🇦🇷✔️🇻🇪 — Argentina recognizes Edmundo González as the undisputed winner of the election in Venezuela; see full statement:

"The Argentine Republic, as previously stated in the official communiqué issued on August 2, unequivocally concludes that the undisputed winner of the presidential election held in Venezuela on July 28 is Edmundo González Urrutia. The Venezuelan people overwhelmingly supported his candidacy, and the popular will must be respected.

Furthermore, the Argentine Republic condemns the filing of criminal charges against the winning presidential candidate and the main opposition leader, as well as the arbitrary detention of key figures from opposition political parties, journalists, and media workers.

The Argentine Republic reiterates its call on the Venezuelan authorities to respect their obligations under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations regarding the immunity and inviolability of official premises. In this regard, it reminds that the Argentine official residence in Caracas has been without electricity for more than a week and once again requests its prompt restoration."

Comunicado sobre el resultado de las elecciones en Venezuela 🖇

🇨🇱❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The president of Argentina, Gabriel Boric, on the results of the elections in Venezuela:

"I have no doubt that the Maduro regime has attempted to commit fraud; moreover, they are committing serious human rights violations. There are principles that must be defended here, regardless of differences."

🏹 🇱🇧 🇮🇱 Israel is suffering from a shortage of ammunition needed to repel an expected major attack from Iran and Hezbollah - Politico

🔶️ TOM KARAKO, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told NatSec Daily that the biggest vulnerability would be that Iran and its proxies “overwhelm a particular defense system at a particular place and a particular time,” given Israel’s depleted stocks.

🔶️ “It’s inventory capacity of Iron Domes. There’s not enough Iron Domes in the world to deal with 100,000 rockets, and that’s not the fault of Iron Dome or any other system. It’s just basic arithmetic,” he said.

📝 Megatron: It appears that Hezbollah has been firing cheap rockets for months and has depleted Israel's stockpile of Iron Dome ammunition.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/08/06/fatigue-and-frustration-could-hinder-israels-attack-response-00172885

📎 Megatron

🇷🇺🤝🇻🇪 Russian Warships arrive in Venezuela

https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1821214036148519127

@FelipeChannel

🇧🇬 ❌ 🏳️‍🌈 — Bulgarian parliament bans LGBTQ+ propaganda in schools

➡️ Bulgaria's parliament passed changes to its education law on Wednesday, August 7, widening its scope to ban LGBTQ+ "propaganda" in schools.

➡️ The amendment to the law – proposed by the country's pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party – passed by a large majority, with 159 votes in favor, 22 against, and 12 abstentions.

➡️ The law now bans the "propaganda, promotion or incitement in any way, directly or indirectly, in the education system of ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or gender identity other than the biological one."

➡️ In 2021, Hungary also passed a similar law, banning LGBTQ+ "promotion" to minors.

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👨‍🚀 🇺🇸 🚀 NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025

🔶️ The agency had insisted for a couple of months that it was confident that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore would return on Starliner.

🔶️ For weeks, NASA has downplayed problems experienced by Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft that took two astronauts to the International Space Station in June. But on Wednesday, NASA officials admitted that the problems with the spacecraft were more serious than first thought, and that the astronauts may not travel home on the Boeing vehicle, after all.

🔶️ The agency is exploring a backup option for the astronauts, Suni Wiliams and Butch Wilmore, to hitch a ride back to Earth on a vehicle built by Boeing’s competitor SpaceX instead. Their stay in orbit, which was to be as short as eight days, may extend into next year.

🔶️ The announcement adds more headaches and embarrassment to a troubled year for Boeing, an aerospace giant that has billions of dollars of federal contracts in defense and space and that builds commercial jets flown around the world. In addition to the substantial woes faced by the company’s civil aviation division, Boeing announced on Thursday that it was writing off $125 million spent on the Starliner program, adding to $1.5 billion of earlier unexpected costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html

https://archive.ph/4lmfu

🇮🇷🕊🇮🇱 — 📰 Politico: Iran might be second-guessing its Israel attack

➡️ Iran may be rethinking launching a multi-pronged attack on Israel, U.S. officials say.

➡️ The Biden administration has in recent days worked through diplomatic channels, bringing in its Middle East allies to lobby Tehran to reconsider moving forward with a military attack on Israel. They’ve warned Iran that a massive strike would only inflame tensions and risk a direct confrontation between the two countries, two senior U.S. officials said.

➡️ The administration has also urged Iran to rethink its reaction to the blast that killed Hamas leader ISMAIL HANIYEH, because his death appears to be the result of a remote-controlled bomb that had been placed in his Tehran guesthouse in a covert operation, rather than as part of a larger attack.

➡️ Now, Tehran is increasingly on board with Washington’s thinking, though it initially denied it, the officials said. Both were granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive intelligence assessments.

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https://archive.is/EYFDm

🇷🇺💣💥 — 🇷🇺Monarchist billionaire and Tsargrad TV founder Konstantin Valerievich Malofeev, which in 2017 was placed on the international wanted list by Ukraine, asked on Telegram for the use of nuclear tactical bombs by the Russian Armed Forces against Ukraine following its military operations in Kursk region:

"HOW MUCH IS IT POSSIBLE?

The war came to the Kursk region. This is no longer shelling or an attack by saboteurs, but a planned army operation to seize strategically important equipment and territory, developed in Kyiv and approved in Washington.

The enemy took control of more than a dozen settlements. On the way to their goals, the Armed Forces of Ukraine spared neither women, nor children, nor doctors, nor shrines. The enemy purposefully attacked the churches of the Gornalsky monastery, Orthodoxy, which from time immemorial had united the Russian world.

The Nazis from the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no chance of success. Russia knows well what it means to defeat the Nazis at Kursk. However, the local success clearly encouraged Kyiv, which means that similar attacks will be repeated. The red line has once again been crossed, the population and infrastructure of the Central Russian regions of Russia are in danger. We do not have the right to abandon our own in trouble.

We can and must deliver a truly powerful retaliatory strike, which will force the West to stop supporting Ukraine and thereby put an end to the Northeast Military District.

Russia's tactical nuclear weapons have waited their time — they should become the weapon of Victory. The military command will determine the specific point of impact, give the civilian population 48 hours and finally end this war.

History completes another circle. 79 years ago, in the August days, the Americans demonstrated their nuclear power over peaceful Japanese cities and thereby ended World War II. Now the demonstration of Russian nuclear power over military and infrastructure facilities should prevent a third world war.‌‌"

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🇺🇦📞🇲🇽— 📰 Al-Arabiya: Ukraine demands Mexico arrest Putin if he attends inauguration of new president
https://x.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1821394929890861205

🇬🇧👮❌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 —📰 British Media, Sky News on Twitter/X:

"The fears of extreme right disorder were abated."

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speaks after 100 anticipated far right protests largely failed to materialise last night.

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)