Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 30, 2025 – Institute for the Study of War

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  1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 30, 2025  Institute for the Study of War
  2. The Russia-Ukraine War Report Card, Aug. 27, 2025  Russia Matters
  3. Russia used putin-Trump meeting to postpone fall offensive – Institute for Study of War  ukranews.com
  4. The Kremlin exaggerates the successes of the Russian army at the front to influence the West - ISW analysis  Українські Національні Новини
  5. The situation 1262 – August 30, 2025  SPARTANAT.com
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Chicago mayor signs executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

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Brandon Johnson’s order directs city police not to collaborate with federal agents in immigration enforcement

The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order outlining how the city will attempt to resist Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Brandon Johnson pushed back on Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to deploy large numbers of federal officers into the country’s third-largest city, which could take place within days.

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Records fall as Sifan Hassan and Hailemaryam Kiros win Sydney Marathon

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  • Dutch star and Ethiopian run fastest times on Australian soil

  • Kenyan running great Eliud Kipchoge finishes ninth

The Dutch multi-distance phenomenon Sifan Hassan has set a race record to claim victory in the first running of the Sydney Marathon as a World Majors Series event.

Hassan clocked a women’s winning time of two hours 18 minutes and 22 seconds as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge fell short of the podium in the men’s category on Sunday.

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Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say

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Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’

The Conservative party will aim to “maximise extraction” of oil and gas in the North Sea if it wins power, Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce.

Badenoch will use a speech in Aberdeen in the coming days to set out her plans to extract as much oil and gas as possible instead of shifting away from fossil fuels, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

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Xi Uses Summit, Parade and History to Flaunt China’s Global Pull – The New York Times

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  1. Xi Uses Summit, Parade and History to Flaunt China’s Global Pull  The New York Times
  2. While Trump Rattles the World, China Basks in the Limelight  The Wall Street Journal
  3. SCO summit in China: Who’s attending, what’s at stake amid Trump tariffs?  Al Jazeera
  4. Trump’s double humiliation as Xi embraces Modi and Putin  The Telegraph
  5. China is playing a calculated diplomatic game and this week is about showing off what it can do  Sky News
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More than 500 workers at Voice of America and other broadcasters to be laid off

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Acting CEO of parent agency makes announcement one day after judge blocks her from firing VOA director

The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a months-long legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate.

Kari Lake, acting CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts late Friday, one day after a federal judge blocked her from removing Michael Abramowitz as VOA director.

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Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary

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Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health department

Bernie Sanders has joined in on growing public calls for Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign, after recent chaos across US health agencies.

In an op-ed published in the New York Times on Saturday, the Vermont senator accused Kennedy of “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future”, adding: “He must resign.”

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