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After a tense and aggressive campaign, with Israel’s role at the center of the contest, progressive Abdul El Sayed has won tonight the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan against centrist Haley Stevens, current congresswoman in the House of Representatives. With 95% of the votes counted, Associated Press has projected his victory when they were only separated by 20,000 votes, by a margin of 0.90 points. The winner will face the Trumpist Republican Mike Rogers on November 3 in this contested state, where Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election by a narrow margin of 1.4%.

A video released by the National Police of Ukraine shows how a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone deliberately chased an unarmed street vendor in the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, before exploding. The man survived the attack, although he was injured by shrapnel.

A new Russian bombing on Kyiv and the surrounding region of the Ukrainian capital caused at least 14 deaths, 27 injuries, and damage to several warehouses in the area in the early hours of this Wednesday, according to authorities and emergency services in Ukraine. Russia, for its part, confirmed that it had carried out a “massive attack” against several military logistics centers.

Going on vacation in August if you are the British Prime Minister carries considerable risk if one pays attention to precedents, and one must be prepared to interrupt or cancel them at the slightest sign of trouble. Keir Starmer – who was a bit unlucky, to be fair – had to give up his plans in 2024, shortly after winning the elections, due to the riots sparked across the country by the murder of some girls in Southport, and last year he was forced to cut them short to meet with Donald Trump in Scotland and talk about Ukraine.

There could not have been better publicity for the French far right, in a position to win the presidential elections next spring, than the shocking images of Ceuta from recent days. The migratory surge they have been denouncing for decades materialized on the screens of continuous news channels and the front pages of newspapers.

There are coincidences that only the devil can bring.

France has felt victimized for years by the Russian hybrid war, which includes everything from typical disinformation actions on social networks to bizarre and crude destabilization operations such as placing empty coffins in front of the Eiffel Tower or pig heads in mosques.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, has doubled its investment for the November legislative elections compared to the midterms four years ago. According to data from the Federal Election Commission, the organization donated 29.3 million dollars to political campaigns in the 2022 elections, 46 million in the 2024 presidential elections, and has already spent 67 million in the current election cycle.

A Salvadoran immigrant, identified as Edwin López Cornejo, 41 years old, died on August 1 at the notorious federal center of Delaney Hall, in Newark (New Jersey). López thus becomes the 22nd person to die in ICE custody (border agents) so far in 2026, according to data from the agency itself.

In five months of war in Iran, which according to the Pentagon have cost US taxpayers 37.5 billion dollars and more than 130 billion according to independent analyses, the United States has consumed a significant part of its arsenal. According to an exclusive from Reuters, the Department of Defense has used “practically all” of its long-range precision missiles, official sources have revealed to the US agency.