⚡️🇨🇦🇺🇸 — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has sharply criticized Washington's protectionist escalation, denouncing a year-long stream of American tariffs as direct violations of the CUSMA trilateral agreement and exposing the volatile pretexts used by the U.S. administration.
➡️ Carney rejected the core U.S. justification regarding a bilateral trade deficit, outlining the critical dependence of the American market on Canadian energy supplies and broader commercial sectors:
«The U.S.'s narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the U.S. buys so much of its energy from Canada. Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of their electricity imports, and 60% of their crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy.
If you look more broadly at the comprehensive U.S.-Canada trade balance—which includes services from finance to entertainment—that shows a persistent American trade surplus.»
«Canada is the largest customer for U.S. cars. In fact, we buy more American-built cars and trucks than the United Kingdom, Japan, and China combined. It's the same for American steel products. Canada is also the largest customer for 26 U.S. states and a top-three customer for 45 U.S. states.
Last year, Americans sold almost $600 billion in goods and services to Canadians—that's more than $1.6 billion every single day. While the United States has imposed a seemingly endless stream of tariffs and threatened more, Canada has, by contrast, taken several steps in good faith to try to find compromise.»
⚡️🇺🇦🇹🇷 — A Ukrainian FP-1 kamikaze drone washed ashore on Karaburun Beach in Istanbul this morning.
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⚡️🇺🇦🇫🇷 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
I had a very good call with EmmanuelMacron, the President of France. We spoke for almost two hours today about all the most important issues. And this concerns, first and foremost, the need for air defense. We highly appreciate that the President of France is ready to help communicate with our other partners who have the necessary missiles for Patriots. We also discussed French air defense capabilities. I briefed Emmanuel on the situation with the strikes. I'm grateful for the condolences over the lives lost.
We agreed to accelerate the delivery of the latest French equipment and missiles. Thank you for confirming your readiness to provide licenses for the production of missiles.
We also discussed the state of diplomatic work with our partners and communication with the team of the President of the United States. We agreed on steps that could open up additional diplomatic opportunities. We also discussed the need for funding to finance our defense this year and next year. We identified defense agreements that need to be accelerated in our bilateral relations. Thank you!
🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Israeli Defense Forces:
Earlier today, the Israeli Defense Forces conducted a precision strike in the Deir al-Balah area, successfully eliminating Sharif al-Hasanat, a company commander within Hamas' Deir al-Balah Battalion. Throughout the conflict, he played a direct role in leading efforts to restore and rebuild Hamas’ underground tunnel network.
In recent developments, al-Hasanat continued to actively plan and advance terror operations targeting Israeli troops and civilians, posing an immediate threat to forces on the ground. Prior to executing the strike, measures such as aerial surveillance and precise munitions were utilized to minimize potential civilian harm. IDF units under the Southern Command remain deployed in the region to remove any further threats.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇩 — A Geran-3 drone crossed into Moldovan airspace early morning today during a Russian air raid on Ukraine.
▶️Radar tracked the UAV over the Ștefan Vodă district for 17 minutes before it flew back into Ukraine, therefore needing no interception.
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⚡️🇷🇼🇨🇩 — The Congolese army (FARDC) shot down a Rwandan RDF-M23 suicide drone on the morning of August 20th in the Fizi highlands of South Kivu, between the villages of Mukoko and Mulima. — MediaCongo/Radio Okapi
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⚡️🇺🇸 — U.S. Central Command:
U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly over the Middle East.
⚡️🇵🇱🇺🇦 — Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Poland has provided legal and financial protection to 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees.
▶️Warsaw's Ministry of Foreign Affairs further reports that an unprecedented 77% of Poles actively participated in helping Ukrainian refugees, with 7% taking them into their own homes.
▶️The country has spent ~$2.7 billion on its eastern neighbour since February 2022, and this only includes charitable donations from Polish society.
▶️Notably however, in light of recent Polish-Ukrainian tensions, a plurality of Poles (44%) now oppose further military assistance for Kiev, and 52% oppose Poland's help offered for Ukraine to join the EU.
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🚨🇱🇧🇮🇱 — The Israeli army carried out a massive detonation in the town of Tallouseh, southern Lebanon — NNA.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
Ukrainian long-range sanctions continue to limit Russia’s military and economic potential, ensuring the aggressor state feels the impact of the war more directly.
Over the past 24 hours, our forces struck the Novokuybyshevsk refinery—1,000 kilometers from the front line—depriving the Russian war machine of millions of dollars in export revenues. We also hit a logistics hub in the Samara region and targets in the Black Sea.
Previous strikes have yielded confirmed results: at the Saky airfield, a Su-24M aircraft and four pieces of airfield equipment were destroyed, while in the Bryansk region, we took out drone-control relay stations used by the occupiers to guide strike UAVs toward peaceful Ukrainian cities and villages.
I thank all the warriors of Ukraine’s Defense Forces for their effective work and for depriving Russia of its strategic rear.
⚡️🇮🇶 — The President of Iraq has issued a comprehensive series of strategic declarations mapping the country's defense, security, and economic priorities, explicitly clarifying that "Iraq First" remains the core doctrine driving all state decisions — INA.
➡️ The President emphasized that establishing the state's exclusive monopoly on force is a constitutional mandate heavily backed by the religious authority (Marjaiya) in Najaf. The transition plan for armed factions, the role of regional actors, and the status of Kurdish forces are defined as a strictly domestic process:
«The armed factions fought ISIS and shed their blood, but we are now asking them to hand over their weapons and integrate into the security forces. This must be achieved through dialogue and understanding to find an Iraqi national solution.
No Iranian official has requested to delay this file; rather, Tehran’s officials confirmed it is an exclusively Iraqi decision.
Conversely, the Peshmerga is a constitutional institution operating within the Kurdistan Region and is not a party to the weapon restriction process.»
«The International Coalition initially arrived upon an Iraqi request to confront the terrorist threat of ISIS. Today, we no longer need it, and its withdrawal is scheduled for next September 30.
Regarding our northern border, there is a Turkish presence, and we intend to establish peace with both Türkiye and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Furthermore, we held frank discussions with the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament and conveyed messages to Iran regarding a review of the bilateral relations between our two countries.»
«The state grows stronger through its legislation, and the most critical framework is the Oil and Gas Law, which has historically caused friction between Baghdad and Erbil.
Currently, we face a logistics bottleneck in transporting our oil due to the lack of a national shipping carrier.
While there is partial facilitation for certain vessels carrying Iraqi oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the government is fully committed to settling these economic files.»
⚡️🇮🇷🇶🇦🇰🇼 — Armed Forces General Staff Missing Persons Search Committee Commander Sardar Bagherzadeh reported the deteriorating physical condition of Iranian pilots detained in Qatar, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross to dispatch an air ambulance for the immediate repatriation of sick and wounded personnel.
Bagherzadeh characterized the current offshore detention facilities as unsuitable and urged the Qatari government to relocate the Iranian pilots to land-based, well-equipped hospitals — Tasnim / Farsna.
➡️ Bagherzadeh invoked the four Geneva Conventions to demand the Kuwaiti government respect the rights of prisoners of war and facilitate initial communication between detainees and their families.
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⚡️🇨🇦🇺🇸 — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced the suspension of trade negotiations with the United States, ordering Ottawa’s negotiators to withdraw following "unfair and uneconomic" last-minute changes proposed by Washington. The move halts a 18-month effort aimed at securing tariff-free U.S. access, stabilizing trade, reducing strategic tariffs, and protecting small and medium-sized businesses without sacrificing sovereignty.
➡️ The collapse triggers an immediate economic conflict: the U.S. will impose a 50% tariff on roughly $28 billion of Canadian goods at midnight, which Ottawa will match "dollar for dollar," backed by incoming domestic support building on $25 billion already deployed.
➡️ Carney justified the hardline stance by detailing Canada's structural economic metrics: the nation leads its nearest G7 competitor in foreign direct investment at twice the rate, boasts the world's most attractive infrastructure investment market with $500 billion in ongoing projects, and is creating jobs at four times the rate of the U.S. while tracking to double non-U.S. exports over the next decade and double its current preferential access to 1.5 billion global consumers by year-end:
«We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and charging for access to its vast market. Throughout, our goal has been to secure the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any deadline.
Last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms called into question the reliability of any deal. Canada has what the world wants. And we will not allow any nation to determine our future. We will set our own course to keep building Canada strong for all.»
⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Amid U.S.-Iran halted negotiations and tightened economic blockade, Israel granted a wider margin for military escalation and the potential expansion of its "occupation" toward Zahrani. Western diplomatic assessments indicate the 60-day deadline marks a transition toward consolidating the Israeli footprint, despite U.S. claims of attempting to restrain the situation through military channels. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu executes a fleeing forward strategy to disrupt Knesset elections, aiming to reverse polling trends that show rival Eisenkot securing 61 lawmakers to form a government — Al-Anbaa, Al-Liwaa, Al-Modon, Al-Diyar, Al-Joumhouria.
➡️ Israel centered military objectives on Ali al-Tahir Hill, a strategic command site overlooking Nabatieh, Jabal al-Rayhan, and the Litani River containing an interconnected tunnel network and 60 to 100 personnel currently under siege. Tehran communicated to Lebanese media figures a clear decision to enter the conflict alongside Hezbollah if Israel attempts a long-term geographical takeover of the hill. While Israel employs psychological warfare and patrols to draw the resistance into skirmishes, Hezbollah utilizes a counter-strategy of constructive ambiguity and the threat of tunnel surprises to stall the operation.
➡️ Hezbollah sources state the Lebanese Army requires clear guarantees against Israeli re-entry to assume control of Ali al-Tahir Hill, while intelligence reports clarify the military command has not requested a takeover to avoid an internal conflict, amid Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's confirmation that no date is set for direct negotiations in Rome. This diplomatic deadlock coincides with a total freeze in communications between President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah leadership due to Aoun's strict adherence to the framework agreement and the party's categorical rejection.
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🚨🇱🇧🇮🇱 — Israeli forces conducted large-scale demolition operations and violent artillery shelling overnight across the Western and Central sectors, targeting Al-Mansouri, Buyut al-Siyad, and Majdal Zoun. The operations resulted in the total destruction of all residential structures in the targeted towns. Similar demolition activities and machine gun combing of valleys occurred in Hadatha, Bayt Yahoun, and Ayta al-Jabal, while reconnaissance drones maintained constant flights over both sectors — NNA.
➡️ Israeli artillery executed concentrated strikes using phosphorus shells on the outskirts of Doha Kfar Remman, the Al-Dabsheh Hill vicinity, and the Ali al-Tahir forest through dawn. At 06:45, warplanes launched two airstrikes on the Ali al-Tahir ridge [attached] on the northern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the "South" group are disrupting the Ukrainian army's logistics robots, hindering supplies to Ukrainian fighters in the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk region, — Russian Ministry of Defense.
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⚡️🇨🇦🇺🇸 — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has addressed the nation regarding the breakdown of trade talks with Washington, revealing that Ottawa’s year-long intensive efforts to secure a new comprehensive agreement have collided with a structural shift in American foreign policy.
➡️ Carney emphasized that Canada pursued the negotiations with pragmatism and patience to protect its domestic workforce, but did so without illusions about the evolving political landscape in Washington:
«We recognized from the start that America has changed. The decades-long process of steadily increasing integration between our economies was over. Our government understood before many that America would transform all of its commercial relationships, that it would put a series of tariffs on its closest allies and use economic integration as a weapon.»
«We recognized that sometimes its signature was written in pencil. We worked in that context to try to strike a fair deal on which Canadian businesses and workers could rely. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians—never a deal at any price or on any timeframe.
A mutually beneficial trade agreement is possible... even while America's attention and dedication to these goals have wavered.»
⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇶🇦🇰🇼🇦🇪 — Ebrahim Rezaei Member Of Iran's Parliament National Security Committee:
It has been reported that enemy American planes and tankers are present at airports in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and...
They have turned their home into an enemy stronghold.
Don't complain later.
⚡️🇺🇦🇩🇪 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
I met with Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister, AussenMinDE, Johann Wadephul.
We discussed strengthening air defense and supporting our people ahead of the winter period. This is priority number one, and I am grateful to Germany for its leadership on this issue and for its efforts to provide us with as much assistance as possible. We also discussed the work of our teams on an agreement in the Drone Deal format, so that we can sign it in the near future.
I thank the Minister for his visit to Ukraine, in particular to participate in the 9th International Veterans Forum, and for his upcoming trip to Ukrainian regions where the situation is difficult due to Russian shelling. I am grateful to Germany and the German people for their significant support for our people and our struggle.
⚡️🇦🇪 — To protect fuel storage facilities in Abu Dhabi from possible future Iranian drone attacks, the United Arab Emirates has completed the construction of metal protective cages, concluding roughly four months of work.
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🇷🇺 Russia will not abandon the principles of people's rule even under the harshest circumstances and will continue to conduct elections at every level
— President Putin.
⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
I met with generalkellogg, who came from Odesa to Kyiv to take part in our Veterans Forum. Thank you for this respect for the Ukrainian warriors who defend Ukraine and the entire Euro-Atlantic space every day under extraordinarily difficult conditions. We discussed the intensification of Russian strikes on infrastructure and civilians, and the top priority for our defense is, of course, anti-ballistic protection. I briefed the general on our work with Europeans to develop an anti-ballistic system, but to get through this winter, supplies of interceptors for Patriots are indispensable. Ukraine is ready to purchase them, and any efforts in this direction are important
⚡️🇮🇷 — The Chief of General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Ali Abdollahi, visited an underground ballistic missile production facility to review the latest development of indigenous weaponry — Farsna.
"The enemy must know that they cannot fight against the will of a nation," Abdollahi stated.
⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:
«We’ve received numerous messages from neighboring countries about shaping new security arrangements and economic cooperation in the region. The United States put the security of every single one of its allies at such risk…through bullying and pure disregard for their interests for the sake of Israel that they briefly saw their entire existence on the line. A homegrown, independent order is what will actually deliver peace and security.»
🚨🇸🇾🇮🇱 — Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in the town of Beit Jann within the Damascus countryside, resulting in one injury — Al-Ikhbariya.
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⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
In Kryvyi Rih, emergency and rescue operations are ongoing at the site of yesterday’s Russian strike on a shopping mall. The fire, which spread across 9,000 square meters, has been extinguished. SESU specialists are clearing the rubble and continuing to search for people. Rescuers from seven regions and canine search teams are involved in the operation. Sadly, 16 people have now been confirmed killed and 130 injured, including 23 children. My condolences to all the families and loved ones…
There were also missile and drone strikes throughout the evening and night. In Kyiv, ballistic missile strikes damaged railway infrastructure. One person was killed and another injured. In Zaporizhzhia, there was an absolutely inhumane FPV drone strike on a city minibus, injuring three people. Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson, Chernihiv, and Mykolaiv regions also came under attack. Residential buildings, energy and railway infrastructure facilities, and civilian businesses were damaged.
Every day that Ukraine lacks sufficient air defense means casualties that could have been prevented. Protecting lives requires daily decisions and effective support from the world, and right now, new supplies of ballistic missile interceptors and other missiles can help. Thank you to everyone who is helping our people and supporting Ukraine with concrete steps.
🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 — A Russian ballistic missile attack on the city of Boryspil in Kyiv involved the use of approximately 7 missiles in the area, — Ukrainian media.
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⚡️🇮🇶🇮🇷 — Iraq requested special transit permits from Iran for its oil tankers to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, a priority demand delivered to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during his official visit to Baghdad. Following repeated requests via multiple diplomatic channels, Iran authorized a number of Iraqi vessels to pass through the maritime corridor — IRNA.
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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇹 — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun yesterday met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to coordinate on bilateral relations and the security situation in South Lebanon, specifically urging pressure on Israel to adhere to the framework agreement reached during trilateral Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations in Washington.
Aoun acknowledged Italy's role in hosting these negotiations and its contributions to Southern Lebanese stability, while reviewing the upcoming transition following the expiration of the UNIFIL mandate — Lebanese Presidency's Media Office / NNA.
➡️ President Aoun conducted a separate review of regional developments and diplomatic ties with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, with Lebanese Ambassador to Italy Carla Jazzar attending both high-level meetings.
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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes between Arnoun and Kfar Tebnit in Lebanon, — Lebanese media.
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