🇺🇸🇯🇵🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass stated that the United States recognizes Japan’s sovereignty over the Kuril Islands and will always support its ally, Japan.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Guardsmen of the 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army, part of the “Vostok” Group of Forces, thwarted another Ukrainian Armed Forces rotation attempt, destroying enemy equipment, materiel, and personnel.

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🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡️ — Joint U.S.–South Korean military exercises began on August 17 and will run through August 27. The drills will include joint operations aimed at improving the allies’ combat readiness.

South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Jang Do-young said the allies will jointly “assess the country’s military capabilities” during the exercises.

However, on Sunday evening, the U.S. president said he was “not happy” with US participation “based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un”. He added that they were costly and “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that, as long as Donald J Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful”.

Trump added that it was too late to cancel the drills so he had ordered the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, to “substantially reduce” them. He also said South Korea had refused to help in the “denuclearisation of the Islamic republic of Iran”.

On August 14, KCNA published a statement from a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson, who described the upcoming Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises as “aggressive.”

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — 6 civilians were killed and four were injured, including a child, in a rocket attack on the village of Koloskovo in the Belgorod region.

In total, Russian air defense systems shot down 205 drones during the night.

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🇮🇪⚡️ — Based on FOI data, non-Irish were as much as 1.4 times more likely to be allocated social housing compared to Irish households.

In 2024, non-Irish individuals constituted 25.5% of the waiting list but received 35.5% of the allocations from Approved Housing Bodies. Councillor Linda de Courcy claims that councils are “actively discriminating against Irish people.”

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israel’s national security minister, Ben-Gvir says Israeli forces should “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night.

“There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people”, Ben-Gvir added.

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🇱🇻🇪🇺⚡️ — Latvia is demanding €7 billion from the EU to cover defense expenses and losses resulting from the disruption of ties with Russia.

Nothing personal, just business: create a threat > announce it > impose sanctions yourself > publicly suffer from the sanctions you imposed > demand compensation > profit.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — American surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter recounts from Gaza:

“I did a leg amputation on a five-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her…

She stayed awake the whole amputation.”

Live testimonies exposing the medical collapse amid the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — A report about a 35-meter-high anti-aircraft tower equipped with "Pantsir-S1M" short-range air defense systems, which have been constructed since 2023 in several rings around Moscow, forming the basis of the capital region's anti-drone defense.

Recently, similar towers have also begun to be built in other regions of the country.

The air defense system also uses new, compact surface-to-air missiles, the TKB-1055 "Gvozd", specifically designed for use against drones.

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🇫🇷🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — France strongly condemns the occupation of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in Al Qusra, in the West Bank, and the violence perpetrated against civilians. The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs demands that the Israeli authorities arrest and prosecute those responsible for these acts in order to protect the population, in accordance with international law.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ — The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on August 17, 2026, that over the past 48 hours, 5 martyrs (2 new and 3 retrieved) and 18 injuries arrived at hospitals, while many victims remain under rubble unreachable by rescue crews.

The official toll of the Israeli aggression since October 7, 2023, now stands at 73,399 martyrs and 174,310 injuries.

Since the ceasefire began on October 11, 2025, the totals stand at 1,265 martyrs, 4,198 injuries, and 813 retrievals.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — BREAKING: Iran has decided to shift from a defensive posture to a “fully offensive” policy, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.

Tehran has set a deadline of several weeks for the full implementation of its MOU with the U.S., warning it will not tolerate an indefinite American naval blockade.

The official said all Iranian entities are prepared to escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and across the region if diplomacy fails, with the deadline to be conveyed to Washington and regional states through mediators.

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🇮🇳🇺🇸⚡️ — India’s Defence Ministry has signed a $203 million contract with General Atomics to lease two MQ-9B SeaGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the Indian Navy for 30 months.

The lease will bridge the capability gap until India begins receiving 31 MQ-9B drones under a separate $3–4 billion acquisition, with deliveries expected to begin around 2029.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Guardsmen of the 14th Guards Separate Special Purpose Brigade of the “Vostok” Group of Forces thwarted an Armed Forces of Ukraine rotation in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

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