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25 August 2026 18:54

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed. Through Space Force, we are watching every square inch of the Strait, as we are, also, with Pickaxe Mountain and the already destroyed three other Nuclear sites.

There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 16:32

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard the C-17A Globemaster that flew into Moscow, Russia, this morning ahead of a day of meetings.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 12:18

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- A C-17A Globemaster belonging to the U.S. Air Force flew from Riga to Moscow this morning.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 10:28

🇩🇪⚡- German outlets report that a third drone, packed with 50g of RDX explosives, was also found near the Leipzig/Halle Airport 10 days ago.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 05:21

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡️- YouGov, one of the largest and most trusted polling firms in the country, has partnered with Hasan Piker to release new polling about Israel-Palestine among Democrat party voters.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 23:33

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifted a judicial order blocking President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, clearing the way for its use ahead of November's midterm elections.

The decision does leave room for additional lawsuits, which some states are likely to file with the first mail-in ballots set to be sent out in a few weeks.

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24 August 2026 21:37

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have announced the start of "Operation Economic Outcast" against Iran.

"We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone." - Scott Bessent, US Secretary of the Treasury.

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24 August 2026 17:30

🇩🇿🇲🇱⚡️- In a significant thaw in relations between Algeria and Mali, Malian Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maiga has arrived in Algiers for high-level talks.

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24 August 2026 16:12

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- A second drone in less than 24 hours has been downed by the Sudanese Armed Forces. The drone also originated from Ethiopia.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 15:10

🇦🇲🇷🇺⚡- "For two hundred years Armenia's relations with Russia were built on the idea that Russia will be the guarantor of security of the Armenian people.

The events of 2020-2023 have shown that Russia, because of its own security problems, had significant limitations in fulfilling its role as guarantor," - Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.

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24 August 2026 10:20

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah struck a tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 00:52

🇺🇸⚡️- Around 18,700 customers in Gary, Indiana, have been without power for twelve days after a storm knocked out most of the power in the city.

When the state utility company NIPSCO was sent out to make repairs on Aug. 15th, unknown residents of the 76% Black city fired upon the marked company vehicle.

The Gary PD is now acting as a security force for the NIPSCO workers as they attempt to repair the electrical infrastructure.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 21:28

🇸🇴🇹🇷🇦🇪 - Prominent independent Somali journalist Bashir Hashi Yussuf has claimed that the recent strikes off the coast of Puntland were carried out by the United Arab Emirates, not Turkey, and are intended to create the impression that Ankara is responsible for the deaths of civilians fishermen (as per the authorities in Somaliland).

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 21:19

🇹🇷🇸🇴⚡- Following the Turkish airstrike on Eyl yesterday, Turkey's air force attacked the coast of Jiifle, Nugaal province in Puntland, today, killing nine.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 21:01

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on European armaments factories under the guise of plausible deniability.

The Kremlin is recruiting local gang members to sabotage defence manufacturers to test NATO's resolve.

The attacks appear carefully calculated to fall just short of triggering Article 5, Nato’s mutual defence clause," - Western intelligence sources tell The Telegraph.

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25 August 2026 18:47

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The U.S. C-17A Globemaster has returned to Riga.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 13:22

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇱🇻⚡- Kremlin spokesman Peskov says he has no information regarding the C-17A that arrived in Moscow from Riga, Latvia.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 12:15

🇺🇸⚡️- Up to 45,000 Nevadeans have been evacuated as fires rage near Reno.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

25 August 2026 09:09

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Overnight, Iran struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing damage to the engine room. The vessel has been disabled.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 23:57

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The U.S. State Department announced part of the measures in Operation Economic Outcast will target an Iranian cyber group "responsible for extensive intrusions into U.S. critical infrastructure."

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 22:58

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The State Department is issuing a reward of up to $10 million for information on key Iranian IRGC figures.

They include:
- Ahmad Vahidi, Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC.
- Ali Abdollahi, Chief of Iran's Central Military Command.
- Sa’id Aghajani, IRGC Aerospace Force Commander.
- Hamidreza Lashgarian, Chief of IRGC's Cyber-Electronic Command.
- Majid Khademi, IRGC Intelligence Chief.

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24 August 2026 20:21

🇰🇪🇸🇴⚡- For the second time in just two days, al-Shabaab launched a cross-border attack on a Kenyan military base near the town of Konton, northeast Kenya (the base is located at 2.0361126, 40.9083649).

Kenyan military sources report repelling the attack and pushing al-Shabaab back towards the Somalian border. The number of casualties on either side currently remains unknown.

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24 August 2026 17:18

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, during his first foreign visit to Ukraine to attend the country's Independence Day parade, announced that Britain has agreed to share Storm Shadow missile technology with Kiev, paving the way for Ukraine to manufacture the long-range cruise missiles domestically.

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24 August 2026 16:06

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — President Trump accused Canada of taking advantage of the U.S. through high tariffs on American agricultural products and said the trade relationship had created a $60 billion deficit.

He announced that from January 1, 2027, U.S. tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel will rise to 50%, while products manufactured in the U.S. will face “ZERO TARIFFS.”

Trump also said the U.S. does not need Canada and that they “will be treated like a State no longer," claiming Canada is far more dependent on trade with the U.S.

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24 August 2026 15:03

🇦🇲⚡- "It's possible for a country to be removed from the CSTO. I would be delighted if the alliance removed Armenia from the collective treaty agreement. It would free us from the dilemma of leaving or not," - Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.

Note, the CSTO's collective defense clause closely resembles NATO's Article 5, stipulating that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. However, the alliance did not support Armenia during the 2020 war or the subsequent border clashes with Azerbaijan between 2021, 2022, and 2023, a failure that has fueled growing frustration in Yerevan. Pashinyan in 2021 and 2022 directly requested support, citing the CSTO mutual defense clause, but fell on deaf ears in Moscow, and has even gone as far as accusing Belarus (a CSTO member) of supporting Azerbaijan (a non-CSTO member) against Armenia.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

24 August 2026 09:01

🇺🇸 - 30 years ago, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve. Their corporation would go on to revolutionize gaming on several occasions. They gave gamers the Source engines and the game series of Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress as well as the Steam platform. They have given countless small developers a chance to create and live off their work, feeding passions for three decades now. Valve stands as a unique giant among gaming corporations, showing us that greed will never replace passion when it comes to quality.

"It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now all you need is a Steam account." - Gabe "GabeN" Newell.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 21:33

🇷🇺 - Three years ago today, Russia's Putin killed the heads of the Wagner Group, Dmitri Utkin and Yevgeny Prigozhin. Since then, Russia's ability to project influence abroad has spiraled downwards with setbacks across several key theatres, including Syria, the Sahel, and the Caucasus.

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23 August 2026 21:22

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Sudan says it has shot down a drone that entered its airspace from Ethiopia, an incident that comes just one day before the UN Security Council is set to discuss the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Sudan, a proposal strongly opposed by Port Sudan.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 21:09

🇸🇴⚡️ BREAKING: Merca, the capital of Somalia's Lower Shabelle province, has fallen to a newly emerged and previously unidentified militia calling itself the 'Rapid Support Forces'.

Local reports state all Somali federal and South West State flags have been removed from government and administrative buildings and replaced with the group's own banners.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

23 August 2026 08:57

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "At first, a few commentators and event hosts who cling to the fringes of their definition as journalists, and a few opposition leaders, said that the strike in Syria [on the military base in the north of the country] was unnecessary and carried out for political considerations.

After it was clarified that the IDF recommended the strike based on clear intelligence information, and the political echelon weighed it carefully and made the decision, they [journalists and online influencers] moved to an alternative version:

'The statements by the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister to Erdogan and the warnings that we will not allow Turkey to establish itself in Syria and endanger Israel's security - are unnecessary and dangerous. We must not anger Erdogan, as if we went on some evening stroll with a light breeze in the treetops that has nothing to do with anything - and Erdogan is actually some kind of Zionist enthusiast.'

It's fortunate that they [journalists and online influencers] don't influence anything these days, and we very much hope for Israel's security that they won't reach positions of influence with such stances even in the future," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel.