BREAKING – The speaker of Iran’s parliament says Tehran will never hand over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites to the UN nuclear watchdog as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired, Iranian state media reports.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – Dead and wounded in Al Bab this morning after an IED went off in a vehicle belonging to one of the Turkish-backed TFSA factions in the city.

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🔄 UPDATE – 🇸🇾 Syria: Pickup is totally destroyed. A child nearby was also reportedly wounded by shrapnel after a IED attack in Al Bab this morning.

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CHINA – Launch of the DF-17 missile with its hypersonic glider, pictured at a Chinese Rocket Force base

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CHINA – Unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province - a 1080 MWe domestically-designed ACPR1000 pressurised water reactor - has yesterday been connected to the electricity grid, the China Nuclear Energy Association announced.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – At least 3 dead, including a child, following the explosion of an IED attack in downtown Afrin north of Aleppo this morning.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela unveiled a new drone in its arsenal ... which turned out to be the Foxtech Rex 340 commercial UAV.

It can be freely purchased on AliExpress for $ 35,000.

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⚓🇺🇸 US Navy P8 Poseidon AE6878 patrolling off the coast of Crimea this morning

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Turkish T-155 artillery shells Kurdish PKK targets. This vehicle is a joint Turkish-South Korean development and is based on the South Korean K9 Thunder self-propelled guns, and has a maximum firing range of up to 40 km. using active rockets.

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BREAKING – Egyptian President A-Sisi arrived a short time ago in Baghdad for trilateral summit between Egypt, Iraq, Jordan.

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