🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has canceled a working visit to the United States over his opposition to the proposed Gaza annexation plan.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits. They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine.

Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! President DJT," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "India has been targeted by the United States and the European Union for importing oil from Russia after the commencement of the Ukraine conflict. In fact, India began importing from Russia because traditional supplies were diverted to Europe after the outbreak of the conflict. The United States at that time actively encouraged such imports by India for strengthening global energy markets stability.

India's imports are meant to ensure predictable and affordable energy costs to the Indian consumer. However, it is revealing that the very nations criticizing India are themselves indulging in trade with Russia. Unlike our case, such trade is not even a vital national compulsion.

The European Union in 2024 had a bilateral trade of Euro 67.5 billion in goods with Russia. In addition, it had trade in services estimated at Euro 17.2 billion in 2023. This is significantly more than India's total trade with Russia that year or subsequently. European imports of LNG in 2024, in fact, reached a record 16.5mn tonnes, Surpassing the last record of 15.21mn tonnes in 2022.

Where the United States is concerned, it continues to import from Russia uranium-hexafluoride for its nuclear industry, palladium for its EV industry, fertilizers as well as chemicals.

In this background, the targeting of India is unjustified and unreasonable. Like any major economy, India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security," - India's Ministry of External Affairs.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "We are concerned about the resurgence of violence in As Sweida and Manbij," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia will close the airspace over northern Astrakhan region from August 4th - 8th.

The Kapustin Yar Missile Base is located in northern Astrakhan, the home of the Oreshnik missile.

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🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese Bekaa clans, affiliated with Hezbollah, have called for a 'general mobilization towards Beirut' for tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- The US has threatened to sanction Iraq's Baghdad government if it 'fails to contain attacks' on Kurdish-controlled regions, in particularly on the oil fields in Kirkuk and Nineveh.

Erbil has accused Iranian-funded Popular Mobilization Forces of launching drones attacks against Erbil's strategic sites over the past few months.

🇺🇸🇦🇲⚡- US-Armenia to hold joint 'Eagle Partner' military exercises across Armenia from August 12th - 20th.

🇨🇳⚡- Death toll from large-scale floodings in the Beijing region, China, reaches 73.

🇺🇸⚡- "Hegseth’s latest battle: infighting inside the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s string of missteps has spurred infighting inside the Pentagon and raised concerns among some Republicans on Capitol Hill about his ability to run the department.

The problems lie in Hegseth's lack of experience managing organizations comparable in scale to the Pentagon. The dissatisfaction especially began to grow in March due to a leak on the Signal messenger of data about US strikes in Yemen.

Hegseth also fired 3 high-ranking department employees, and his distrust of the country's military leadership has only increased since then, leading to new resignations and internal conflicts.

Trump rejected the idea of a possible resignation of Pentagon Chief Hegseth following the scandal with the Signal leak of data about US military strikes in Yemen," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡- "OPEC+ countries have agreed to increase oil production by 548,000 barrels per day in September. The decision is related to the new US demands for India to stop purchasing Russian oil," - Reuters.

🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Turkey's Embassy in Kiev announces that Turkish President Erdogan is planning a visit to Kiev.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, says that British intelligence are allegedly planning high-profile sabotages against ships transporting Russian oil, aiming to create an international scandal and tighten sanctions pressure.

SVR claims London will cause an 'accident' involving a tanker in one of the sea straits or setting fire to a ship during loading at a port of a Russia-friendly state. It is assumed that such actions would create a precedent for NATO intervention and restrictions on maritime trade of Russian energy resources. SVR believes Ukrainian operatives will be used for the operations.

🇱🇧⚡- Pro-Hezbollah protests have erupted in southern Beirut, ahead of tomorrow's Lebanese cabinet meeting on the disarming of Hezbollah.

🇲🇩🇦🇿⚡- Moldova has reached out to Azerbaijan as the country is interested in gas supplies from Baku, the Moldovan Ministry of Energy reports. The move is aimed to reduce reliance on Russia's Gazprom, which owns 51% of Moldovagaz, with another 13% owned by Pridnestrovie.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones enter southern Lebanese airspace.

🇨🇳⚡- Chikungunya virus outbreak in the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, China.

Xinhua reports 2,892 cases in just one week, but claims Foshan's Disease Center has the 'epidemic under control', but the risk of it 'breaking out remains'.

🇸🇾⚡- Front-line Druze sources say Bedouin tribes in Wulgha have violated the ceasefire by firing on Druze separatists in Rimat Hazm - northwest of As Suwaida city.

Note, Wulgha has been under the Damascus government's Public Internal Security forces control, therefore it is complicit in the current attacks on Druze positions.

🇸🇾⚡- Bedouin tribes are heavy artillery shelling Atel, north of As Suwaida city. Druze sources say the shelling also originates from Wulgha.