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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Russia lost 42,860 men on the battlefield last month, which includes soldiers killed and wounded, the most since January 2025 — and the fourth bloodiest month since the start of the war in 2022. - NYP.

🇫🇷 - Today is the 257th birthday of the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte is among the greatest of the European race, as under his rule, he propelled the French Empire to conquer Europe and usher in the Napoleonic era, which dominated Europe physically and spiritually for decades. A description of Napoleon by German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- A recent poll from Wedgewood Polling suggests Amy Acton is one point ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio Gubernatorial race. Acton: 47% Ramaswamy: 46% Undecided: 7%

🇻🇦✝️ - "Since our Redeemer is the Son of Mary, he could not do otherwise, as the perfect observer of God's law, than to honor, not only his eternal Father, but also his most beloved Mother." - Pope Pius XII Today, August 15th, we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Department of Homeland Security has terminated Temporary Protected Status for the following countries; Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Sudan, Burma, Somalia and Ethiopia. Temporary Protected Status allows eligible people from those countries to stay and work legally in the United states while it is "unsafe" to return home.

🇨🇩⚡️- At least 2000 deaths reported from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Health officials indicate the spread is not contained.

🇾🇪 - Clashes erupted between Ansarullah and forces aligned with the Presidential Leadership Council, PLC, along the al-Barah axis, Hays direction, southwest Yemen. Ansarullah launched multiple assaults across the al-Barah-Shar'ab highlands area for the second consecutive night, with fighting lasting five hours. All attempted advances by Ansarullah were repelled, with the pro al-Houthi forces sustaining significant casualties.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Overnight, the IDF launched a failed attempt to infiltrate and capture the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon. An IDF armored vehicle attempted to approach the area but was struck by Hezbollah, causing casualties. The casualties were confirmed by Israel which announced a security incident in southern Lebanon. Clashes erupted between Hezbollah and the IDF in the Nabatieh direction, which included Israeli airstrikes and helicopter fire.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- With the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran set to expire on Monday, one senior White House official talking to Politico described the situation between the two countries as "static." The official added, "It doesn’t matter how close or how far we are. What matters is if Iran wants to come to the table and agree to a deal. Right now, they haven’t done that."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "After finishing defeating Iran, I will declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States," - President Trump. Persian Gulf? Arabian Gulf? The American Gulf.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡️- A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to end TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Somalia after it was previously blocked.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah attacked ARAMCO's Jizan oil refinery in southwest Saudi Arabia with two drones. This would be the third time the processing facility has been struck by the Yemeni group in less than three weeks.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah missile and drone attack on Mocha, southwest Presidential Leadership Council controlled Yemen.

🇪🇬⚡- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's schizophrenic foreign policy continues to face questions over its strategic direction. Egypt had been expected to become the fourth signatory to the historic Mecca Agreement defense pact over the weekend, but…

🇺🇸⚡- Luigi Mangione’s defense team is in advanced and serious negotiations with federal prosecutors to reach a guilty plea for murder. Even if they reach a deal with federal prosecutors, Mangione will likely still face charges in New York State.

🇫🇷⚡️- "[The law] constitutes an attack on freedom of expression that is not appropriate, necessary, and proportionate to the objective pursued." - French Constitutional Council.

🇫🇷⚡️- In a shocking statement, the French Constitutional Council decided to block the law banning social medias for users under 15 in France. The law is therefore banned despite being voted by most of the French parliament's groups, including the right-wing…