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Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza Raises Doubts About Trump Peace Plan

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-08-18T21:13:16+00:00

A day after President Trump’s envoy, Jared Kushner, visited Israel to advance a stalled plan for demilitarizing and rebuilding Gaza, the Israeli military said it targeted Hamas commanders.

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Непоследние баррели

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-08-18T21:10:58+00:00

Стратегический нефтяной резерв США в августе сократился до многолетнего минимума. По данным Управления энергетической информации США (EIA) на 14 августа, его объем составлял 293,4 млн барр. Ниже последний раз запасы были 31 декабря 1982 г. – 293,2 млн барр. нефти.

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Золотой флот Трампа

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-08-18T21:07:23+00:00

Президент США Дональд Трамп 13 августа издал меморандум о развитии американского кораблестроения. Ранее, в апреле 2025 г., был опубликован указ «О восстановлении американского морского господства». А в декабре того же года была озвучена амбициозная программа развития ВМС США, которая получила типичное для второй администрации Трампа название «Золотой флот». Помимо прочего она предполагала разработку и строительство нового класса линкоров типа Trump.

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Jon Ossoff blasts ‘draft-dodging, crook president’ in latest war of words with Trump – US politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T21:03:52+00:00

The Democratic senator, who is currently running for re-election in Georgia, says Trump ‘has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win’Sign up for the US Breaking News emailPresident Donald Trump posted an image of a map of the strait of Hormuz on his social media platform Truth Social, with a circle around the strait and the words “New US Territory” as the title on Tuesday morning.This follows comments made on Friday at a speech at a police academy on Long Island, New York, where Trump said “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, p

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Three dead after family get into difficulty in water off Shoreham-by-Sea

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:58:04+00:00

A man, woman and teenage girl have died, while a younger girl is in a critical condition, say Sussex policeA couple and their teenage daughter have died after getting into difficulty in the sea off the West Sussex coast, police said on Tuesday.A man, a woman and a teenage girl died after the incident in Shoreham-by-Sea, the chief superintendent of Sussex police, James Collis, said. Continue reading...

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Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the US

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:39:15+00:00

The first group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in the coming days.

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The Tragic Story of Jason Arday

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:34:38+00:00

The Cambridge professor, found dead last week, was at the center of a firestorm about race and hiring. We talk to the reporter covering the story.

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Australia politics live: NDIS reforms to pass parliament today after 63 amendments get Coalition on side

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:33:58+00:00

Bill passed Senate on Wednesday evening and is due back in lower house today. Follow today’s news liveFollow our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.The government’s controversial NDIS bill will pass the lower house today after it went through the Senate last night. The health minister, Mark Butler, said 63 government amendments across both houses were introduced to win the Coalition’s support for the government’s changes, aimed

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США ввели санкції проти голови МКС, яка видала ордер на арешт Путіна

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-18T20:32:00+00:00

Держсекретар США зазначив, що адміністрація Трампа вводить санкції проти Томоко Акане, японської судді, яка обіймає посаду голови Міжнародного кримінального суду, та Абдулає Сеє, старшого адвоката суду.

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Что известно о сбое в рунете и отключениях электричества

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-08-18T20:30:51+00:00

18 августа в ряде районов Москвы произошло кратковременное отключение электричества. На фоне перебоев пользователи также столкнулись со сбоями в работе российских интернет-сервисов.

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Russian missile strike kills 10 civilians in Kharkiv

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:26:01+00:00

A Russian missile strike on Pechenihy, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 17 others.

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Man accused of attacking duo at New York City synagogue charged with federal hate crimes

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:25:10+00:00

Larry Montes, already facing state charges, allegedly attacked 63-year-old woman and security guard on FridayThe man accused of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat services Friday has been charged with hate crimes in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.Larry Montes, who is already facing state-level hate crime charges, allegedly struck a 63-year-old woman as security was trying to boot him from Central synagogue. He allegedly spat at, and head-butted, a security team member and damaged synagogue property, authorities said. Continue reading...

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ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dies aged 77

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:20:11+00:00

Tributes paid to ‘great friend and collaborator’ who played with band for 56 years and died in hospice care in TexasThe ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died at the age of 77.A spokesperson for the band confirmed to the Guardian that Beard died on 17 August in hospice care at his ranch in Richmond, Texas. His family were by his side. Continue reading...

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Trump and Carney speak ahead of US tariff deadline

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:19:27+00:00

The new US tariffs would cover about $20bn worth of imports and could lead to job losses and business closures.

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Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:13:31+00:00

Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and loggingThe Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45m acres of national forests to road construction, drilling and logging.Conservationists had feared the announcement was coming since last summer after Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, targeted a rule brought in by Bill Clinton’s administration, describing it as “overly restrictive” and an “absurd obs

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Pentagon threatens to cut federal funding to 30 universities over foreign academic partnerships

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T20:01:35+00:00

Harvard, Yale, Stanford and others face directive to review and cut alliances Pentagon deems national security riskThirty US universities could lose federal funding unless they review and cut foreign academic partnerships the Pentagon considers a national security risk within the next two weeks, under a Pentagon directive aimed largely at ties to Chinese institutions.Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Cornell are among the institutions ordered to conduct and report the reviews – and end partnerships deemed problematic – by 31 August, according to

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Judge swapped in Trump's defamation case against BBC

Source: BBC News - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:52:32+00:00

A judge who was recently nominated by the US president to serve in Florida's federal court will now preside over his $10bn defamation case against the BBC.

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Turkish politician Melih Meric stabbed

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:51:17+00:00

Footage shows the moment Turkish New Party MP Melih Meric got into an argument with a man who stabbed him.

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US woman sentenced to six years in prison over plot to kill treasury secretary

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:48:41+00:00

Riley English said she was in the grips of a mental health crisis and abusing drugs, and that she planned to kill Scott BessentA Massachusetts woman who told police that she brought homemade firebombs to the US Capitol to kill Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, was sentenced on Tuesday to just over six years in prison.Riley English, a 26-year-old transgender woman, said she was in the grips of a mental health crisis and abusing drugs when she drove to Washington in January 2025 and told Capitol police that she was there to kill Bessent on the day of his Senate confirmation. Continue rea

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Man accused of attacking duo at New York synagogue charged with federal hate crimes

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:38:00+00:00

Larry Montes, already facing state charges, allegedly attacked 63-year-old woman and security guard on FridayThe man accused of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat services Friday has been charged with hate crimes in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.Larry Montes, who is already facing state-level hate crime charges, allegedly struck a 63-year-old woman as security was trying to boot him from Central Synagogue. He allegedly spat at, and head-butted, a security team member and damaged synagogue property, authorities said. Continue reading...

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Minnesota sues Texas to force extradition of ICE agent accused of lying about shooting

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:35:37+00:00

Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor in case of ICE agent charged with wounding a man in MinneapolisMinnesota’s attorney general has sued the governor of Texas to force him to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent charged with wounding a man and then lying to justify the shooting during the US agency’s controversial crackdown in Minneapolis.Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, is asking a federal judge to bar the sheriff in Cameron county, Texas, from releasing ICE agent Christian Castro, and to order Greg Abbott, Texas’s governor, to sign his extraditi

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A Rescue Mission in Remote Colombia

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:33:58+00:00

Our photographer Federico Rios joined aid flights in Chocó to document earthquake rescue efforts in remote communities.

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US man posed as doctor in fraudulent scheme to profit from Ozempic, prosecutors say

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-18T19:19:10+00:00

Rodney Greer accused of securing unauthorized prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs and selling them to customersAn Illinois man allegedly impersonated doctors – and evidently referred to himself online as “$hotboy1” – is facing criminal charges that he secured unauthorized prescriptions for Ozempic and Mounjaro pharmaceutical drugs that facilitate weight loss and are taken by some for cosmetic rather than legitimate medical reasons.Rodney Greer purportedly launched the allege scheme in early 2023, according to court filings from federal prosecutors and a US justice department news release issued on M

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