—🇪🇸 WATCH: A symbolic flotilla gathered off Ceuta on Sunday, August 30, in a show of support for the Spanish enclave amid ongoing tensions over migration and the border with Morocco.

➡️ Residents assembled around the Baluarte and nearby areas waving Spanish and Ceuta flags while chanting “¡Viva España y viva Ceuta!” as the boats passed offshore.

🔗 El Faro de Ceuta

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—🇬🇷❌🇹🇷 Greek City Times: "Greece rejects Turkey’s Aegean sovereignty claims as unfounded and unacceptable, reaffirming that its sovereignty is clear and based on international treaties."

🔗 Greece Rejects Turkish Claims Over Aegean Sovereignty

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—❗️🇹🇷❌🇺🇦 WATCH: Türkiye has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador after two Turkish merchant vessels were reportedly hit in drone attacks in the Black Sea.

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—🇷🇸🇷🇸🤝🇨🇳🇨🇳 WATCH: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić says the Serbian Armed Forces will demonstrate armed quadruped robots within 15 days.

➡️ The Chinese-made systems are being tested in Serbia, with Vučić saying they could carry machine guns, rocket launchers and other weapons.

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—🇮🇹/🇧🇦 Lazio fans: "General Mladic the last heroe of Europe"

🔗 МартинеZ

—⚠️ NOTE: This photo seems to be not current as apparently Italian media hasn't published anything about it and also people seem to be wearing winter clothes, as one subscriber reported.

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—❗️🇪🇸 NEW: A Spanish Army sergeant was injured after troops patrolling Ceuta were attacked with stones overnight, marking the second such assault in less than 48 hours.

➡️ Police detained four people following the latest incident, while military representatives warn of escalating tensions in the Spanish enclave.

🔗 EL ESPAÑOL

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—🇪🇸 BREAKING: "Third ambush against Ceuta military personnel in 72 hours: three invaders threw a Molotov cocktail at a patrol." —EL ESPAÑOL

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—🇪🇸 NEW: A Ceuta judge has ordered four Moroccan suspects into pre-trial detention over the stone attack on a Spanish military patrol that left a sergeant lightly injured.

➡️ Prosecutors are seeking six years in prison for each suspect and have also requested their expulsion from Spain.

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—🇹🇷 WATCH: Police in Istanbul’s Fatih district have used a drone to warn people drinking alcohol near the city’s historic walls.

➡️ The drone broadcast a message stating that alcohol consumption was prohibited in the area and ordering those present to leave.

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—🇷🇸🇷🇸🤝🇨🇳🇨🇳 NEW: Serbia has opened a new humanoid robot production facility in Šabac in partnership with Chinese companies Minth Group and AgiBot, with President Aleksandar Vučić saying robotic systems could eventually be adapted for defence roles.

➡️ Serbia has additionally acquired China’s CM-400AKG missile system, becoming the first European country known to operate the Chinese weapon.

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—🇨🇳❌☢️ 🇷🇺 POLITICO: "China has privately assured Finland that it would not allow Russia to use nuclear weapons, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in an interview released Saturday."

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—🇬🇷 WATCH: Footage circulating online shows Greek forces confronting a migrant boat near Turkish waters.

—⚠️ NOTE: The footage is from 2020, one subscriber reported.

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🇹🇷❌🇪🇺❗️ — The Strasbourg court on Tuesday condemned Turkey, as it did in 2019, over the situation of the businessman, an opponent of Erdogan, who not only remains in prison but also received a life sentence in 2022.

▶️In a social media post published on Tuesday evening, Mehmet Ucum accused the ECHR of having "political motivations" in its decision and stated that such decisions "have no value for Turkey."

▶️According to the presidential advisor, the rulings are prompting the country to reconsider its status as a party to the European Convention on Human Rights.

▶️"All parties involved must know that if decisions against Turkey continue to be issued for political purposes, this situation will be inevitable," Ucum said, adding that if this point is reached, "the collapse of the ECHR system will also be inevitable."

▶️The presidential advisor warned the European court and the European Parliament's rapporteur for Turkey, the Spaniard Nacho Sanchez Amor, that "they should know their place."

—🇺🇳/🇧🇦 UPDATE: The International Residual Mechanism said on August 29 that it still cannot determine when Ratko Mladić’s body will be released, as the investigation into the circumstances of his death remains ongoing.

➡️ The delay postpones any funeral in Serbia and leaves its format unresolved, after the justice minister spoke of state and military honours while President Aleksandar Vučić later left the arrangements to the family without directly confirming that protocol.

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🏳️ 🇧🇦 The Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Belgrade told TASS that Mladic has been denied medication in The Hague after his family refused euthanasia.

—🇳🇱/🇧🇦 NEW: Dutch authorities have concluded their initial procedures following Ratko Mladić’s death, confirming that no criminal investigation will be opened and no autopsy will be conducted.

➡️ Separately, the UN International Residual Mechanism is continuing its own inquiry into the circumstances of his death.

➡️ The Mechanism remains in contact with Mladić’s family over the transfer of his remains but has not said when the body will be released, leaving funeral arrangements in Serbia pending.

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