18 Aug 2026, 21:08 UTC≈2,080 viewsread 18 August 2026 ⚓️ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia tests floating gun outposts to shield maritime bases from drone attacks
The platform, identified as the PLOT-40 or PLOT-47, resembles a small floating pillbox rather than a conventional patrol vessel and appears to carry an automatic cannon. Its emergence follows repeated Ukrainian attacks against Russian maritime targets, including the major Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
The unusual platform offe…
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18 Aug 2026, 21:00 UTC≈2,000 viewsread 18 August 2026 Photo
🚀 🇺🇸 🇨🇽 After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase
📎 SpaceX
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18 Aug 2026, 20:27 UTC≈2,610 viewsread 18 August 2026 Forwarded from @tabzlivePhoto
🇦🇪❌🇮🇷 — BREAKING: United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran have been halted "in light of regional escalations," likely referring to an earlier Iranian ballistic missile that landed in Emirati territorial waters.
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18 Aug 2026, 18:57 UTC≈3,410 viewsread 18 August 2026 Forwarded from @GeoPWatchPhoto
🇺🇸❌🇺🇳 – Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions against the ICC president, Japanese Tomoko Akane, and Senegalese Abdoulaye Sege, an ICC senior trial lawyer. Both were investigating Israel's crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
Rubio called the ICC a "fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority" in a statement, which follows other U.S. sanctions on Karim Khan, an ICC prosecutor, and Trum…
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18 Aug 2026, 17:57 UTC≈4,280 viewsread 18 August 2026 Photo
📈 🇺🇸 💵 US interest expense on the national debt hit a record $1.4 trillion over the last 12 months.
Since 2020, the cost of servicing US public debt has nearly TRIPLED.
If rates remain stable, interest payments are set to rise to $1.7 trillion by November 2028.
As a result, interest will surpass Social Security spending as the government's largest outlay for the first time.
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18 Aug 2026, 17:19 UTC≈5,000 viewsread 18 August 2026 Photo
🇫🇷 A Marseille police officer was beaten by an Antifa couple he had gone to help after their phone was stolen.
The pair allegedly grabbed him by the throat while others kicked him.
Both were arrested and are reportedly known to authorities over their links to radical far-left movements.
📎 Europa
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18 Aug 2026, 17:19 UTC≈3,500 viewsread 18 August 2026 Forwarded from @keith_woodsVideo
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18 Aug 2026, 17:19 UTC≈4,220 viewsread 18 August 2026 Video
🇺🇸 Nick Fuentes says Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson can never be forgiven for pushing the theory that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, causing a loss of will to punish the Left.
Hasan Piker thanked Owens for effectively defending the Left.
📎 AF Post
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18 Aug 2026, 16:55 UTC≈4,900 viewsread 18 August 2026 Video
🤖 🇨🇳🏅 More than 2,000 humanoid robots are set to compete in Beijing as China hosts World Humanoid Robot Games
📝 Battle Beagle: "Those are frontline shock troops for 2030 and beyond."
📎 Insider Paper
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18 Aug 2026, 16:45 UTC≈3,700 viewsread 18 August 2026 🇩🇪 Some German politicians want to change German speech laws to better protect the right to freedom of expression after the Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, took to court several hundred German citizens for the most trivial of statements
Germany’s political parties have converged on an unusual point of agreement: A law penalizing citizens for insulting politicians needs to change, following controversial investigations o…
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18 Aug 2026, 16:37 UTC≈3,150 viewsread 18 August 2026 Forwarded from @middle_east_spectator
—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: The UAE Ministry of Defense announces that Iran launched two ballistic missiles at the country; one was intercepted, the other fell in Emirati territorial waters
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18 Aug 2026, 16:11 UTC≈4,380 viewsread 18 August 2026 Photo
🇯🇵🇺🇸 The Japanese Yen is close to surpassing the 160 Yen = 1 USD exchange rate a mere two weeks after a massive market intervention by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the U.S. Treasury.
The yen is about halfway from where it was prior to the intervention which cost the BOJ and the U.S. government nearly $90 billion.
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