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“No order was given to halt the discussions,” one of the sources said, adding that talks continued with U.S. arms makers, military officials and others. Jonathan Landay and Andrea Shalal report. The EU will use €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) taken ​from interest generated by ‌frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, the European Commission said today. The ​money, transferred to the ​bloc on August 3, came ⁠from interest on cash balances, ​part of Russian central bank ​assets frozen by the EU in the wake of Moscow’s invasion, the ​Commission added.

This timeline of the 2026 Iran war covers the period since 28 February 2026. United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee emails embassy staff that if they want to leave, they should "do so TODAY" 20:38 UTC – US president Donald Trump gives the order to proceed with Operation Epic Fury. At 06:35 UTC, CENTCOM announced that it "and partner forces" had begun airstrikes against Iran. According to Business Insider, citing a US official...

2026 (MMXXVI) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade.

The current UTC time is 08:34:10 on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. UTC — Coordinated Universal Time — is the world's primary time standard: offset zero, with no daylight saving time, ever.