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It's been one year of federal occupation in Washington, DC. The occupation has made life dangerous for the most vulnerable: Black and brown youth, undocumented workers, and the unhoused bear the brunt of it. The result: multiple deaths from police shootings, the criminalization of homelessness and destruction of encampments, and over 20,000 arrested by ICE. DC was Trump's first laboratory for deploying the National Guard and surging ICE agents – but the people are fighting back.

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Israeli restrictions worsen the humanitarian situation as aid trucks await authorization to enter the enclave.

On Thursday, Fatma Meriç Yılmaz, president of the Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), denounced that access to food and clean water remains difficult in Gaza.

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Yılmaz visited the Egyptian port of El Arish and Red Crescent warehouses to oversee the shipment of assistance destined for the Palestinian enclave and assess needs on the ground.

Accompanied by Türkiye’s ambassador to Cairo and a delegation, the Red Crescent president also traveled to the Rafah border crossing.

Yılmaz recalled that ensuring the civilian population’s access to aid is an obligation under international humanitarian law and regretted that restrictions continue to worsen the humanitarian situation. She said 600 aid trucks were expected to enter after the cease-fire. However, only about 100 trucks have managed to access the Palestinian territory.

BREAKING: Israel just bombed a water desalination plant in northern Gaza.

Not a military base.
An essential infrastructure built to provide water to civilians suffering through an extreme water crisis.

Gaza is running out of water.

This is an act of genocide. pic.twitter.com/9rFqzVxGnk

— sarah (@sahouraxo) August 24, 2026

Currently, 160 trucks carrying assistance sent by the Turkish Red Crescent by sea remain awaiting authorization to enter Gaza. The organization distributes hot meals and drinking water, supports health services and channels part of its supplies through the so-called Goodwill Ships via the port of El Arish.

During her stay in Egypt, Yılmaz also visited Palestinian patients from Gaza who are receiving treatment in Cairo and announced a support program at the Palestinian Red Crescent Hospital, with a budget of about US$66,500.

Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in 2023, restrictions on border crossings have severely hindered the movement of people and the entry of humanitarian assistance. So far, Israeli forces have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded 174,000 people, mostly women and children.

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Britain’s newly unelected Prime Minister Andy Burnham spent his first foreign visit in Kiev for Ukraine’s Independence Day. During the celebrations, he thanked Zelensky, played The Smiths for the troops, and, side-by-side with the Europeans, reaffirmed that the UK is “100 per cent behind” the war in Ukraine “for as long as it takes.”

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SUPREME LORD looks ready for a step up in grade judged on a dominant front-running victory in the opening race at Navan next Thursday.

Having shown a decent level of ability on his first three starts, Robson Aguiar’s charge was the 11-8 favourite stepping into handicap company for the first time in the Navan Racecourse Nursery and pulled three and three-quarter lengths clear under Billy Lee.

“He’s a horse that we have always liked. He is learning how to race and is still babyish,” said Aguiar.

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August 27, 2026 – Canada imposed new tariffs on a long list of U.S. foods this week, including milk, cream, and cheese from American dairies and about 250 fish and seafood products. The changes came in response to tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on Canadian goods in July. While the two countries attempted to make […]

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Padayon nga nagakomiter sang mga pagpanglapas sa tawhanon nga kinamatarung ang 94th kag 62nd IB sa mga pumuluyo sa bukiron nga mga barangay sang Central Negros. Naglala ini idalum sa pagpatuman sang kontra-insurhensyang programa ni Presidente Bongbong Marcos nga gindikta sang Imperyalistang US paagi sa National Action Plan for Peace and Development (NAP-UPD). Tuyo sini nga papason ang CPP-NPA-NDF antes ang tuig 2028.

Tuman kadesperado na ang AFP kag PNP nga kon anu-ano na lang ang ila pamaagi agud malab-ot ang ila luyag nga matabo kag bangud sini, nagataas ang isip sang mga paglapas sa tawhanon nga kinamatarung indi lang sa isla sang Negros kundi sa bilog pungsod Pilipinas.

Isa sa ila mga biktima si Edgar Antonio sang Sityo Haroy, Barangay Alingasaw, Moises Padilla nga pirmi ginabalik-balikan sang mga berdugong militar halin sang Hulyo tubtub subong agud ipaidalum sang imbestigasyon.

Samtang si Deonaldo Ramires, minyo kag taga-Sityo Napilu-an, Barangay Quinten Remo, Moises Padilla ang ginapangita sang duha ka ahente sang militar nga nakasuksuk sang bonnet. Nagpagawas man sang istorya ang mga malain nga elemento nga ginapangita nila si Ramires bangud siya kuno ang gahi sa lugar kabangdanan nga nagakabalaka ang biktima sang iya seguridad.

Ginareklamo man sang mga residente sang Sityo Haroy, Barangay Alingasaw, sa amo gihapon nga barangay ang 94th IB nga nagaperwisyo sa ila. Nangin padron na nila ang pagpanilag sa mga kabalayan dis-oras na sang gab-i tubtub nga matugbaw ang pagpahuway sang mga pumuluyo.

Dugang diri, nagapanghaylo man sila sa Sityo Tamwag, Barangay Kanggabo, La Libertad. Nagpalapta sila sang istorya nga kon sin o ang makatudlo kon diin ang mga NPA kag bisan bakat lang sang ila gintineran ukon ginaagian, hatagan nila sang 15,000 kada bulan.

Wala sang lugar ang 94th kag 62nd IB sa mga komunidad sang Central Negros. Ginapanawagan man naton ang aton mga abyan upod sang mga malapad nga masang mangunguma kag mamumugon nga ipakigbato ang ila tawhanon nga kinamatarung kag padayon nga manindugan batok sa militarisasyon.

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This could be the end of Nigel Farage’s political career. On Novara Live, Sam Bright tells Michael Walker that ongoing investigations into Farage’s finances have only just “scratched the surface” – and Reform has already slipped by 10% in voting intention polls. He adds that the scandal will be “extremely off-putting to new donors” as well as former Conservative voters who are disturbed by Farage’s “brazen self-interest”.

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A group of environmental organizations announced their intent to sue the United States National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) for failing to consider protections for Eastern Pacific gray whales under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) are experiencing a potentially catastrophic population decline, a sharp reversal from what had been considered a conservation success.  In 2019, there were roughly 20,500 gray whales; by 2023, the population had declined to just 14,526 individuals, “nearly 30% of the entire population” gone in four years, according to nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Like many whale species, gray whales are being killed by ship strikes and entanglements, but scientists attribute most of the recent mortality to climate change and disruptions to the Arctic food web on which the gray whales depend. They “seem to be starving” to death, PEER said. The whale’s population was greatly reduced by a century of whaling, but in 1973, ESA protections helped the species recover and they were delisted in 1994. Given the recent population collapse, environmental groups petitioned NMFS in 2025 to relist the whales, which would afford them additional protections. The agency should have published a 12-month finding by Aug. 24, 2026. They didn’t, so the group has sent a notice of intent to sue for violations of the ESA. “The Trump administration has once again broken one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws — the ESA — by failing to respond to our August 2025 petition to list gray whales under the…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Andy Burnham is considering banning the trade in goods and services linked to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A ban would be the strongest response yet by the UK government in response to Israel’s escalation of settler violence and displacement of Palestinian communities. YouGov polling shows that 50% of British people would back such a ban, compared with 16% who would oppose it.

The potential ban comes after Israel opened up bidding for construction of 1,200 new settler homes in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank. Foreign secretary Ed Miliband condemned the project as a threat to a two-state solution, which would split the West Bank in two and separate Palestinian communities from East Jerusalem. 

Labour has come under internal pressure to take action against Israeli settlements since June, with more than 140 Labour MPs – around a third of the parliamentary party – signing a letter calling for a trade ban with illegal settlements.

The government said it would “set out a comprehensive set of measures” in the coming weeks in response. But it faces strong opposition from advocacy group Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), which claims that a trade ban could become a “de facto boycott” of Israel.

LFI, which counts many of Burnham’s cabinet ministers as current or former members, has argued that the ban “would be deeply damaging to the UK national interest, the British Jewish community and Palestinian workers”.

However, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU), described the LFI’s position as “a disgrace”. 

“Just because Israel makes it hard to tell which are Israeli goods and which are settlement goods is not the UK’s problem. It is Israel’s,” he wrote on X. “You do not get to export proceeds of crime just because the criminal party mixes the legal with the illegal.”

Several other European governments have already taken steps to implement sanctions against Israel. In July, the Irish government passed a bill banning goods imports from illegal Israeli settlements, while France and Sweden recently called on the European Union to increase tariffs and enforce stricter controls on goods from occupied Palestinian territories.

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Our anchoring question is this: Can you be an accomplice to Reproductive Justice while wielding the power to incarcerate, separate families, and deny medical care—as long as you agree to look the other way on one specific charge?

Read more via Scalawag: Abolition As the Only Reproductive Justice: A Conversation with Zoe Bambara.

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The UK is engaged in a long-term project seeking to inflict a 'strategic defeat' on Russia, Moscow's spokesperson has warned

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RESCUE teams continued the search today for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic torrent of floods and mud swept through communities yesterday.

The disaster left at least 353 people dead and more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims, and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region.

More than 30 British nationals are among the missing, including a 13-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy, with the government offering £5 million to help its Nepalese counterpart with the search.

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