🇦🇪🇮🇶⚡️- "Iraq’s oil marketing company said Abu Dhabi’s main energy company was among firms buying its crude and sending cargoes out through the Strait of Hormuz.

'Adnoc is one of the buyers SOMO deals with,' along with other companies, Ali Nizar, director-general of SOMO, said in a text message. He added that the company has been selling to whoever can load oil onto ships and exit the Strait of Hormuz." - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡️- "President Donald Trump said the U.S. will 'bomb the s---' out of Oman if they get in the way amid conflict with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.

Trump made the statement in an interview with Fox News' Trey Yingst on Monday as the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire.

'If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them,' Trump said." - Fox News.

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡️- "The South Korean military fired warning shots last week after a group of North Korean soldiers crossed the inter-Korean land boundary, prompting them to return to their side, a source said Sunday.

Multiple North Korean soldiers crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in the eastern front-line area sometime last week, prompting the warning shots under the military's operational procedures, according to the government source.

Last year, North Korean troops violated the MDL 17 times." - Yonhap.

🇷🇴🇷🇺⚡️- "On the night of August 15 to 16, at 04:44, the surveillance systems of the Ministry of National Defense detected the entry of an aerial target into the national airspace, from the Republic of Moldova, approximately 24 km north of Galați.

An F-18 aircraft of the Spanish Air and Space Forces, performing the Air Police Combat Service at the 57th Air Base "Mihail Kogălniceanu", on a monitoring mission, made radar contact with the target and received approval to engage. The drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft, at 05:01.

A possible impact point of the drone debris was identified between the localities of Băleni and Cudalbi, Galați County, in an unpopulated area." - Romanian Ministry of National Defence.

🇱🇻🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Update from the drone incursion in Latvia on the 14th August that was confirmed to be a Ukrainian drone:
"In response to the situation, NATO Baltic Airspace Patrol mission fighters were activated. In the Balvi region, over Rugāji, allied fighters successfully shot down a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle that had entered Latvian airspace as a result of Russian electronic warfare." - Latvian Army.

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡️- "UKMTO has received a report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Company Security Officer has reported that the vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while conducting an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz. The impact caused damage to the engine room and resulted in a crew casualty. The remaining crew are currently being assisted by the Omani Coast Guard." - United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

🇵🇭⚡️- A high school student live-streamed a school shooting in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The student killed two of his peers before killing himself.

This shooter is almost certainly a participant in the extremely online, nihilistic community that glorifies and may eventually commit anti-social violence.

🇺🇸 - VOTE FOR JAMES FISHBACK 🍊

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🇺🇸🐊⚡️- Polls have opened in Florida.

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"Vote for the FISH.

He's the blueprint.The guy's a machine. Off the charts brilliant. Sharp. He's a really talented politician.

Whether he loses, doesn't go the distance, but that's not even the goal. It's to inject the ideas into the discourse, and that is a phenomenal job.

He was outspent 200 to 1, they cheated him out of the debate, and sued him to get him off the balot.

This guy fought like an animal.

He's the model for what is possible in 2028."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Americans think squeezing Iran harder will win concessions that were never part of the agreement.

Bessent and Hegseth are way out of their league. Stop waiting for the clown crew to pull a rabbit out of their hat and clean up the mess you made." - Mohammed Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Iranian Majilis.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Ongoing Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon. Multiple explosions have been reported, specifically in Nabatieh.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from southern Lebanon.

🇸🇾⚡️- Initial reports of explosions in Tartus, western Syria.

🇸🇾⚡️- The explosions are being attributed to fireworks launched by locals, and are not of military nature.

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- Polls have closed in most of Florida for today's primary election. With 2% of results in, here are the results as it currently stands:

Byron Donalds - 14,074 (53.6%)
Jay Collins - 6,638 (25.3%)
James Fishback - 1,705 (6.5%)
Paul Renner - 1,535 (5.8%)