🇮🇷🇵🇰The Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, alongside the Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, have condemned the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

❗United States accuses India of financing war in Ukraine through Russia.

❗At least 34 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, including 17 aid seekers, sources in Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.

🇨🇳🇷🇺China and Russia start joint military drills in Sea of Japan, Sunday

❗WAR Analysts argue the large scale military drills in Australia featuring 14,000 troops from 19 countries is meant as a deterrence against China.

Talisman Sabre

🇷🇺🇺🇸U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his special envoy Steve Witkoff could visit Russia in the coming days, ahead of the Aug. 8 deadline he set for Moscow to end its war on Ukraine or face new sanctions

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia's Vladimir Putin is open to meeting Zelensky for talks following "preparatory work at the expert level," the Kremlin has announced, according to the state owned RT television station

🇷🇺❗Russia vows Ukraine will not join NATO.

🇺🇸❗U.S. President Donald Trump condemned Russia’s ongoing attacks against Ukraine as “disgusting” and threatened new sanctions if Moscow does not agree to peace by the end of next week.

❗🇷🇺🇺🇦An overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the Russian resort City

❗🇺🇦🇷🇺Russia FPV drone decimates Ukrainian military equipment near Pokrovsk (formerly Krasnoarmiisk)

🇸🇾⚡Syria is set to elect a new parliament in September

The new parliament in Damascus is expected to have 210 members, 60 more than the current provisional parliament, which was formed in March this year. The new parliament will serve for a transitional period of three years, at the end of which a new constitution is to be adopted. Foreign election observers are allowed.

There's little trust between Syria's minorities and the interim government in Damascus

🇺🇦🇷🇺❗Russia has introduced a new guided glide bomb into its full-scale invasion, which marks Moscow's push to develop aerial weapons to bombard Ukraine's infrastructure

Ukrainian authorities said that Russia's new UMPB-5 guided aerial bombs had been dropped by Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jets on two regions in the last two months amid testing of the new weapon.

❗Russia Krasheninnikov mountain in Kamchatka has erupted again.

❗🇺🇸Donald Trump calls Elizabeth Warren a loser.

🇷🇺❗US President Trump says India is profiting from oil purchased from Russia.

'I will be substantially raising the tariff paid by India to the USA'

🇺🇸Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

The proposal put forward last week by Texas Republicans could potentially eliminate five Democratic US House seats ahead of the 2026 midterms. With solid majorities in both state legislative chambers, Republicans have a glide path to delivering on Trump’s wishes.

🇺🇸⚡US President Trump says, 'being woke is for losers' as he praises Sydney Sweeney

❗🇨🇳High stakes game: China chokes supplies of critical minerals to Western Defense companies.

🇺🇸❗US President Trump moves to protect Israel from growing discontent

US Govt to halt disaster relief funds to U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies.