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19 August 2026 18:56

🇨🇳🇨🇱⚡️- Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Perez Mackenna says developing relations with China has become a Chilean national policy. Chile is now officially looking into expanding the China-Chile partnership agreement, which celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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19 August 2026 18:45

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡️- South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun told a parliamentary committee today than neither South Korea nor the U.S. government had any idea joint military exercises were to be scaled back until Donald Trump tweeted.

Military officials from both nations also learnt the news as President Donald Trump tweeted about the reduction of military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea.

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19 August 2026 14:36

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- James Fishback, in response to Byron Donalds' victory:

"I just spoke with Congressman Donalds on the phone and congratulated him on his victory."

"While I concede this race, I do not concede this fight because the future of the country is on the line."

"The movement that we started here in Tampa in November does not end tonight. We merely pick up the pen and write the next chapter."

"We may concede tonight but we will not concede this fight."

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19 August 2026 12:33

🇫🇷⚡️- A third cyberattack within a month occured today targeting France's fiscal system.

This is the fifth major cyberattack targeting France's official administrations. Millions of personal files containing citizens' data have been stolen by hackers across various institutions since the year began, with most of the suspects remaining at large.

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19 August 2026 04:39

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- President Trump has TACO'd out of the new tariffs against Canada saying that "we have a deal".

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19 August 2026 02:02

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- AP has called the race for Byron Donalds, with 79% of the votes in.

Byron Donalds - 689,018 (49%)
Jay Collins - 346,674 (24.7%)
James Fishback - 142,257 (10.1%)
Paul Renner - 115,756 (8.2%)

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19 August 2026 01:41

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- As suspected this was a reporting error. Bilzerian is losing comfortably to Fine

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19 August 2026 01:39

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- For Florida's 6th House District Republican Primary:

Randy Fine - 10,902 (40.9%)
Dan Bilzerian - 8,838 (33.1%)
Aaron Baker - 4,834 (15%)

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19 August 2026 01:15

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- In the Democratic primary, the results are as follows:

David Jolly - 180,371 (69.4%)
Dayna Marie Foster - 28,056 (10.8%)
Dotie Joseph - 20,413 (7.9%)
Evelyn Castillo-Bach - 28,975 (6.8%)

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19 August 2026 01:03

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- Polls have closed in most of Florida for today's primary election. With 2% of results in, here are the results as it currently stands:

Byron Donalds - 14,074 (53.6%)
Jay Collins - 6,638 (25.3%)
James Fishback - 1,705 (6.5%)
Paul Renner - 1,535 (5.8%)

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19 August 2026 00:18

🇸🇾⚡️- Initial reports of explosions in Tartus, western Syria.

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19 August 2026 00:01

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from southern Lebanon.

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18 August 2026 20:25

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Americans think squeezing Iran harder will win concessions that were never part of the agreement.

Bessent and Hegseth are way out of their league. Stop waiting for the clown crew to pull a rabbit out of their hat and clean up the mess you made." - Mohammed Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Iranian Majilis.

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18 August 2026 13:17

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- Polls have opened in Florida.

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18 August 2026 06:01

🇵🇭⚡️- A high school student live-streamed a school shooting in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The student killed two of his peers before killing himself.

This shooter is almost certainly a participant in the extremely online, nihilistic community that glorifies and may eventually commit anti-social violence.

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19 August 2026 18:53

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡️- Despite formal inquiries from South Korean officials, including Defense Minister Ahn Guy-back, Washington has not given further details on how long the scaling back will last or if other aspects of military cooperation are to be re-evaluated between the two nations.

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19 August 2026 18:15

🇺🇳🇩🇪🇭🇹⚡️- Germany is boosting UN peacekeeping in
Haiti with air transport support for the Gang Suppression Force -mandated by the UNSC in 2025 at the US's initiative. - German Embassy in Washington.

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19 August 2026 14:15

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — An Israeli airstrike struck a police station in Gaza City, killing seven Palestinians and injuring 15 others, according to local emergency services.

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19 August 2026 06:37

🇨🇳🇪🇨⚡️- Xi Jinping has met the President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa in Beijing to further discuss Ecuador's role in China's Belt and Road initiative. The two leaders discussed "cooperation projects in energy, minerals, infrastructure construction, finance and other fields, and actively explored cooperation in areas including the digital economy, green development, new energy and artificial intelligence."

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19 August 2026 02:20

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- DSA candidate Angie Nixon has won the Democratic primary for Florida Senate after defeating Alex Vindman. Nixon will face the Trump-endorsed incumbent Senator Ashley Moody, who easily won the Republican primary.

Democratic primary (93% in):
Angie Nixon - 640,338 (55.46%)
Alex Vindman - 514,325 (44.54%)

Republican primary (89% in):
Ashley Moody - 1,177,450 (79.65%)
Chris Gleason - 200,891 (13.59%)
Ernest Rivera - 71,823 (4.86%)

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19 August 2026 01:42

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- With 68% of votes counted in the Florida gubernatorial primary, here are the results as it stands:

Republican primary:
Byron Donalds - 598,436 (50.4%)
Jay Collins - 289,432 (24.4%)
James Fishback - 112,206 (9.4%)

Democratic primary:
David Jolly - 564,758 (62.4%)
Dayna Marie Foster - 128,379 (14.2%)
Dotie Joseph - 85,816 (9.5%)

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19 August 2026 01:41

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- AP calls Randy Fine as the projected winner.

Randy Fine - 19,480 (54.8%)
Dan Bilzerian - 6,383 (18%)

with 42.2% of the votes in.

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19 August 2026 01:24

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- DSA candidate Angie Nixon is currently leading the Democratic primary for Florida Senate with 66% of the vote in.

Angie Nixon - 436,072 (52.99%)
Alex Vindman - 386,904 (47.01%)

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19 August 2026 01:10

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- 20% of Florida's votes have been counted.

Byron Donalds - 152,879 (49.7%)
Jay Collins - 83,778 (27.3%)
James Fishback - 21,234 (6.9%)
Paul Renner - 25,659 (8.3%)

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19 August 2026 00:23

🇸🇾⚡️- The explosions are being attributed to fireworks launched by locals, and are not of military nature.

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19 August 2026 00:05

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes against Ali al-Taher Hill and Kfar Roummane, immediately northeast of Nabatieh.

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19 August 2026 00:01

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Ongoing Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon. Multiple explosions have been reported, specifically in Nabatieh.

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18 August 2026 16:50

🇺🇸 -

"Vote for the FISH.

He's the blueprint.The guy's a machine. Off the charts brilliant. Sharp. He's a really talented politician.

Whether he loses, doesn't go the distance, but that's not even the goal. It's to inject the ideas into the discourse, and that is a phenomenal job.

He was outspent 200 to 1, they cheated him out of the debate, and sued him to get him off the balot.

This guy fought like an animal.

He's the model for what is possible in 2028."

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18 August 2026 09:45

🇺🇸 - VOTE FOR JAMES FISHBACK 🍊

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18 August 2026 05:24

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡️- "UKMTO has received a report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Company Security Officer has reported that the vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while conducting an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz. The impact caused damage to the engine room and resulted in a crew casualty. The remaining crew are currently being assisted by the Omani Coast Guard." - United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).