🇺🇸❌🇻🇪❗️ — NEW: U.S. officials say the Trump administration has identified potential airstrike targets in Venezuela, including military sites linked to drug trafficking, according to The Wall Street Journal.

➡️ The strikes, if approved, would aim to pressure President Nicolás Maduro to step down.

➡️ While no decision has been made on ground operations, officials said any air campaign would target facilities tied to both drug networks and Maduro’s regime.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Video shows two consecutive Ukrainian drone strikes on the Vladimirskaya substation in Russia's Vladimir region.

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🇺🇸🪖⚡️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has dismissed Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus, the Navy’s top research chief, replacing him with 33-year-old former DOGE executive Rachel Riley, who has no prior military background.

➡️ Lt. Gen. Joe McGee, a three-star Army general, was also removed following reported disputes with Hegseth.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Several senior Trump administration officials, including Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and Pete Hegseth, have relocated to secure housing on U.S. military bases amid escalating protests and threats of political violence, according to The Atlantic.

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🇺🇸🪖❗️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will announce a sweeping reform of U.S. arms sales on November 7, transferring the Defense Security Cooperation Agency from the Pentagon’s policy branch to its acquisition division to accelerate foreign military sales and weapons production, according to Politico.

➡️ The restructuring is intended to reduce bureaucracy, increase exports, and better synchronize U.S. defense output with allied demand amid ongoing global munitions shortages.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The U.S. cancelled the planned Trump–Putin summit in Budapest after Russia issued a memo demanding Ukrainian territorial concessions, military restrictions, and a NATO membership ban, according to the Financial Times.

➡️ The "tense" phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as reported earlier, led President Trump to conclude that Moscow was not genuinely interested in negotiations.

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🇸🇾⚡️ — NEW: Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a sharp warning to officials against corruption and self-enrichment — his first major rebuke since ousting Bashar al-Assad 10 months ago, according to Reuters.

➡️ At an August 30 meeting in Idlib, Sharaa reportedly mocked senior officials for their wealth, saying, “I didn’t know government salaries were this high!” and “Have you forgotten you are sons of the revolution?" demanding that civil servants driving luxury vehicles surrender their keys or face corruption investigations.

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🇸🇾⚡️ — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered the closure of his brother Jamal’s Damascus office following accusations that he leveraged family connections for business deals, according to Reuters.

➡️ Sharaa then convened relatives, including his father, to warn them not to use the family’s name or influence for personal benefit.

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🇨🇳🇨🇦⚡️ — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier today on the sidelines of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russia has started deploying new 9M729 “Novator” cruise missiles in Ukraine, according to Reuters.

➡️ One missile reportedly flew 1,200 km before striking a target on August 5.

➡️ Ukrainian officials claim Russia has launched 23 of these missiles since August 2025, though no physical evidence has been presented.

➡️ The 9M729, a land-based variant of the Kalibr, has an estimated 2,000 km range and a 500 kg warhead, the same missile type that prompted the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty in 2019.

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🇱🇧🇱🇧⚡️ — Hezbollah is rebuilding its arsenal with rockets, anti-tank missiles, and artillery in violation of its cease-fire with Israel, according to Israeli and Arab intelligence sources, cited by WSJ.

➡️ The weapons are smuggled into Lebanon via Syria and seaports, while Hezbollah is also producing some domestically.

➡️ Israel is growing frustrated and has warned it may act unilaterally if Lebanon fails to rein in the group.

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