Ukraine and Poland are exploring a joint bid to host the FIFA World Cup in the 2040s, reviving their successful Euro 2012 partnership.

Source: POLITICO

Finland has launched Europe’s largest civil defense exercise since World War II, with more than 2,000 people practicing how to survive missile attacks, cyberattacks and disruptions to power and water.

In Kuopio, residents are being trained inside underground shelters, including a cave capable of housing 7,000 people.

Finland is also drawing lessons from Ukraine, where civilians often have only minutes to reach shelter during Russian attacks.

Source: AP

What’s behind Republika Srpska’s secessionist ambitions?

A multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign in Washington.

Under Milorad Dodik, its government spent at least $8.9 million on 11 lobbying firms in 2025 and 2026 to build political support and improve its image abroad.

Among those hired: a former US governor pardoned by Donald Trump after a corruption conviction.

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A Russia sanctions bill that passed the Senate 86–11 is now stalled in the House, with little chance of a vote before the November midterms.

Lawmakers fear that forcing countries like India to replace Russian oil could drive up global oil and gasoline prices while giving Trump broader tariff powers.

Source: Bloomberg

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:

The UK's position on the Falkland Islands is unwavering.

The Islands are British and will remain so because that is the overwhelming position of the Islanders.

Their right of self-determination is paramount, grounded in international law and we will resolutely uphold it.

A YouGov poll shows a record 38% of Republicans now view Canada as “unfriendly” or an “enemy” of the U.S., the highest level recorded in the past decade.

Overall, 22% of Americans now hold that view of Canada, another decade-high.

Chinese rare-earth suppliers are halting some shipments to U.S. companies despite having export licenses, fearing punishment from Beijing amid rising U.S.-China tensions.

The delays are keeping critical material supplies tight and prices near record highs, affecting defense, semiconductor, aerospace and energy industries.

Some U.S. firms have waited more than six months for licenses, with the issue likely to feature in talks ahead of Xi Jinping’s September 24 visit to Washington.

Source: Reuters

WATCH: Train crashes into a truck at a railway crossing in Gdansk, Poland.

Andrew Tate has been indicted by Romanian prosecutors on charges including trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering.

His brother Tristan has been indicted for complicity.

Source: Reuters

US Munition Likely Directly Hit Iranian Wedding: Experts

Weapons experts reviewing verified imagery said the blast that killed four people and injured at least 68 at a wedding in Kuhestak was consistent with a direct U.S. munition strike.

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US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to visit Moscow first on September 5, before traveling to Kyiv on September 6.

Source: TASS

📸 Trump hosted prominent Hasidic rabbis at the White House.

Shares Jump as Volkswagen Agrees to Biggest Restructuring in 89-Year History

Volkswagen’s supervisory board agreed to its most extensive restructuring in 89 years, adding 50,000 job cuts to bring the total to 100,000, which resulted in shares rising 7%.

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Mazloum Abdi, Adviser to Syrian Presidency & former SDF chief:

Undoubtedly, Türkiye’s influence in Syria has increased during this new period.

Syria’s issues will continue to concern Türkiye, and Türkiye’s influence in Syria will continue.

Türkiye can play a positive role in Syria’s reconstruction, particularly economically or in other areas.

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Mazloum Abdi, Adviser to Syrian Presidency & former SDF chief:

There are currently talks between Syria and Israel. I believe tensions are currently lower, and that is a good thing.

The important thing is for tensions to remain low until the problems are resolved.

Israel is insisting on remaining in the areas it has entered. It is putting forward certain conditions for withdrawing.

These are difficult conditions to fulfill. It appears that this will continue for quite a long time, until a permanent solution is found.

Germany's Adidas is facing boycott calls after featuring IDF veteran Shalev Biton — who lost his left leg in a 2021 Gaza — as the face of its single-shoe service in Israel.

The service lets amputees buy one shoe at half price.

Thousands of Palestinians have lost limbs since October 2023.

The backlash also revives Adidas's 2024 decision to drop Bella Hadid from a campaign after Israeli pressure, framing it as a double standard.

Adidas hasn't responded publicly.

2 km from Türkiye. 580 km from Greece.

And yet it claims 40,000 km² of sea.

Kastellorizo — a tiny island right off the Turkish coast — is being used to cut off 1,577 km of Türkiye's Mediterranean coastline.

And, the 1947 Paris Treaty says it must stay demilitarized.

Today? Greek missile boats armed with Exocets patrol its waters.

Hungary will keep granting protection to draft-age Ukrainian men despite new EU rules barring it.

PM Péter Magyar says many are ethnic Hungarians from Transcarpathia and that it's wrong to prevent people from leaving a country at war.

The EU rule, effective since August 5 at Kyiv's request, blocks new temporary protection for men who haven't met their military obligations.

Hungary voted against it.

Magyar has broken sharply from predecessor Orbán, calling Russia the "brutal aggressor" at NATO's Ankara summit, but on this issue both governments took the same position.

Channel 4 News says undercover footage shows senior Reform UK figures discussing secret foreign-funded support that may have breached UK electoral law.

Reporters posing as wealthy donors funded three Reform-commissioned polls worth £32,500 through a US company. The polls were published in major newspapers without disclosing Reform’s role or the funding source.

Nigel Farage later met the undercover team and praised the polling. They also discussed a possible £500,000 donation routed through a UK-based son using money from his US-based father—an arrangement that would be illegal if designed to disguise the true donor.

Former Electoral Commission chief Bob Posner said the evidence could justify a criminal investigation. Reform UK, Farage and the other figures involved deny the allegations.

Argentine President Javier Milei has announced plans to build an integrated naval base in Tierra del Fuego, near the Falkland Islands.

Milei said the base would strengthen Argentina’s strategic position in the South Atlantic and be “crucial to Argentina’s geopolitical influence.”