US Golden Dome Project Turns Space Into Battlefield
The next step after the US Golden Dome may be the deployment of American missiles and laser weapons beyond Earth, military expert Alexei Leonkov tells Sputnik. This refers to kinetic intercept systems similar to the ground-based Patriot and THAAD systems, as well as a laser under the Space Based La»»»
UAE’s ADNOC vessel attacked again in Strait of Hormuz: All you need to know so far
A second vessel operated by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening, August 14, just a day after two ADNOC-affiliated ships were struck in the same waterway. The back-to-back incidents highlight the escalating risks facing commercial shippi»»»
UAE flight status today: Latest Emirates, Etihad and Air Arabia cancellations; India travel advisory
UAE travellers flying today should check their flight status before heading to the airport. Most services continue to operate, but airlines are making changes to selected regional routes, particularly flights to Bahrain and Kuwait, amid the ongoing regional security situation. With UAE airports ent»»»
Iran Has Not Decided to Resume Talks With the US — Araghchi
Iran has not made any decision to restart negotiations with the United States, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, Tasnim reported. Key points:Qatar and Pakistan are only passing messages as mediators, but this does not mean negotiations are taking placeThe Islamabad Memorandum of Underst»»»
Iran Rejects Trump's Claim on Hormuz
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi hit back after US President Donald Trump claimed he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz “a territory of the United States.” Gharibabadi said the Strait of Hormuz cannot be seized “by tweet,” “by aircraft carrie»»»
Trump Vows to Declare Hormuz Strait Territory of US 'Pretty Soon'
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States "pretty soon." "Pretty soon I will be declaring the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the US," Trump said during a speech in Garden City, New York.»»»
UAE residents' update: US-Iran conflict, Hormuz tensions, ADNOC attack and flight cancellations
The US-Iran conflict remains centred on the Strait of Hormuz, with tensions rising after President Donald Trump said he could declare the strategic waterway US territory. Iran has rejected the claim and said the strait will remain under its authority. For UAE residents, the developments continue to»»»
Can Jared Kushner revive Trump’s stalled Gaza peace plan?
LONDON: It is almost 11 months since US President Donald Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, unveiled his 20-point peace plan for Gaza. It was, said the president, a “big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the greatest days»»»
British couple in the UAE is on a mission to rehome 50 abandoned pets: 'There's a forever home for all, out there'
Where there's hope, there's a will, and when there's a will, there are many, many ways. It's this iron-clad hope that leads rescuers to the abandoned, injured and traumatised dogs and cats across the UAE. While there are stories within stories, While there are stories within stories, one such story»»»
Libya’s Haftar played key role in release of US hostage held by Daesh, sources say
DAKAR: Authorities in eastern Libya under military commander Khalifa Haftar helped secure the release of an American missionary held hostage held by a Daesh affiliate in West Africa’s Sahel region, escorting him to freedom through Libya, five sources told Reuters on Friday. Four of the sources said»»»
AI stock sell-offs keep returning as investors question spending, valuations and returns
Dubai: Investors have grown used to sudden bouts of selling in AI-linked stocks, but analysts say the recurring swings are less about discovering new risks and more about fresh evidence forcing markets to reconsider how much companies are spending and how long it will take for those investments to »»»
U.S. missionary released in Niger after 10-month kidnapping - UPI.com
Aug. 14 (UPI) -- An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger last fall has been released, officials said Thursday. Kevin Rideout, 50, was abducted by three men from outside his home in the capital of Niamey on Oct. 21. The details of his release are unclear, but he was in FBI custody and in g»»»
FBI statistics: Violent crime, murders fell by record levels in 2025 - UPI.com
The levels of violent crime decreased by a record amount during 2025, the FBI announced Friday. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Violent crime, including the estimated rate for murders and certain manslaughters, showed record year-to-year decreases in the United States»»»
Iran’s deputy foreign minister says won’t be intimidated by US threats after Trump’s statements on Hormuz
CAIRO: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said early Saturday that Tehran would not be intimidated by threats or a show of force by Washington after US President Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. Commenting on Trump’s statements, Ghar»»»
USS Abraham Lincoln ending long deployment amid health concerns - UPI.com
An F-35C Lightning II prepares to launch from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in 2018. Naval officials announced Friday the warship is ending its record-breaking deployment following reports of the deteriorating mental health of its crew. U.S. Navy File Phot»»»
Kentucky woman charged with vandalizing National Mall's WWII Memorial - UPI.com
Federal authorities charged Melissa L. Farris, 41 of Kentucky, with felony vandalism for allegedly spray painting the National Mall's World War II Memorial. Photo courtesy of U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Kentucky woman was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Nati»»»
FDA, CDC inspect Taylor Farms' Mexican plant in cyclosporiasis probe - UPI.com
Farm workers harvest romaine lettuce in Salinas, Calif., on April 28, 2020. The Food and Drug Administration announced it is inspecting the Mexican processing facility of Taylor Farms as part of its probe into the ongoing outbreak of Cyclospora infections. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License »»»
Russian view, Tehran's Hormuz trap
The escalation of US armed action against Iran, coupled with the sharp weakening of pro-Iranian groups across the region under parallel Israeli operations, has pushed Tehran to abandon its policy of strategic patience. In its place, according to a former ambassador to Tehran, Aleksandr Maryasov, Ir»»»
Trump says will 'soon' declare Hormuz strait US territory
GARDEN CITY, United States: President Donald Trump on Friday said he would "soon" declare the Strait of Hormuz waterway part of US territory, claiming that Iran was being heavily defeated. "Pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States. It's true," he said with a »»»
Trump dismisses concerns over crew aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump dismissed concerns Friday over living conditions and the mental health of service members on a US aircraft carrier deployed against Iran, while confirming the ship would soon rotate out. Asked by reporters whether family members were worried about the situation on»»»
Hezbollah chief calls to reverse 'mistake' of direct talks with Israel - UPI.com
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem called Friday for “reversing the sinful, disgraceful and humiliating mistake” of Lebanon negotiating peace with Israel. File Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem lashed out at the Lebanese offic»»»
US Puts Military Option Against Cuba on Hold - Reports
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is putting military action against Cuba on hold, with Washington increasingly focusing on economic pressure, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources. According to the report, US President Donald Trump wants to avoid deploying US troops to Cuba, while th»»»
DHS documents show widespread spying on anti-ICE protesters, unions - UPI.com
Tens of thousands of people march through downtown Minneapolis as they protest the federal government's Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis on January 30. Documents filed Thursday indicated federal agents instituted a wide-ranging program of spying on protesters and labor unions during the crackdo»»»
Mangione admits shooting health care CEO
NEW YORK: Luigi Mangione admitted Friday to gunning down a top US health insurance boss in a Manhattan street as he pleaded guilty to stalking charges before a federal judge. In a crime that shook corporate America and gripped the country, 28-year-old Mangione is alleged to have murdered chief exec»»»
NZ withdraws support for Infantino, Oceania backs review of scrapped stake sale plan
MELBOURNE: New Zealand became the latest nation to withdraw its support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s reelection bid on Friday over the aborted commercial rights stake sale plan, while Oceania’s confederation cautiously backed the governing body’s leadership. Infantino has faced open revolt»»»
Brazil launches reciprocity process over U.S. tariffs - UPI.com
Brazil will analyze which industries have been affected by U.S. tariffs and estimate their economic impact before deciding whether to retaliate. File Photo by Antonio Lacerda/EPA BRASILIA, Brazil, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Brazil has formally launched an economic reciprocity process in response to unilatera»»»
Sheikh Qassem: What is happening is surrender, and we do not accept surrender. We will remain standing, steadfast. We do not accept the violation of our country’s sovereignty and for the blood of martyrs to be wasted - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem: What is happening is surrender, and we do not accept surrender. We will remain standing, steadfast. We do not accept the vio»»»
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ballroom construction to continue - UPI.com
1 of 2 | Construction continues on the East Wing ballroom on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to continue construction on the White House»»»
Sheikh Qassem: No matter how harsh the present is, the future, according to the divine promise and what we do as a duty, will, God willing, lead to changing these realities - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem: No matter how harsh the present is, the future, according to the divine promise and what we do as a duty, will, God willing,»»»
Sheikh Qassem to the Authority: How do you accept this continued humiliation of the Lebanese Army instead of being its protectors? - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem to the Authority: How do you accept this continued humiliation of the Lebanese Army instead of being its protectors? 14-08-20»»»
Sheikh Qassem: The Lebanese authority was not cooperative with the resistance, which presented a leading model for 15 months of commitment and cooperation with the political authority - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem: The Lebanese authority was not cooperative with the resistance, which presented a leading model for 15 months of commitment »»»
Sheikh Qassem: On March 2, 2026, the resistance responded to the assassination of Imam Leader Khamenei. The response also summarized the pain we lived through for 15 months of Israeli violations - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem: On March 2, 2026, the resistance responded to the assassination of Imam Leader Khamenei. The response also summarized the pa»»»
Trump and Mojtaba: the Hormuz negotiations
With US President Donald Trump’s grand objectives for his war on Iran unrealised, he now appears to be trying to negotiate a way out. While months of US strikes on Iran, the assassination of its key leadership, and a naval blockade on its oil exports succeeded in inflicting a steep human, economic »»»
Trump Stops Short of Endorsing Netanyahu as His Campaign Falters: Axios - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Trump Stops Short of Endorsing Netanyahu as His Campaign Falters: Axios 14-08-2026 18:08 PM US President Donald Trump and Zionist Prime Min»»»
U.S. accuses Chinese firms of avoiding tariffs by shipping through other countries - UPI.com
A container ship carrying cargo moves away from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City on November 2. A new White House report accuses Chinese companies of doing limited assembly and repackaging in third countries to avoid U.S. tariffs. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Aug. »»»
Israeli artillery targeted the Shmeis area in the outskirts of Kfarshouba town with a shell: Al-Manar reporter - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli artillery targeted the Shmeis area in the outskirts of Kfarshouba town with a shell: Al-Manar reporter 14-08-2026 16:44 PM Latest N»»»
US deportees face escalating police violence, intimidation in Eq.Guinea
ABUJA: The masked police officers burst into Ahmed Soliman’s hotel room in Equatorial Guinea and dragged him and two dozen other US deportees outside, guns drawn, to deliver a message: go home. “I have police officers yanking on my neck, trying to throw me on the ground, I have officers elbowing me»»»
Japan summons Russian ambassador after Putin visits disputed Kuril islands
Japan’s foreign minister summoned the Russian ambassador in Tokyo to lodge a “strong protest” against President Vladimir Putin’s surprise visit to the Kuril islands on Thursday. Tokyo maintains its claim to the disputed islands near Japan's northernmost Hokkaido island since they were seized by the»»»
Trump imposes 100% drone tariffs as Ukraine eyes US sales
US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, potentially complicating Ukraine’s plans to expand UAV sales to Washington. Under a proclamation signed on Thursday, drones weighing more than 25 kg and those equipped with thermal imagers will face tariffs»»»
Russia builds 3,000 jet-powered Geran-4 drones a month to outrun Ukraine's interceptors
Russia is rebuilding its drone war around the jet-powered Geran-4, a faster machine built to slip past the cheap interceptors now knocking down its slower first generation Geran-2 drone, based on the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 loitering munition that Moscow bought from Tehran at the start of the U»»»
Hormuz ship crossings jump 44%: marine traffic tracker
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz rose sharply on Thursday, with 13 confirmed vessel crossings — a 44% increase from the previous day — according to data from marine tracking firm MarineTraffic. Volumes stayed far below normal amid ongoing conflict and competing claims over the waterway»»»
Batwara 1947 film review: Overwrought sermons on faith and motherhood smother Sunny Deol's India-Pakistan partition drama
Batwara 1947: Sunny Deol's partition drama is loud, lumbering and painfully on the noseDirector: Rajkumar SantoshiCast: Shabana Azmi, Preity Zinta, Sunny Deol, Ali Fazal, Karan Deol ★★Dubai: There is a potentially moving film buried somewhere inside Batwara 1947, an India-Pakistan partition drama b»»»
Israeli settler siege of Qusra village highlights grim reality of life in West Bank
DUBAI: Since Sunday, Israeli settlers have laid siege to the West Bank village of Qusra to drive out its Palestinian inhabitants and claim their homes as their own. The harrowing event, which has seen three Palestinian families cut off from water, electricity and the outside world by a settler enca»»»
Court upholds Trump's scrapping of no tariffs policy for goods under $800 - UPI.com
The U.S. Court of International Trade threw out a legal challenge to President Trump's executive order scrapping the so-called de minimum exemption loophole under which goods worth less than $800 could enter the United States duty free. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo Aug. 14 (UPI) »»»
Zelensky’s missile math mistakes: Here’s why his numbers fall far short
Vladimir Zelensky has made an unusually specific claim about what Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russian ballistic missiles. In an interview with CNN, Zelensky said Ukraine currently has enough Patriot interceptors to amount to roughly 1% of America’s existing stockpile – itself reportedly »»»
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem to deliver speech via Al-Manar at 18:30 (Beirut time) on occasion of 2006 Divine Victory anniversary - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem to deliver speech via Al-Manar at 18:30 (Beirut time) on occasion of 2006 Divine Victory ann»»»
Israeli light attack drones drop explosives on Ali Al-Taher area: Al-Manar reporter in southern Lebanon - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli light attack drones drop explosives on Ali Al-Taher area: Al-Manar reporter in southern Lebanon 14-08-2026 15:03 PM Latest News Urg»»»
CIA doubted ‘Israeli-derived’ intelligence on Trump assassination plot – WaPo
The US intelligence community doubted reports of an Iranian plot to kill President Donald Trump by shooting down Air Force One as it departed a NATO summit in Türkiye, the Washington Post has reported. Their assessment was reportedly conveyed to the administration, yet the Secret Service still opte»»»
Hezbollah Mourns Japanese Revolutionary Kozo Okamoto, a Participant in the Lod Airport Operation, Says His Struggle Affirmed That the Palestinian Cause Will Remain the Cause of Free People Worldwide - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah Mourns Japanese Revolutionary Kozo Okamoto, a Participant in the Lod Airport Operation, Says His Struggle Affirmed That the Pales»»»
Yediot Aharonot Reveals Israeli Army’s Manpower Overhaul as 12,000-Soldier Shortage Threatens Combat Readiness - Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Yediot Aharonot Reveals Israeli Army’s Manpower Overhaul as 12,000-Soldier Shortage Threatens Combat Readiness 14-08-2026 13:25 PM The Isra»»»