Mustang Advocates Say Report Proves Wild Horses From Wyoming Sent To Slaughter
Mustang advocates say a New York Times report proves horses rounded up from the range in Wyoming and other states have been sent to slaughter. An advocacy group is now asking Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to shut down all sales of wild horses.
Horse advocates are claiming a New York Times investigation proves their allegations that mustangs rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management have been funneled through dealers who sold them for slaughter.
That includes horses from Wyoming, wild-horse advocate Suzanne Roy told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday.
“We got a brand number for those horses,” said Roy, who worked on the investigation as a consultant for Skydog Ranch & Sanctuary out of Bend, Oregon.
Roy and Skydog Ranch & Sanctuary founder Clare Staples previously told Cowboy State Daily that horses passed through the Wind River Ranch near Lander were sent to dealers who sold them to slaughter.
They claimed the BLM broke its own rules in doing so because the agency isn’t authorized to send horses to slaughter, either directly or by proxy.
Skydog claimed in a statement Thursday that the Times investigative piece proves their allegations. The group said it sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding an immediate shutdown of all BLM wild-horse sales.
Horses captured during BLM roundups went to livestock trader Brandon Jones in Ohio, who bought them for $25 each, the Times reported Thursday.
According to livestock inspection records, mustangs sold by the government were sent to slaughterhouses in Canada, the Times wrote.
A request for comment sent from Cowboy State Daily to Burgum’s office wasn’t answered by publication time.
The BLM denies that it’s funneled horses to slaughter.
“The Bureau of Land Management does not sell or send wild horses or burros to slaughter, and allegations that individuals are violating federal law or the terms governing the sale of these animals are taken seriously,” according to an email from the agency’s national press office Thursday evening. “Violations of these laws may result in criminal fines and imprisonment. When BLM receives credible evidence of potential violations, the agency reviews that information and refers appropriate matters to law enforcement.”
The BLM said its mission remains to protect wild horses and burros, and to control their numbers though roundups and adoptions or sales, “while longstanding federal safeguards and BLM policy prohibit their sale for commercial processing. Those who abuse the program or attempt to circumvent its protections should not be confused with the thousands of responsible Americans who provide good homes for these animals.”
Mule Deer Foundation president and CEO Greg Sheehan, former head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said there have beencases of horses going from the BLM to slaughter sale dealers.
“A little bit of what they (horse advocates) describe has happened. But that was abuse of the system; any system can be abused,” Sheehan said. “Are there a few cases? Yes, there are, but it’s not systemic.”
Horse advocates say it’s been proven that mustangs rounded up in Wyoming have been sent to slaughterhouses in Canada. (Carol Walker)
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Elon Musk Ukraine’s Order of Freedom, one of the country’s top state honors, via a presidential decree published Wednesday praising him “for outstanding personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom, and for developing relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States of America.” The honor comes as Kyiv pushes to expand its use of Musk’s Starlink terminals, which have served as the backbone of Ukrainian battlefield communications and drone piloting since Musk activated the service over Ukraine following Russia’s 2022 invasion; earlier this year Musk also agreed, at the request of Ukraine’s since-dismissed defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, to disable thousands of Russian “grey-market” Starlink terminals, disrupting Russian forces. Ukraine is now specifically asking to use Starlink over Russian territory itself, aiming to help strike targets like the ballistic missile launchers hitting Ukrainian cities, a move Zelenskyy said Musk had opposed as a “major escalation” but that Kyiv is now getting “more encouraging feedback” on. Zelenskyy argued that extending Starlink coverage over Russia could undercut capabilities Moscow is relying on to prolong the war
Source: Aaron Parnas, Substack
However:
Rocket booster for Russia’s Starlink equivalent set to splash down in the Barents Sea
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is expected to launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome within the next few days, carrying another batch of Rassvet satellites into orbit.
Roscosmos, Russia’s state space agency, has issued a warning for a potential rocket-stage splashdown in the Barents Sea sometime before the evening of 27 August. Once a rocket booster has completed its task, it separates from the upper stage and falls back to Earth.
Anyone flying or sailing in the area is being warned to stay away. Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) are available from the Norwegian aviation authorities, while both Norway’s FishInfo and Russia’s Sea Port Administration for the Western Arctic in Murmansk have published corresponding Navigational Warnings (PRIPs).
The launch is due to take place from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region.
Update: The launch took place on August 24 at 5:40 a.m. (Moscow time)
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“A larger and more mature Rassvet constellation, covering larger geographic areas with greater continuity, could improve the Russian Armed Forces’ ability to maintain secure communications during military operations, coordinate geographically dispersed forces and support the operation of unmanned systems, including aerial drones,” he told the Barents Observer.
Rassvet was initially marketed as a satellite-based internet service for civilian use. However, according to The Insider, Vladimir Putin has said that work on a Russian equivalent of Elon Musk’s Starlink is progressing at a good pace. He has also indicated that soldiers on the ground could soon benefit from access to the satellites.
Musk allows Ukrainian forces to use Starlink in Ukrainian-controlled territory, while access to the network is blocked inside Russia.
Ukrainian authorities have reportedly asked Elon Musk to allow Starlink to be used in support of drone strikes against Russian military targets inside Russia. However, both the billionaire and Donald Trump have rejected the option, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Horrifying images caught by CCTV before transmission cut out:
The catastrophic debris flow that struck Nepal and Tibet today was triggered by the collapse of a glacier high in the mountains.
Why did this mountain collapse:
Glacier melt is primarily driven by rising global temperatures caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial emissions that increase greenhouse gases. Since 2000, glaciers worldwide have been losing an average of 273 billion tonnes of ice per year, accelerating freshwater loss and contributing to sea-level rise. European Space Agency iberdrola.com
Thousands will have perished, including tourists:
Footage broadcast on TV channels shows collapsed houses being swept away by the floodwaters, cars adrift and a massive metal bridge over the Trishuli River swept away by the flood. According to some witnesses quoted by Reuters, entire villages have reportedly been submerged by the floodwaters. Others claim to have seen the current sweep away ‘eight or nine lorries, along with houses and people’.
“There could be many casualties or significant material damage,” said Nepalese district administrator Narendra Pariyar, urging villagers living on the banks of the Bhote Koshi river to move to higher ground.
“There is devastation wherever we look,” explains Tula Bahadur BK, a healthcare worker from Rasuwa. “The settlements near the river have been completely swept away. Five of my relatives are missing.” According to the Nepalese army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet, rescue helicopters will not be able to land in the affected areas until the waters recede.
Chinese President Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for every possible effort to be made to search for and rescue missing persons, to evacuate and rehouse residents threatened by the disaster, and to speed up treatment for the injured, with the aim of minimising the number of casualties. He also ordered that monitoring and early warning systems be strengthened, that rescue operations be conducted in accordance with scientific principles, and that the occurrence of secondary disasters be prevented.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has, in turn, asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen communication and coordination with the countries concerned and to share information promptly in order to jointly manage the rescue operations. On the instructions of Xi and Li, Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Guoqing travelled to the scene with the heads of the relevant departments to lead the rescue and emergency management operations. The Tibetan authorities have mobilised forces for search and rescue operations at the disaster site.
Our planet is self destructing thanks to human harmful actions.
It was only recently the famous Nepalese mountaineer died under an avalanche. The danger signs were there, but still he continued to climb.
Before the avalanche, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, a climbing sensation, posted on Instagram that the world’s twelfth highest mountain would be a late addition to his expedition. He also petitioned the mountain for protection: “Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down.” Prabin Ranabhat, Pacific Press, Sipa USA, AP Images
How Nims Purja’s Broad Peak climb ended in deadly disaster
The mountaineering star and nine other climbers perished in an avalanche in Pakistan’s Karakoram. Other expeditions had already left the mountain over concerns about a recent heavy snowfall.
Before the avalanche, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, a climbing sensation, posted on Instagram that the world’s twelfth highest mountain…Read More
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ByAnna Callaghan and Grayson Schaffer
Last updated August 2, 2026
David Klein and Ian Overton did not like what they were seeing. By the last week of July the two men had been living under Pakistan’s 26,414-foot Broad Peak for a month, and the mountain in front of them had dramatically changed its mood. They had come to climb it without bottled oxygen and no porters. Klein, a Hungarian who led the country’s first ascent attempt on Broad Peak in 2000, and Overton, an American ER nurse, tried Nanga Parbat together in winter 2012. This year, they decided to give Broad Peak, the world’s twelfth highest peak, a go.
In mid-July, Klein told ExplorersWeb that conditions on the mountain were relatively good and that “avalanche danger is low.” Most of what could slide, he said then, had already slid. On July 19, he followed a Pakistani rope-fixing team up the west side for 19 hours and turned around somewhere between 50 and 70 vertical meters below the summit. Klein was climbing without bottled oxygen. Overton, affected by the altitude, had already returned to base camp.
Klein weighed the idea of making another attempt, but was dissuaded by heavy snowfall that began around July 22. “After lots of snowfall you don’t only want good weather,” says Klein. “You want a few days of good weather in which there is no snowfall, but you are not moving because the snow has to do one of two things. It has to stick to the mountain or it has to slide down.”
Most of the teams at base camp had already gone home. On July 25, Klein and Overton packed up and walked out as well. Yet a few teams with summit hopes remained, including that of Nirmal “Nims” Purja, who rose to fame in 2019 after summiting all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in record time, and his team from Elite Exped, who were staged at a nearby base camp.
Why they decided to stay is still opaque, but the consequences were deadly. At around 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, July 30, an avalanche swept ten climbers down the mountain’s main west-facing gulley, up to a vertical mile, and a rescue and recovery mission was immediately initiated. At first, rescuers hoped to find survivors. But the Alpine Club of Pakistan confirmed on Friday that the bodies of two climbers, Nadhira Al-Harthy of Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung “Yukta” of Nepal, had been recovered. And on Saturday, Elite Exped posted that Purja and another climber and guide, Nima Sherpa, were among the dead. “Today, it is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal ‘Nimsdai’ Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak. We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive.”
All the signs are around us. We know we have tipped our planet into a momentum of disaster due to our human activities, yet we have intensified the harm and reduced the attempts to Save the Planet.
The El Niño event developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest for more than a century and make 2027 another record-breaking year for heat, the UK’s Met Office has said.
Increased rainfall and storms are forecast to hit the UK this autumn as a result of the “unprecedented” weather pattern, while the pulse in heat it generates means the global temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5C above the preindustrial average, according to the national weather service.
Some scientists have said temperatures could rise by as much as 1.7C during 2027. “We should be clear that this is an unprecedented event,” said Prof Adam Scaife, the Met Office’s head of long-range forecasting. “I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts.”
Scaife said a typical El Niño involved Pacific sea temperatures rising by more than 1C, “with 2C being a really big event”. This year Pacific sea temperatures are expected to rise by 3C, making this El Niño “the largest since the 19th century”, according to the Met Office.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Scaife said: “We’re expecting the biggest El Niño for over a century, peaking at something over 3C. That is unheard of in modern climate records … It’s up 2C degrees already.”
He said the effects would be felt worldwide, adding they would be “particularly strong throughout the tropics, where we expect really severe droughts in places like South America and the west Pacific”.
He said: “Then there are wave-like disturbances that come out from the tropics and affect places like the UK. So we already see signals for increased rainfall and storminess in the autumn here in the UK around November time.”
There is also a heightened risk of drought in southern Africa and north-east Australia, while north-western Europe – including the UK – was likely to experience wetter and stormier conditions, the Met Office said.
For example, in 2024, a social media account owned by Clifford Wright contacted an influencer in Brazil, asking where she was and whether she would be interested in appearing in a music video in Miami.
And so these crimes continue using the old network.
Nothing is being done to stop it.
Russia still laughs as the cruel game goes on.
Sex traffickers work with psychopathic confidence.
Cruelty, victims worldwide.
Normalising the abnormal.
Wealth is generated, the network protects itself from disturbance.
In this photo courtesy of Katherine Delgado shows her step-father Luis Manuel Aviles, left, and her brother Joshua Aviles stand outside their home in Oct. 2025, shortly before Joshua deployed on the USS Lincoln the following month in Key West, Fla. (Katherine Delgado via the AP)
Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East
Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval
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Mon 24 Aug 2026
The father of a US sailor on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier deployed in the Middle East during the Iran war has been taken into federal immigration detention, the sailor said.
The border patrol arrested Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, originally from Nicaragua, after conducting a vehicle stop in Key West, Florida, a spokesperson for the US homeland security department said on Sunday.
Joshua Aviles, the son, posted: “I’ve been deployed for over nine months, out at sea in the Middle East aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, fighting for a country that has given me everything.
“I just got a call that my dad was taken by ICE.”
His father had his driver’s licence, social security card and work permit, Aviles said. “We have done everything through immigration to get his green card approved, and we are just waiting. This is heartbreaking for me. I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal.”
The DHS said Luis Manuel Aviles Roa entered the US illegally and would remain in immigration and customs enforcement detention pending removal proceedings.
“Having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation’s laws,” the DHS said.
Rights groups say the immigration crackdown under Donald Trump has violated free speech and due process rights and created an unsafe environment, particularly for ethnic minorities, who have raised concerns about racial profiling.
The Lincoln, which left the Middle East on Saturday, did not make a port call in more than 200 days. That set a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea, according to Democratic lawmakers who called for answers after sailors’ families raised concerns about about poor living conditions and morale on board.
The Lincoln has a planned stop in Thailand in early September, the texts say. The aircraft carrier is sailing home after an extended, record-setting deployment in the Middle East amid the U.S. war in Iran.
Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations
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August 21, 2026
Ottawa, Ontario
“Over the past 18 months, Canada’s new government has focused on building our strength at home, diversifying our partnerships abroad, and striking a fair deal with the United States.
Our objectives in our trade negotiations have been to:
Preserve tariff-free access to the U.S. for the vast majority of Canadian business;
Provide greater stability to our trade relationship;
Significantly reduce U.S. tariffs on our key strategic industries, so that Canadian businesses in these sectors would have the best access of any in the world;
Protect our small and medium-sized businesses – the lifeblood of our economy – including by removing the imminent threat of new tariffs; and
Maintain our flexibility, independence, and sovereignty so we can keep building the Canada we want.
We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and charging for access to its vast market.
We have worked in that context. To strike a fair deal that would provide the best access to the U.S. market and greater certainty to Canadian businesses and workers. Throughout, our goal has been to secure the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any deadline.
In recent weeks, we made important progress toward improving Canada’s position as having the best deal in the world with the U.S.
However, that progress has not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians. As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa. They have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.
At midnight tonight, the U.S. intends to impose a 50% tariff on roughly $28 billion of Canadian goods. Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses.
In the coming days, the government will introduce additional measures to support Canadian workers and businesses, building on the nearly $25 billion in support provided over the past 18 months.
These actions complement Canada’s core economic strategy. From day one, we have been focused on building our strength at home and diversifying our partnerships abroad.
That strategy is working. We are advancing nearly $500 billion in major infrastructure projects. In parallel, we are unlocking new export markets for Canadian businesses. Our existing free trade deals already provide Canada with preferential access to 1.5 billion consumers, and we are on track to double that market access by the end of this year.
Canadian economic growth is accelerating, and we are on course to have the second-fastest growth in the G7 over the next two years. Our economy is creating jobs at four times the rate of the United States. Our exports to non-U.S. markets are on track to double over the next decade. Foreign direct investment in Canada is at its highest level in two decades, running at twice the rate of our nearest G7 competitor. Canada now ranks as the most attractive country in the world for infrastructure investment.
Canada has what the world wants. And we will not allow any nation to determine our future. We will set our own course to keep building Canada strong for all.”
On October 19, Albertans will answer an official, non-binding referendum question: should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or pursue a future binding referendum on separation?
The idea of Wexit is that Alberta and other Western provinces would secede from Canada to gain independence. And that would serve the interests of Russia, by weakening Canada and depriving it of Alberta’s vast natural gas reserves and other national resource riches. That’s why the Kremlin has escalated its influence operations. From late 2025 onward, the Pravda News Network, Sputnik, RT, and a vast network of paid North American collaborators have stoked grievances about Alberta’s exploitation and brought extremist views into the mainstream
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.the US wants what Alberta has got: exceedingly valuable natural gas. Putin understands that reasoning.
Source: Ruth Ben-Ghiat Substack
Australian similarities:
Push in Alberta to break away from Canada and form a new country
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Christopher Scott sees Albertan independence as a way to “rewrite the rules from the people’s perspective”. (ABC News: Bradley McLennan)
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As he walks around his cafe refilling coffee and delivering baskets of gravy-laden poutine, Christopher Scott wears his politics on his T-shirt.
“Free Alberta!” the shirt declares.
The Whistle Stop Cafe’s signature dish is the “heart attack burger”, which boasts eight beef patties and various other meats. A MAGA baseball cap rests on the cafe’s jukebox, but on this side of the US-Canada border, the acronym stands for Make Alberta Great Again.
The cafe has become a meeting point for Alberta’s separatists, who are pushing for the province to break away from Canada and form a new country.
The movement is exposing deep fractures inside one of the world’s most stable federations and shares striking similarities with Western Australia’s historical secession attempts.
This map presents the locations of First Nations reserves and Metis settlements located in Alberta, and displays the areas of the province covered by five treaty territories. The eight Metis settlements in the province are primarily located in east-central and northern Alberta.
In 1987, when Donald Trump was first flirting with running for president, he told an audience in New Hampshire that the United States should attack the “horrible, horrible country” of Iran, “and take over some of their oil.” In the years since, Trump talked about grabbing control of the natural resources of Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Libya, too.
For a long time — including during Trump’s first term — this smash-and-grab idea to corner the global energy supply was treated as something of a joke by outside analysts and political opponents. In this second administration, a version of it has become a building block of American power projection, both at home and abroad.
That policy is one of the reasons why the US captured Venezuela’s president. It’s the same reason why this White House now feels like it can choke Cuba so hard that Havana might cough up its leaders. And it’s why the Trump administration was bragging in the run-up to this past weekend’s massive American-Israeli assault on Iran that it could do so without upending the global economy.
Turkey vs Israel latest news: Israel FM says ‘no intention’ to escalate with Turkey as Syria airbase strike raises tensions with Ankara
Story by Amreen Ahmad
August 23, 2026
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The Syrian state media claimed that on August 18 there were eight Israeli raids against Abu al-Duhur airbase and it is worth noting that according to reports, there were no casualties, though the base has suffered from damage. The raid took place in light of the reported visit to the base made by a Turkish delegation. As per Israel, Syria was on the verge of breaking a certain status quo agreement between the two countries.
“After several discussions that the prime minister and I held with the IDF and the various security officials, it was agreed that before approval was given, a direct warning would be issued to the Syrian regime at the highest levels in an attempt to prevent the move, and that is what was done,” Defense Minister Katz said.
“After the request went unanswered, the prime minister and I authorized the IDF to carry out the strike, and it was carried out successfully. Erdogan was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and was forced to back down,” Katz said.
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The dispute goes beyond just one base while Turkey is forging ahead with its security cooperation with Syria, Israel is keen on stopping anything that may be perceived as a threat to its security on its northern border.
Israel will not tolerate Turkey’s ‘dangerous adventures’ in Syria, Katz warns Erdogan “Erdogan is dragging Turkey into dangerous adventures in Syria. Israel will not allow any actor to threaten its security,” the defense minister wrote on X/Twitter.
BySHIR PERETS AUGUST 20, 2026 08:19 Updated: AUGUST 20, 2026 11:50 Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday not to test Israel’s determination to defend itself, accusing the Turkish leader of dragging his country into “dangerous adventures” in Syria.
“Erdogan is dragging Turkey into dangerous adventures in Syria. Israel will not allow any actor to threaten its security. Erdogan would be better off continuing to deliver empty, fantastical speeches against Israel in the Turkish parliament rather than testing Israel’s determination to defend itself,” Katz wrote on X/Twitter.
Katz issues veiled warning to Turkey as he meets Greek defense minister in Athens
Israel won’t allow the use of terror to undermine regional stability, Katz says; Greek counterpart says Athens to cooperate with Jerusalem on anti-drone tech, cybersecurity
Istanbul, Turkiye – Just hours after Israel launched strikes last week against Qatar – a United States-designated “major non-NATO ally” and one of Washington’s closest Gulf partners – pro-Israel commentators quickly shifted their attention to Turkiye.
In Washington, Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, suggested that Turkiye could be Israel’s next target and warned that it should not rely on its NATO membership for protection.
Israel accuses Turkey of hypocrisy over Cyprus cover Israel accuses Turkey of hypocrisy over Cyprus
Tuesday 11 August | 21:26
By James Morphakis
Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of hypocrisy over its criticism of Israeli military operations, pointing to Turkey’s control of 36 per cent of Cyprus and its military presence in the region on Tuesday.
“Turkey has the audacity to criticise Israel. But what are the facts on the ground?” the ministry said in a social media post.
It said thousands of Turkish troops were stationed outside Turkey and that Ankara maintained military bases and outposts in Cyprus, Syria and Iraq.
The ministry said Turkey “occupies 36% of Cyprus, 5% of Syria and approximately 2,000 square kilometres of Iraq”.
The Israeli ministry contrasted Turkey’s military presence with its own deployment in Syria, saying Israel “temporarily controls 0.1 per cent of Syrian territory” in what it described as a “security zone” intended to “protect Israeli citizens”.
Israel’s captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and effectively annexed the territory in 1981.
The UN regards the territory as occupied and continues to support the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, which established a UN monitored buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces.
Drawing strength from strong historical, cultural and social ties between the two respective nations dating back many centuries, Türkiye and Palestine have strong and multi-dimensional relations.Having maintained official relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 1975, Türkiye was among the first countries to recognize the State of Palestine on the same day of its declaration in exile on 15 November 1988.Türkiye supports the international efforts aimed at achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiations and based on established UN parameters for a two-state solution. In this context, it backs the establishment of an independent, sovereign and contiguous State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem its capital.Türkiye has been exerting every effort to further enhance and diversify the already excellent relations with the State of Palestine in many fields. Bilateral relations with Palestine are comprehensively addressed through high-level mutual visits and meetings of the Joint Committee established between the two countries. The first meeting of the Türkiye-Palestine Joint Committee, co-chaired by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, was held in Ankara on 25 October 2018, while the second meeting was convened in Ramallah on 24 May 2022.Türkiye is currently the top provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is faced with a severe humanitarian crisis.
This article is the second in a two-part GIS series, “The UAE in focus.” Part one, by Giorgio Cafiero, explored the Emirati-Saudi rivalry.
Israel’s deployment of air defenses to the United Arab Emirates during the Iran war was a rare Middle Eastern security arrangement built without American brokerage. While the fate of the Iranian regime and Tehran’s nuclear ambitions remain unresolved in the war that began on February 28, defense collaboration between Israel and the UAE represents a turning point in regional geopolitics.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will sign a joint defense agreement in Saudi Arabia on Friday, two regional sources with direct knowledge of the matter tells Reuters.
Riyadh is seeking to deepen security cooperation with key allies while warning of an expanding regional threat from Iran-backed groups.
Details of the agreement were not immediately available.
Saudi Arabia already has a defence cooperation agreement with Pakistan. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the kingdom Thursday, while Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was due to arrive on Friday.
Cognitive empathyis the ability to recognize and understand what another person is feeling.
Affective empathyis the ability to emotionally resonate with another person’s feelings — to feel something in response to what they’re experiencing.
You can have one without the other. You can be highly skilled at reading someone else’s emotional state without actually sharing their feelings. And you can feel deeply for someone without being especially good at figuring out exactly what they’re feeling.
But neither one, by itself, tells us what you’ll do with another person’s suffering.
On the dark side, as you’ll see, that last line is key to understanding Malignant Narcissists and psychopaths.
On the light side, it also explains how the rest of us express positive empathy.
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