Human rights groups said they recorded a surge in forced recruitment since mid-August, amid reports that Russia is preparing a new mobilisation wave after September's elections.

The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.

Robert Kocharyan, who leads the Moscow-friendly opposition and maintains close ties with Putin, was detained alongside his son and four others in raids on family businesses. Analysts say the move sent "a signal to the Kremlin" about Pashinyan's intent to confront Russian-aligned political forces.

Armed men ambushed a patrol traveling to a remote area of South Sudan on Monday, killing two U.N. peacekeepers, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said.

In a post on social media, military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, had "instructed me to release AAA from house arrest", referring to her initials.

He added, "we shall not prosecute AAA. She made mistakes but Mzee has decided to forgive her."

Tanzania’s Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi has resigned from office and announced his retirement from politics, saying he had become convinced that President Samia Suluhu Hassan wanted a different deputy.

Israel ordered the expulsion of Dutch representatives from a US-led coordination center in southern Israel on Tuesday, escalating a diplomatic dispute after the Netherlands moved to ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced the decision on social media platform X, saying Dutch personnel would be removed from the International Support Center for Gaza in Kiryat Gat "immediately."

Saar said the expulsion order came at the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing what he called "a series of anti-Israel measures taken by the Dutch government." He pointed specifically to a new Dutch law barring trade in Israeli products from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which is set to take effect next month.

The United States is pushing for tougher United Nations sanctions on Sudan’s warring parties, seeking to curb foreign military support and pressure the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to negotiate an end to a conflict that has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced some 13 million.

Her petition, which came before the massive Epstein-related document dump by the federal government, also raised the 2007 non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein, which she claimed protected her from prosecution. Maxwell was not named in that agreement.

D'oh! Part 1 of 3.

In the decision denying the petition, Engelmayer wrote that the “vast majority” of grounds on which Maxwell made her appeal “are procedurally barred – either because Maxwell made and lost the same arguments on direct appeal, or because she could have made such arguments on appeal but elected not to do so”.

D'oh! Part 2 of 3.

The judge also rejected that new evidence had come through the Trump administration-led US justice department’s multimillion page release of documents. Those, Engelmayer said, “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges”.

D'oh! Part 3 of 3.

Maybe try living a life free of sex trafficking endeavors and other crimes.

President Donald Trump says the United States is giving “serious consideration” to renaming one of the Great Lakes as relations with Canada’s most populated province sour.

Trump posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning that he’s thinking of changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/51855452

August 20, 2026
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