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Zelenskyy approved new Security Service operations on 4 August and said nothing about the campaign he authorised on 25 June, which was meant to push Russia towards ending the war.
A US House report declares Spain's Ceuta and Melilla as Moroccan territory, a first for the US Congress, drafted by a top Rubio-Trump ally and sitting inside a bill that funds Israel.
US senators gave the Pentagon until 20 July to release its withheld report on the 28 February Minab school strike, which killed scores of children.
The U.S. struck Iranian military sites on 8 July after Trump declared the ceasefire over, following tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude topped $80 a barrel.
Ukraine has approved a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's refining and export chain, timed to a stalled peace negotiation and a 15 July review of the Western oil price cap.
Fuel rationing has reached more than 50 Russian regions as Ukrainian drone strikes cut refinery output, bringing the war Russia launched home to its own drivers.
An interim US-Iran memorandum reopens the Strait of Hormuz and ends the naval blockade, but Iran's nuclear programme is left to 60 days of later talks.
Luftwaffe chief Holger Neumann says NATO would strike Kaliningrad, the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg and the Black Sea fleet in a war with Russia.
Pakistan's PM Sharif and US President Trump claim the US and Iran have reached a deal to end the 2026 war, with a signing ceremony set for 19 June in Switzerland.
Russia's would-be Davos drew the Taliban, North Korea and fringe USian influencers while smoke from Ukrainian strikes rose over the port and the Kronstadt naval base. The Kremlin refused Kyiv's offer to negotiate.
In a 4 June open letter, Zelensky offered Putin talks and a full ceasefire. Putin rejected it within a day.
The 226-195 vote was forced past Republican leaders. The bill imposes 500% tariffs on Russian goods, sanctions Rosatom, and bans Russian crude oil imports. Faces the Senate and Trump's veto.
The resolution cleared the chamber 215-208, but Senate arithmetic and a near-certain veto leave lawmakers unable to force the president to stop the fighting.
An ICC-wanted Netanyahu pushes deeper into Lebanon. The UN rights office says the strikes may be serious violations of international humanitarian law, the toll has passed 3,400, and analysts say the campaign is sabotaging the Iran-US negotiations.
Drones killed more than 880 civilians in Sudan in four months. The governments and companies supplying them, Baykar, CASC, Qods Aviation, Africa Corps, are named. The arms embargo is being violated in plain sight.
