Links to two reports from Middle East Monitor; others  are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for WEST BANK 8-19-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 20  Israeli occupiers set Palestinian home in occupied West Bank on fire with mother and daughter inside. From Middle East Monitor. Local sources told Anadolu Agency five masked occupiers attacked the home at dawn in the Khirbet al-Fara area of the city of Yatta in the Hebron governate. READ MORE . . .

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FROM AUG. 20  How daily life in the West Bank is being ground to a halt, by Fareed Taamallah | Middle East Monitor  To live in the occupied West Bank today is to exist within a finely tuned apparatus of deliberate friction. READ MORE . . .

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First, links to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials, (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, WEST BANK and UKRAINE so far, and down for IRAN 8-19-26.) — MCM

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Iran vows ‘devastating’ response as U.S. threatens toughest ever economic hit. From Reuters. Iran has said that its response to any new U.S. threats would be “devastating” after Washington pledged to impose the toughest financial penalties in history with the aim of toppling the Iranian leadership. READ MORE . . .

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Iranian families struggle to afford the basics as U.S ratchets up economic warfare, by Mehdi Fattahi and David Rising | AP  TEHRAN — Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else — except for heavily subsidized gasoline — further out of reach. Click HERE for report including photos. Click HERE for most of same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

A link to a report from the Moscow Times; others  are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up for today’s GAZA, WEST BANK and IRAN, and down for UKRAINE 8-19-26.) — MCM

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2 killed in Crimea as Ukrainian drones strike industrial site in Perm region. From the Moscow Times. At least two people were killed and four others wounded in overnight Ukrainian attacks on annexed Crimea, local authorities said late Thursday, while an industrial facility was later targeted in Russia’s Perm region amid the airstrikes. READ MORE . . .

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Here’s a link to an essay from Beyond the Curtain via ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll down for today’s WEST BANK, COVID ETC., GAZA, IRAN, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and for MEDIA 8-15-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 18  The benefit of not reading, by Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain / ScheerPost  It is a commonplace that a steady diet of the mass media can rot the brain and so fill one’s mind with nonsense that a creative thought becomes impossible. The Internet, television, film, and miniseries addictions . . . READ MORE . . .

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Here’s a link to a commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, COVID ETC., GAZA, IRAN, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for WEST BANK 8-17-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 18  As the world fixates on Hamas, who will disarm the Israeli settlers storming West Bank villages? by Soumaya Ghannoushi | Middle East Eye  In Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian families have spent August imprisoned inside their own homes. READ MORE . . .

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Here are links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, WEST BANK, GAZA, IRAN, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for COVID ETC. 8-13-26.) — MCM

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Ex-Fauci advisor pleads guilty to plotting to conceal Covid research. From AP. GREENBELT, Md. — A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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Here is a link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, WEST BANK, COVID ETC., IRAN, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for GAZA 8-18-26.) — MCM

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Israel’s military to investigate Gaza attacks, and other major developments in the Middle East. From AP.  The Israeli military said today it will conduct criminal investigations into the killings of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl and her family and the separate killings of 15 paramedics, following a review of troop conduct during the war in Gaza. Meanwhile . . .  Click HERE for report including photos. Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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Here is a link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, WEST BANK, COVID ETC., GAZA, UKRAINE and ALL OF IT, and down for IRAN 8-18-26.) — MCM

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Here are links to five reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, and the Moscow Times; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, WEST BANK, COVID ETC., GAZA, IRAN and ALL OF IT, and down for UKRAINE 8-18-26.) — MCM

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Ukraine’s new defence minister appointed amid political turmoil. From Reuters. KYIV – Ukrainian lawmakers appointed a new defence minister today, hours after his ousted predecessor dealt a major blow to President Volodymyr Zelensky with a call for elections in wartime. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for earlier report with photos from AP / AP in English and Spanish.