Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said 20 British diplomats and the Consul General would leave the UK consulate in occupied East Jerusalem, with only seven staff allowed to remain.

The move follows Israel’s decision to shut the consulate over UK sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband insisted the consulate would remain open as a “UK Mission,” saying some staff had been temporarily withdrawn for security reasons.

Source: BBC

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

In May, the Congressional Research Service admitted that Iran’s Armed Forces had taken out 42 U.S. military aircraft. Now: 81.

Real toll is far higher. Proof? CENTCOM won’t let a sitting Senator inspect bases it claims are fine.

You can fool all the people some of the time...

Trump urged Xi Jinping to ease export restrictions on Japan, including rare earths, and hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during their September meeting in Washington.

Source: South China Morning Post

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that Britain’s nearly 200-year-old Consulate General in Jerusalem will remain open but be renamed the UK Mission, Jerusalem, following talks with Israel.

Miliband said Israel has no legal right to close the consulate, reaffirming that the UK considers East Jerusalem occupied territory.

France has suspended the use of stun grenades during nationwide student protests after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand in a police grenade explosion.

The Trump administration is considering temporarily allowing compounding pharmacies to sell certain previously restricted peptides while the FDA develops new regulations.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports expanding access, despite warnings from FDA scientists about insufficient safety and effectiveness data.

An FDA advisory panel recommended allowing six of seven peptides under review, despite opposition from agency scientists. The plan has not been finalized.

Source: WaPo

Royal Navy service member Teddy Young, 24, has been charged with spying for an unnamed foreign country.

He is accused of obtaining protected information that could benefit a foreign power between November 2024 and May 2025.

Source: BBC

Top U.S. and Russian officials, including Jared Kushner and Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev, have discussed bringing U.S. investors into the Nord Stream pipelines to potentially resume Russian gas exports to Germany after the Ukraine war.

The proposal could allow U.S. investors to profit from Russian gas sales to Europe, but faces major obstacles.

A White House official denied recent discussions, while another U.S. official said a deal was unlikely in the medium term.

Kushner and Dmitriev also discussed selling Lukoil’s international assets to U.S., Qatari and UAE investors.

Source: Reuters

A Chinese maritime militia boat was spotted off Taiwan’s east coast in August for the first known time, operating near a Chinese coast guard ship and a research vessel.

The vessels were detected more than 30 nautical miles off Taiwan’s coast, in an area critical for potential wartime supply routes.

Taiwanese officials said the militia boat was participating in coordinated Chinese maritime harassment drills, accusing Beijing of preparing for a possible blockade of the island.

Source: Reuters

Polish President Nawrocki does boxing pad work with boxing legend Manny Pacquiao during his visit to the Philippines.

South Korea has recalled its ambassador to Ukraine, Park Ki-chang, amid a diplomatic dispute over Zelensky’s public disclosure of plans to repatriate North Korean prisoners of war.

Seoul and Kyiv are at odds over whether an agreement existed to keep the matter confidential.

The U.S. military has lost or sustained damage to 81 aircraft during the war with Iran, with losses valued at $1.9 billion to $3.3 billion, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

More than half were MQ-9 Reaper drones, while an F-35 fighter jet, an E-3 Sentry surveillance aircraft and eight lightly damaged F-15 fighters were also included.

The war has cost at least $45 billion overall, excluding damage to U.S. military bases in the region.

Source: CNN

Writing in The Telegraph, military analyst Hamish de Bretton-Gordon argues that Putin has brought back General Sergei Surovikin, known as “General Armageddon,” to intensify attacks on Kyiv as Russian forces struggle in the Donbas.

He warns that Russia could target Kyiv’s seven bridges across the Dnipro, potentially splitting the capital and disrupting transport across northern Ukraine.

With Russian casualties mounting and recruitment becoming increasingly difficult, Putin is seeking to break Ukrainian civilian morale through sustained attacks on infrastructure this winter.

BIG: Pakistan has reportedly joined Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, with a senior Pakistani military official saying Pakistani fighter jets are conducting airstrikes.

Source: NYT

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Greek newspaper Kathimerini that Washington would never allow a conflict between Greece and Türkiye, calling such a scenario “unthinkable.”

Rubio stressed that both countries are NATO allies and that a conflict would benefit neither country nor the U.S.

He said he did not believe such a confrontation would occur and emphasized Washington’s preference for resolving tensions through private diplomacy.

Marco Rubio told Greek newspaper Kathimerini that Trump wants Türkiye to receive the F-35 fighter jets it has already paid for, but U.S. law prohibits their transfer until the dispute over Ankara’s Russian-made S-400 air defense systems is resolved.

Rubio said Türkiye was aware of the legal restrictions and was exploring possible solutions, but stressed that the issue remains unresolved and the transfer is currently prohibited.

📸 New photo of Turkish F-35A jets on hold in hangars.

Türkiye's six F-35s (serial 18-0001 through 18-0006) have been in US storage since September-October 2019 after Türkiye was removed from the program over the S-400 purchase.

They're legally in long-term storage at Edwards AFB under congressional restrictions.

Türkiye paid ~$1.4B into the program for a planned 100 jets.