August 2026
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🌍 World & Geopolitics Briefing
Russia strikes near Kyiv: A Russian drone strike on a military munitions warehouse in the Bucha district killed at least 37 people and damaged 50+ residential buildings, triggering an official…
🌍 World & Geopolitics Briefing
US–Iran war shifts to economic warfare: President Trump announced a "most crushing economic operation" against Iran, called the Strait of Hormuz "American territory," and scheduled new sanctions for…
🌍 World & Geopolitics Briefing
Trump threatens to declare the Strait of Hormuz a "territory of the United States," pushing the Iran war's stakes and rhetoric to a new level even as higher gas prices bite at home.
🌍 World & Geopolitics Briefing
The US Senate confirmed President Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general (50–49), placing a presidential loyalist atop the Justice Department amid accusations of…