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Europe
Hungary
08.08.2025 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán today called on European leaders to convene a summit with Russian President Putin, warning that without direct engagement, the continent risks becoming a minor player in shaping its own security. Speaking on Kossuth Rádió, Orbán argued that both French President Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz should already have met with President Putin in an effort to push for a ceasefire
in Ukraine. He underlined that disputes should be resolved through negotiations, insisting, as in previous years, on holding a Russian-European summit. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)
Armenia
Aug 9, 2025 Armenia and Azerbaijan have committed to a lasting peace, U.S. President Trump said yesterday as he hosted the leaders of the South Caucasus rivals at a White House signing event of a joint declaration. The two former Soviet republics are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel and diplomatic relations and respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Trump said at the event. ’But if there's conflict ... they're going to call me and we're going to get it straightened out,’ he added. Christian-majority Armenia and Muslim-majority Azerbaijan have feuded for decades, went to war twice over the disputed Karabakh region, from where almost the entire local population of around 100,000 ethnic Armenians left for Armenia. The fine print and binding nature of the deal between the longtime foes remained unclear. The agreement includes establishing a transit corridor passing through Armenia to connect Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan. The United States will have development rights for the corridor in the strategic and resource-rich region. The losers here are China, Russia, and Iran, a White House official said. President Aliyev offered to send a joint appeal, along with PM Pashinyan, to the Nobel committee ’recommending Trump receive the Peace Prize". Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed on the text of a comprehensive peace deal in March. Azerbaijan had later outlined a host of demands - including amendments to Armenia's constitution to drop territorial claims for Karabakh - before signing the document. Aliyev also thanked Trump for lifting restrictions on U.S. military cooperation with Azerbaijan. (Source: The Japan Times / AFP - France, JIJI - Japan)
Russia
2025-08-06 21:04 Russian President Putin held a three-hour meeting in Moscow with US Special Envoy Witkoff to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin stated today. Putin’s foreign policy advisor, Ushakov, described the talks as very useful and constructive, noting that they covered both the Ukrainian conflict and strategic cooperation between Russia and the United States. (Source: Shafaq News - Iraq)
Ukraine
10/08/2025 - 17:33 'Zelensky says he will not allow' Ukraine to be excluded from Putin-Trump negociations. (Source: France 24)
August 7, 2025 In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine - conducted in early July - 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory. In 2022, 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible. (Source: Gallup - U.S.)
8:32 pm, August 6, 2025 Russian forces attacked a gas compressor station in Odesa region that facilitates Azerbaijani gas transit to Europe. Dozens of drones targeted the site near the Romanian border. Energy officials accused Moscow of trying to undermine Kyiv’s ties with Azerbaijan, the United States, and its European allies. (Source: Meduza - based in Riga, Latvia)
Africa
Ghana
Wed, 6 Aug 2025 18:20:11 WAT A military helicopter crashed and claimed the lives of eight people, including Defence Minister Boamah and Environment Minister Mohammed in Ghana’s Ashanti region en route from Accra to the gold-mining town of Obuasi, today. (Source: Daily Trust - Nigeria)
Asia
Cambodia
7 Aug, 2025 08:48 PM Cambodia PM nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after ceasefire. (Source: New Zealand Herald)
China
Aug 08, 2025 Owning farmland outright, and the associated supply chain infrastructure. While Western governments have historically trusted in global commodity markets to secure their food and raw materials, others - like China and the UAE - have opted for direct control. According to the non-profit organization GRAIN, UAE-linked companies have acquired approximately 960,000 hectares of farmland globally since 2008. One estimate puts China’s overseas land acquisitions - across agriculture, forestry, and mining - at 6.4 million hectares, roughly the size of Latvia. These countries have shown great strategic foresight in seeking to secure their long-term food supplies. 'When the next crisis comes, the fact that so much of the world’s food supply is controlled by a few states means that the rest of the world will either be forced to fight over the remaining supplies or accept whatever terms the owners impose. (Source: Reaction.life - United Kingdom)
Gaza
(8 August 2025) Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan to take control of Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live in the city in the north of the Gaza Strip. It was the enclave's most populous city before the war. A statement released by the office of the Israeli prime minister outlined what it said were five "principles" for ending the war: The disarmament of Hamas; The return of all hostages, both living and dead; The demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip; The establishment of an alternative civilian administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. The IDF said the military would prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the "civilian population outside the combat zones". Before the cabinet meeting Netanyahu said he wanted Israel to control all of Gaza. The army's chief of staff voiced his strong opposition to a full takeover of Gaza. Reports in Israeli media suggest the military will not move into Gaza City immediately - and residents will need to leave first. An alternative plan was a more limited proposal from the army's chief of staff. (Source: BBC - United Kingdom)
Iran
10 August 2025 Iran angered by US-backed plan to develop Armenian trade corridor. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Aliyev signed the US-brokered peace accord at the White House with US President Trump. The deal grants Washington exclusive development rights to a strategic route across Armenia linking mainland Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave, bypassing both Iran and Russia. Russia, a traditional ally and broker in the strategically vital South Caucasus, was excluded from the deal, despite its border guards stationed on the Armenia-Iran border. While supporting the summit, Moscow urged that solutions be developed by regional countries themselves with support from their immediate neighbors - Russia, Iran, and Turkey - warning against the 'sad experience' of Western mediation in the Middle East. “This passage will not become a gateway for Trump’s mercenaries,' Velayati, senior adviser to Khamenei said, referring to Azerbaijan and Armenia. 'It will become their graveyard.' Kayhan, a daily under the supervision of Supreme Leader Khamenei, described the agreement to build the Zangezur corridor as a great betrayal and warned that it must not go unanswered by the Islamic Republic. 'Iran should use the levers at its disposal to confront them and, as a first step, can invoke the Geneva and Jamaica conventions to ban the passage of US- and Israeli-affiliated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz,' wrote the daily today. (Source: Iran International)
Pakistan
08 Aug 2025 - 07:32 pm The Pakistani army announced today that 33 militants were killed during a military operation carried out by its forces in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan. (Source: The Peninsula - Qatar)
Syria
16:28, 08 Aug 2025 A newly released intelligence report warns the Captagon trade is financing conflict across the Middle East. Drug terror groups in Syria planning to flood Europe with ultra-addictive 'Jihadi speed.' There are heightened fears the amphetamine type narcotic captagon drug worth about £10 a tablet, being smuggled out of Syria, through Turkey will spread as far as UK streets within months and have the dual effect of feeding addiction, increasing crime and it will also have a destabilising effect. Iran-backed networks Hezbollah are in on the smuggling free-for-all along with islamic state and al-Qaeda affiliates. Hezbollah and even Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are known to have flooded Lebanon and beyond with captagon. It is believed that since Assad was toppled last year 1.1 tons of the drug was smuggled into Europe. (Source: Mirror - United Kingdom)
North America
United States
Aug 09, 2025 Tensions continue to grow by the day between the United States and NATO versus Russia, China, Iran and the BRICS aligned nations. In the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, tech giant and defense contractor Palantir CEO Karp said in an interview with the New York Times in August of last year.that he thinks it is very likely the U.S. will be involved in a three-front war with Russia, China and Iran. So, he argues, ’we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems’, because our adversaries will - and they don’t have the same moral considerations that we do. ’Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think.’ Mr. Karp said that we are very close to terminator robots and at the threshold of ’somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.’ He declared himself pro draft. Karp is a bit of an enigma to some when it comes to his relationship with President Trump and the company, since Karp is a socialist and progressive and voted for Biden in 2020 and backed VP Harris. At the same time, he has distanced himself politically from Palantir co-founder Thiel, who is the polar opposite politically and a huge supporter of Trump. Earlier this year, Trump came under heavy criticism when the New York Times revealed his administration contracted Palantir to collect all of Americans’ private and unique data to build a master database, building off of previous executive orders Trump signed that deregulates data sharing among federal agencies. ’We’re basically already at war with Russia: All Trump would have to do is seriously stop giving weapons and intelligence to Ukraine, order a systematic withdrawal, and let Europe deal with it; and since Europe can’t, as NATO is very dependent on the U.S., the war would eventually have to come to an end”. ’But the U.S. is not and will not be. VP Vance, who is a literal puppet and plant of Palantir, has already said that the war in Ukraine ’will not end anytime soon.’ He was telling the truth this time’. The illusion that we are only aiding Ukraine will cease eventually and the war will ramp-up as Russia presses deeper into Ukraine. Trump and Israel already got the ball rolling with Iran. But there is no question that war will restart over there in short order. This latest “cease fire” is just a short break before it ignites again; especially now that Israel is moving to fully occupy Gaza, which will most likely require U.S. boots on the ground to pull-off that operation - an operation that is going to take a lot of time, money and lives. As for China, the propaganda is so obvious (to those not listening to the neocons and legacy media and controlled-op podcasts) that China is not a threat to us at all, nor does it have an imperialist history as implied by the neocons and warmongers. This trade war is only the beginning. We know that the seeds have been planted for a staged war in Taiwan for which the U.S. - though taciturn and two-faced in its messaging, from the Biden and Trump administrations - will pretend to stand for Taiwan and send them weapons when China gets the nod from its handlers to occupy Taiwan. If Palantir CEO Karp is saying we’re going to have a three-pronged war with Russia, China and Iran, we ought to believe him: they are one of the groups supplying the technology after all. Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. [8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. (Source: The WinePress News | Substack - U.S.)
Aug. 8, 2025 President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations. (Source: The New York Times - U.S.)
08.08.2025 US border saw 3 consecutive months of zero illegal crossings, says homeland security secretary Noem. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)
Thursday 07 August 2025 The country-specific round enforced today, together with the president's earlier tariffs on specific sectors such as automobiles and steel, will increase prices 1.8% in the short term, the Budget Lab at Yale estimated. That’s the equivalent of a $2,400 loss of income per U.S. household, according to the non-partisan policy research center. Americans face an average tax of 18.6% for imported products, the highest rate since 1933. Trump last week signed an order to suspend the “de minimis" exemption that has allowed shipments valued at $800 or less to enter the U.S. duty-free. It is now set to be eliminated for low-value packages from every country on Aug. 29. (Source: The Independent - United Kingdom)
06/08/2025 President Trump today signed an executive order imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on goods from India, raising total US tariffs on the country to 50 percent, effective in 21 days. It is aimed at pressuring both India and Russia 'as part of US efforts to end the war in Ukraine'. (Source: France 24 "with AP" - U.S.)
6 August 2025 'I have received additional information from various senior officials on, among other things, the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to the situation in Ukraine,’ states the order announced on Wednesday, Trump said. 'After considering this additional information, among other things, I find that the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066 continues and that the actions and policies of the Government of the Russian Federation continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.' It comes as further details emerged following "constructive" talks between Putin and Witkoff in Moscow, with Trump taking to his social media platform Truth Social to declare the talks 'highly productive'. 'Great progress was made! Afterwards, I updated some of our European Allies,' Trump continued. ( Source: LBC - United Kingdom)
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