ADVISORY  Watch: The World This Week: ‘A fraying empire.’ Joe Lauria of Consortium News hosts retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat Ann Wright and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to explore a U.S. military in crisis in the Middle East and elsewhere. Click HERE around 8 p.m. EDT to livestream and later to watch video, and for print introduction and bios of Wright and McGovern.

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Links to two reports from Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s IRAN, ALL OF IT and MEDIA, and for UKRAINE 8-14-26.) — MCM

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Summer campaign led to capture of 19 settlements in southeast Ukraine: Defence Ministry. From Reuters. Russian troops have taken control of 19 settlements in southeastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions over their summer campaign, the Russian Defense Ministry said today. READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine strikes industrial facility in Samara region. From Reuters. Ukraine struck industrial infrastructure in Russia‘s Samara region today, local authorities said. READ MORE . . .

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