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14 August 2026 11:14

🇾🇪⚡- Large convoys of Ansarullah forces have left the cities of Dhamar and 'Ibb, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen, towards the Hays-Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

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14 August 2026 11:02

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An Iranian one-way drone struck a tanker that was exiting the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. UKMTO reports the vessel suffered minor damage.

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14 August 2026 10:38

🇦🇫⚡️ — A large battle is ongoing in Badakhshan Province between the Taliban-led Afghan army and forces loyal to Jumma Khan Fateh, an ethnic Tajik Taliban commander who rebelled against local Afghan army units following a dispute over the control of the gold mining operations in the region.

The fighting quickly escalated following the deployment of additional Taliban forces, which led Fateh to declare war on the Taliban forces in the southern part of the province.

Taliban forces and special forces suffered massive casualties, including the loss of a helicopter that was shot down while trying to resupply Taliban forces on the ground.

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14 August 2026 07:10

🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage has won the Clacton special election with 62.8% of the vote. Raw total 22,239 votes, surpassing his 2024 total by a bit over 1000.

Jonathan David Harvey received 9,455 votes and 26.7% of the vote.

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14 August 2026 04:00

🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage claims he received more votes tonight than he did in 2024.

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14 August 2026 02:57

🇬🇧⚡️- RN estimates this will be Nigel Farage's most dominant re-election in his electoral career, all owed to every other party refusing to field a candidate instead endorsing Jonathan David Harvey aka Count Binface.

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14 August 2026 01:16

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡- The Catholic Biblical Association of America has elected Amy-Jill Levine, a practicing Orthodox Jewish woman, as its president.

Levine is a scholar in Jewish studies and the New Testament, where she seeks to eliminate antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic readings of biblical texts.

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14 August 2026 00:39

🇺🇸⚡️- Fox News polling shows Republican Mike Rogers beating Abdul El-Sayed 51 - 47 in the Michigan Senate race. Fox's polling has consistently shown better results than most for the Democrats.

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13 August 2026 22:02

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel is astonished at Iran's rapid military rebuild following the U.S.-Iran war, The Jerusalem Post reports.

The report states Tel Aviv believes Iran will rebuild to pre-war levels by 2027, and become a major threat again by 2028.

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13 August 2026 17:16

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah attacked ARAMCO's Jizan oil refinery in southwest Saudi Arabia with two drones.

This would be the third time the processing facility has been struck by the Yemeni group in less than three weeks.

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13 August 2026 14:39

🇫🇷⚡️- Thousands of firefighters in France have started a strike following "disastrous" early talks with the government.

Among their main demands are better salaries, new trucks, as the average fire truck in France is around two decades old, and for more cancers to be recognized as work-related risks.

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13 August 2026 13:06

🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡- A high-level Iraqi delegation has arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for talks regarding the recent Saudi attacks on the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces position in retaliation for the PMF's attacks on Saudi's oil facilities.

The Iraqi security delegation consists of the Chief of Staff, the Chief of Baghdad's security services, the Air Defense Commander, and the Chief of Baghdad's Counter-Terrorism Agency.

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13 August 2026 12:10

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: Massive Rapid Support Forces advances in the Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile State, southeast Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces counteroffensive continues to gain momentum.

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13 August 2026 02:35

🇺🇸⚡- Luigi Mangione’s defense team is in advanced and serious negotiations with federal prosecutors to reach a guilty plea for murder.

Even if they reach a deal with federal prosecutors, Mangione will likely still face charges in New York State.

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12 August 2026 21:47

🇺🇸⚡- President Trump announces Karoline Leavitt will be leaving her job as White House spokeswoman.

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14 August 2026 11:11

🇸🇩🇪🇹 - The Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have captured Tigrayan personnel fighting alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, which supports previous Rerum Novarum claims that the TPLF's Army 70, and possibly Army 13, are actively involved in the Sudanese civil war.

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14 August 2026 10:39

🇦🇫 — WATCH: The moment the Afghan-Taliban helicopter was shot down by pro-Fateh fighters yesterday.

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14 August 2026 09:39

🇾🇪 - Ansarullah and the pro-Hadi National Resistance Forces, NRF, (pro Presidential Leadership Council) have been clashing along the al-Barah (Shar'ab heights) axis, Hays direction, over the past 12 hours.

Reports of a widespread Ansarullah offensive in this direction are all false. Overnight, limited clashes occurred north of al-Khawkhah, and west of al-Masil.

Reports of Ansarullah advances (using LiveUAMap) are also wrong. LiveUAMap, as we've mentioned before, is incorrect in almost every conflict. Advances shown here would indicate the Khalid bin Walid military camp was captured and is now under Ansarullah control–which it definitely was not.

Khalid bin Walid was a vital target for the Tihamah Brigades and the NRF during their counteroffensive against the pro al-Houthi forces a few years ago. It serves as the ONLY defensive position along the Mocha Express Highway between the city of Mocha and Ansarullah positions in the southwest Ta'izz highlands. If the large military camp was to fall, and had fallen to Ansarullah, fighting would be occurring WITHIN Mocha city itself now.

Image two: Rerum Novarum's map of the Hays direction.

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14 August 2026 04:03

🇬🇧⚡️- Farage will not attend the election count due to protestors planning to disrupt the declaration of results.

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14 August 2026 03:13

🇱🇻🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Latvia has issued an air threat warning in several municipalities in the south eastern corner of Latvia that borders Belarus and Russia.

"AIR THREAT IN THE AIRSPACE OF AUGŠDAUGAVA, PREIĻI, RĒZEKNE, AND BALVI MUNICIPALITIES.

The National Armed Forces of Latvia inform - air threat in Latvian airspace. Seek safe place indoors and follow the two-wall principle. If you see a low-flying and suspicious object, do not approach it and call 112. You will be informed when the threat has ended." - Latvia Armed Forces.

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14 August 2026 02:54

🇬🇧⚡️- Turnout for the Clacton special election is 43% according to the returning officer.

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14 August 2026 00:47

🇹🇷⚡️ - Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker says he is suing conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings for defamation after Jennings played and commented on the numerous controversial clips from Hasan’s live streams.

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13 August 2026 23:59

🇺🇸⚡️- The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. was vandalized by putting soap into the fountains and spray painting the phrase: “Clean hands, Dirty $.”

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13 August 2026 17:19

🇮🇹⚡- Explosion outside the KNDS ammunition facility in Colleferro, Italy. No injuries reported. An investigation has been launched into the incident. Firefighting teams are currently on site tackling a large fire.

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13 August 2026 15:02

🇫🇷⚡️- In private, French President Emmanuel Macron is increasingly criticizing his constitutional inability to serve a third term, calling it some "grim bullshit".

"He's begun to talk about himself as if he were eternal. He doesn't seem to conceptualize he'll be gone next year." - Executive source to Paris Match.

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13 August 2026 13:27

🇮🇩⚡- Incredible waterborne clashes between West Papua separatists, TPNPB, and the Indonesian Armed Forces, TNI, in Lake Tage, Paniai Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. The clashes occurred two days ago.

Video credit: War Noir.

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13 August 2026 12:38

🇸🇩 - The Rapid Support Forces have captured the town of Kurmuk, with reports that the Sudanese Armed Forces withdrew all the way north to Pomfa - Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile State, southeast Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces have also effectively merged the Geisan and Kurmuk axis into a single front. The UAE-backed group is now less than 45km from Khandaru. Sudanese frontline sources report RSF movement across other areas of the Blue Nile State border with South Sudan and Ethiopia, and therefore expect additional fronts to open in this direction.

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13 August 2026 04:19

🇺🇸🇹🇷🫏⚡️- Democrat nominee for Wisconsin Governor David Crowley disavows Hasan Piker saying he will not campaign with him.

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13 August 2026 01:49

🇾🇪⚡- Heavy clashes ongoing between the Presidential Leadership Council forces and Ansarullah in the Hayfan district, Ta'izz direction, southern Yemen.

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12 August 2026 19:22

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — BREAKING: Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as its crew faces mounting mental health pressures during the extended deployment supporting operations against Iran, The Guardian reports.

The carrier’s roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines are in their ninth month at sea and have spent a record 250 consecutive days without making land. Families have raised concerns about severe burnout, deteriorating living conditions, and inadequate support aboard the ship.

Reports describe moldy showers, broken toilets and laundry facilities, shortages of hot water and basic hygiene products, and limited food.

Several suicide attempts have been thwarted aboard the aircraft carrier. One wife said her husband had tried to jump overboard after his spell at sea kept being extended, adding, "He’s scared." She received a call about the incident after her husband jumped but has not heard from anyone with the Navy in several weeks now.

In one of many incidents, a sailor on watch spotted a shipmate preparing to go overboard and intervened, pulling them back onto the deck. In another incident, watchstanders prevented a crew member from jumping from the carrier.

The carrier originally deployed in November 2025 for operations in the Pacific but was redirected to the Middle East after the war with Iran began, with its planned return repeatedly postponed.