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CONFLITS & SECURITE

Jared Kushner meets Hamas leaders in Egypt before seeing Netanyahu

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's envoy, met a Hamas delegation on 16 August at El-Alamein in Egypt before travelling to Israel to see Benjamin Netanyahu. The talks cover disarmament and the fifteen-point roadmap for post-war Gaza. Six countries cover the sequence; Egypt, where the meeting took place, and Qatar, the long-standing mediator, are each represented by a single outlet.

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Trump orders a sharp cut to military drills with South Korea, while praising Kim Jong-un

Donald Trump announced on 16 August that he had asked the Pentagon to "substantially" reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his "very good relations" with Kim Jong-un and echoing the word "hostile" long used by Pyongyang. The next day the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise nevertheless began, with Seoul saying it was proceeding as planned. Nine countries cover the sequence, and the gap between the announcement and the ground is the central divergence.

DIPLOMATIE & GOUVERNANCE

USS Abraham Lincoln relieved after nine months at sea: Trump calls the deployment "not nearly enough"

Deployed from San Diego in November 2025, the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its roughly 5,000 sailors are to be relieved by the USS George Washington. Reports of psychological distress aboard and warnings from senators preceded the rotation. Donald Trump dismissed concerns about the deployment's length, which the Pentagon separately denies.

Morocco intercepts migrants bound for Ceuta as Spain reinforces the enclave — and no two newsrooms count the same thing

On 15 August, Moroccan gendarmes intercepted people attempting to reach Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, after an online call for a second mass crossing. Madrid reinforced its deployment. Tallies diverge sharply between newsrooms: 111 arrests in some accounts, 294 in others, and deaths from 30 July sometimes folded into the episode, sometimes kept separate.

SPORT INTERNATIONAL

Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz "US territory"; Tehran hits back

Donald Trump said on 14 August that he would "very soon" make the Strait of Hormuz US territory. A White House official later described the remark as a joke, a nuance some countries report and others omit. Iranian deputy minister Kazem Gharibabadi hit back. About a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through the channel between Iran and Oman, where traffic has collapsed since February.

Nigel Farage wins back the seat he gave up: a by-election he triggered himself, boycotted by all his serious opponents

Nigel Farage won back the Clacton seat on 14 August with 22,239 votes against 9,455 for a satirical candidate wearing a bin on his head. He had resigned that same seat in July, under investigation over an undeclared £5 million donation. The major parties boycotted the vote; the inquiry resumed hours after the result.

CATASTROPHES NATURELLES

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores: the tsunami alert crosses the Pacific, and the death toll ranges from 1 to 20

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Flores island, Indonesia, on 15 August. The terminal of Maumere port collapsed onto boarding passengers. The tsunami alert, issued then lifted, mobilised the Peruvian and Ecuadorian navies thousands of kilometres away. The death toll ranges from 1 to 20 depending on which level of the Indonesian state is quoted.

ENERGIE & CLIMAT

Settlers besiege three Palestinian homes in Qusra — and the US ambassador to Israel calls them "terrorists"

Since 9 August, Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, cutting water and electricity and trapping around fifteen people. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, an avowed supporter of the settlements, called them "Israeli terrorists". France demands prosecutions; the UN calls it criminal.

CONFLITS & SECURITE

Eurovision bars countries at war from hosting the contest — without naming anyone

The EBU changed its rules on 13 August: from 2027, the winning country will lose hosting rights if it is engaged in armed conflict or if a "sensitive geopolitical situation" threatens security. The minimum age rises from 16 to 18. No country is named — part of the press writes "Israel", the rest sticks to the text.

DIPLOMATIE & GOUVERNANCE

Karoline Leavitt leaves the White House: a family decision for some, an electoral calendar for others

Donald Trump announced on 12 August that his press secretary would leave at the end of the month to become an outside adviser. At 28, she was the youngest in history. She cites her family; part of the press notes she is leaving two months before the midterm elections. No successor has been named.

ECONOMIE & COMMERCE

Death of Zhu Rongji, the former premier who took China into the WTO — and whose age Beijing and the West report differently

Xinhua announced the death of Zhu Rongji, premier from 1998 to 2003, on 12 August in Beijing. He engineered China's WTO entry in 2001 and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, at the cost of tens of millions of layoffs. A rare detail: Chinese agencies say he died at 98, the Western press at 97.

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