🇨🇳🇵🇰 - Balochistani separatists claimed the attack. Meanwhile, Chinese diplomats in Pakistan "demand" that Islamabad "severely punish the culprits".

🇮🇷⚡️- The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks in Iran, targeting specifically the Shahcheragh shrine in Shiraz. ISIS Khorasan Province members are currently in custody.

🇳🇪⚡️- Al Arabiya reports that ISIS militants attacked Nigerien barracks outside Niamey.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The United States, along with multiple other Western nations, have warned against all maritime travel near Iranian waters

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The recent strikes against the Conico field in Syria, currently occupied by US Forces, was orchestrated by Russian sea-based missile launches

- 🇮🇷🏴 JUST IN: Video footage of the the terrorist entering Shahcheragh shrine

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🇩🇪 Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme

In a rare move, the respected Der Spiegel news magazine weighed into the debate with a leader titled: “Ban the enemies of the constitution!” 
It warned that “the AfD has become more and more radicalised. It’s time to defend democracy with better weapons”.

The co-leader of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats also said a ban should be considered if the AfD is categorised as a group of “proven Right-wing extremists” by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-germany-far-right-extremists

🇨🇻🇳🇪⚡️ - Cape Verde speaks out against ECOWAS intervention in Niger.

🇲🇱 - Clashes in Northern Mali between Azawad separatists and the Malian government.

🏳️‍🌈 - A recent study found that puberty blockers lowered the IQ of a boy dosed with them by nine points.

🇦🇷 - In yesterday's Argentinian elections, the right-wing Freedom Advances party secured 31.5% of all votes, topping the polls.
The party, led by Javier Milei, is officially a libertarian movement. Nonetheless, Milei has been described as a paleolibertarian and his party's vice-presidential candidate is the daughter of a carapintada (member of a Catholic nationalist group in Argentina's military which attempted to stage several coups in the late 1980s).

🇦🇷 - The center-right Together for Change obtained 29.7% of the vote, while Union for the Fatherland, a center-left group claiming the legacy of former President Juan Perón, secured 28.7%.

These elections do not decide who will be in the Casa Rosada in November - they are a form of open primary, similar to the "jungle primary" in Louisiana.

🇬🇧 - Are the Brits okay?

🇪🇬🇯🇴🇵🇸 - The leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Palestine held a summit, calling for the "end of Israeli occupation and settler terrorism".

🇫🇮🇪🇺 - The True Finns' leader still believes leaving the EU should be part of his party's policy.

Once the Ukraine war reaches its conclusion, it will be interesting to see whether Eastern European nationalists return to their previous Euroskepticism (which Poland's national conservative government has begun doing) and perhaps seek a détente with Russia, or continue drawing closer to Brussels and Washington due to their hatred for "Muscovy" (which the Baltics have spent the last ten years doing).
The phrase "between a rock and a hard place" comes to mind.

🇺🇸⚡️- The State of Georgia has filed legal action against President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️ - President Trump has been charged under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act by Georgian prosecutors.

JUST IN - Fulton County DA filed charges against Trump before the grand jury finished convening, then quickly scrubbed the file from the court docker again.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-state-georgia-appears-set-file-charges-against-donald-trump-court-document-2023-08-14/

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⚠️Breaking

🇪🇨Political leader Pedro Briones was assassinated in San Mateo, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

- 🇮🇱 BREAKING: Huge explosion at a military industrial complex north of Tel Aviv

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