counterterrorism and asylum-return arrangements.

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Five years after retaking Kabul, the Taliban are drawing wider official contact: neighbors are mapping trade corridors, Europeans and Americans are...

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Colombia’s quake pivot tests state authority against local urgency

The August 10 western Colombia quake devastated Cali and coffee-region cities, triggering national coordination with UNGRD, World Bank emergency financing plans, and foreign rescue deployments from Israel to China.

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A powerful 7.4–7.5 quake on Aug. 10 devastated western Colombia—epicenter San José del Palmar—killing about 288 people, injuring roughly 4,000 and ...

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Symbolic stop or strategic rupture? Putin’s Kurils visit tests limits

Tokyo condemned the unprecedented Iturup stop as unacceptable; Moscow asserted wartime-settled sovereignty as Washington backed Japan’s claim.

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On August 13, 2026, Vladimir Putin made his first visit since 1946 to the Southern Kurils, landing on Iturup/Etorofu during a Far East tour; Tokyo ...

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Danube lows test nuclear resilience: temporary workaround or lasting constraint?

Romania shut both Cernavodă reactors after cooling water ran short, cutting about a fifth of national power and prompting imports amid a broader European drought.

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Romania has fully halted the Cernavodă nuclear plant after the Danube fell to record lows, depriving it of cooling water; with both reactors offlin...

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Volcanic alerts ease, yet air travel recovery remains a moving target

Sicily’s main hub faced a fifth day of shutdown at Europe’s summer peak as Comiso reopened to take diversions, while Colombia closed Popayán under Puracé’s orange alert amid earthquake-strained infrastructure.

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Volcanic ash halted Sicily’s peakseason air hub for five straight days as Mount Etna forced rolling suspensions at Catania before a downgrade from ...

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Tariff policing collides with alliances in transshipment crackdown

A 25-page report alleges Chinese goods are routed through dozens of countries—including close U.S. partners—via light processing and relabeling, with sector examples like solar supply chains.

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The White House released a 25page report alleging widespread transshipment of Chinese goods through more than 40 countries to evade Section 301 tar...

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Normalizing control or redrawing borders? Israel recasts West Bank policing

Defense minister Israel Katz directed the military to design a transfer of civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the national police.

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Israel’s defense minister ordered the army to draft a plan shifting “civilian” law enforcement in the occupied West Bank from the military to the n...

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Piracy or contained incident? ADNOC attack strains facts and framing

UAE officials accuse Iran’s IRGC over ADNOC shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, while Saudi Arabia condemns and UKMTO advises heightened caution.

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The UAE, via its state news agency, accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of attacking ADNOCoperated tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and...

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Voter verdict collides with Parliament’s restarted scrutiny of Farage

In a by-election boycotted by major parties, Farage took 63% while satirist Count Binface captured more than a quarter of votes.

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Nigel Farage reclaimed the Clacton seat in a byelection the major parties boycotted, winning 63% to Count Binface’s more than a quarter; he skipped...

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Who decides FIFA’s crisis: the ballot, the rulebook, or both?

Backlash over a failed World Cup investment plan has CAF, UEFA, and six Arab associations positioning around Infantino’s fate.

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Gianni Infantino’s failed push to sell World Cup stakes to private investors has tipped FIFA into a legitimacy fight: CAF’s Patrice Motsepe is urgi...

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Shock gloves as de-escalation—or institutionalized pain in immigration enforcement

DHS aims to equip ICE with Compliant Technologies devices through a multi-year, planned sole-source purchase budgeted at $10–$20 million.

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The Department of Homeland Security plans to equip ICE officers with electricshock gloves from Compliant Technologies, pursuing a $10–$20 million, ...

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U.S. rebuke tests Netanyahu: crackdown or continued impunity in West Bank?

Families in Qusra were trapped without supplies while Washington and Paris demanded condemnations, prosecutions, and humanitarian access.

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Israeli settlers besieged several Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qusra for days, trapping families including a Palestinian American ...

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