🇬🇦⚡️ - The Gabonese junta has named coup plotter Brice Oligui Nguema as president, despite rumors the coupists would appoint a junta-friendly civilian government.

🇪🇺🇬🇦⚡️ - Josep Borell, the EU's foreign minister, declared that the EU was "discussing" the anti-French coup in Gabon.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️- Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian stated today "The United States should stop harassing the people of this region. We advise the American soldiers to go home, and we advise the US government to allow the people of this region to determine their own destiny."

🇺🇸⚡️- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell freezes up during a press conference, possibly suffering a stroke.

🇺🇸 - Rumors spreading that New Hampshire and Michigan may strike President Trump's name from the Republican primary ballot.

🇺🇸⚡️- An oak tree has fallen on Governor Ron DeSantis' mansion in Tallahassee, Florida as a result of Hurricane Idalia.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- North Korea stated it fired three tactical weapons as part of a training exercise simulating a strike against South Korean military infrastructure

🇮🇱⚡️- A series of gunshots rang out at Terminal 3 of Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. The suspect is already under arrest. No casualties have been reported so far.

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Niger's military junta has ordered the withdrawal of all French forces by September 3rd

🇺🇦🇻🇦⚡️- This alleged screenshot of Pope Francis being added to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets “kill-list” is fake.

🇷🇼🇨🇲 - Rwanda and Cameroon retired several powerful generals, likely to prevent a putsch.

🇺🇦 - Ukraine arrested these women for twerking on dead soldiers' graves on August 24th - the "temporary geographical misunderstanding"'s independence day.

🇪🇬 - If you're interested in Middle Eastern geopolitics, make sure to follow @TheMediterraneanMan, a close friend of this channel!

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡️- The US has approved the first arms sale to Taiwan under its new foreign aid program

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️- The French ambassador in Niger has lost diplomatic immunity. It is likely that Nigerien police will arrest him and expel him from Niger, in order to fulfil the junta's decision to declare him persona non grata.

🇺🇦 - Dmitry Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, told critics of Ukraine's counteroffensive (which has been acknowledged by Western media to have failed), to 'shut up'.

🇨🇳🇮🇳⚡️- Xi Jinping to skip the G20 summit in India.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has plead not guilty in the 2020 Georgia election case.

🇺🇳🇱🇧⚡️- The United Nations has decided to expand its UNIFIL mandate in Southern Lebanon.

🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has announced he intends to run for re-election in Ukraine, if they are held.

A note for our readers- the Ukrainian constitution says that martial law suspends elections. Ukraine has been under martial law since the special military operation began.

🇪🇺🇳🇪⚡️- The EU stated that the deposed president of Niger has still refused to resign.