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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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12 August 2026 19:02

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT! Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, “A WALL OF STEEL,” and there is nothing Iran can do about it.

They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, their remaining soldiers are unpaid, the IRGC is decimated and fleeing, and their “Leadership” is uncertain, at best! They have No Money - Their country is “shot.”

All they have is FAKE NEWS and 300% INFLATION, and getting worse! Iran is all talk and no action, the Bully of the Middle East No Longer.

Praise be to Allah!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

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12 August 2026 15:41

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Rapid Support Forces, RSF, continue advancing north of Geisan, Ad Damazin direction, southeast Sudan, capturing the Umm Shoayba Camp (at 10.8122, 34.77624). Video footage confirms the fall of the camp to the RSF.

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12 August 2026 13:02

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah struck the city of Mocha, Presidential Leadership Council controlled southwest Yemen, once again. Two missiles struck the port city.

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12 August 2026 12:09

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Large-scale Russian drone attack ongoing against Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Numerous explosions have been heard over the city as air defenses attempt to confront incoming threats.

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12 August 2026 09:14

🇾🇪⚡- Explosion at al-Rayyan International Airport in al-Mukalla, capital of the Hadhramaut region of eastern Yemen.

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12 August 2026 08:38

🇺🇸🫏⚡- BREAKING: In a shocking and humiliating upset, Democrat David Crowley has defeated the DSA candidate Francesca Hong in the Democratic primary in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial race. He will face Tom Tiffany in the general election.

According to the polls, Hong maintained a 20% lead over her Democratic opponents before the primary election. To note, DSA candidates' polling appears heavily skewed in their favor, with election nights reflecting much less of an appetite for their politics or personalities, as seen with Hong and Abdulrahman Mohammed El-Sayed in Michigan.

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12 August 2026 00:41

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- After posting a video on social media of harvesting her eggs with her paunchy physique on display, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been confirmed to have broken up with her fiancée, Riley Roberts.

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11 August 2026 20:47

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich, has denied that Egypt was one of the two Middle Eastern countries mentioned in a recent bombshell intelligence leak. The leaked report alleged that one regional state had advised another to pursue a policy of false peace with Israel in order to lower Tel Aviv's guard while simultaneously preparing for a future large-scale confrontation.

The controversy has intensified after members of Netanyahu's opposition accused the Prime Minister's Office of deliberately leaking the sensitive intelligence. Although Urich firmly rejected claims that Egypt was one of the countries involved, his response indirectly suggested that the intelligence assessment is authentic and real.

Source: Israeli Channel 11 and Ynet.

As Rerum Novarum initially stated, our assessment remains: Turkey is likely the country to have asked Saudi Arabia to pursue false normalization with Israel, while preparing for a future confrontation.

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11 August 2026 19:33

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇱🇹⚡- Investigators discovered an antenna near Leipzig/Halle Airport that was used to boost control signals and guide the explosive-laden drone towards the parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft.

The drone was equipped with an extended-life battery and was operated via a cellular network, allowing it to be controlled remotely from virtually anywhere in the world.

DNA samples on the drone trace it back to Lithuania.

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11 August 2026 19:25

🇩🇪⚡- Drone sightings over Hannover International Airport causing a temporary suspension of air traffic at the German airport.

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11 August 2026 18:45

🇱🇾⚡- For the third time in less than 24 hours, unidentified one-way drones have struck the Zawiya oil refinery, west of Tripoli, northwest Libya.

Much of the Zawiya area is controlled by the local and anti-Dbeibeh al-Far militia, which recently clashed with GNU's al-Silaa (103rd) Battalion.

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11 August 2026 18:27

🇾🇪⚡- Presidential Leadership Council forces (the Tihamah Brigades) report shooting down an Ansarullah drone that was attempting to double-tap the Saudi-managed commercial vessel that had been struck in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb earlier today, killing 3-5 crew members, including at least two Pakistanis.

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11 August 2026 18:23

🇾🇪⚡- Large-scale Ansarullah drone attack across much of eastern Yemen.

Hostile drones have been spotted over Seiyun and the Wadi Dawan area of the Hadhramaut region. Drones are also operating over the al-Jawf desert (likely to target tribal positions), Shabwah, Ma'rib, and Bayhan al-Qisab.

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11 August 2026 15:51

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: The Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have captured Geisan, Ad Damazin direction, southeast Sudan. RSF are continuing their push northwards along Khawr Baba, where heavy fighting remains ongoing.

Note, the announcement of Geisan's capture by RSF media is particularly significant as it effectively reinforces allegations that Ethiopian territory is being used as a staging ground for RSF operations. Unlike the earlier offensive in the Kurmuk area, which also borders South Sudan, Geisan shares a border exclusively with Ethiopia.

Geisan is 60km away from Kurmuk.

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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.

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12 August 2026 18:06

🇮🇱⚡️- PM Netanyahu declares on Instagram "It's kinda chic to be Big Yahu."

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12 August 2026 15:08

🇨🇮🇨🇳⚡- Ivory Coast has acquired at least two Chinese-made Wing Loong II drones, making it the second country in West Africa, after Nigeria, to operate the combat UAVs.

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12 August 2026 12:54

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇺🇦⚡- Turkey has confirmed that it has requested U.S. approval to transfer to Ukraine what could become one of the largest ammunition packages delivered to Kiev to date, including thousands of cluster munitions.

The package will contain:
- 70 M39 ATACMS ballistic missiles.
- 2,524 M26 rockets,
- 47,000 M509A1 203mm artillery shells.

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12 August 2026 09:17

🇸🇩⚡- Large-scale Rapid Support Forces drone attack across Sudan. Targets include Omdurman, Khartoum, Atbara, al-Damir, and El-Obeid.

Footage shows Sudanese Armed Forces downing one of the RSF drones over El-Obeid.

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12 August 2026 09:03

🇸🇦🇹🇷🇪🇬⚡- Saudi Arabia opposed Egypt joining the Mecca Agreement defense pact, despite Turkey publicly insisting Cairo should become a member, the Middle East Eye reports.

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12 August 2026 04:16

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- DSA candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, Francesca Hong, is severely underperforming in the Democratic primary and is currently losing to establishment-backed David Crowley.

Hong has been lambasted for her previous social media posts in which she called to abolish Thanksgiving, as she claims it is a bastion of White supremacy, in addition to various attacks against White Americans in general.

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11 August 2026 21:11

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Vivek Ramaswamy’s position in the Ohio governor’s race has deteriorated sharply since March, with Amy Acton now leading him 55% to 47% on Polymarket.

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11 August 2026 19:36

🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- After a 17-year break, Venezuela and Israel have restored relations.

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11 August 2026 19:28

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- ZEIT reports that video footage shows the first drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport striking the wing of the parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport before failing to detonate and falling to the ground.

Investigators are treating the incident as a "deliberate attack" rather than a "warning or intimidation attempt."

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11 August 2026 19:23

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen revealed that Israeli intelligence operatives had visited Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility on multiple occasions to gain a detailed understanding of the site.

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11 August 2026 18:34

🇾🇪⚡- An unsuccessful assassination attempt on a senior commander of the Shabwah Emergency Forces, pro Presidential Leadership Council forces, in Shabwah, central Yemen.

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11 August 2026 18:25

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah has issued evacuation orders for residents in western Ta'izz city, Presidential Leadership Council controlled southern Yemen, to evacuate their homes immediately.

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11 August 2026 16:11

🇾🇪⚡- Anti-Ansarullah Yemeni media reports Presidential Leadership Council forces captured a number of Ansarullah soldiers while they attempt to infiltrate Ta'izz, southern Yemen, from the northeast of the city.

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11 August 2026 15:35

🇪🇬⚡- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's schizophrenic foreign policy continues to face questions over its strategic direction. Egypt had been expected to become the fourth signatory to the historic Mecca Agreement defense pact over the weekend, but ultimately withdrew at the last minute, highlighting yet again an inconsistent and often contradictory approach to regional affairs.

One of the main obstacles to Cairo becoming a founding member was its full diplomatic and strong relationship with Israel. Egypt has also sought to avoid taking sides in the growing rivalry between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, maintaining close ties with both capitals, particularly the UAE.

During the recent U.S.-Iran war, Egypt played an active military role in support of Emirati airspace security. Cairo and Abu Dhabi have also formed a non-official alliance to combat Muslim Brotherhood influence in the wider region, an alliance that has been at odds with its own self interests at times. For instance, whether that's Egypt's backing of UAE-supported, anti-Islamist commander Khalifa Haftar in eastern Libya, while also backing Sudan's Islamist-leaning and Qatari-backed Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. A few months ago, Riyadh asked el-Sisi to close the al-Kufrah supply route for the Rapid Support Forces in southeast Libya–Egypt did, but for a week only.