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🇺🇸 🤝 🇻🇪 U.S. Energy Secretary Wright finalizes oil agreements with interim Venezuelan president and officials.
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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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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump on Iran:
We now control the Strait of Hormuz. We control it.
Last night we took out 28 boats, 28 ships. We control it, they get nothing, and we took out ships.
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We now control the Strait of Hormuz. We control it.
Last night we took out 28 boats, 28 ships. We control it, they get nothing, and we took out ships.
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🛢 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Bessent: We are going through an energy shock right now.
"Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis"
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"Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis"
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The 30Y Treasury yield has also stayed above this threshold for 41 consecutive trading sessions.
By comparison, 2023 saw only 7 such days, while 2007 recorded 50 days.
This comes as the 30Y Treasury yield has surged +47 basis points year-to-date to 5.28% and hit its highest level since 2007.
As a result, the 30Y Treasury yield has averaged 4.96% so far in 2026, on track for its highest annual level since 2004.
If the year ends at current levels, this would mark the 6th consecutive annual increase, with the yield more than triple its 2020 level of ~1.50%.
📝 liqwhale: "We are returning to the high interest rate balance before the 2008 global financial crisis and the "cheap money" period seems to not come back for a long time."
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The multiyear covert programme, codenamed C430L, has enlisted some of Russia’s most experienced missile specialists to help Iran develop a new class of weapon capable of threatening US aircraft carriers and other warships in the Middle East.
An FT investigation uncovered the programme, which began in 2023 and continued into the US-Israeli war against Iran, through leaked Russian correspondence, travel records and analysis of military patents.
The main purpose of C430L is to help Iran to develop a ramjet propulsion system, an engine that allows a cruise missile to sustain flight at several times the speed of sound. Missile and military experts said the technology was almost certainly intended for anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles.
The supersonic missile assistance programme was arranged by Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state arms exporter, which co-ordinated the project with NPO Mashinostroyenia.
Leaked travel records reviewed by the FT show Russian arms export officials and several senior NPO Mashinostroyenia engineers made repeated trips to Iran before the C430L contract was formally signed with Iran’s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics in November 2023.
By 2025, NPO Mashinostroyenia had received a large cache of Iranian technical material relating to the ramjet propulsion system. Russian engineers then analysed data from an Iranian flight test and sent Tehran a detailed set of questions about how the system had performed.
https://archive.ph/95cnY
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🇺🇸 🇰🇵 🇰🇷 The United States reaffirmed its policy towards North Korean denuclearization on August 26 despite the Trump administration's calls for US-North Korea dialogue. North Korea is unlikely to change its position requiring the US to abandon its denuclearization policy before agreeing to dialogue. North Korea likely seeks to gain US acceptance of its status as a nuclear-armed state, which could have long-term regional destabilizing effects.
South Korea could agree to de-emphasize "complete denuclearization" and instead pursue a phased denuclearization strategy in an effort to encourage US-North Korea dialogue. North Korea has consistently ignored South Korean outreach efforts and maintains that its nuclear status is non-negotiable. South Korea could undermine its long-term goals of North Korean denuclearization if it accepted North Korean possession of nuclear weapons in exchange for dialogue in the short term.
https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/korean-peninsula-update-september-2-2026/
South Korea could agree to de-emphasize "complete denuclearization" and instead pursue a phased denuclearization strategy in an effort to encourage US-North Korea dialogue. North Korea has consistently ignored South Korean outreach efforts and maintains that its nuclear status is non-negotiable. South Korea could undermine its long-term goals of North Korean denuclearization if it accepted North Korean possession of nuclear weapons in exchange for dialogue in the short term.
https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/korean-peninsula-update-september-2-2026/
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🇺🇸🇳🇱🇬🇧⚡️- The Dutch Central Bank has transferred 86 metric tons of its gold reserves from the U.S. and Canada to London due to "growing geopolitical instability".
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 Apart from the Netherlands, France has already moved its remaining 129 tonnes of gold held at the New York Fed, with all of its roughly 2,437 tonnes now held domestically.
Germany has also seen renewed political calls to bring its remaining 1,236 tonnes in New York back home, including calls from economists, politicians and taxpayer groups.
Italy has also seen public calls for its gold held in the US to be repatriated amid concerns over the changing US-European relationship.
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Germany has also seen renewed political calls to bring its remaining 1,236 tonnes in New York back home, including calls from economists, politicians and taxpayer groups.
Italy has also seen public calls for its gold held in the US to be repatriated amid concerns over the changing US-European relationship.
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Apart from the Netherlands, France has already moved its remaining 129 tonnes of gold held at the New York Fed, with all of its roughly 2,437 tonnes now held domestically.
Germany 🇩🇪 has also seen renewed political calls to bring its remaining 1,236 tonnes…
Germany 🇩🇪 has also seen renewed political calls to bring its remaining 1,236 tonnes…
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Trump: They’ll come down.
Reporter: How long will this renewed campaign—
Trump: I don’t think too long.
Reporter: Given that what you've said about having destroyed the Iranian military. What is there still left to strike and why?
Trump: We uhh, we've controlled and we are controlling the Hormuz Strait, we are uhh bringing lots of boats out every day, millions of barrels of oil. We are, uh for the most part doing it without trouble, every once in awhile they will shoot a drone. But uhh, we have, we have control of, very strong control.
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🇪🇸 🇲🇦 🚷 Mass-protests in Madrid tonight as Spaniards take to the streets across the country against illegal migration and the invasion of Ceuta.
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🔋 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 Testing the Backbone: Grid Sabotage and Hybrid Warfare in Germany
In 2025, for the first time, Germany’s electricity came from wind and solar power more than fossil fuels, with the former sources generating 225 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, or 44% of the total, and 217 TWh generated by fossil fuels.
As explosive devices target 50Hertz infrastructure and force power plant shutdowns in Brandenburg, the vulnerability of Europe's electrifying energy heartland comes into sharp focus.
Brandenburg’s Interior Minister, CDU’s Jan Redmann, spoke of a double-digit number of devices found unexploded at the location, suggesting the aim was to trigger a widespread blackout in the region. Yet, the event caused the shutdown of a unit at the Jänschwalde power plant, disconnecting 500MW of available power capacity from the grid.
Experts in explosive devices remained at the location, searching for other evidence and other hybrid war tools. Importantly, he did not rule out the possibility of foreign entities behind the attempt, nor left-wing activists who have claimed responsibility for other attacks on the German power network in the past.
However, at the same time, the German electricity grid should also be understood as a pillar of the country’s and European energy security, given also the increasing ambitions of electrification of energy consumption and the growing reliance on non-dispatchable sources such as wind and solar, requiring a functioning and coordinated power grid in support.
Moreover, the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev defined Germany’s public outcry as an “unprecedented escalation in Russian-German relations and will not go unanswered, with the German government bearing full responsibility for any consequences.” Nechaev also added that “German authorities continue their course toward systematically dismantling the once-solid framework of Russian-German cooperation.”
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In 2025, for the first time, Germany’s electricity came from wind and solar power more than fossil fuels, with the former sources generating 225 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, or 44% of the total, and 217 TWh generated by fossil fuels.
As explosive devices target 50Hertz infrastructure and force power plant shutdowns in Brandenburg, the vulnerability of Europe's electrifying energy heartland comes into sharp focus.
Brandenburg’s Interior Minister, CDU’s Jan Redmann, spoke of a double-digit number of devices found unexploded at the location, suggesting the aim was to trigger a widespread blackout in the region. Yet, the event caused the shutdown of a unit at the Jänschwalde power plant, disconnecting 500MW of available power capacity from the grid.
Experts in explosive devices remained at the location, searching for other evidence and other hybrid war tools. Importantly, he did not rule out the possibility of foreign entities behind the attempt, nor left-wing activists who have claimed responsibility for other attacks on the German power network in the past.
However, at the same time, the German electricity grid should also be understood as a pillar of the country’s and European energy security, given also the increasing ambitions of electrification of energy consumption and the growing reliance on non-dispatchable sources such as wind and solar, requiring a functioning and coordinated power grid in support.
Moreover, the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev defined Germany’s public outcry as an “unprecedented escalation in Russian-German relations and will not go unanswered, with the German government bearing full responsibility for any consequences.” Nechaev also added that “German authorities continue their course toward systematically dismantling the once-solid framework of Russian-German cooperation.”
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🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇧🇾 German authorities have identified suspects in the Leipzig drone attack, including a Belarusian national with a Russian passport who entered the Schengen area on an Italian tourist visa issued in Minsk in late April, according to NDR, WDR, and SZ. Investigators believe the individual is linked to Russian intelligence services.
The two men – a Russian-born Latvian national and a Belarusian man with a Russian passport – are suspected of involvement in the failed attack on a Ukrainian cargo aircraft in early August, according to a joint investigation by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.
For reference, two separate attacks hit German substations this week: Brandenburg authorities found ten homemade rockets near Jänschwalde and are investigating terrorism, while North Rhine-Westphalia probes "anti-constitutional sabotage" near Cologne.
https://tvpworld.com/95174730/german-investigators-identify-two-suspects-behind-leipzig-attack-suddeutsche-zeitung
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The two men – a Russian-born Latvian national and a Belarusian man with a Russian passport – are suspected of involvement in the failed attack on a Ukrainian cargo aircraft in early August, according to a joint investigation by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.
For reference, two separate attacks hit German substations this week: Brandenburg authorities found ten homemade rockets near Jänschwalde and are investigating terrorism, while North Rhine-Westphalia probes "anti-constitutional sabotage" near Cologne.
https://tvpworld.com/95174730/german-investigators-identify-two-suspects-behind-leipzig-attack-suddeutsche-zeitung
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Most of the victims came from a wedding party.
Images of the destruction to civilian homes released by Iranian state media.
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NASA VIIRS detected fires at two locations inside the U.S. base at Erbil International Airport following Iranian attacks overnight.
The affected area is near several warehouses, aircraft hangars and troop billeting facilities.
Sentinel-2 imagery from today shows fresh burn scar near a troop billeting area at the U.S. base at Erbil Airport, likely linked to last night’s Iranian strikes.
The aerostat is no longer visible, while burn scars near its C2 site could indicate it was hit.
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