Sunday, August 30, 2026

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 8/30/2026*NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*IRAN ATTACKS*US ATTACKS IRAN*FERRY DISASTER OFF CYPURS*HORMUZ SAID 'UNRESOLVED' MARITIME ORGANIZATION*IRGC 'COMPLETE AND DECISIVE' HORMUZ CONTROL*GERMANY TO ACCUSE RUSSIA EVE STATE ELECTION*NETANYAHU DENOUNCES SETTLER VIOLENCE*

 


     (SERVICE THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING WITH FINAL POSTING 1130 PM-12 MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)



                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




Two killed and 12 wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia Belgorod Region today...Tass Russia




AT 1145 PM TONIGHT IN EARLY TRADING THE PRICE OF OIL IN NEW YORK 85 DOLLARS 4 CENTS A BARREL UP ONE DOLLAR 64 CENTS OR 1.97 PERCENT.



The price of a gallon of gasoline rising at Sam's Club here in York, Pennsylvania the new price 399.9.   That's up four cents from Friday.




IRAN LAUNCHING MISSILES IN RETALIATION FOR THE US ATTACK ON IRANIAN MISSILE LAUNCHERS TONIGHT.


IRAN ATTACKING TWO US BASES IN JORDAN WITH THOSE MISSILES.


IRANIAN MEDIA REPORTING ATTACKS..TRT WORLD TURKEY (TURKIYE)





PRIOR TO THE US-IRANIAN ATTACKS TONIGHT UNITED KINGDOM MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS REPORTING THAT A TANKER WAS HIT IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ OFF THE COAST OF OMAN.


THE TANKER WAS ENTERING THE PERSIAN GULF THROUGH THE STRAIT...UKMTO "X"



                 News Related To Oil Markets




THE UNITED STATES ATTACKING IRAN HITTING TWO IRANIAN LAUNCH SITES NEAR THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ JUST HOURS BEFORE OIL MARKETS OPEN FOR TRADING.

IRAN REPORTING DEAD AND WOUNDED VOWING RETALIATION...JERUSALEM POST...



US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS VENEZUELAS OIL RESERVES WILL HELP THE UNITED STATES REPLENISH ITS STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE.


MR. TRUMP FOLLOWING UP HIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF A US-VENEZUELA OIL DEAL JUST HOURS BEFORE TRADING ON OIL MARKETS OPENS FOR THE WEEK.





KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV SAYS ANY THREE-WAY MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND URKAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY WOULD ONLY HAPPEN IF AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED BETWEEN THE PARTIES.


US MEDIA REPORTS IN RECENT DAYS SUGGEST A US PUSH FOR SUCH A MEETING...TASS RUSSIA



Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei for the Muslim world to confront the 'real enemy' instead of allowing divisions to created among them.


Khamenei linking Muslim unity to the plight of the Palestinians asking if they would be 'so defenseless. subjected to the oppression and crimes of the occupiers, if Muslims were united, clenching their fists with strength'...MORNING STAR UK



ISRAELI POLITICS JEWISH POWER (OTZMA YEHUDIT) PARTY LEADER AND NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ITAMAR BEN GVIR POSTING A VIDEO ONLINE FEATURING HIMSELF WITH FEMALE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS.


THE PRISONERS SEEN OFFERING COMPLAINTS ABOUT THEIR TREATEMENT INCLUDING LACK OF SHOWERS AND CLEAN CLOTHES.   BEN GVIR REJECTING THEIR COMPLAINTS.



IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST ACCOMPANYING THE VIDEO MR. BEN GVIR SAYING:


"The 'whining' of the terrorists about the conditions in the prisons doesn't work on me"...


                  ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)





In Iceland a majority turning down resumption of negotiations for membership in the European Union.


The vote 52.8 percent on the No side and 47.2 percent on the Yes side...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




(UPDATED) A FERRY CARRYING 260 PEOPLE CAPSIZED OFF THE NORTHERN COAST OF CYPRUS. 



AT LEAST EIGHT DEATHS ACCORDING TO LOCAL OFFICIALS.


172 WERE RESCUED WITH 89 MISSING.



THE CREW OF THE VESSEL DETAINED BY AUTHORITIES...AL JAZEERA QATAR





"Six months after the beginning of the conflict of the Middle East, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is still unresolved"


Those words coming from the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Arsenio Dominguez.


He notes that 400 ships and 6000 sailors remain stuck in the Persian Gulf...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)...


MEANWHILE IRAN MESSAGING THE NOTION ITS MILITARY FORCES ARE IN CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.


THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION GUARDS CORPS (IRGC) NAVY CLAIMING 'COMPLETE AND DECISIVE' CONTROL OF THE STRAIT...PRESS TV IRAN "X"...



IN RECENT DAYS BOTH US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND THE HEAD OF US CENTRAL COMMAND ADMIRAL BRAD COOPER HAS MESSAGED US CONTROL IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.



Germany is preparing to formally accuse Russia in connection with recent drone incidents in and around the Leipzig Airport in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.


The accusation to be levelled right before a crucial election in  Saxony-Anhalt next Sunday that may lead to a majority of legislative seats for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.


German authorities have linked online activity trashing other political parties in that election to Russia.


As for Russia, Germany intends to impose 'extensive' sanctions and coordinate those sanctions with new Russia sanctions from the European Union...Anadolu Agency Turkey (Türkiye)'...



RUSSIAN SPECIAL ENVOY ANDREY BELOUSOV SPEAKING OF THE UNITED STATES SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE.


HE LINKS THIS TO THE US RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT RUSSIA'S NON-NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL FORUMS...TASS RUSSIA



A major Russian attack on Kiev Friday night into Saturday an ammunition depot hit with at least 37 killed...News Agencies-Deutsche Welle Germany...




THIS WEEKEND UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY SUMMONED OVER ATTACKS ON TURKISH SHIPS IN THE BLACK SEA.


THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY STRESSING TO UKRAINE THE NEED TO ENSURE SAFETY OF LIFE, PROPERTY, NAVIGATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)



IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF NIGER THIS WEEKEND A COUP ATTEMPT BY MUTINOUS SOLDIERS.

TARGETS ATTACKED BY THE REBELS INCLUDED THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPOUND AND THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

NIGER'S MILITARY GOVERNMENT ALIGNED WITH RUSSIA THANKING RUSSIAN SOLDIERS STATIONED AT THE AIRPORT FOR ASSISTING SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION...TASS RUSSIA...

RUSSIA'S AMBASSADOR TO NIGER SPEAKING OF FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT IN THE COUP ATTEMPT...(TASS RUSSIA)



750 killed including 16 in Tibet, nearly 2,500 missing in the Nepal flood disaster.   Rescue, recovery and relief efforts continue...SKY NEWS UK BLOG



In Western Australia this weekend an historic win for the nationalist "One Nation" Party led nationally by Senator Pauline Hanson.   


One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen winning a seat for the state legislature in suburban Perth.


That seat traditionally a stronghold of the governing Labour Party...ABC News Australia



Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning 'criminal acts of violence' by nationalist settlers who attacked two Palestinian villages.


He said their conduct does not reflect the vast majority of law-abiding settlers.


Among those attacked journalists working for NBC News from the United States...Times of Israel...OSINTdefender "X"





A FEDERAL JUDGE IN CALIFORNIA RULING THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SINGLED OUT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WHO CRITICIZED ISRAEL FOR DEPORTATION.


IN HIS DECISION JUDGE NOEL WISE FOUND THAT USING EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAW AGAINST STUDENTS INVOLVED IN PRO-PALESTINIAN ACTIVISM AND CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS A VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.


THOSE STUDENTS WERE SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION OF THEIR VISAS AND DEPORTATION...THE HILL USA...



MEANWHILE A BRITISH 'FAR RIGHT ACTIVIST' WHO HAS BEEN CRITICAL OF ISRAEL DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES


MILO YIANNOPOULOS WAS DETAINED JUST DAYS AGO FOR OVERSTAYING HIS VISA...CNN



In North Korea a new defense minister appointed.   The chief of the North Korean army's political bureau Kim Song-gi replacing No Kwang-chol.


Mr. No moved to a position in the Munitions Industry Department of North Korea's ruling party.


The shakeup linked to notions of North Korea modernizing its military and tightening discipline in its military ranks...Yonhap News Agency South Korea



A LAWSUIT FILED BY MUSIC COPYRIGHT HOLDERS SONY AND WARNER AGAINST ANTHROPIC.


THE AI FIRM ACCUSED OF 'ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST BLATANT ONGOING THEFTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN HISTORY'.



ANTHROPIC SAID TO HAVE ILLEGALLY COPIED COPYRIGHTED MUSICAL WORKS.   



SONY AND WARNER SEEKING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGES FOR EACH WORK USED...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)

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