Iran’s IRGC Navy said a container ship carrying more than 2,500 containers struck a naval mine while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz via an unauthorized route.

The ship caught fire and sank south of the strait on Wednesday morning.

SpaceX’s Starlink speed cap is now confirmed at 60-70 km/h on Ukrainian terminals, effectively killing connectivity for all medium-range kamikaze drones: FP-2, Darts, Hornet, RAM-2 and others.

Ukraine uses these drones to hit Russian air defenses, logistics, and infrastructure in Crimea and border regions.

The restriction also impacts Ukraine’s drone interceptors that rely on Starlink to shoot down Russian Shahed-type jets, meaning it weakens both offensive and defensive capabilities.

If the cutoff isn’t a short-term pressure tactic — like the intelligence-sharing suspension in spring 2025 — Ukraine will need to urgently find Starlink alternatives, potentially copying Russia’s use of relay stations and mesh modems, which would take significant time and money.

Kamala Harris on Israel:

It is in our interest to hold our allies accountable for their share of global defense, to ensure trade benefits American workers and consumers, and to uphold our moral obligation to human rights and international law.

To be sure, America has at times fallen short on that one.

Most recently, the failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government's horrific conduct in the war in Gaza, both under the current administration, which offers Netanyahu a blank check, and our administration before, where we should have acted sooner and more forcefully.

Kamala Harris:

We must take a more expansive view of partnerships with developing nations.

Consider, by the middle of this century, one in four people will live on the African continent.

Kamala Harris:

The last few years have shown us American foreign policy orthodoxies of old are insufficient to meet the challenges we face.

Some have tried to restore a pre-World War II era when conquest and cronyism were commonplace.

Others in the establishment have been clinging to a post-World War II order, slow to adapt to a changing world.

But we cannot afford to be driven by nostalgia. America must look forward.

Kamala Harris:

I believe we are in a very difficult environment. AI contributes to, for example, vast amounts of mis- and disinformation.

There have been overt attempts to deny fair and free elections.

As we all know, in the United States, there's been overt cheating happening around the election process, whether it be the purging of the voter rolls or redrawing districts outside of the season when that would happen.

Germany’s SPD and Greens suspended coalition talks with Die Linke in Berlin after it admitted lawmaker Vanessa Emde, whose stance on Israel has sparked controversy.

Die Linke, which won Berlin’s September 20 election with 25.7% of the vote, says all its lawmakers have committed to fighting antisemitism.

NATO's Rutte:

Here is the main thing: We are stronger. Russia is not in a good place. Hybrid attacks and whatever it is are a sign of weakness.

What they would love us to do is to talk about it the whole day and to be rattled and to have press conferences on it. We're not going to do that.

We will react where we need to react, again, not always visibly.

Kremlin:

It would be better if such brilliant technologies as Starlink were not used for military purposes at all.

Q: Is Russia foolish enough to consider attacking any NATO country?

NATO's Rutte: We don't think so, and we see no imminent threat against NATO territory. And if we were to see a buildup, we would react to it.

NATO's Rutte:

NATO is with you in the air. Allied fighter jets at Ämari help protect the skies.

On September 1, Turkish jets scrambled from Ämari after a drone crossed Estonia's border.

And that is the mission doing its job.

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff said he has “zero interest” in running for president in 2028 and pledged to serve his full six-year Senate term if re-elected.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

The Israelis are unbelievably resilient people. They don’t have this sense of “Oh no, look at us, we’re under siege.”

Q: Do you think the Iran war is damaging to Trump politically in terms of the midterms?

Amb. Huckabee: If it is, it’s because Americans are oblivious to the Iranian threat.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

The Iranian regime wants to kill everybody who refuses to accept Shia law—Sharia law.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:

If Hezbollah joins Iran in an attack on Israel, it will be dealt a severe blow and lose additional territory in southern Lebanon.

More than one million Shiites will be displaced in Lebanon.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Groceries and fuel prices are important, but Americans should ask themselves: Do your children have a future if Iran gets nuclear weaponry?

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Netanyahu did not trick Trump. Trump is too smart to be tricked.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

The reason people died in Gaza was because of Hamas.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

If there had never been a Jewish foundation, then there wouldn’t have been Christianity.

If there hadn’t been a Judeo-Christian foundation, Western civilization would never have existed.