Date: August 07, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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The Middle East may still be a powder keg but that doesn’t stop fresh news from taking place elsewhere. For example, here are some highlights from the first quarter hour of the broadcast:
–Iran warns its Gulf neighbors of retaliation if the U.S. launches fresh strikes against it.
–Former Vice-President Mike Pence has urged both American and Israeli military forces to finish the job.
–Iran’s Islamic regime has accelerated the execution of protesters in what human rights activists describe as a calculated campaign to terrorize the population and to prevent another nationwide uprising.
–Iranian authorities have executed at least 26 people in cases connected to the January protests as of July 28th.
–Iran is reporting that they are in the final stages of drafting a joint statement on a proposed navigation corridor with Oman through the Strait of Hormuz.
–President Trump insisted Thursday that the U.S. has ample military firepower and that he wants to prosecute leakers who told the media that supplies are running short.
–Germany has delivered the largest submarine built since WWII to the Israeli Navy.
–Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a joint defense agreement.
–Yemen’s Houthis say they launched a missile strike on a Saudi oil tanker amid the Red Sea blockade.
–Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have risen 21% in the first 6 months of 2026 compared to the same period last year.
–Jordan has called an emergency meeting of Muslim foreign ministers regarding the imminent threat of an Israeli takeover of the Temple Mount.
–Russian missile and drone strikes on Kiev and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others overnight on Wednesday.
–The EU will use 1.62 billion dollars accumulated from interest on frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
–The Trump administration has refunded about 100 billion dollars in tariffs collected under President Trump’s “liberation day” trade measures after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administration could not rely on emergency economic powers to impose the duties.
–Polish President Karol Nawrocki and the Polish Constitutional Court have blocked efforts of the EU to impose homosexual marriage and civil unions on the central European power.
Also, there’s news concerning Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Save America Act, birth tourism, the White House launches fraud.gov, the Michigan victory of Abdul El-Sayed, and many more stories.
