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🇸🇩⚡- A Sudanese Su-25 fighter jet crashed in the Kordofan region of central Sudan. Cause unknown.

🇮🇷🇰🇼🇦🇪⚡- Iran's IRGC says it attacked military facilities in Kuwait and the UAE earlier this morning.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it will shut Germany's Goethe-Institut houses in St Petersburg, Moscow, and Yekaterinburg in response to Germany's closure of Russia's Consulate in Bonn and Berlin's Russian House

🇩🇪⚡- German authorities arrest two Bulgarian nationals following an incident where incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site just outside the the Munich headquarters of defence technology company Rohde & Schwarz. One device caused a fire but was put out quickly. No damage or casualties reported.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces are attempting to advance west of al-Kudnah and al-Maqbanah in the Shar'ab heights axis, Hays direction, southwest Yemen. Heavy clashes have been ongoing for two hours, with major reinforcements arriving on both sides.

September 21

🇺🇸⚡️- One person has been killed and five injured, including two police officers, in a mass shooting in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

🇺🇸🌎⚡️- “On Sept. 2, at the direction of SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, and in coordination and collaboration with the Government of Ecuador, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM) successfully interdicted a vessel operating as a floating refueling station in support of illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in international waters of the Eastern Pacific. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was operating in support of the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization. U.S. Marines and Sailors, launched from USS San Antonio (LPD 17), interdicted, boarded, searched, and cleared the vessel without incident. Individuals removed from the vessel were safely transferred to Ecuadorian Authorities. Once cleared, U.S. forces sank the vessel.” - U.S. Southern Command.

🇲🇱⚡- JNIM ambushed another Malian military, FAMa, convoy earlier today along route RN6, southwest of Segou. The FAMa convoy were escorting fuel tankers. FAMa casualties reported, and the entire fuel tanker convoy was destroyed, with several set on fire.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah ballistic missile launches from the Ta'izz and 'Ibb areas of Yemen.

🇲🇱⚡- A Malian Armed Forces, FAMa, convoy was ambushed by JNIM just outside the capital Bamako. Heavy casualties reported, with clashes ongoing.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️- According to the text of the new U.S.–Saudi nuclear agreement, Saudi Arabia will have a pathway to enrich uranium up to 20% on its own territory. Without strict controls, enriching up to 20% could give Saudi Arabia the ability to divert nuclear material to military purposes. The agreement is currently under congressional review. Read the full text of the agreement.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- According to local outlets and online trackers, dozens of flights headed to Moscow are being delayed or rerouted.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukrainian President Zelensky: We have received information that the first airlines have begun refusing to operate flights to Russian airports after our announcement about the drone threat in the skies of Russia. This is the correct and entirely logical response to the existing facts, to everything caused by the war that Putin does not want to end.

🇺🇸⚡️- According to authorities, 56-year-old Dawn Light was following, photographing and harassing jurors. She faces up to 20 years in jail for committing the felony of jury intimidation.

🇺🇸⚡️- A woman has been arrested outside the courthouse where the Lindsay Clancy trial is taking place and has been charged with aggravated intimidation of a jury after videos of jurors were found on her phone.

🇺🇸⚡️- The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has informed the judge it has not been able to reach a unanimous verdict, again.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡️- Russia has seemingly increased its military support to the Malian junta in August. At least three back-and-forth flights between Moscow and Bamako have been registered on public flight trackers. The plane used for those trips, an Ilyushin Il-76TD, belongs to the Ministry for Emergency Situations and very likely doesn't only contain humanitarian supplies. Earlier this year in February, Russia sent undeclared military supplies alongside humanitarian cargo to Madagascar. The current third return flight, SUM76362, has re-entered Russian airspace a few hours ago.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran’s rial has fallen to a record low of more than 2.2 million rials per U.S. dollar, losing roughly 60% of its value since March. Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Tuesday that Iran still has sufficient foreign currency reserves despite U.S. sanctions and is prepared to inject up to $2 billion into the foreign exchange market to stabilize recent volatility.

🇺🇸⚡️- A 2 year old child was killed by their mother, who was found attempting self harm, in Frankfurt, Illinois, in an apparent Lindsey Clancy copycat killing, per NBC.