NEW: Ratko Mladić's body landed in Belgrade, flown from The Hague on a Serbian government plane.

Serbian Army soldiers carried the coffin off the aircraft, draped in the flags of Serbia and Republika Srpska.

His son Darko, a granddaughter, the justice minister, and two former comrades accompanied it.

The coffin was taken under heavy police escort to the Military Medical Academy for autopsy.

Citizens gathered along the route with banners reading "Welcome home, General."

The funeral is scheduled for September 7 at Topčider Cemetery.

BIG: Volkswagen's own management is using sinking-ship language now.

A leaked 147-page internal paper prepared with Boston Consulting Group for this week's supervisory board meeting says "the Titanic has already struck the iceberg, water is flowing in."

VW isn't bankrupt — it still has over €30 billion in cash — but the old model is broken.

Margins are at 2.8%, China profits have collapsed, and the cost gap with rivals is around 20%.

The plan: up to 100,000 job cuts by 2030, four German plants losing production by the early 2030s (Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, Neckarsulm), SEAT phased out as a brand by end of 2029 in favor of Cupra, and the model lineup cut roughly in half.

The Israeli military says it has cleared Hezbollah fighters from an underground complex beneath southern Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge and is now preparing to destroy the site.

According to the IDF, troops established “operational control” above and below ground, killing some Hezbollah operatives while others fled.

Marco Rubio:

Today I've designated a grandson of Raúl Castro, Fidel Ernesto Castro Calis, Banco Exterior de Cuba, and four entities that are part of the corrupt Castro financial and intelligence network.

President Trump and I are unwavering in our commitment that Cuba will be free.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

Rebuilding Gaza will cost around $71 billion. Seventy-one billion dollars to rebuild Gaza.

So if anyone has some idea in their head about rebuilding Gaza, they’re simply living in a fantasy.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We conducted surveys in Israeli society: 86% in the south, 89% in the West Bank, and overall 76% of Israeli society support "encouraging emigration" from Gaza.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

There are countries that informed the State of Israel that they are willing to accept [Palestinians leaving Gaza] — in exchange for budgets, in exchange for money, in exchange for various things they asked from the State of Israel.

But there are countries that are willing to do it.

The family stays together. We have no intention of breaking up families there; on the contrary, they should move together, remain together, and live together.

There will be a variety of destination countries — there are several such countries.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We are talking about our targets: 250,000 leave Gaza in the first year. It is possible.

One million leave Gaza within three years. Within seven years, we can reach almost 1.9 million who will leave Gaza.

Zelensky on India:

Today, I spoke with a representative of India – India’s Minister of External Affairs visited Ukraine.

India’s position is clear: there must be an end to the war, not Putin’s attempts to make this war endless.

Zelensky:

It is important that airlines using Russian airspace continue to pay attention to the real situation and the real danger.

Today, there are new signals from airlines on this, and we confirm that because of Russia’s war, Russian skies have become a space for drones, not civilian aircraft.

Drones are a concrete reality, unlike the words of Russian officials who are trying to reassure airlines.

Wreckage of Chinese-made CH-95 drone was filmed near Assosa in western Ethiopia, close to the Sudan border today.

The CH-95 is operated by Sudan's RSF terror group, backed by UAE.

The crash site is near Assosa Airport, where analysts have tracked suspected UAV-related activity and logistics linked to RSF cross-border operations.

CH-95s have been lost in growing numbers inside Sudan since June 2026, often shot down by Sudanese Akıncı drones.

Zelensky:

Today, the Russians struck a Coca-Cola plant with a drone.

A clear Russian signal to America – the Russians cannot possibly be unaware that this is an American company.

NEW: US House passed a bill 237-169 penalizing universities that boycott Israel or restrict student exchange programs with the country.

Thirty-three Democrats crossed party lines to vote yes.

The bill goes to the Senate next.

Canadian PM Mark Carney on Russia:

I’ve met Vladimir Putin in the past. Multiple times. He understands — he only understands strength and directness.

And the message would be simple: Get out of Ukraine. Give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine.

End this war, which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month.

Canadian PM Mark Carney:

Two weeks ago, we made the right decision to suspend our trade negotiations with the United States.

We couldn’t accept what they’d offered. We wouldn’t give what they’d asked.

As a result, the U.S. has imposed new tariffs designed to hurt and divide us.

Now, that’s a miscalculation, because Canadians will always take care of each other.

And it’s a miscalculation because we have everything we need to build the country we want. We have the reserves. We have the resilience. And we have the right plan.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

It is inconceivable for there to be an active threat of war and a challenge to Greek sovereignty by a country that aspires to improve its relations with the European Union.

Türkiye’s European path, which we want to strengthen, cannot but go hand in hand with building good-neighborly relations with Greece.

I will say it again: my country is a peaceful country that poses a threat to no one.

But it will not accept instructions from anyone on how it should strengthen its defenses.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

The financing of the defense of every inch of Europe must be unified.

SAFE was an important initiative and moved in the right direction.

But we need more, and we also need to choose our partners very carefully.

Let me remind you that a condition for the participation of third countries in the program was, and remains, that the security and defense interests of the member states must not be harmed.

The U.S. Navy is facing a serious logistics problem in the Middle East.

Around 20 ships carrying roughly 20,000 sailors and Marines need more than 420,000 meals and about eight million gallons of fuel every week.

The situation became much harder after Iran destroyed a key Navy logistics base in Bahrain and made other nearby ports too dangerous to use.

Supply ships now have to travel about 2,200 miles to Diego Garcia, or even farther to Singapore, before returning to the fleet.

Source: NYT

Russia continues to install massive anti-drone cage structures over oil storage tanks at a fuel depot.

The idea is to act as a last line of defense against kamikaze drones by physically blocking them before they hit the tanks.

Abdul El-Sayed says Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to the U.S., calling him a war criminal.

NEW: German industrial bosses want workers back to 40 hours a week without extra pay — effectively a 13% cut in hourly labor costs.

The 35-hour week in metals and auto was won by IG Metall after a seven-week strike in 1984 and has been the norm since 1995.

Now with German manufacturing over 15% below its 2017 peak, labor costs at €49.50 an hour (47% above the EU average), and VW considering plant closures, executives at Mercedes-Benz, Stihl, and others are openly calling the old deal unaffordable.

Source: FT