Canada tariffs up to 50% come into effect on $27.6 billion U.S. goods– www.cnbc.com News Source
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Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on a swathe of U.S. goods took effect on Tuesday after trade talks collapsed last month, as relations between Washington and Ottawa continue to sour.
The duties range from 15% to 50% across $27.6 billion worth of U.S. products, including dairy, agricultural equipment, paper, household appliances and electronics. Canadian tariffs on U.S. steel, aluminum and iron products doubled to 50%, while furniture and clothing were also hit with the highest rate.
Canada called the move a “dollar for dollar” response to U.S. levies on its own goods, which have been targeted by Section 338 tariffs. Its Department of Finance said it would protect Canadian workers, producers and manufacturers by allowing them to better compete with U.S. products sold in the domestic market.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called for a boycott of Canadian airplane manufacturer Bombardier, posting on Truth Social: “NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!”
The U.S. exported $333.6 billion worth of goods to Canada, and imported $381.9 billion from its northern neighbor. The pair share trade in many of the same sectors, including energy, vehicles, heavy machinery, aircraft, pharmaceuticals, gems and jewelry, furniture, clothing and a host of foods and drinks.
After the UK made moves to sanction Israel over its occupation of “Palestinian” territories, Israel has countered by supporting Argentina’s claims on the Falkland Islands. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel ’s minister for national security, posted on X, “It’s time for the State of Israel to publicly recognize that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine territory under occupation, which the British violently steal from the Argentine people. The British are not content with merely occupying the territory; they also carry out oil drilling there and steal the money from the Argentine people. I call upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize Argentina’s sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and to impose sanctions on Great Britain as long as the occupation continues.”
Israeli minister demands UK ‘end occupation of Falklands’ and hand islands back to Argentina– www.mirror.co.uk News Source
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Israel’s Minister of National Security and leader of Otzma Yehudit, Itamar Ben Gvir(Image: Getty Images)
A member of the Israeli government has claimed the Falkland Islands are ‘Argentine territory under occupation’ and called for ‘sanctions’ against the UK.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel ’s minister for national security, issued a statement late on Monday evening (September 7), just hours after it became public knowledge the UK government is due to announce new sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, is expected to outline new trade restrictions on goods coming out of the illegal settlements in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory, on Tuesday (September 8).
As soon as rumours emerged of Andy Burnham ’s ‘reset’ of relations, Israeli officials threatened to ‘act against Britain’. Itamar Ben-Gvir has now publicly called for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise the Atlantic archipelago as Argentinian.
Somaliland’s President Seeks Israeli Military Presence as Regional Threats Grow– legalinsurrection.com News Source
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The East African nation of Somaliland has sought Israeli military presence amid growing regional threats. “We will cooperate with any friendly country, and we need security partners, including Israel,” Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Abdullahi said recently. “If Israel is present, it will provide deterrence.”
The statement comes as Iranian-backed Houthis reportedly seized the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, tightening their hold over the Strait of Bab al-Mandab. According to Reuters on Thursday, the Iranian proxy terror militia has “reached the Red Sea islands of Hanish after capturing the coastal city of Mocha, … in a dramatic strategic shift that could threaten the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes.”
WHAT HAPPENED IN YEMEN OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS?
On Wednesday, Saudi-backed Yemeni forces announced they had made significant achievements on the ground in the north and central desert areas and appeared to have broken through Houthi lines.
South Korea’s Spy Agency is claiming it has identified who it believes has been designated Kim Jong-un’s heir apparent, a secret older son. The agency had been operating under the assumption Jong-un had no son. The report has not been substantiated, but the agency making such a claim in and of itself is newsworthy.
Kim Jong-un ‘may have secret son’ as likely heir to North Korea revealed– www.mirror.co.uk News Source
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South Korea’s spy agency is investigating whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has a secret older son who could have a role in the country’s future leadership.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Thursday it was still trying to establish whether Kim has an older son, while maintaining that his daughter is the likely heir.
The comments appear to respond to a recent report claiming South Korean intelligence had determined Kim has no son with wife Ri Sol Ju.
But the NIS said that even if an older son exists, he is not currently considered to be in the line to succeed his father.
Russia and North Korea have cut the rope on a new bridge that links their two territories together. North Korean’s State media reported, the bridge was built and opened to “ensure the safe passage of various kinds of vehicles and personnel traffic.”
It also claims the bridge is “a guarantee for building up and reinforcing an important infrastructure for economic cooperation between the two countries and revitalizing multi-faceted cooperation including human exchange, tourism and commodity circulation.”
N. Korea, Russia open 1st cross-border road bridge amid deepening ties – upi.com News Source
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North Korea and Russia have opened a new road bridge over the Tumen River, Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday, calling it key infrastructure to help “revitalize” multifaceted cooperation.
The opening ceremony took place the previous day in Rason in North Korea and Khasan in Russia, virtually attended by North Korean Premier Pak Thae-song and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The construction began in April last year, following a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2024 in Pyongyang.
The bridge would “ensure the safe passage of various kinds of vehicles and personnel traffic,” the KCNA said, offering “a guarantee for building up and reinforcing an important infrastructure for economic cooperation between the two countries and revitalizing multi-faceted cooperation including human exchange, tourism and commodity circulation.”
Canada is playing a dangerous game, first with its pushback on the Trump tariffs, and now with its cozying up to America’s greatest threat, China. Canadians learned from a Chinese news report their Prime Minister, Mark Carney, had been secretly negotiating with the CCP to develop a plan for military cooperation between the two countries. The move makes Canada a threat to U.S. security.
Carney quietly revives China military talks — Canadians find out from Chinese media – Juno News News Source
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has quietly revived a formal military dialogue with China’s People’s Liberation Army that had been dormant for more than eight years.
Carney previously called China Canada’s “biggest security threat.”
And Canadians learned about the renewed dialogue from China.
Juno News@junonewscom
WATCH: Today in Beijing, PM Mark Carney says he is “heartened by the leadership” of the Chinese dictator, that Canada and Communist China can be “strategic partners” – including on “issues of security” – and invokes the “New World Order.”
Canadian and Chinese defence officials met in Ottawa on Sept. 4 for the fifth Canada-China Defence Coordination Dialogue.
The bilateral dialogue was established in 2013. Canada and China held four previous rounds — in 2013, 2014, 2016 and April 2018 — before the mechanism went dormant. The Sept. 4, 2026 meeting marked the first dialogue since then.
The eight-year gap refers specifically to the Defence Coordination Dialogue, not to an absence of all military or defence contact between Canada and China.
China is working on developing an AI-run robot army equipped with humanoid “soldiers” with AI brains. Reuters is claiming that an investigation of their procurement records reveal the army is already being built. They claimed they reviewed “more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, official publications, government records and defense-company materials.” This led them to conclude China is building an AI robot army.
China Is Actively Preparing a Humanoid Robot Army for Future Battlegrounds › American Greatness– amgreatness.com News Source
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China is aggressively developing an AI-driven, highly advanced military robotics program that could see automated humanoid robots for active combat roles on future battlefields.
The Daily Wire reports that the Communist Chinese government is carefully eyeing technology that was showcased at the recent World Humanoid Robot Games.
The only pro-German political party in Germany, the AfD, won 44% of the vote in a Saxony-Anhalt state election. The party fell just short of a majority for the state government, having captured 39 of the 83 seats in the State assembly. They fell just three seats short of a majority. The response from the “Planvasion of Germany” parties was to call for the AfD to be banned.
‘Shockwave’: Germany’s AfD Party Wins Big in Key State Election– legalinsurrection.com News Source
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Despite a massive nationwide media and political campaign, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured a stunning election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The right-wing party won 44% of the vote and captured 39 seats in the 83-seat state assembly — leaving it just three seats short of an absolute majority.
With today’s result, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt could form a government in coalition with the leftist anti-establishment BSW party. A breakaway faction from the far-left Linke party, the BSW secured just over 5%. “One idea being floated is whether there could be informal deal whereby a small party – the BSW – could give their tacit support to allow the AfD to form a minority government,” the BBC noted.
Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), who formerly governed the state, came second with a little over 17%. Germany’s Chancellor and CDU chief Friedrich Merz conceded the “most severe election defeat” in “years, or decades,” to quote his own words. “This election result is sending shockwaves,” Merz confessed.
Not just for Chancellor Merz, the outcome is a big setback for Germany’s left-wing establishment. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, the election result showed that the old political establishment is now in “self-destruct” mode. “The political culture of the Berlin Republic is coming to an end. The election outcome, disastrous for the country’s elites, reveals just how detached they have become from reality,” the country’s most-read newspaper commented.
UN Demands Britain Atone for Slavery—While Giving African and Islamic Slave Traders a Pass– gellerreport.com News Source
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The UN, or rather, one of its mr.-buttinsky agencies, has “demanded” that the UK put up monuments to, and name streets after, black Africans. It wants school curricula in the UK to cover black slavery even more than they already do. In short, the UK is being asked to engage in one long howl of “mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” Can a demand that British taxpayers pay hundreds of billions of dollars to the corrupt leaders of black African countries be far behind?
General Assembly of the United Nations, azugaldia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
More on this insidious demand can be found here: “UN Tells Britain To ‘Honour Contributions of People of African Descent’ as ‘Reparation’ for Colonialism and Slavery,” by Javier Villamor, European Conservative, September 3, 2026:
The United Nations wants the United Kingdom to transform its streets, monuments, and school curricula as part of a ‘reparations’ policy for its historical involvement in the African slave trade.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted its new General Recommendation No. 40 on August 25, devoted to “reparatory justice” for colonialism, the trafficking of enslaved Africans, and racialized slavery.
Among the proposed measures is a reshaping of the monumental landscape of former slave-trading countries.
According to documents reported by The Telegraph, the experts believe that public spaces should “honour the contributions of people of African descent” and acknowledge the abuses committed by those who participated in or benefited from slavery. In practice, this could mean new statues, works of art, memorials, or the dedication of public spaces.
Iran War Updates: Oil hits $100 per barrel as Tehran fires missiles in retaliation for U.S. blowing up tankers– www.cbsnews.com News Source EXCERPT:
Iran says “prohibited zone” near Hormuz to cover parts of Gulf of Oman and beyond
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that a new “prohibited zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz would cover parts of the Gulf of Oman and beyond, adding they would announce the exact coordinates later.
“It approximately starts from the direction of Chabahar, covering part of the Sea of Oman and another part of the Arabian Sea,” IRGC Spokesman Hossein Mohebi told state television. “If a vessel enters that area without coordination, it will be subject to our sanctions.”
On Monday, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Tehran was planning to announce a maritime “exclusion zone” outside the strait where it intends to stop vessels attempting to transit the waterway without Iranian permission.
CBS/AFP
Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of striking Yemeni prison, killing inmates and visitors
The Houthis accused Saudi Arabia on Wednesday of carrying out an airstrike on a Yemeni prison, killing inmates as well as women and children who were visiting.
In a statement on X, Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said the alleged strike on the prison in Al-Hazm, the capital of Yemen’s Al-Jawf province, took place on Monday and killed “a large number of prison inmates, along with a number of visitors including children and women.”
“The attempts by the Saudi enemy to evade responsibility for its crimes and aggression against our country will not exempt it from the consequences and repercussions of this aggression and criminality, no matter how much it tries to cover it up,” he added.
The Saudis have not responded to the Houthi claims.
The Houthis on Wednesday also accused Saudi Arabia of launching more than 30 strikes on several regions of Yemen, a day after Saudi authorities reported Houthi attacks had injured 73 people early on Tuesday, and temporarily shut several oil facilities.
Fighting in Yemen reignited last week, when the Houthis launched a major campaign to seize territory near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait.
Iran condemns U.S. strike on oil tankers
Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday strongly condemned U.S. strikes on its oil tankers, describing the attacks the previous day as a threat to regional security.
“The aggressive actions by the United States against Iranian commercial vessels not only increase the dangers of tensions in the region but are also considered an overt threat to regional and international peace and security,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that Iranian forces had targeted U.S. military facilities in the region in “self-defense”.
U.S. Central Command said it disabled five Iranian tankers on Tuesday with strikes launched in response to unsuccessful Iranian missile attacks targeting a U.S. warship in recent days.
Several vessels in Gulf damaged, British maritime agency reports
Several vessels in the Persian Gulf region were on fire Wednesday, a U.K. Navy agency reported, after Iran said it had attacked more than a dozen ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz without its permission.
The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations center (UKMTO) said “several merchant vessels in the Northern Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman” were hit by “disabling fire as part of ongoing military activity in the region.”
The center did not name the ships in question, but the U.S. said Tuesday night it had destroyed 5 Iranian oil tankers in the gulf.
It also said a vessel 24 nautical miles northwest of Port Rashid, in the UAE, was listing, potentially due to an attack.
“The Master of a tanker has reported sighting a vessel listing while at anchor, possibly indicating water ingress following an attack from an unknown projectile,” it said.
On Wednesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had attacked two U.S. warships, eight oil tankers and 10 “non-compliant vessels” trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. military’s Central Command quickly denied that any American ships had been struck.
U.S. military denies Iran’s claim to have damaged U.S. warships with missile attack
The U.S. military’s Central Command denied on Wednesday Iran’s claim to have inflicted “heavy damage” on U.S. warships.
“No U.S. Navy warship has been struck; all IRGC attempted attacks failed,” CENTCOM said in a post on social media.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed earlier that its naval forces had targeted two U.S. warships, along with eight other vessels, and “inflicted heavy damage on them.”
CENTCOM dismissed the claim as “completely FALSE” and said U.S. forces had destroyed 10 Iranian tankers “just in the last week.”
Oil prices could hit $120, analysis finds, as Americans absorb $100 billion fuel hit
An analysis by Goldman Sachs has forecast that heightened attacks in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea could push global oil prices above $120 a barrel, which would add to the surging fuel costs Americans have faced during the Iran war.
The investment bank’s forecast implies a roughly 20% increase in the cost of Brent crude, the international benchmark, which is trading at nearly $100 a barrel. Oil prices have spiked in recent weeks as the Middle East conflict drags on, with U.S. military forces striking three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday and the Houthi rebels attacking Saudi oil facilities.
Iranian forces say they targeted American warships again
Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that it had targeted two U.S. warships and eight other vessels in retaliation for U.S. strikes on five Iranian oil tankers the previous day.
The IRGC said its naval forces had targeted the vessels in the Persian Gulf region, claiming to have “inflicted heavy damage on them.”
There was no immediate response from the U.S. military, which said Tuesday that it had warned the crews of the five Iranian tankers to abandon ship “before the vessels were struck and rendered inoperable.”
The new attacks claimed by the IRGC are the latest in a series of flare-ups in fighting between the U.S. and Iran since a ceasefire agreed to by both sides in June fell apart over disagreements regarding control over ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil hits $100 per barrel for first time since July amid fighting flare-up
The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, hit $100 per barrel Wednesday morning, the highest it’s been since late July.
The increase is a continuation of an upward trend seen since August and follows a flare-up in fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
The U.S. announced late Tuesday it had struck 5 Iranian oil tankers in response to an attempted attack on its warships in the region. Iran retaliated by targeting a military base in Jordan that hosts U.S. forces. The Jordanian military said it intercepted 18 Iranian missiles and reported no casualties.
Protesters urge South Korea to not join U.S. war with Iran
Dozens of South Koreans urged their government on Wednesday not to deploy troops to the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
The protesters across from the U.S. embassy compound in Seoul waved signs saying “Do not join a war of aggression” as the country’s leaders weigh a “contribution” to the waterway’s security.
“We cannot send our young people into a sea of death!” chanted the protesters on the steps outside Seoul’s Sejong Center for the Performing Arts.
The protest came a day after South Korean defence authorities said they had sent a fact-finding mission to assess the situation in Hormuz, while stressing that no decision had been made on any deployment.
South Korea said Friday it was considering “contributions” to U.S. security efforts along the strait provided that its own military readiness was not compromised.
Iran has warned that any South Korean deployment would be “regarded as direct support for the party responsible for that aggression and will have serious consequences.”
Iran-backed Houthi group reports over 30 strikes across Yemen
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis reported more than 30 Saudi strikes on several regions on Wednesday, a day after the rebels launched major attacks on their neighbor, injuring dozens of people.
There has been no official comment from Saudi Arabia about the Houthi report.
Saudi authorities previously said that Houthi attacks caused temporary shutdowns at oil sites and injured 73 people early Tuesday. The rebels reported Saudi airstrikes following the attacks.
Deadly fighting reignited in Yemen last week, when the Houthis launched a major campaign to seize territory near the Bab al-Mandab strait.
The strait has become an increasingly important route for Saudi oil since Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, choking Gulf exports.
CBS/AFP
Price of oil trades at $99 per barrel again as open hostilities resume
The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, was trading at over $99 early Wednesday, in a continuation of the upward trend seen since August.
Meanwhile, the benchmark U.S. crude rose 1.2% to $94.17 a barrel.
Before the war began in February, a fifth of the world’s oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz but since then, traffic has plummeted, with only small periods of temporary and limited recovery.
Iran launches missiles at U.S. targets in Jordan, state media says
Iran has launched missiles toward U.S. targets in Jordan, Iranian state-run media said, following the latest American strikes.
It’s the latest tit-for-tat retaliation after the U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers following two attacks on a U.S. warship by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over the past two days.
U.S. Central Command, when asked about the strikes on the Jordanian air base, said it had no information to offer.
Jordan’s military said its air defense systems intercepted 18 ballistic missiles launched toward its territory and two others fell in places where people do not live. It says it had no reports of casualties.
Jordan is a staunch U.S. ally that hosts American forces, making the kingdom’s military bases a target of repeated Iranian strikes.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy also warned crews of oil tankers near ports in Kuwait and Bahrain to immediately leave their vessels, saying the ships could be targeted in retaliation for the U.S. attacks on Iranian tankers.
CENTCOM confirms it struck five Iranian oil tankers
The U.S. military’s Central Command confirmed Tuesday it “destroyed” five oil tankers associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In a statement accompanied by video footage of the operation, CENTCOM said the strikes were in response to a set of unsuccessful Iranian missile attacks against a U.S. warship in recent days.
Four of the tankers were struck in the Gulf of Oman, according to CENTCOM, and a fifth was hit near Kharg Island, an island in the Persian Gulf that serves as Iran’s primary terminal for crude oil exports. It alleged the ships were part of Iran’s shadow fleet, a network of tankers used by Iran to export oil and generate revenue for the regime.
“American forces directed the crews to abandon ship before the vessels were struck and rendered inoperable,” CENTCOM said.
CBS News had reported on a U.S. attack against Iranian tankers earlier Tuesday.
CENTCOM also struck three Iranian oil tankers last weekend in retaliation for an earlier attempted Iranian attack against U.S. Navy ships.
Bonnie Blue uses her new baby as a prop to promote adult content | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source
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“I just had a baby, but that means that the 6-week rule does not apply to me because I had a C-section.”
Porn star Bonnie Blue has been slammed online after displaying her reportedly newborn baby in what appeared to be a preamble to some of her adult content.
In a clip of the video that has gone viral on X, the porn star, whose real name is Tia Billinger, said, “I just had a baby, but that means that the 6-week rule does not apply to me because I had a C-section.”
“Down there, still looking perfect,” she said as she motioned to her genitals with three masked men around her. Billinger is known for stunts that include having sex with groups of men, ranging from the hundreds up to 1,000, for her adult content account.
Earlier in August, Billinger gave birth to the baby and said that the baby was conceived naturally instead of through IVF.
The video was blasted by people online. One user on X said that “social services need to be called immediately.”
‘We’re Scared, Very Scared’: Weeping Spanish Girl Reveals Heartbreaking Reality of Mass Migration from Africa– www.westernjournal.com News Source
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A young girl in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta revealed the harsh realities of mass migration from Africa into the region.
Ceuta, which is on the African continent, has been flooded with migrants in recent weeks, leading to tremendous strain on local residents and a number of shocking crimes.
The schoolgirl cried to a local news crew that the arrivals have made life in Ceuta unrecognizable.
“I want to go to school in peace, but we can’t go,” the child said, per a report from The Daily Wire.
“We’re scared. Very scared. We’re in a very bad way.”
A Spanish girl just sobbed on live TV: she’s too scared to go to school in her own city.
That’s Ceuta. After the migrant surge. Schools occupied. Streets unsafe. Parents keeping daughters home.
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia ignite fires at oil facilities and wound 73 people, officials say– abcnews.com News Source
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CAIRO — A wave of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia Tuesday wounded more than 70 people and ignited fires at several oil facilities and utilities in the kingdom’s southern region, authorities said, a major escalation in the renewed conflict between an important U.S. ally and the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen.
The attacks come after weeks of escalating clashes between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, which shattered a four-year truce in the country’s civil war.
The flare-up delivered a new jolt to a region already destabilized by nearly three years of wars and brings more uncertainty for the global economy. The fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis threatens to squeeze shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a critical route of the Arabian Peninsula for oil and global trade. It also comes at a time when the Iran war has nearly halted shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway that moved about one-fifth of the world’s oil before the war.
Fighting has raged on multiple fronts including Yemen’s west coast, with government forces saying they have made territorial gains in the provinces of Hodeida, Taiz and Baydah. The Houthis have also launched attacks on Saudi oil facilities and tankers in the Red Sea.
The attacks early Tuesday hit “civilian and economic facilities” in the Saudi cities of Abha, Jazan, Najran and Khamis Mushait, said Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.
Al-Malki said the attacks wounded 73 people, including women and children. He didn’t provide further details.
EU announces funding boost for Greeland amid Trump threats– www.cnbc.com News Source
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R), Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L) and Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visit Qoornoq, an abandoned settlement on the island of Qaarusuup Nunaa, also called ‘Bear Island’, Greenland on September 6, 2026.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday announced a fresh funding boost for Greenland, seeking to shore up Arctic ties with the self-governing Danish territory amid U.S. President Donald Trump‘s annexation drive.
Speaking alongside Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, the EU chief said the 200-million-euro ($232.3 million) funding package reflects “a clear choice” by Greenland to strengthen ties with the 27-nation bloc.
“This partnership package focuses mainly on three domains, or strategic priorities. We call them the big Cs: connectivity, clean energy [and] critical raw materials,” Von der Leyen told reporters at a news conference.
The funds, which is to be invested this year and in 2027, is designed to bolster ties between the EU and the Arctic, with Von der Leyen describing Greenland as “a strategic ally and a trusted friend.”
It comes shortly after Icelanders voted to reject restarting EU membership negotiations and as Trump renews his push to acquire Greenland on national security grounds.
“The European Union continues to be, not only an important partner for Greenland, but also a loyal and trusted friend,” Greenland’s Nielsen said.
UNRWA funding cut by Finland as US probes Hamas staff infiltration– www.foxnews.com News Source
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Speaking at the U.N. July 1, Ambassador Jeff Bartos said donors could continue supporting United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugee or choose a framework offering Gazans “peace, prosperity and real durable change.” (Credit: UNTV)
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Another European nation has stopped funding the U.N. agency that aids the Palestinians. Finland has followed the U.S. and Sweden in halting donations to the terror-tainted agency.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), is presently being investigated for ties to the terrorist rulers of Gaza. Recently, organizations including the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) and NGO UN Watch have uncovered further evidence of what they allege is Hamas infiltration of UNRWA and its members’ participation in the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks in southern Israel.
Finland announced it would discontinue funding to the organization at the end of 2026. Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs confirmed to Fox News Digital that the agreement with UNRWA would conclude at the end of 2026 but that “As of yet, no decision has been made on what are the international partners through which Finland’s support will be channeled next year to meet the acute needs in the region.”
Finnish officials did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about what prompted the change to the country’s funding for UNRWA.
WATCH: James Talarico Denies Jesus Is the Only Way, Says Allah Leads to Same Truth– www.breitbart.com News Source
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Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico denied that Jesus Christ is the way to truth, saying Allah and other religious paths can lead people to the same divine truth.
In a newly resurfaced video, Talarico says Islam and Christianity are “equal pathways to truth,” rejecting the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation. Talarico said he views all religions as different paths leading to the same truth.
“I find that they’re all kind of equal pathways to truth. You know, that’s how I think, you know, I always think of all of the world’s faith traditions as like a circle with,” Talarico said. “That divine mystery of the universe in the middle. And we all have different names for that mystery.”
Talarico specifically included Allah, Nirvana, and the Great Spirit among the names he said people use for what he called the same “divine mystery.”
“Whether it’s God or Yahweh or Allah or Nirvana, the Great Spirit, whatever you call it, this is all, you know, different pathways to the same kind of fundamental truth of reality,” Talarico continued.
U.S. House passes bill to withhold federal aid from colleges that boycott Israel– www.thecollegefix.com News Source
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Congressman warns the bill could violate free speech
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to withhold federal aid from colleges and universities that boycott Israel.
The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026 states that federally-funded institutions “will not engage in a nonexpressive commercial boycott of a major strategic partner of the United States.”
In addition, students cannot be “unreasonably obstructed from participating in academic programs in Israel,” the bill states.
The Republican-controlled chamber approved the measure by a 237–169 vote, with 33 Democrats supporting it and two Republicans opposing it, according to Inside Higher Ed.
The legislation will now head to the U.S. Senate.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer, who sponsored the bill, said, “No student, no professor should be shut out of research, study abroad opportunities, or academic partnerships, or feel unwelcome in the classroom because of where they’re from or what religion they practice.”
Merz Cancels Trump Call After Trump Hails AfD Victory and Slams Germany’s Globalist Mass Migration Policy * The Gateway Pundit * by Robert Semonsen– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source EXCERPT:
President Donald J. Trump hosts a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Germany’s left-liberal, globalist Chancellor Friedrich Merz has postponed a planned telephone conversation with the US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, days after voters in Saxony-Anhalt handed the AfD a sweeping regional election victory and a major defeat to Merz’s CDU.
The German government offered no explanation for pulling the call, the German press reported. Government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said Berlin had requested the postponement and that officials hadn’t yet settled on another date.
Asked whether an ordinary scheduling conflict caused the change, Kornelius indicated that it wasn’t the issue. The unanswered questions quickly turned attention toward Trump’s public celebration of the AfD’s election result.
Trump had weighed in after the AfD stormed into first place in Saxony-Anhalt. Writing on Truth Social, he described the result as a “really big night” for Germany’s populist movement and linked its rise directly to public frustration over immigration.
The president said Germans had grown tired of immigration rules that, in his assessment, had inflicted serious damage on the country. He ended the message with “MGGA,” an apparent German variation of his “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Merz’s spokesman refrained from saying whether those remarks prompted Wednesday’s decision. Instead, Kornelius pointed to the chancellor’s previous position that foreign governments shouldn’t intervene in or comment on Germany’s domestic politics, particularly elections.
The diplomatic friction arrived at an especially difficult moment for Merz. His CDU suffered a devastating setback in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election as the AfD more than doubled its previous share of the vote.
Official results put the AfD at 43.8%, while the CDU collapsed to 17.2%. The AfD secured 39 seats in the 83-member state parliament, leaving it only three seats short of an outright majority.
The scale of the result transformed what had been a regional contest into a national political problem for Merz. His party had governed Saxony-Anhalt for more than two decades, but voters delivered the CDU one of its most punishing defeats there.
AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund said the result demonstrated that voters wanted fundamental change. He campaigned heavily on immigration and promised deportations of people residing illegally in Germany from the beginning of an AfD administration.
Migration wasn’t the election’s only issue. Germany’s exceedingly sluggish economy, dissatisfaction with the federal government and concerns about living standards also helped shape the vote, according to election analyses.
Still, immigration has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in German politics. The AfD advocates substantially tighter border and migration policies, while Trump has repeatedly argued that Germany and other European countries allowed immigration to reach damaging levels.
Merz, who is in a coalition government with the socialists, has promised tougher migration controls but has so far failed to implement any meaningful change.
The confrontation with AfD has become harder for Germany’s established parties to avoid after Sunday’s result. Despite winning almost 44% of the vote, the AfD still faces the longstanding “firewall” under which Germany’s mainstream parties refuse political cooperation with it.
Merz has shown no sign of abandoning that approach. Following his party’s defeat, he acknowledged mistakes but rejected suggestions that he should step aside and said surrendering wasn’t an option.
AfD leaders, meanwhile, have seized on the election as evidence that their political isolation is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Co-leader Alice Weidel used Wednesday’s Bundestag debate to attack Merz’s leadership and portray the Saxony-Anhalt result as a rejection of his government.
Trump’s social media posts added an international dimension to that battle. His administration and political allies have previously criticized the exclusion of national conservative parties in Europe, while prominent figures in Trump’s orbit have openly expressed sympathy for the AfD.
The postponed telephone conversation carried significance beyond the latest dispute. Merz and Trump had planned to speak in connection with the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, with Berlin emphasizing Germany’s continuing solidarity with the United States.
German officials claim the transatlantic relationship remains important despite disagreements between Berlin and Washington. Relations have nevertheless faced pressure over immigration, trade, Ukraine, and other foreign-policy questions since Trump returned to the White House.
For Merz, the immediate challenge remains at home. The AfD’s 43.8% showing against the CDU’s 17.2% has dramatically altered the political landscape in Saxony-Anhalt and intensified questions about the chancellor’s ability to reverse his party’s losses.
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Andy Burnham braced for Donald Trump clash as he prepares to hit Israel with sanctions– www.thesun.co.uk News Source
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ANDY Burnham is bracing for a fresh row with Donald Trump as he prepares to unveil Israeli sanctions as soon as today.
The PM is expected to impose a punishment package on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over illegal West Bank settlements.
Andy Burnham is bracing for a fresh row with Donald Trump as he prepares to unveil Israeli sanctions Credit: GettyAmericans who are understood to be furious with Britain’s hardening approach against Israel Credit: Getty Images
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to make the announcement today as Labour seeks to win back pro-Gaza voters it has lost in recent years.
Treasury Department to buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term debt, triple the normal level– www.cnbc.com News Source EXCERPT:
The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it will buy back up to $6 billion of government debt in an operation aimed at keeping bond markets functioning.
The much-anticipated announcement triples the normal buyback operation and follows an announcement Aug. 19 from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the department would at least double the normal amount for already-issued securities.
Treasury also said future operations will be at least $4 billion.
Though the operation ostensibly is aimed at keeping government debt markets liquid — in this case for 10- and 20-year notes — the extraordinary measure also has been seen as an effort to put a lid on Treasury yields, which had hit highs not seen since prior to the global financial crisis in 2008.
Market reaction, however, was negative. Treasury yields rose further but were volatile with long-dated securities rising as much as 5 basis points each before easing.
The benchmark 10-year issue hit 4.841% around 11:30 a.m. ET. The 20-year climbed to 5.314% while the 30-year bond rose 5 basis points to also punch through what had been seen as the important 5.3% level, most recently yielding 5.307%. One basis point equals 0.01%.
“Hank Paulson’s bazooka this is not,” said bond fund manager Mark Spindel, chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital, referring to the former Treasury secretary’s actions during the financial crisis. “And it took an act of Congress in that crisis.”
There had been speculation heading into Wednesday’s announcement that the buyback level could be many times the initial release, in which Treasury said the amount will “at least” double the normal $2 billion operation.
“Moving the sizes up to $6 billion would amount to tripling the size of the buybacks, which would be a meaningful escalation but would not be wildly out of line with the spirit of the ‘at least double’ language.,” Wrightson ICAP analysts wrote earlier this week.
“Quadrupling or even quintupling the size to the $8 billion to $10 billion range is not out of the question, but would represent a second major shift in the Treasury’s debt strategy in just two weeks,” they added. “It would be an admission that the Treasury hadn’t thought through its hasty August 19 announcement in the first place.”
The actual buybacks will happen Thursday in a 20-minute operation that will conclude at 2 p.m. ET.
Higher Treasury yields have come against a confluence of factors: Surging government debt that recently passed $40 trillion, elevated inflation fears from tariffs and the Iran war, and a corresponding resurgence in energy prices that saw crude oil top $100 a barrel Wednesday.
At the same time, the long end of the Treasury curve is the less active part of a market that is considered the deepest and most liquid in the world.
Treasury issuance this year has jumped 11.8% from 2025, and the $31.8 trillion in publicly held debt is up 8.2%.
“Treasury announced buybacks less than hoped for (or feared depending on your point of view),” Mizuho economist Alex Pelle said. “The risk is that the Treasury ratchets this up in some manner given the market’s reaction. However, I think the pressure to go against standard operating procedure will abate somewhat on the other side of the midterms.”
The accelerated buybacks have faced critics, with some questioning what impact the amount would have on such a massive market, as well as the move being a break from Treasury moving in a predictable manner on the process.
One prominent critic was Stanley Druckenmiller, head of Duquesne Family Office and a former mentor to Bessent.
“Once markets believe Treasury is defending a price, every rise in yields becomes a test of official resolve, and the operations must grow to survive the tests,” Druckenmiller wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
“Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose. The only variable is how much they spend before conceding,” he added.
Germany’s Merz ‘shocked’ by far-right AfD state election victory – National– globalnews.ca News Source
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe’s largest economy after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.
Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was “deeply shocked” by what he called “the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades.” But he indicated that he’s determined to stay at the helm and said that “giving up is not an option for me.”
The anti-migration and Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany, or AfD, fell just short of a majority in Sunday’s vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a small eastern state that gained outsized prominence as AfD eyed power there. Its regional branch is one of several considered a proven right-wing extremist group by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.
AfD’s victory is a major distraction for Germany and Merz at a time when Europe faces several challenges, including Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine, a suspected sabotage campaign targeting NATO countries, and difficult dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump threatens sales in US of Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier– www.channelnewsasia.com News Source
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THREATS TO DECERTIFY
Back in January, furious over what he said was Canada’s refusal to grant certification to new models of US-made Gulfstream jets, the president threatened to decertify Bombardier planes in the United States and impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aircraft.
Those threats apparently were never carried out, but Trump said Canada quickly certified Gulfstream planes the following month because of his intervention.
Trump’s social media post Monday signalled continued acrimony over Bombardier, amid a broiling bilateral tariff fight.
Even if Trump sought to follow through on his latest threat, it remained unclear how it would happen. The Federal Aviation Administration, not the White House, is the US agency that certifies or decertifies aircraft in the country.
Bombardier models remain US-certified, and the company is currently exempt from US tariffs.
Last month, as trade negotiations collapsed, Trump slapped 50 per cent tariffs on some US$20 billion worth of Canadian products ranging from hockey sticks to cement.
Canada announced it is imposing retaliatory tariffs on a similar amount of US products beginning early Tuesday.
The duties of 15 per cent, 25 per cent and 50 per cent will apply to imports from the United States covering steel and aluminium products as well as dairy goods like cheese.
Ceuta Schools Replace Pork with ‘Sharia Meat’ After Muslim Invasion– gellerreport.com News Source
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Anywhere Western law and Islamic law conflict, it is Western law that must give way.
Muslims are the only immigrant group who come to the West with a ready made model of society they believe to be superior to Western law and they work furiously, by all means, to impose it. Under Islam, shariah (Islamic) law supersedes Western law. Anywhere Western law and Shariah law conflict, it is always Western law that must give way. What those of us working in defense of freedom did not expect, was the craven capitulation and cowardice by Western left elites to Islamic supremacy.
🇪🇸 A young woman from Ceuta breaks down in tears during yesterday’s demonstration against the invasion of illegal migrants:
“We don’t have a normal life anymore. The children can’t go out. […] They keep lying about the numbers, there aren’t 5,000, there are 20,000, and those… pic.twitter.com/sOEleDY8V6
German airport attack reveals escalating threat of hot conflict with Europe– www.washingtonexaminer.com News Source
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In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieceshere.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was framed as a swift, precise operation that would bulldoze the government in Kyiv over the course of days. More than four years later, the Russian military is bogged down in a meat grinder with no clear path to an immediate victory.
Yet despite this ongoing and costly failure, European leaders remain intensely paranoid about the threat Moscow poses to their own continent. EU officials and NATO leaders characterize Russia as the West’s greatest threat, and this fear has inspired nations like Germany and France to begin revitalizing their militaries after decades of declining power.
Recent incidents have shown that this fear is not entirely unreasonable. A drone fitted with explosive devices was discovered last month at the Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany, forcing closures and suspended flights while the unmanned aerial vehicle was diffused. The German government this week pinned the incident on Russia, with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt calling it a “new quality of danger” compared to previous hybrid attacks from Moscow.
“Drone sightings, drone threats including in a hybrid context, are something we know from the past,” he added. “That a drone armed with explosives is at an airport is a new threat scenario.”
Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul arrive to a press conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, about the attempted attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport last month with a drone loaded with explosives.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
The Leipzig/Halle Airport incident is an inflection point for the continent. While “disinformation efforts, drone incursions, cyberwarfare, and other acts of sabotage” have become a well-documented threat from Moscow, the presence of explosives in a major European airport crossed a line — and leaders are now scrambling to prepare.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu Puts Political Survival Above Israel’s Security, Says Top Rival Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli politics– www.ndtv.com News Source
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Gadi Eisenkot, the main challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused the sitting premier of looking merely after his own political survival and not the country’s security, at a rally in central Israel on Monday.
Unveiling the candidates of the Yashar party for the October 27 election, the former military commander said nothing about how he would handle the Palestinian question or the wars against Iran and Lebanon launched by Netanyahu, but accused him of ducking responsibility in the nearly three years since the massive Hamas attack.
A relative newcomer to politics, his party Yashar (Hebrew for “Upright”), founded a year ago, has surged in the polls in recent months, with many voters seeing him as a viable candidate to replace Netanyahu, thanks to his military background.
At Monday’s rally in a hall in the central Israeli city of Rosh Haayin, Eisenkot vowed to put an end to the divisions that have plagued the country since October 7, 2023 over Netanyahu’s conduct of the war in Gaza, where dozens of Israeli hostages were held, and on other fronts.
“In the face of the great rift that opened on October 7, and in the face of the immense challenges before the State of Israel, I believe we need a leadership that knows how to rise to the magnitude of the hour, that knows how to unite and bring unity around what we share, and to fundamentally restore the principles of stateliness and Zionism,” Eisenkot said.
Eisenkot also touched on other hot-button issue in the upcoming election, such as the exemptions and benefits granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.
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