— 🇺🇸 Correction: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not suspend his campaign fully, but he will withdraw his name from the ballot in the battleground states & encourages his supporters to vote for Trump in those states

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MUST WATCH: The Yemeni Navy published scenes of the “SOUNION” ship in the Red Sea after it was targeted for violating the ban to israeli ports.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: Israeli soldiers film themselves invading 'Bani Saleh' mosque and ripping copies of the Qur'an.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Meta reports Iranian hacker group 'APT42' targeted WhatsApp accounts of officials in the Trump and Biden administrations.

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— 🇵🇸/🇪🇬 NEW: A Hamas delegation will arrive in Cairo this evening to discuss the latest Gaza ceasefire talks with mediators.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested that judges urgently decide on arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, stating the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israeli nationals.

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— 🇶🇦/🇮🇷 NEW: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to visit Iran in the coming days, Tasnim reports.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇱 NEW: A Russian court has sentenced five men to over six years in prison each for their roles in an 'anti-Israel riot' at an airport in Dagestan last October.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: The Lebanese Health Ministry reported 2,412 casualties, including 564 deaths, as of data up to August 20.

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— 🇫🇷 NEW: An explosion occurred near the 'Beth Yaacov' synagogue in La Motte near Montpellier, southern France, injuring a police officer.

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦/🇦🇪 NEW: Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange, with 115 prisoners from each side released, mediated by the United Arab Emirates.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hebrew media reports a cyber attack on the Knesset website, with hackers sending threatening SMS messages to Israeli settlers from the Knesset. The website domain currently redirects to an error page.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israeli shelling targeted the headquarters of World Central Kitchen in Deir al-Balah, resulting in injuries to their staff.

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— 🇵🇸 NEW: Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch-Moroccan footballer, will donate €500,000, one-third of his payout, to children in Gaza.

The club Mainz 05 had terminated his contract over a social media post supporting Palestine, but a German court ruled the termination was unlawful.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇪🇬/🇯🇴 NEW: U.S. Air Force General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown, began an unannounced visit to Jordan, Egypt, and Israel today. The purpose is to 'discuss ways to avoid escalation of tensions in the region.'

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian urges Muslim countries to unite to counter Israel.

“Would Israel have dared to do a damn thing in this region if Muslims had been united? Not only them, but the U.S., Europe, and any other power, could they do any of these things?” he said.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Reports suggest Netanyahu's inner circle doubts far-right ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir will follow through on threats to topple the government over a ceasefire deal.

Netanyahu's team expects any deal to collapse within weeks, with the ministers likely withdrawing from but remaining in the coalition to prevent early elections.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades lured an Israeli engineering unit into a booby-trapped tunnel in Deir al-Balah, triggering an explosion that killed one IDF soldier and critically injured several others, according to Hebrew media.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: Russian court frees Israeli-Canadian citizen Joshua Cartu who is wanted by the U.S. over alleged financial crimes.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 According to the Water Conflict Chronology tracker, Israeli attacks on Palestinian water supplies made up 25% of all water-related violence globally in 2023. The tracker found over 90 such incidents just last year, involving the contamination or destruction of wells, pumps, and irrigation systems.

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