🇮🇱🇶🇦 Israel carries out airstrike targeting Hamas leadership in Doha: what’s known

🟠 Explosion occurred in Qatar’s Doha during the talks with Hamas delegation on latest US proposal for Gaza truce

🟠 The IDF confirmed it has conducted a precise strike targeting the Hamas leadership but did not mention the location of the strike

🟠 The head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, al-Hayya, along with three other members of the movement's leadership, were killed in the strike in Doha, Al Arabiya reported

🟠 Israel reportedly informed the US about the strikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar

🟠 Qatar was also notified before the strikes were carried out, Israel Hayom says

🟠 However, Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned Israel's strikes on residential buildings in Doha

🟠 Israel's attack on Qatar extremely dangerous, violates UN charter, Iran's foreign ministry said

🟠Talks between mediators on Gaza Strip in Qatar have been suspended following the strike - Al Arabiya

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🚨 Members of the Hamas delegation led by the movement's leader in the Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hayya, survived the Israeli strikes in Doha, Al-Jazeera reports, citing a source within Hamas leadership

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🚨🔍 Israeli strike on Doha failed to achieve objectives?

At this time, Hamas has no information regarding the deaths of the movement's leaders as a result of Israel's attack in Doha on Tuesday, a source in the movement told Sputnik.

Information is coming in about casualties among members of the negotiation delegation, and details regarding their condition are being verified, the source added.

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📹 Shocking footage: Devastating remains of Nepal's Parliament

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🇷🇺 Russia strongly condemns Western attempts to remove Milorad Dodik from power in the Republic of Srpska - Lavrov

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🚨Ukraine’s statement about strike on village of Yarovaya is FAKE – source in Russian MoD

🗣 Zelensky's statements about the strike on the village of Yarovaya in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are fake and a provocation, a source from the Russian Ministry of Defense told Sputnik.

The Russian Armed Forces did not strike Yarovaya in the DPR on Tuesday; the last strike in that area occurred closer to the line of battle control on the night of September 7.

👉 The crater in Yarovaya shown by Ukraine is much smaller than those left by FABs, as mentioned by Zelensky, the agency's source noted.

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😏 💸 How’s it going without Russian gas, Germany? Power prices surge to rate nine times higher than nuclear-endowed France’s

Poor output from wind and solar energy sources and soaring prices for hydrocarbons saw Germany’s electricity prices surge to €125.95 ($147.50 US) per megawatt hour – a rate almost an order of magnitude above than that its western neighbor France (€13.86, or $16.25), Epex data cited by Bloomberg shows.

Successive German governments have spent years sabotaging their own economic well-being when it comes to energy policy, first shutting down all of the country’s nuclear plants, and then cutting off large-scale purchases of cheap and dependable Russian pipeline gas.

📉 The decision has left the EU’s primary industrial powerhouse slipping in and out of recession and facing deindustrialization as producers flee abroad.

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🇶🇦🇮🇱 Qatar slams Israeli strike on Doha, vows right to respond

🟠 Israel’s attack on Doha is a dangerous violation, and Qatar reserves the right to respond, the Qatari Prime Minister said.

🟠 He said Israel is undermining all attempts to achieve peace in the region and that Netanyahu is leading the Middle East toward an irreparable situation.

🟠 He stressed that the attack damaged the Gaza negotiations, which had been continuing at the request of the US.

🟠 The Prime Minister added that Qatar had no prior information about Israel’s preparations for the strike.

🟠 The US informed Qatar about Israel’s strike ten minutes TOO LATE when missile was already en route, the Prime Minister said.

🟠 He noted that the weapons used in the attack on Doha were not detected by Qatar’s radar systems.

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🚨 Algeria, Pakistan request UN Security Council meeting over Israeli strikes on Qatar

💬 “Most likely,” it will take place on September 10, an informed source told Sputnik.

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✍️ Macron nominates Defense Minister Lecornu as Prime Minister — reports

Outgoing French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu, 39, has been appointed to the post of prime minister, according to BFMTV. He thanked President Emmanuel Macron for his trust in a message on X.

French lawmakers voted on Monday to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou, who submitted his resignation to Macron the following day. The National Assembly removed Bayrou over his proposed $51 billion in budget cuts aimed at addressing France’s debt crisis.

Lecornu will be the FIFTH prime minister in less than two years. The formal handover of power between Bayrou and Lecornu is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10.

Major nationwide demonstrations are expected on Wednesday, with another strike reportedly planned for September 18.

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⛵️🔥 Flotilla group posts video of 'attack' on boat

The Steadfast Fleet shared a clip on Instagram* showing a luminous object striking their vessel and sparking a fire on board.

🇹🇳 Yesterday, Tunisian officials dismissed claims of a drone strike, saying “no drones” were detected and pointing to a fire in life jackets, possibly from a cigarette.

*banned in Russia as an extremist organization

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👀 'At least 50% of the science that's published is fake' - Dr. Michael Kirk Moore

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, physician Michael Kirk Moore claimed that major pharmaceutical companies wield deep influence over scientific publishing.

He pointed to statements by former editors of leading journals — NEJM, The Lancet, BMJ and JAMA — who warned that as much as half of published research may be unreliable. Citing Marcia Angell and Richard Smith, Moore said: “The depth of corruption is stunning.”

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💵 US SLASHES combat readiness funding for Europe by over 10x

🔹 The Pentagon plans to cut US Army combat readiness funding in Europe to $33.4 million in 2026, down more than tenfold from the $495 million peak in 2023, Sputnik analysis of Pentagon budget documents shows.

🔹 Funding cuts are linked to the downgrading of prepositioned stocks to a “caretaker posture” under the Army Transformation Initiative.

🔹 US media reported last week that the Trump administration reduced US security assistance to Eastern Europe, including phase-outs of programs like:

🔸 Baltic Security Initiative (training, intelligence, equipment to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
🔸 Section 333 funding for broader European security

🔹 Funding trajectory for Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 (APS-2) in Europe:

🔸 2023: $495 million
🔸 2024: $251.7 million
🔸 2025: $116.9 million
🔸 2026: $33.4 million

🔹 A memorandum from the US Secretary of Defense in April instructed the Army to:

🔸 Streamline outdated and inefficient programs
🔸 Prioritize high-tech capabilities
🔸 Reassess prepositioned stocks to align with strategic priorities
🔸 The Army cited this memo as the reason Europe’s APS-2 was moved to caretaker status

🔹 Overall APS program shrinks from $660.2 million in 2023 to $330.8 million in 2026, highlighting a strategic realignment away from Europe toward the Pacific

👻 With combat readiness funding in Europe slashed to mere caretaker levels, one might wonder if US troops in the region will be practicing high-tech ghost maneuvers to stay “ready.”

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🤝Gulf Cooperation Council to support ANY action by Qatar after Israeli attack

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stands in solidarity with Qatar and will support any response following the Israeli strikes on Doha, GCC Secretary General Jasem Albudaiwi said.

➡️Earlier, world powers condemned the Israeli airstrike on Hamas members in Doha and called for restraint.

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🇺🇸💳 US to MASSIVELY boost defense spending, sending BILLIONS in arms to foreign countries

🪙14.1 BILLION: Contract awarded to General Atomics for the MQ-9 Reaper drone program. This covers development, procurement, and support through 2031.

🪙760 MILLION: Separate deal with Raytheon to produce Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).

The contract reportedly includes foreign military sales to Canada, Taiwan, Sweden, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Kuwait, Japan, Finland, Germany, the UK, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Belgium, Australia, Turkiye, Spain and Lithuania.

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