African Union report says the continent loses about $88 billion annually to illicit financial flows driven by tax evasion, money laundering, corruption, terror financing, and capital flight.

Trump:

It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!

NEW: India has again blocked Azerbaijan’s bid for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), despite China reaffirming support for Baku.

Source: AnewZ

Yemen’s designated prime minister (of Houthis) was also injured in Israeli strike.

Ukraine’s Security Service charged Ramzan Kadyrov in absentia, accusing him of ordering no prisoners be taken, executing captured Ukrainian soldiers, and using POWs in Chechnya as human shields against drone strikes.

Trump:

India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia, very little from the U.S. They have now offered to cut their Tariffs to nothing, but it’s getting late. They should have done so years ago.

📸 Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and Armenian PM Pashinyan’s wife Anna Akopyan together during a boat trip on the Haihe River in China.

Somalia: An advance Egyptian military delegation, including senior officers and special forces, arrived in Mogadishu to prepare for Egypt’s troop deployment under the AU mission.

Sudan: Authorities shut down the Heglig oilfield after RSF attacks on vital facilities killed five workers and injured seven.

NEW: Iraq’s SOMO and Saudi Aramco halted crude sales to India’s Nayara Energy after new EU sanctions targeting its Russian ownership.

The sanctions disrupted supplies, cut refinery runs, and pushed shippers to pull back.

Trump says he is open to the government reopening insane asylums to "clean up" America's streets.

Source: Daily Caller

📸 President Donald Trump, September 1, 2025.

Axios reports the US is pushing Europe to halt all Russian oil and gas purchases and impose secondary tariffs on India and China, mirroring US measures against India.

Populist right-wing parties are now leading polls in Europe’s 3 biggest economies — the first time ever.

🇫🇷 France: Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (Jordan Bardella) polling at 36%, leading first-round projections.

🇬🇧 U.K.: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has overtaken both Labour and Conservatives, breaking the 100-year two-party dominance.

🇩🇪 Germany: AfD now ahead of CDU, fueled by anger over inflation, immigration, and weak growth.

Source: WSJ

Greece is shutting down 721 schools for the 2025–26 academic year due to a worsening demographic crisis — the lowest fertility rate in the EU (1.3 births per woman), mass emigration of young people, and a rapidly aging population.

Officials call the situation “Armageddon”.

Americans are having less sex than ever.

Only 37% report weekly sex compared with 55% in 1990.

Israeli opposition Leader Yair Lapid:

If Netanyahu wins the elections, it will be the end of Zionism.

NEW: Venezuela accuses Guyana of trying to open a “war front”.

Massive aid flotilla carrying activists and supplies to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg, was forced to return to Barcelona due to stormy weather.

Organizers said winds reached 56 kph, making it too risky for smaller boats.

The Global Sumud Flotilla — dozens of vessels aiming to break Israel’s blockade and deliver aid — has delayed departure until the storm passes .

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Bulgaria’s defense industry during her visit, noting that "one-third of all weapons used by Ukraine since the war began came from Bulgaria."

NEW: The world’s largest genocide studies body has declared Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the UN’s legal definition of genocide.

Source: Reuters