⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 – Marco Rubio shed more light on CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow, downplaying it as "largely routine" aimed at keeping intel-to-intel ties active, Bloomberg reports.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 – Trump suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz to the "Trump Strait", since it already is "under U.S.A. control".

Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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⚡️🇮🇷 – UKMTO published a report of a "security incident" that occurred on August 31, in which a tanker lost two crewmembers.

This lines up with Iran's claim that a "rogue supertanker" hit a mine on that day.

The vessel struck is the Saudi "SIDR" VLCC. Authorities confirmed two Filipino sailors were killed in the incident.

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⚡️🇳🇵 – The death toll from the floods in Nepal has risen to 1,225 people, with an additional 4,757 who remain missing.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇶 – Iraqi outlets claim the U.S. surveillance balloon downed over Erbil International Airport was a Thethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS), valued at around $9 million dollars.

The TARS is designed to detect low-flying aircraft, maritime vessels, and cross-border threats with downward-looking radar coverage. It was likely a key element to Erbil's International Airport defense against Iranian drones.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 – Up to a million Gazans are facing water shortages after Israel suspended the supply of fresh water to Gaza, according to UNICEF numbers cited in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

This comes as 4 out of 5 Israeli desalination plants face disrupted production. Ironically, the disruption was caused by a micoralgae bloom in the Mediterranean made possible by Israeli strikes on Gazan sewage infrastructure.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 – Ukraine urged the UN's aviation body, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), to completely ban civilian aircraft from Russian airspace.

President Zelensky said the airspace is "becoming completely unsafe", and has vowed to take reprisals against Russia as its drones have kept Kyiv under 7 continous days of air raid alerts.

The ICAO can't actually impose rules, but has warned civilian aircraft operators about the dangers of disruption due to Ukrainian attacks. Kyiv has kept its own airspace closed to civilian aircraft since the start of the war in 2022.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 – Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro urged a U.S. judge to dismiss all charges against him due to his immunity as head of a foreign state, Reuters reports.

The charges were the base to kidnap him during the raid on Caracas on January 3. His trial is expected to start June 1, 2027.

His efforts could be in vain, considering the U.S. does not recognize him as the legitimate President of Venezuela since 2019, and precedents such as the case involving former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega are not favorable to his cause.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇨💊 – The U.S. SOUTHCOM interdicted an alleged drug-trafficking vessel linked to the Ecuadorian group "Los Choneros", boarded and cleared the vessel, and then sank it.

The operation was coordinated with Ecuadorian authorities, who also took custody of the men in the vessel.

On Sept. 2, at the direction of SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, and in coordination and collaboration with the Government of Ecuador, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM) successfully interdicted a vessel operating as a floating refueling station in support of illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in international waters of the Eastern Pacific. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was operating in support of the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization.

U.S. Marines and Sailors, launched from USS San Antonio (LPD 17), interdicted, boarded, searched, and cleared the vessel without incident. Individuals removed from the vessel were safely transferred to Ecuadorian Authorities. Once cleared, U.S. forces sank the vessel

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⚡️🇺🇸🌍 – Axios' Barak Ravid claims Marco Rubio ordered all U.S. embassies in the world to send an official diplomatic demarche on Operation Economic Outcast to "the most senior level" of their host governments.

📝 A demarche is a formal diplomatic message that conveys a position, request, or protest. It's unclear what the demarches ordered by Rubio contain, but they're likely aimed at getting as many countries as possible on board with economic sanctions against Iran.

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🇺🇸✝️— U.S. Vice President JD Vance stated on an Evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’.

➡️He adds that he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible” and that he is OK “if that leads to the end times”, which he says “are coming”.

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