🇹🇷❌🇮🇶 — The Iraqi Supreme Court has temporarily halted the transfer of the Kirkuk operations headquarters to the KDP. This decision comes in response to a complaint filed by the chief of the Obed tribe, a prominent Sunni Arab tribe in Kirkuk. The tribal chief asserts that the headquarters actually belongs to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance. According to real estate registration number 13/11, sector 9, Kurka - spent property, the land ownership reverts to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance. The chief alleges that the KDP had illegally seized the land to construct the KDP headquarters

🇺🇸🤝🇲🇲 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on August 24, 2023 on Twitter/X:
— "Today marks the sixth anniversary of the genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Burma’s military against Rohingya.

The United States stands with the victims and survivors, and we remain committed to advancing justice and accountability for these atrocities."

https://archive.is/wip/TH8wt
🔗 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken)

🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵 — 📰 Canal Geopo: Lockheed Martin is moving its Asian offices to Tokyo, it was in Singapore until now.

This illustrates the tightening military-industrials links between the US and Japan, which is closer to the Taiwan strait

https://t.me/canalgeopo/6005

🇹🇼🪖📈 — 📰 Canal Geopo: Taiwan's military budget will increase by 28.4% in 2024 compared to 2023

https://t.me/canalgeopo/6002

🇹🇼🪖📈 — 📰 CNA/Focus Taiwan: Taiwan proposes largest-ever defense budget for 2024
— "Taiwan's government will seek to hike defense spending by 3.5 percent to a record NT$606.8 billion (US$19 billion) in 2024, according to details from the central government's budget proposal released on Monday.

The plan, which was presented by the Cabinet to President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), would set government spending at NT$2.882 trillion -- up by about 7 percent from 2023 -- and projects total revenues of NT$2.709 trillion, the Presidential Office said in a press release.

In the statement, Tsai was cited as saying that social welfare spending would account for the largest portion of the budget, and receive the largest funding increase, although no exact figure was given."

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https://archive.is/Qh9fz

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🇦🇫🔥📹 — 📰 Al-Jazeera: Taliban Palace - The Second Year of Taliban Rule | 14-08-23
— "Rare behind-the-scenes access to the Taliban spokesman as local Afghans confront him about the failed economy and broken promises of women’s and minority rights.

With unprecedented access from Kandahar to Kabul, the Taliban’s main spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid opens the doors to the presidential palace. He takes us to the centre of the Taliban’s transition from rebel fighters to the nation’s leaders.

Charged with orders from the Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, Mujahid faces the stresses that come with governing a divided and traumatised country of 40 million people. In Afghanistan, human rights are under attack and the economy is crumbling.

Powerful businessmen, bold Hazara leaders and a fearless woman activist confront Mujahid about the Taliban’s many unfulfilled promises. He knows the stakes are high for an administration which is not formally recognised by the rest of the world."

https://youtu.be/vP6SnlLlMU8

🇷🇺🤝🇦🇫 — On August 29, 2023, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), the biggest Anti-Taliban Resistance movement in Afghanistan, announced via its official medias that a meeting between NRF leaders and a major Russian Federation Duma MP took place at the Russian Federal Parliament headquarters in Moscow, capital of Russian Federation

On the statement the Anti-Taliban group announced that the Leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, Mr. Ahmad Massoud, visited Moscow at the invitation of Mr. Sergey Mironov, Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation's Parliament & Leader of the A Just Russia - For Truth (party), the biggest Social-Democratic Party in Russia, and met with the Russian politician.

According to the statement, in this meeting, while discussing the situation in Afghanistan and the region, there were detailed, comprehensive and constructive talks about the ways out of the crisis in the country, as well both Mr. Massoud and Mr. Mironov emphasized on the fight against Islamist Extremism and drugs, the Total Independence of Afghanistan and the establishment of an all-inclusive government based on the votes of the people.

Mr. Mironov mentioned the role of the national hero Shahid Ahmad Shah Massoud in the fight against terrorism and called the current resistance of the Afghan people against International terrorism and Islamist extremism a continuation of the struggle of Shahid Ahmad Shah Massoud.

The leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of the leader of the Just Cause Party and the deputy of the parliament of the Russian Federation and their sympathy with the people of Afghanistan.

Abandoned by the US and NATO, forgotten by their neighbors and betrayed by the so-called International Community, the anti-Taliban rebels seem to see Russia as their last attempt to find support in liberating Afghanistan from what they see as the Darkness of Islamist Oppression.

🔗 National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (@NRFafg):

🇹🇼🪖📃 — 📰 Taipei Times: Tsai urges public support for military

— "President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday on Armed Forces Day urged Taiwanese to show support for the military and protect the nation together.

“Armed Forces Day is only one day, but our soldiers protect the country 365 days a year, day and night, without holidays,” Tsai wrote on Facebook, as she invited Taiwanese to express their gratitude to military personnel.

She said that the national defense budget for next year is more than NT$606.8 billion (US$19.05 billion), a historical high.

The environment on military bases is continuously improving, and more than 60,000 soldiers are expected to have more comfortable living quarters by the end of next year, she said."

Link
https://archive.is/eX8Nl

🇯🇵❌🇰🇷⛪️ — 📰 Asahi Shimbun: Japanese State eyes court order to dissolve the Unification Church
— "The government plans to seek a court order to dissolve the Unification Church as early as mid-October following an investigation into the group’s activities triggered by the murder last year of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

It also plans to call on the Tokyo District Court to levy a fine against the group’s representative director within days as the organization, formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, failed to answer numerous questions related to the church’s alleged shady business practices, government sources said.

In taking this step Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to demonstrate that the government is making a clean break with the Unification Church following a public uproar over its ties to ruling party lawmakers."

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https://archive.is/T9KpX

🇯🇵 🪖📈 — 📰 Yomiuri Shimbun: Japan Defense Ministry Seeks ¥930 Billion for Ammunition; Cutting-Edge Missile Development Also in Budget

— "The Defense Ministry has included ¥930.3 billion for securing ammunition in its fiscal 2024 budget request, aiming to strengthen Japan’s ability to fight for a long period of time.

It also requested ¥2.35 trillion for maintenance and improvement to maximize the use of equipment. The ministry is to drastically beef up its defense capabilities with a Taiwan contingency in mind.

“We must keep implementing necessary projects steadily and speedily in the next fiscal year, which is the second year of our effort to drastically boost Japan’s defense capabilities,” Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said Thursday at a ministry meeting."

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https://archive.is/WXb6V

🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺 — 📰 FT: Chinese lenders extend billions of dollars to Russian banks after western sanctions

— "Chinese lenders stepped in to extend billions of dollars to Russian banks as western institutions pulled back their operations in the country during the first year of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The moves by four of China’s biggest banks are part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the renminbi as an alternative global currency to the dollar.

China’s exposure to Russia’s banking sector quadrupled in the 14 months to the end of March this year, according to the latest official data analysed for the Financial Times by the Kyiv School of Economics. "

https://archive.is/dgK18
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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 📰 Talaqa News: Media, quoting Israeli intelligence sources: Officials of the Palestinian "Islamic Jihad" movement stationed in Damascus moved to Lebanon after the Israeli army threatened to launch an attack against them.

https://t.me/talaqa_NEWS/6892