🇦🇲🇦🇿 Armenia has negotiated the basic principles of a future peace agreement with Azerbaijan, but Baku has not yet confirmed its commitment to the three principles proposed by Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Saturday.

🗣 "The basic peace principles have been agreed with Azerbaijan. This happened as a result of my meetings in Brussels with Azerbaijani President [Ilham Aliyev] mediated by European Council President Charles Michel," Pashinyan said, adding that the agreements were recorded in Michel's statements on the results of the trilateral meetings in May and July.

At the same time, the Armenian prime minister also said that Yerevan and Baku were speaking different "diplomatic" languages and "often faced misunderstanding" because of a protracted conflict, thousands of victims and an atmosphere of "decades-long hatred."

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israeli-Lebanese tensions are continuing to escalate an increase in attacks on US bases from Shiite militias.

🗣 "If you want the secondary fronts to stop, you must cease the aggression on Gaza," Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah recently told Washington and Tel Aviv.

Nonetheless, Israel has been raising the stakes by proceeding with the Gaza ground operation – despite piling up civilian casualties – and issuing threats to Hezbollah. "What we can do in Gaza, we can also do in Beirut," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been quoted as saying.

Could the Israeli-Lebanese tit-for-tat morph into an all-out regional war?

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🇯🇴 Top Jordanian diplomat rejects possibility of Arab troop presence in Gaza

🗣 "Speaking on behalf of Jordan but having discussed this issue with almost all our brethren, there will be no Arab troops going to Gaza. None. We are not going to be seen as the enemy," Safadi said at a regional security forum underway in Bahrain.

Addressing the plenary of the IISS Manama Dialogue, the Jordanian diplomat stressed that the destruction of Gaza had to stop before the international community could discuss its future.

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Hamas' military wing has lost contact with a number of groups responsible for protecting the hostages, and their fate is now unknown, a spokesman for the movement said.

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🇺🇸 A US military base in the occupied part of northeastern Syria came under a drone attack that injured a service member, media reported Saturday.

The base is located in Tel Baidar in the eastern Syrian province of Hasaka, Beirut-based Al Mayadeen reported.

The United States has set up 24 military bases and four outposts in Syria despite protests from the Syrian government.

US military installations in Syria and Iraq have been attacked on more than a single occasion following the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last month.

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Adele Khodr, regional director for the Middle East at the UN children's fund UNICEF, condemned reported strikes on two schools in Gaza that killed and injured people sheltering inside on Saturday.

🗣 "The scenes of carnage & death following attacks on Alfakhoura & Tal Al Zaatar schools in Gaza killing many children & women are horrific & appalling. These horrible attacks should cease immediately. Children, schools & shelters are not a target. Immediate ceasefire needed now," she wrote on social media.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Over 12,300 people killed in 42 days of hostilities in Gaza, including more than 5,000 children, according to Gaza's authorities;

▪️The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it allowed a number of people to evacuate from Shifa Hospital via a safe route;

▪️The IDF expands military operations in Gaza and sends extra forces to other areas of the enclave;

▪️About 200 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Al-Fakhura school in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported;

▪️Numerous rockets were launched from Lebanon toward IDF posts. In response, IDF tanks and aircraft struck a number of Hezbollah observation posts;

▪️There are 120 wounded who remain in the [Shifa] hospital and five doctors who stayed with them because they are unable to walk, according to Director General of the Gaza Ministry of Health Munir Al-Borsh.

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🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden's brother, James, may appear before the House Oversight Committee and answer questions with regard to the GOP-led probe into the Bidens' financial dealings with foreign nationals during Joe's vice presidency.

🗣 "We have heard from James Biden's attorney, and they have signaled that he will come and answer questions in front of the House Oversight Committee, and we're very appreciative of that, look forward to that," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said on the 'Just the News, No Noise' show.

The report came at a time when the White House made it clear that it wouldn't cooperate with the House panel. Earlier, GOP investigators subpoenaed James Biden, first son Hunter Biden and their business associate Rob Walker.

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🇹🇷 Turkiye to continue shopping around for fighter jets after the Eurofighter purchase deal ran into German resistance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said

🗣 "We are on our way toward becoming a country that produces and uses its own weapons. We are also taking steps to continuously satisfy our needs for fighter aircraft," Erdogan told reporters upon his return from Germany.

The Turkish president traveled to Berlin on Friday in a bid to convince Chancellor Olaf Scholz to greenlight the sale of 40 Eurofighter multirole fighters, a collaboration of several NATO member states.

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Libyan Energy Ministry delegation plans to visit Russia by the end of the year to discuss cooperation in electricity projects

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💥 Perfect hit!

📹 D-30 howitzer battery from the Russian division named after Great Patriotic War hero Mugin Nagaev delivers precise strikes against its enemy.

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🇹🇷🇬🇷 Turkiye and Greece will be able to solve all their problems if they exclude third countries from the process. Ankara wants to increase its number of friends, said the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

NATO allies Greece and Turkiye have repeatedly found themselves on the brink of armed conflict due to territorial disputes, and recently they have been trying to improve relations. A meeting on confidence-building measures was held in Ankara, the parties agreed to create a contact mechanism to facilitate the implementation of agreed measures.

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Ukraine's leadership faces 'day of reckoning' amid dwindling Western support

Ukrainian President Zelensky has drawn attention to reducing Western support as Washington’s attention is increasingly focused on the Middle East and the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A recent stopgap funding bill signed by the POTUS contains no provisions for further assistance to Ukraine.

Zelensky's words appears to be “both symbolic and real,” as Ukraine’s “hopes of victory, that were already dim, would falter in oblivion” if the constant flow of weapons and munitions to Kiev from the West were to cease, argued Jacques Sapir, a director at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

According to him, supporting Ukraine has never been a “top priority” for the Western powers, no matter what declarations on the subject they made in the past.

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❗️An estimated 100,000 protesters march through the streets of Melbourne, Australia in support of Palestine

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❗️NSW Police deploy "Orwellian style" surveillance stations amidst crowds of thousands protesting for Palestine in Sydney, Australia today

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🇦🇺 Footage of the streets of Melbourne, Australia right now

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🎙 Protestors on the ground in Sydney today told Sputnik that they are thankful that countries like Russia, Iran & China are all supporting the Palestinians

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📹 Thousands of Palestinian protestors in Sydney have blocked roads in the CBD.

Full report coming soon

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📹 Russian Uragan (Hurricane) MLRS crews attacked a Ukrainian temporary deployment point with personnel and weapons in the Kupyansk direction

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Patients from the Shifa hospital in northern Gaza will be transported to hospitals located in the southern part of the enclave within the next 24-72 hours, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.

"Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza," the WHO said on X.

However, these hospitals are already overburdened and operating at full capacity, and new patients from Shifa Hospital will place even greater strain on medical staff and resources, the organization added.

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📹 Pros in action

🔥 Russia's anti-tank missile system crew destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle in the Kurdyumovka area with a precise hit with a guided missile.

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