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Fires broke out in warehouses and on the grounds of a private school as a result of the Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital on the night of 7-8 September.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Russia calculated its latest attack to inflict maximum damage on Ukrainians. The head of state also announced meetings with partners on the supply of anti-ballistic weapons.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said Russia launched a large-scale attack on the city of Kyiv immediately after US President Donald Trump's envoys left the Ukrainian capital, adding that Russian ballistic missiles speak louder than the Kremlin leader's words about diplomacy.

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Senior Iranian official warns of maritime exclusion zone if US 'economic warfare' continues The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council warned that if the US continued its "economic warfare" against Tehran, it could be met with establishment of a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf. "In recent days,Washington has received a clear warning from Iran’s new missiles," Mohsen Rezaei said in a post on X. S. "Economic warfare will be met by a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf to the blockade perimeter. The operational posture toward U. warships and bases has been fundamentally recalibrated," he added. In recent days,Washington has received a clear warning from Iran’s new missiles. S. Economic warfare will be met by a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf to the blockade perimeter. The operational posture toward U. warships and bases has been fundamentally recalibrated. — محسن رضایی (@ir_rezaee) September 7, 2026

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Russia attacked Ukraine with ballistic, cruise and anti-ship missiles and 166 drones overnight on 8 September. Air defence downed or suppressed 175 targets, with strikes recorded at 29 locations.

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Profit at Old Mutual declined for the first time since 2022 as risk-off sentiment from conflicts in the Middle East curbed investment returns at the Africa’s biggest insurer by assets.

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At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in another Russian attack on Kyiv overnight, according to the Interior Ministry, as a three-day pause in strikes on the Ukrainian capital ordered by President Vladimir Putin came to an end.

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US representative threatens to bar UK businesses for upcoming Israeli settlement trade ban US representative Randy Fine has threatened to ban British entities from doing business within Florida after the UK announced an upcoming ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements. "Florida is one of Britain’s largest trading partners. They should understand that their vanity project in support of Muslim terror could cost them billions of dollars," Fine wrote in a post on X. "Florida has made it clear. Any company — or nation — that boycotts Israel is boycotted by Florida," he added. As the British government considers forcing British companies to boycott portions of Israel, it should be aware that a Florida law that I passed as a member of the Legislature would ban any British company forced to comply from doing business with any state or local government in… — Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) September 7, 2026

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Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says 73 people wounded in Houthi attacks, vows firm response The spokesperson of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced that 73 people, including women and children, were wounded after Houthis launched attacks in the cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran In a statement posted on X, Turki al-Maliki vowed that the coalition will respond firmly to the assaults. "The escalation by the terrorist Houthi militia and its attempts to target the Kingdom, its national assets, its citizens, and residents on its lands constitute a dangerous escalation that confirms the hostile and irresponsible approach of this terrorist militia," he said. He said that the attacks were a violation of the Kingdom’s sovereignty and a direct threat to public safety, adding that the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition would take all necessary operational measures to deter the Houthis and neutralise incoming threats.

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A wave of strong explosions rang out in Kyiv early Tuesday as Russia resumed strikes on the Ukrainian capital after a three-day halt. Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the pause in attacks as US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited the Russian and Ukrainian capitals at the weekend. The fresh explosions triggered fires and car alarms in the city, and Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said that six people were wounded. The Ukrainian army’s air force...

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On Tuesday, Asian markets exhibited a mixed bag of outcomes, with the yen gaining strength significantly. Oil prices surged for the third consecutive day, driven by escalating threats from Iran in the Persian Gulf. Japan's economy displayed a faster growth rate than previously forecasted, alongside a notable rise in real wages. Meanwhile, Australian shares faced a downturn as consumer sentiment plummeted in September.

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Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, Ukraine's emergency service said late Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the three-day halt in Moscow's strikes on Kyiv as US President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited the Russian and Ukrainian capitals at the weekend. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

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UN nuclear watchdog urges Iran to cooperate, as Western powers push to refer its nuclear file to the Security Council.

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South Korean citizens’ groups have called for the abuse of wartime ‘comfort women’ to be recognised by Unesco, as analysts say the ongoing feud between Seoul and Tokyo threatens to upset recent improvements in their relations. They also suggest that the two nations would benefit from working together at a time of unprecedented regional and global security and economic challenges, although they admit that may be impossible. On Sunday, a coalition of South Korean citizens’ groups called on the...

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Owen Matthews, a columnist for The Spectator, argued that as winter approaches, Ukraine is about to run out of "not only Patriot missiles and men for the front lines, but money to fight on"

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Houthi-run media outlet released footage of destruction after alleged Saudi air strike on al-Hazm prison.

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Israeli ministers call for sanctions on Britain over Falkland Islands Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have called for Israel to sanction Britain over the Falkland Islands, as the UK government prepares to announce a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. Smotrich, Israel's finance minister, called for the expulsion of the British ambassador to Israel and said: "We will not be a trampled doormat of an antisemitic government, in a country conquered by radical Islam, trying to save itself from economic and social decline by attacking Jews and the State of Israel. The British Mandate in the Land of Israel is over. " Ben Gvir, the security minister, posted on X in Spanish calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sanction Britain for its "occupation" of the Falkland Islands. "The British are not content with merely occupying the territory; they also carry out oil drilling there and steal the money from the Argentine people. " Read more: Israeli ministers call for sanctions on Britain over Falkland Islands

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Israeli ministers call for sanctions on Britain over Falkland Islands Submitted by Imran Mulla on Mon, 09/07/2026 - 23:05 The remarks are understood to be a response to the British government's plan to sanction Israeli settlements Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham inside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 3, 2026. (AFP) Off Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have called for Israel to sanction Britain over the Falkland Islands, as the UK government prepares to announce a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. Smotrich, Israel's finance minister, called for the expulsion of the British ambassador to Israel and said: "We will not be a trampled doormat of an antisemitic government, in a country conquered by radical Islam, trying to save itself from economic and social decline by attacking Jews and the State of Israel. The British Mandate in the Land of Israel is over. " Ben Gvir, the security minister, posted on X in Spanish calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sanction Britain for its "occupation" of the Falkland Islands. Ben Gvir wrote: "It's time for the state of Israel to publicly recognize that the Malvinas Islands [the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands] are Argentine territory under occupation, which the British violently steal from the Argentine people. "The British are not content with merely occupying the territory; they also carry out oil drilling there and steal the money from the Argentine people. " Ben Gvir added: "I call upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Argentina's sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and to impose sanctions on Great Britain as long as the occupation continues. " MEE has asked the British Foreign Office for comment. Argentina and the UK both assert sovereignty over the South Atlantic archipelago, but the vast majority of the territory's 3,600 residents back British rule. Last week Argentinian President Javier Milei declared that Argentina's national sovereignty had been "violated" and that his country would defend its interests "tooth and nail, no matter who it bothers". Milei threatened sanctions on oil firms that seek to drill around the Falkland Islands, adding that the "winds of change" favoured Argentina's claim to them. How Israel armed Argentina to kill British soldiers during Falklands War Read More » US President Donald Trump suggested last week he would not back Britain if Argentina was to invade the Falkland Islands. The comments by Ben Gvir and Smotrich are understood to come in response to Britain's plans to unveil a raft of policies targeting Israeli settlements on Tuesday, including a trade ban. Last week the Israeli government threatened Britain with retaliation, with Foreign Minister Gideon Saar warning: "If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain. " British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has not spoken to his Israeli counterpart since he became prime minister in July. He reportedly briefed Trump on his plans to introduce sanctions on Istael on Monday afternoon. The Trump administration is understood to strongly oppose the British government's approach. Tensions between Britain and Israel are likely to escalate. UK Politics News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

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Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon, killing 13 people, including women and children, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Monday, marking an escalation after weeks of relative calm. Israel said it would continue targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah over alleged ceasefire violations. Hezbollah has not commented on the strikes.

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Board of Peace's Mladenov says Gaza, West Bank escalation makes two-state solution 'impossible' A top official within the US-backed Board of Peace on Monday said a failure to move forward in Gaza paired with rising violence in the occupied West Bank were making a two-state solution "impossible". Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed "Board of Peace" tasked with implementing an October ceasefire plan, was speaking at the Hili Forum in Abu Dhabi. "I would say that if Gaza continues the way it is now, or does not move into implementing... the plan that we have under the comprehensive plan, the two-state solution will become practically impossible," he said.

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Cuba reports record losses from the US embargo as foreign minister describes months of punishing blackouts.

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Israeli attacks kill one, injure 10 in southern Lebanon Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed one person and injured 10 others, according to the state-run National News Agency, citing the country’s health ministry. One person was killed in the village of Ar-Rihan, in Jezzine district, while nine people, including two children and three women, were injured in the al-Maslakh neighbourhood of Nabatieh city, the ministry’s emergency operations centre said. Another person was injured in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

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UN watchdog says material from facility, bombed in 2007, now under IAEA safeguards.

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Reform UK's Zia Yusuf pulls up the ladder on Britain's immigrants Submitted by Soumaya Ghannoushi on Mon, 09/07/2026 - 18:51 In attacking Somali-born Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali, Reform UK is once again using the children of immigrants to sell its prejudice Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, right, and Zia Yusuf, left, now the party's shadow home secretary, pose after a press conference in London, on 3 August 2026 (Toby Shepheard/AFP) Off There is something almost exquisite about the hypocrisy of Zia Yusuf. Last week, the Reform UK politician surveyed possible Labour candidates for the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras, to fill the MP seat previously held by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and apparently discovered something terrifying. One of them was born in Somalia. "The frontrunner being foisted on the people of Holborn by Labour... was born in Somalia," Yusuf announced darkly. Then came the sinister little flourish: "Do you understand what's happening? " Yes, Yusuf, we do. A woman came to Britain as a child refugee, grew up there, built her life there, entered public service there, became a councillor there and eventually became leader of Camden Council. Now she may stand for election to the British Parliament. Terrifying stuff. Someone alert the authorities! At what precise point does a brown immigrant cease to represent the terrifying transformation of Britain and become Zia Yusuf? Except, of course, Yusuf himself is hardly the blond, blue-eyed Anglo-Saxon guardian of some ancient native tribe. He is the son of Sri Lankan Muslim immigrants, which makes the performance all the more comical. It is the politics of pulling up the ladder after you have climbed it - then standing at the top shouting that everyone still below is an invader. Sagal Abdi-Wali has lived in Camden for 35 years - "the place that gave my family sanctuary", in her own words. She leads the council of the very borough containing the constituency she may seek to represent. So what exactly is the problem? That she was not born there? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? Forty? Perhaps Reform could publish the number of years an immigrant must reside in Britain before Yusuf permits them to become fully British. Or perhaps there are other qualifications. Must their parents come from Sri Lanka rather than Somalia? Must they become millionaires? Must they join Reform? At what precise point does a brown immigrant cease to represent the terrifying transformation of Britain and become Zia Yusuf? That is the question his little dog whistle cannot answer. The convenient messenger Yusuf is hardly alone - even if Reform's London mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham, distanced herself from this particular attack, saying she did not understand it. The daughter of Egyptian -Muslim immigrants, Cunningham has built her own political profile by portraying the visibility of other Muslims as vaguely menacing. A few women in niqab become evidence that London feels like a " Muslim city "; foreign-language signs become symptoms of cultural surrender; and Muslim clothing in a market becomes a national problem requiring state intervention. Reform's Laila Cunningham claimed Shabana Mahmood protects Pakistani vote base Read More » Cunningham even wants police empowered to stop women in face coverings on suspicion that they may be concealing their identities to commit crimes. It is a particularly cheap form of politics: find some of the most conspicuous and vulnerable women in society, turn their clothes into evidence against them, magnify them into a civilisational threat, and invite everyone else to be suspicious. The oldest trick in the anti-Muslim right's repertoire - only this time, delivered by the daughter of Muslim immigrants. The innovation is not the message. It is, conveniently, the messenger. And while Yusuf was worrying about whether a Somali-born woman represented some existential threat to British public life, Channel 4 broadcast an undercover investigation into people rather closer to home. Senior Reform figures were secretly filmed discussing arrangements around foreign-funded polling and a possible £500,000 ($676,000) donation from an American source channelled through a UK-based intermediary. Two senior aides subsequently stepped aside while Reform launched an investigation. Ah, British values. Apparently the danger to Britain is the Somali woman serving the people of Camden, not the questions about foreign money swirling around the party that spends half its time telling everyone else how fiercely it intends to defend British sovereignty. Perhaps this is the "one civic culture" Cunningham keeps talking about. Cues from America Of course, Reform is taking its cues from across the Atlantic. US President Donald Trump spent years shamelessly singling out Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman, before widening his invective to Somalis more generally. The irony is almost too obvious to require explanation. Trump himself is married to an immigrant. But apparently immigration ceases to be immigration when the immigrant happens to be a blonde Slovenian former glamour model who is married to the US president. The same contradiction runs through US Vice President JD Vance's politics. His wife, Usha, is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was raised Hindu. His own family is a living product of precisely the ethnically and religiously plural America that his politics repeatedly treats as a source of suspicion. Vance recently turned on Abdul El-Sayed, the Muslim Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, declaring there was something about him that was " very, very evil ". It was a textbook dog whistle, a piece of Islamophobia that has trailed El-Sayed throughout his campaign. His response punctured the trick by dragging the conversation back from demonisation to politics. Evil, El-Sayed countered, is starting wars when there is peace. It is stripping away people's healthcare when they have no other option. It is corrupting yourself for a little more power, to fund tax breaks for billionaires. There lies the difference between politics and prejudice. One talks about what governments do to people. The other tells people whom to fear. The Palestine test And that brings us to the central fallacy behind this grubby brand of identity politics. Your name tells us almost nothing about your political worth. Neither does your birthplace. Nor your religion. Nor your ethnicity. Take perhaps the most morally charged political question of our time: Palestine. Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum is the country's first woman president and its first president of Jewish background. She has formally received the credentials of Palestine's ambassador to Mexico, and her country has intervened in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. How race-baiting against Zohran Mamdani continues an American political tradition Read More » Mexico also declined a seat on Trump's "Board of Peace" because Palestine was excluded, while Sheinbaum herself has spoken explicitly of the " genocide in Gaza ". Meanwhile, Latin America has produced leaders of Palestinian ancestry whose politics could hardly be more different. El Salvador's far-right populist president Nayib Bukele comes from a Palestinian family, yet has aligned himself closely with Trump and maintained strong pro-Israel positions. Honduras's Nasry Asfura is also of Palestinian descent, yet is a committed ally of Israel. Europe supplies its own example. Simona Mohamsson, leader of Sweden's Liberal Party and the daughter of a Palestinian father from Haifa and a Lebanese mother, recently appeared in a televised election debate wearing a Star of David necklace, and has made warnings about "political Islam" - that increasingly convenient smokescreen for repackaging anti-Muslim rhetoric as opposition to "Islamism" - a prominent part of her politics. A Jewish woman can stand forcefully for Palestinian rights. People of Palestinian ancestry can do the reverse, choosing proximity to power over solidarity with the vulnerable and dispossessed. Ancestry confers neither conscience nor principle. Identity is no guarantee of character or morality. Back to Holborn In Holborn and St Pancras, Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader, intends to seek his party's nomination for the upcoming by-election. Sagal Abdi-Wali is being discussed as a leading contender for Labour. Polanski is Jewish. Abdi-Wali is Muslim and wears a hijab. So what? I am Muslim. I wear a hijab myself. Why? And yet, if I were voting in Holborn and St Pancras today, I might well vote for Polanski. Because I know considerably more about what he stands for. Over the past three years, I have admired his willingness to describe what Israel has done in Gaza as genocide, demand sanctions, oppose British complicity and stand against racism and Islamophobia. We are watching a man expose not only the absurdity of his own politics, but the grubby little fraud at the heart of Reform His Jewishness neither adds to nor subtracts from that. It is irrelevant. I know much less about Abdi-Wali's politics. I would want to know what she thinks, what she has done, and what she intends to do before deciding whether she deserves my vote. Her being Muslim does not inherently earn it. Her wearing a hijab does not automatically earn it. And her being Somali-born most certainly does not disqualify her from it. I wish her well, particularly after the disgraceful attempt to turn her birthplace into an accusation. But votes should be earned by what politicians do and what they promise to accomplish. Which brings us, finally, to Yusuf. "Do you understand what's happening? " he asked. Perfectly. We are watching a man expose not only the absurdity of his own politics, but the grubby little fraud at the heart of Reform: dress prejudice up as patriotism, find a brown man - or woman - to sell it, and hope nobody notices the joke. Unfortunately for Yusuf, he is the joke. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. UK Politics Opinion Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:29 Update Date Override 0

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Yemen's Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of air raids, missile strikes Yemen's Houthis on Monday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out air strikes around the country, including the deadly bombardment of a prison, as the group presses on in an offensive to seize territory near the Bab el-Mandab Strait. Houthi media said the attacks targeted Houthi positions across the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country, which is divided between areas held by the Iran-backed Houthis and those controlled by the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government. Saba news agency, which is affiliated with the Houthi movement, reported that seven people were killed by Saudi air strikes on the prison in Al-Hazm in the north of Yemen, including one child visiting the facility.

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Trump targets aeroplane maker again, accusing Canada of unfair practices and threatening to block sales in the US.

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External support for ethnic armed groups poses an escalating security threat to Iran, experts and state officials warn.

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US envoy Steve Witkoff on Monday touted progress in weekend discussions with Ukraine and Russia, raising the prospect of reviving three-way peace talks to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II. Ukrainian MP Lisa Yasko says that "we don't trust these talks", describing the US envoys' flattery towards Russian President Vladimir Putin as "disgraceful".

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Israel on Monday threatened a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority if it believed the West Bank-based body was preparing an attack on Israeli forces or settlements resembling Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault. The warning was denounced by Palestinian authorities as an attempt to fuel the conflict during the Israeli election season.

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Russian forces struck a warehouse and a facility in Kyiv Oblast on 7 September.