DR Congo: Peace talks in Doha stall as clashes intensify between government forces and AFC/M23, with tensions rising after statements by Tshisekedi and Nangaa.

Sudan Doctors Network:

18 killed and over 100 injured in deliberate RSF shelling of El Fasher neighborhoods yesterday.

Somalia: Airstrikes hit outskirts of Ceelbuur, Galgaduud, killing senior Al-Shabaab commander and militants, and destroying explosives facility.

Source: Somalia Security Insight

WATCH: Indian extremists in Bhopal held a mock funeral for President Trump.

Turkish President Erdogan tightly held Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s hand and sleeve in China.

Pezeshkian expressed hope Erdogan would visit Tehran soon.

Interesting: Four German far-right AfD candidates suddenly died within weeks, forcing multiple districts into reprinting ballots under tight deadlines.

Putin’s Aide Ushakov:

No meeting with Zelensky was agreed between Putin and Trump.

While many speak of a trilateral meeting, there was no such agreement.

Germany now sees Viktor Orbán’s anti-Ukraine stance as a security threat.

Berlin is considering freezing €43 billion in EU funds and pushing to suspend Hungary’s EU voting rights under Article 7.

EU leaders are also weighing ways to bypass Hungary’s veto power.

Source: Átlátszó

Putin, smiling, on how he’s doing:

“If I’m alive, that’s already good.”

Slovak PM Robert Fico to Putin:

Today we (the EU) are like that frog at the bottom of a well, thinking the sky is only as big as we see.

But the world is different.

Putin:

Russia never had, does not have, and will not have the desire to attack anyone.

Hysteria in the EU on this is provocation or incompetence.

Under Trump, the U.S. began to hear Russia.

Putin:

We have never opposed Ukraine’s EU membership.

Trump to the Daily Caller:

We settled seven wars. Actually more than that, because there are two of them that nobody found out.

Putin:

A consensus on providing security guarantees for Ukraine is possible.

Trump to the Daily Caller:

Biden says he has Stage Nine cancer. That was, what? Two, three months ago.

Stage Nine. I’ve never heard of more than stage four. Stage four is the highest. I’ve never — if you’re stage four, you’re dead.

Putin:

We tolerated for a long time when Ukraine struck our energy facilities.

After that, we began to respond. And we are responding seriously.

Trump to the Daily Caller:

Mexico is run by the cartels. It’s run by the cartels.

I’ve offered to send in the military, and President Sheinbaum doesn’t want us to do that. Because she’s very scared.

Trump to the Daily Caller:

I think it’s very insulting to a country when you say you’re not going to take your students.

Trump on the war in Ukraine:

You have a child, and there’s another child in the lot, in the playground, and they hate each other, and they start swinging, swinging and swinging, and you want them to stop, and they keep going. After a little while, they’re very happy to stop. Do you understand? It’s almost that way.

Source: Daily Caller

China will showcase over 100 advanced, domestically made weapons at its September 3 Victory Day parade in Beijing.

Suspect in murder of former Chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Parubiy confessed, saying it was personal revenge against Ukrainian authorities, not Russian blackmail.

“I want to be sentenced quickly, exchanged for POWs, and go to Russia to find my son’s body.”