⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin meets Witkoff and Kushner for peace talks.

⚡️🇮🇳🇵🇰 NEW - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Pakistan: Back then, there was nothing but disappointment and frustration. Pakistan was out of control. Today, those who spread terrorism are on the back foot. If Pakistan does anything malicious, India’s armed forces enter their home and kill them.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: I ended eight wars; I get no credit for it. Did I get the Nobel Prize? No, although the person who got it was nice enough that she gave it to me. She said, "Nobody in the history of the Nobel Prize deserves it more than you." But in Norway, they don't like me because they think I am a little conservative.

⚡️🇬🇷 NEW - The moment a Greek Air Force F-4 Phantom crashes during an aerial display at Tanagra Air Base.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - The AfD is about to win a German state election for the first time. Saxony-Anhalt votes tomorrow with the far-right party polling at 41–43% — nearly double the CDU's 22–23%. That's a 20-point swing since 2021. Every other party refuses to govern with them, so even if they win, forming a government could be deadlocked for months. If enough small parties miss the 5% threshold, the AfD could reach an absolute majority. The election is the first of three German state votes this month and is being watched as a signal of where the country is heading before the 2029 federal election.

⚡️🧾 INDEPENDENCE - This invoice represents the average daily amount that allows Flash to partially support itself through Nostr. Bitcoin : bc1qtyl79qyetv4085xzc7qdgjdpx9x8g89w28ff8w Monero : 86J6EeTGnC5dchWKWPVUrk9S688EGHSW41hPMtHyfYYBLggpTkVdPSNPjStbx1u5tyfrhjWzWANbUiSBf9x6f15X7PDApae lnbc330u1p4fcvgxpp500f09f4jkjukju34p8k77tq3uaerr4vy24ehnrec87f76v8qqxcscqzyssp53gcp62z4g9wxgc4phjxpcyjlxe5dshrguz2txsgfaqwpqkvkha7q9q7sqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqsqqqqqysgqdqqmqz9gxqyjw5qrzjqwryaup9lh50kkranzgcdnn2fgvx390wgj5jd07rwr3vxeje0glcllar8qy0dnahscqqqqlgqqqqqeqqjqhh3uk9wy7ukmmhw6atmc6v77zerspjjrjqsmlpl68epjxkc0f7jh4qn6kudczx4vtr5688q2nf80ja4fp7htjmmcathh2y5206ja7kqq76hzht

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - EU Spokesperson: We reject any attempt at demographic or territorial changes in the Gaza Strip and support unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority. There should be no forced displacement of Gazans. Gaza is part and parcel of a future Palestinian state.

⚡️🇳🇪🇫🇷 NEW - Niger formally accused "Macron's French regime" of masterminding last week's failed mutiny in Niamey. Mutinous soldiers attacked the presidential palace, an air base, and state TV before being crushed by loyalist forces backed by Russia's Africa Corps. At least three guards were killed, dozens of mutineers arrested. Niger thanked Russia, Algeria, and its Sahel allies for support. France called the accusations "pure fantasies."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Utah is the first U.S. state to specifically target VPNs through an online age-verification law.m, violations can result in fines of up to $2,500 per violation. The new law requires adult websites to verify users’ ages and also makes it illegal to use a VPN to bypass those checks. Major VPN providers, including NordVPN, Surfshark and AdGuard, have said they do not plan to change how their services work.

⚡️📱 TECH - Mozilla is hitting out at Apple over the closed design of iOS, the platform owner decides which privacy tools competing browsers may offer, it says. So they were forced to build ad blocking straight into the iPhone app. Mozilla says Apple's rules left it no choice, because iOS blocks browser extensions. Mozilla is going after Apple over iOS lock-in, more than two years after the EU's Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow rival browser engines, Mozilla says the entitlement's requirements are so detailed that no browser developer has met them.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Five of Israel's six desalination plants shut down after a massive algae bloom clogged intake pipes, cutting a major share of the country's water supply. The bloom originated off Egypt's Nile Delta but experts say untreated sewage from Gaza — roughly 40,000 cubic meters discharged daily after wartime destruction of treatment plants — is feeding the algal growth. Haaretz called it "sewage backfire," arguing Israel is paying the price for destroying Gaza's sanitation system. Israel had to emergency-pump from the Sea of Galilee and aquifers, and halted pipeline water to Gaza during the outage.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸 NEW - Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Moscow for another round of talks.

⚡️🇮🇱🇶🇦 NEW - Netanyahu on the Qatar ties affair: I attacked Qatar — I also bombed it and attacked them during the war, and they attacked me. This whole Qatar thing is one big bluff. Qatar is a hostile state, but Qatar is not a state that dictated anything here.

⚡️🇮🇱🇮🇷 NEW - Netanyahu on Iran: If Iran attacks us, they will absorb such a blow that I do not want to detail it.

⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 NEW - Trump on Putin: I speak to Putin; I know him very well. Putin is not looking to attack NATO territory.

⚡️🚨🇷🇸 NEW - Serbia targeted activists with Pegasus spyware. At least 14 people, including student protesters and opposition figures, were infected. Citizen Lab confirmed one iPhone was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus through an iMessage zero-click exploit. Two NoviSpy infections were also confirmed. One Serbian student's Android phone was confiscated during police questioning. Amnesty International's Security Lab then found a new NoviSpy variant on it, rebuilt specifically to evade detection. Serbia's intelligence office calls the findings "trivial sensationalism." What led to these findings, are Apple's threat notifications, sent on Aug. 13, to users in 110 countries, prompting 12 of the Serbian targets to contact SHARE Foundation. Serbian parliamentary elections are in October.

⚡️🔎 CHART - On-chain analysis of Bitcoin holders currently suggests today "is similar to the 2023 breakout that sent bitcoin from $20k to $125k", Unchained Capital reports. "For the first time since the ATH, short-term holders have positions that are meaningfully in profit"

⚡️💻 NEW - Brave says its latest tests show that its browser can use significantly fewer system resources than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The company tested the four browsers on a Mac mini with an M2 chip and 8GB of RAM, loading 50 popular websites. Each browser was tested 10 times with a fresh profile. According to Brave’s results, it used: -44% less CPU -28% less memory -10% less energy -26% less incoming network traffic -39% less outgoing traffic -Pages loaded around 20% faster Brave says its built-in ad and tracker blocking is a major reason for the difference. The tests also showed Brave using around 1.2GB of memory, compared with 1.75GB for Chrome, 1.62GB for Edge, and 1.65GB for Firefox.

⚡️🇮🇱🇬🇷 NEW - Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis describes Greece as a "strategic partner" of Israel.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Terrorist Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir says he plans to “encourage” Palestinians to leave Gaza first, and then the West Bank as well.