🇩🇪⚡️ — NEW: Several “homemade rockets” struck Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg, near the Polish border, according to Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung.

The facility was struck multiple times, but security forces secured and defused the remaining devices.

Dpa reports that explosive devices were also found at the substation in Turnow-Preilack in Brandenburg, not far from the Jänschwalde power plant.

The suspected aim was to cause a large-scale power outage, although the network operator said there was only a “short-term line interruption.” No one was injured, and electricity supplies remained stable.

🇩🇪⚡️ — The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that a police spokesperson has rejected earlier claims that the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg was targeted by rocket attacks.

An attack reportedly took place, just not with rockets apparently.

German media is currently reporting several different stories. We are waiting for more clarification.

🇾🇪⚔️🏴 The Saudi-backed Yemeni government has announced that it killed Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari, the official spokesman for the ISIS terrorist group, during a security raid in the northern city of Seiyun.

🔹 Early today, as security forces moved in on Seiyun, two explosions rocked Al-Zawiyah square. Locals report that the raid—conducted by the newly formed Force 22 special operations unit, backed by Saudi coalition airstrikes—was directed at an old house in the square believed to be sheltering a high-ranking ISIS operative.

🔹 According to the resigned government's Central Security Organization, the mission was meant to capture Mithaq Thabit Haitham al-Radfani—better known as Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari, the ISIS spokesperson. He was reportedly wounded in the ensuing firefight and later died en route to the hospital. A second occupant of the house was also killed during the operation.

👉 So far, no independent verification of the resigned government's claim has emerged, and ISIS-affiliated media have yet to confirm or deny the report.

✍️ ISIS continues to operate in some occupied parts of Yemen, though its footprint remains clandestine and largely limited to lone-actor activities. The group is significantly weaker than its primary rival, Al-Qaeda, in the region. In areas once under Sana'a government control—particularly Rada'a and parts of Al-Bayda province—ISIS cells were largely eliminated through security crackdowns conducted by Sana'a forces in recent years.

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🇺🇸⛽️ August gas prices set a new record: the national average in August was $4.056/gal, beating 2022's august record ot $3.940/gal, costing Americans $1.35 billion more than August 2022, or $10.51 billion more than August 2025

🔗 Patrick de Haan

💸 A global bond selloff is getting WORSE:

A Bloomberg gauge of global sovereign bond yields rose to 3.72% on Monday, the highest level since 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis, marking its 4th straight session of gains.

UK 10-year gilt yields jumped to 5.21% on Tuesday, the highest since 2008, while Japan’s 10-year JGB yield reached 3.00%, the highest since 1996.

At the same time, the US 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.78%, its highest since January 2025, while 30-year yields touched 5.27%, near their highest since 2007.

Traders are now pricing a ~70% chance of a Fed rate hike this month, while a BOJ hike is seen as nearly certain and an ECB hike is fully priced in for next week.

The Bloomberg global bond gauge is now down -0.9% year-to-date, reversing a +6.8% gain in 2025, with September and October historically the worst 2 months for the index over the past decade, averaging losses of more than -1% each.

Rising yields are now threatening to unwind the AI-fueled rally in equities too, as higher yields raise financing costs and make lofty equity valuations harder to justify.

🔗 Global Markets Investor

🚢 Hormuz crossings fall by half

Strait of Hormuz traffic declined sharply on 31 August, with five confirmed crossings, down 50% from 10 a day earlier. Four vessels entered the Middle East Gulf and one exited, using a mix of Iranian, Omani and negotiated routes. Two crossings involved shadow vessels and one involved a sanctioned vessel.

Bab el Mandeb activity was comparatively stable, with 35 confirmed crossings, up 2.9% day on day. Of these, 19 entered the Red Sea and 16 exited. No dark transits were recorded, while the International Maritime Organization verified no additional attacks.

🔗 Kpler (@Kpler)

💥🇮🇷 Explosions in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. is firing Tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. warships far away from the Iranian coast.

There are also reports of alleged HIMARS launches from Bahrain.

Iran has previously promised a "disproportionate retaliation" if U.S. attacks resume following the strikes on Iranian antiship missile launchers.

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