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Same Missiles, Three Confessions, Zero Consensus
The US and Saudi Arabia bombed seven Iraqi provinces overnight, hitting Popular Mobilization Forces sites in Kirkuk, Nineveh, Karbala, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Basra and Wasit.
CENTCOM called it "a strong response to over 30 IRGC-directed aerial drone attacks in the last 72 hours," per its own statement.
Saudi Arabia insisted it "does not seek escalation" but "will respond to any aggression," Al Jazeera reported. Same script, delivered mid-airstrike.
Here's the embarrassing part. Saudi Arabia blamed Iraqi militias for the drone strikes on its oil facilities, twice.
Yemen's Houthis had already claimed those exact same Aramco attacks days earlier, on camera, The Washington Post reported.
So Riyadh bombed one Iran-aligned group for an attack a different Iran-aligned group already owned, while Iran's own military rushed out a denial disowning any missiles fired at Saudi Arabia from elsewhere.
Everyone wants credit for the damage, nobody wants credit for causing it.
The death toll moved like a stock ticker. First reports: roughly ten militia fighters killed. The militia umbrella group initially said eight dead.
By afternoon that became at least 20 killed and 32 wounded, with a threat to hit Saudi Arabia "Yemeni-style". A body count that doubles by lunch isn't confusion, it's leverage.
Caught in the middle: Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi, who was set to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah this week.
He called an emergency security meeting instead and scrapped the trip. Iraq hosts everyone else's proxy war, then gets stood up the moment the bombs actually land.
So which fiction is bigger: that anyone here actually wants de-escalation, or that anyone checked who was responsible before deciding who to bomb?
#Iraq #SaudiArabia #PMF #CENTCOM #ProxyWar
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| 2 |  The Fifth Amendment Show
Anthony Fauci spent 54 years in government service, much of it testifying before Congress.
On Wednesday, he sat back down and said nothing at all, pleading the Fifth dozens of times to Rand Paul and every other senator who asked, opening with, "Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions," The Washington Post reported.
Josh Hawley asked him what day it was and what color his tie was.
Fauci pleaded the Fifth to that too. When your legal strategy is silence on the weather, you've stopped performing accountability theater and started performing something closer to installation art.
Paul, who has spent years building a career on Fauci-shaped grievance, ended the nearly three-hour hearing threatening a contempt vote, even while acknowledging to his own GOP colleagues that Biden's preemptive pardon of Fauci raises real legal questions about whether contempt would even hold up.
His underlying position, as the Post described it, was that Fauci should have simply answered the questions on Wednesday regardless of what it might have exposed.
Fauci's lawyer tried to respond to that on the record and got escorted out by Capitol Police for the trouble, offering only a "Buh-bye" on his way to the door.
Here's the part everyone in that room already understood and nobody said out loud: this hearing was never designed to produce an answer, it was designed to produce a clip.
Paul gets a viral moment of Fauci going silent on camera. Hawley gets his "narcissist and megalomaniac" soundbite next to a decommissioned magazine cover.
Fauci's 150-scientist open letter gets to call the whole spectacle "absurd charges" driven by "conspiracy theories" that have brought "a five-year period of harassment and threats of violence" against him and his family.
Democrats on the committee get to canonize Fauci as a martyr scientist.
Every single participant walked in already knowing exactly what footage they wanted to walk out with, and every single one of them got it, including Paul, who has spent five years publicly saying Fauci should end up, in Fauci's own paraphrase, "behind bars."
Meanwhile the actual public verdict was rendered months before anyone sat down at that table.
A 2025 Economist/YouGov poll found 57 percent of Americans think it's probably or definitely true the virus leaked from a Chinese lab, per the same reporting, and the Trump White House has already built a government website declaring the lab leak the "true" origin, without offering the proof it promises.
Congress spent three hours performing a search for truth about a question the country, and apparently the executive branch, already stopped debating.
So who exactly was this hearing for: the senators asking questions, the one witness answering none of them, or the millions of people who'd already made up their minds before the gavel came down?
#Fauci #RandPaul #CovidOrigins #Congress #LabLeak
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| 3 |  The Emergency Nobody Actually Declared
Bordeaux went orange this week.
Not metaphor-orange, actual sky-the-color-of-a-safety-vest orange, thick enough that an 89-year-old retired engineer who survived the tail end of World War II looked at the ash falling on his town and said,
"We've never seen anything like it".
More than 300,000 people have been driven out of their homes in France and Spain, the largest peacetime evacuations either country has ever recorded, while a social worker fleeing her suburb near Bordeaux reached past her own government's press briefings for the only comparison that felt adequate: "It was like Pompeii."
Europe's leaders, to their credit, did not undersell the moment. Emmanuel Macron called it "the most difficult" situation "since World War II" and promised to replant the burned pine forests of Gironde with trees better suited to the climate that just torched them.
Pedro Sánchez declared a full "climate emergency" and vowed a national pact to "attack the root of the problem in a structural way."
Big, solemn, historically weighted language, the kind usually reserved for wars and pandemics, deployed here for a heat wave that scientists say is not even close to the worst version of this Europe should expect.
Here's the part that didn't make the press conference: this same month, the European Union proposed loosening its own emissions rules, letting industries pollute at slightly higher levels for slightly longer.
Potsdam Institute director Johan Rockström put it plainly:
"We have Ursula von der Leyen struggling to maintain the current commitment. What's happening in France and Spain means that we should increase our ambition level, not reduce it."
So the villages are burning, the Louvre is closing early, and the policy response is to quietly give polluters more room, not less.
Rockström's other line was the one that should actually keep people up at night:
"2026 is just the beginning. It will inevitably get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I'm afraid, we'll be passing the limits of adaptation."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the man who might decide how hard the rest of the planet keeps burning has already rendered his verdict: climate change is a "con job."
Two continents, two press conferences, two entirely different vocabularies, and the exact same distance between what's being said and what's actually being done about it.
One side performs grief in Churchillian terms while trimming the regulations that might have mattered.
The other skips the performance and just calls the whole thing fake. Neither approach involves anyone giving anything up.
Swiss climatologist Sonia Seneviratne offered the closest thing to an honest assessment anyone in this story managed:
"With this heat wave and these fires, you can say it starts to become unbearable."
Unbearable, and yet somehow still negotiable. France has logged 53 heat waves since 1947, more than half of them in just the last fifteen years, and the national forecast for 2050 includes heat waves five times more frequent and temperatures near 118 degrees Fahrenheit.
So which government actually plans to be around, in office, explaining itself, when that bill comes due, and which one is just hoping the next election happens to land during a cooler summer?
#Europe #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #Bordeaux #EUpolitics
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| 4 |  Six Nights of Silence, One Salvo, and a Denial in Real Time
The ceasefire lasted almost a week. Then Tuesday evening, Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired a barrage of ballistic missiles from Lorestan province toward Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti Air Base and the regional headquarters of U.S. Central Command, the first Iranian strike on an American position since President Trump paused the bombing campaign to give diplomacy a shot, Al Jazeera reported.
CENTCOM said the missiles were launched "in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East" and that "all Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted," per its own statement.
Jordan's army separately confirmed it intercepted five missiles over its own territory that morning, according to The Hindu.
Tehran, naturally, framed the same event as righteous payback, with the Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force saying it struck the air base and CENTCOM headquarters in retaliation for what it called the "aggressive actions" of the American military, IRNA reported via The Hindu.
Iranian state media, meanwhile, offered its own footnote: an "enemy missile" reportedly landed in an unpopulated stretch of West Azerbaijan province near Piranshahr, no casualties, nothing to see here, Fars News told Xinhua. Everyone launched something. Nobody got hurt.
Both governments still managed to declare a kind of victory by dinnertime.
Asked for comment, Trump did not reach for diplomatic language.
"We're going to beat the f------ s--- out of them," he told Fox News, adding, "We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating," the network reported.
This is the same president who spent Friday through Tuesday selling a pause as proof his maximum-pressure strategy was finally working.
It took one salvo of missiles that hurt nobody to knock the diplomacy talking points clean off the table.
What actually happened here is a five-day intermission in a war neither side has the appetite to end and neither side can afford to admit it started for nothing.
Iran gets to claim it punished American aggression without losing a single soldier or a single missile that mattered.
Washington gets to claim total defensive success while quietly signaling the bombing campaign is back on.
Jordan, again, absorbs the actual shrapnel, the actual sirens, and none of the actual leverage.
Two governments fired weapons at each other and both walked away insisting they'd won something.
If a war can restart, pause, and restart again without anyone changing position by an inch, what exactly is anyone still fighting to prove, and to which audience back home?
#Iran #Jordan #CENTCOM #IRGC #Trump
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| 5 |  The US Military: Iranian Missile Has Been Knocked Down 🚀
The US military said it knocked down an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi Arabia forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days.
The strikes on Wednesday killed at least 20 members of a former paramilitary alliance that includes pro-Iran groups.
In what Washington cast as “an attempted surprise attack” by Tehran, Iran had launched multiple ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East, shattering a brief pause in fighting. Iran’s target was a US base in Jordan, Axios cited a US official as saying.
US Central Command (Centcom) said all Iranian missiles launched on Tuesday were intercepted, and the US warned any further attacks on American troops or Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure would trigger retaliatory strikes.
The joint US-Saudi strikes on targets in Iraq killed at least 20 members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces and wounded others.
The PMF is an Iraqi state security service that Iran has infiltrated.
In a further sign that the lull in fighting could be over, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed on Wednesday to have struck and halted three “violating” oil tankers sailing an “illegal” route in the strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported. The price of Brent crude oil rose after news of the flare-up, hovering around $88 a barrel.
Both sides had held fire over the weekend, after nearly two weeks of nightly strikes by the US on Iran, and repeated missile and drone salvoes by Tehran targeting Washington’s allies around the Gulf.
Oil prices had plummeted after the weekend lull and Trump said there was a “good chance” of progress in negotiations to end the war.
The US and Saudi warplanes carried out strikes on Iran-backed militants in Iraq after accusing them of launching drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities in recent days.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, ordered security agencies to investigate the alleged attacks by militant groups, saying his country was committed to “preventing Iraqi territory from being used as a route or launching point for any attack targeting brotherly or friendly countries.”
The Iraqi militias have denied any role in the drone attacks. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed groups, called the Saudi claims “fabrications” and implied that Monday’s attacks were carried out by the Houthis, who had themselves claimed to have attacked Saudi oil facilities.
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen claimed to have forced a Saudi oil tanker to turn around as part of their self-styled blockade.
Last week, they announced a blockade of Saudi shipping, putting another key Middle Eastern waterway – through the Bab el-Mandeb strait leading to the Red Sea – at risk.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said a tanker reported hearing explosions while travelling in the southern Red Sea. It did not name the tanker but said the crew and vessel were safe.
The Houthis also fired on at least one Saudi tanker in the Red Sea last week.
Iran’s surprise attack came as Netanyahu visited Washington. Israel has been notably absent from the recent fighting with Iran.
Netanyahu said he had an “excellent” meeting with Trump at the White House, their first sit-down since launching the war, which offered Netanyahu a chance to smooth out strains in their relationship.
The closed-door meeting lasted nearly an hour and a half and was “positive and productive”, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said.
It comes as both leaders face growing pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for re-election and is embattled in part because of his deteriorating relationship with Trump.
Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war that has wreaked economic havoc and driven prices higher ahead of midterm elections this November.
#trump #netanyahu #iran #missile
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| 6 |  #crook #veteran #diplomacy #russia #war
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| 7 |  😊😊😊😊😊
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said during a news conference on Tuesday that the government has belatedly managed to pay designated shops in the coupons scheme. But stores have not received the money because several major banks remain disrupted more than a month after authorities said they faced major cyberattacks.
She also highlighted infrastructure damage inflicted by the US during the latest round of bombing this month, saying 12 bridges and two tunnels were struck and parts of Iran’s natural gas production and electricity generation capacity were lost.
Mohajerani said it was a “valuable achievement” showing government resolve that manufacturing industries are set to have two days of blackouts per week, instead of the previously projected three days.
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, a professor of the Economics of the Middle East at Germany’s Philipps-Universitat Marburg, said “endemic corruption” that reduces productivity, weakens institutions and rewards political connections rather than efficiency is the most serious internal threat to the Iranian economy.
Oil incomes have allowed the government to conceal some of the deficiencies and postpone consequences. But they have also encouraged rent-seeking and overdependence on the state, which has weakened the private sector and reduced incentives for innovation and long-term investment, he told Al Jazeera.
“Households reduce consumption, firms postpone investment and educated workers consider emigration. The economy continues to function, but at the cost of a shrinking middle class, lower capital formation, weaker public services and declining confidence in the future,”
said Farzanegan.
Khodaeian also said there are more than 20,000 exporters who have to repatriate 94 nearly $107bn in export yields to the country by law, but have failed to do so.
They include 225 unnamed individuals with more than $57m in foreign currency commitments each.
Iranians get poorer Kahalzadeh, the welfare economist, said prolonged sanctions have completely reshaped Iran’s socioeconomic pyramid.
“In 2011, the middle class made up the majority of the population. Today, it has become a minority. At the same time, people who were once a minority, the poor and those vulnerable to poverty, now account for roughly 70 percent of the population,”
he said, adding that this trend will continue.
“Even if inflation later comes down or economic growth returns, the damage will not disappear quickly. Once families lose their savings, assets, health, educational opportunities and sense of middle-class security, rebuilding them takes many years,”
said Kahalzadeh.
Iran and the US continue to communicate messages through mediators, and have largely suspended military action, but the conflict has now spread to the Red Sea and the Caspian Sea while tensions remain high in the Strait of Hormuz.
“Even if the political system survives, the economy may remain chronically sick,”
he said,
adding that economic relations with China, Russia and neighbouring countries may provide temporary breathing space but cannot fully replace international ties,”
said Farzanegan.
“The most important economic policy is therefore the reduction of geopolitical risk through diplomacy. Without a stable environment, the Iranian economy may continue to survive, but it will have little chance of genuine recovery.”
#iran #war #collapse #economy #farzanegan
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| 8 | Why Has Iran’s Economy Not Collapsed Under US War Pressure ?
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Millions of people across Iran are struggling for livelihood and survival, but the country’s embattled economy is still far from a state of collapse despite five months of war with the United States.
The vast and resource-rich country of more than 92 million people has developed a relatively diversified domestic economy for a major oil exporter, as the authorities over decades leaned on self-sufficiency in the face of harsh economic embargoes and confrontation with the US, Israel and the West.
Water-intensive agriculture, manufacturing and services have reduced total reliance on oil, while shadowy oil transfers, cross-border trade, maritime networks and a large informal labour market have helped keep the economy resilient.
Still, the population has paid a huge price by having to absorb much of the strain. More than a decade of all-encompassing sanctions, as well as two wars since June last year, nationwide protests during which thousands were killed and several state-imposed internet shutdowns in the past year, have only made it more difficult to earn a living wage and have a future outlook.
‘An expensive way to survive’
Welfare economist Hadi Kahalzadeh said he defines collapse as famine and the state losing the ability to pay its employees and deliver basic services. In that sense, the economy has not collapsed.
“And I don’t think the combination of war, blockade and sanctions, as painful as it’s been, gets us there anytime soon,”
a resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and research fellow at Brandeis said to NYT.
“That keeps the system functioning, but it dumps the cost directly onto households,”
he said.
“Then the state tries to soften that with cash transfers and subsidies. It’s an expensive way to survive, but it does avoid collapse.”
The monthly minimum wage is less than $100 and the government offers a monthly cash subsidy and electronic coupons for essential goods, amounting to a few more dollars.
#iran #war #collapse #economy #farzanegan
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| 9 |  A Drastic Earthquake Has Shaken South Japan. Numerous Causelties 🇯🇵🏚
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken south Japan, leaving at least 50 people injured, with some trapped and presumed dead inside a partly collapsed shopping mall.
The earthquake hit the Kumamoto prefecture on the southern Kyushu island late on Tuesday afternoon, knocking out power to thousands of homes and damaging roads, bridges and buildings.
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, told reporters authorities were still assessing the extent of the damage in the area, which was devastated by another deadly quake a decade ago.
“We have already been informed that people have been injured. Power outages and fires have occurred in some areas, and there has also been damage to roads and bridges and the collapse of buildings,”
Takaichi said.
“I ask everyone to take action to protect themselves, including evacuating to a safe location.”
About 300,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation centres, the disaster management agency said. The areas with the biggest tremors will remain at risk of further strong quakes and landslides for about a week since the shallow earthquake is triggering active seismic activity in the area, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
So far there have been more than 60 aftershocks ranging in magnitude from 1 to 4, the agency said. A tsunami warning was issued immediately after the quake, but was lifted within two hours.
One person was killed when a house collapsed during the powerful earthquake in south-western Japan on Tuesday, Kyodo News reported.
One hospital reported more than 50 injuries, and another about 40, including 10 in a serious condition, the public broadcaster NHK said. Several people on a high-speed train at the time of the quake were also injured and multiple people were unaccounted for after a chimney collapsed at a Nippon Paper Industries factory, according to local media reports.
An Aeon spokesperson said customers and employees were evacuated after the initial quake and the cause of the ensuing explosion remained unclear. Footage showed one side of the mall, the prefecture’s largest with roughly 200 stores, was torn away, exposing steel beams and strewing debris across the neighbouring car park. Several ambulances and fire engines were parked outside as rescue teams searched for survivors.
Kazuya Tsurunaga told TBS he heard the explosion while cleaning up dishes broken by the earthquake inside a pub about 300 metres from the Aeon mall.
The quake’s epicentre was about 12 miles south of Kumamoto, central Kyushu island’s largest city, with a population of about 700,000. The US Geological Survey initially said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1, but revised it later to 7.8.
Japan, which is located along the “ring of fire” of volcanoes and oceanic trenches in the Pacific basin, is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, with a tremor occurring at least every five minutes. The country accounts for about 20% of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more.
A massive earthquake in Kumamoto 10 years ago killed 275 people and injured a further 2,739, according to an official count, and damaged thousands of buildings including the city’s castle, a top tourist site. Some of the castle’s stone walls are said to have been damaged in the most recent quake.
Kyushu Electric Power said 48,000 homes had lost power, while railway company JR Kyushu suspended services, including its high-speed bullet trains. Kumamoto airport also shut its runway as airlines diverted and cancelled flights.
#earthquake #south #japan #kumamoto
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| 10 |  The Coalition That Can't Agree on Its Own Boss
Gadi Eisenkot wants Israelis to enjoy their beach vacation in Cyprus. His billboards near Larnaca airport say so directly: "Israelis, enjoy! You deserve it," followed by a second sign on the way home: "Landed? Had fun? Now come back and win!"
A Cypriot MEP is now demanding a ban on foreign election ads, which means Eisenkot has achieved something Netanyahu never managed: uniting Cypriots against Israeli politics.
Back home, the general-turned-candidate has bigger enemies than tourism regulators — namely, his own bloc.
"A reality where a party leader with 8 to 10 seats demands the premiership is not appropriate," Eisenkot said, a line he's repeated for months, most recently aimed squarely at Naftali Bennett.
Translation from campaign-speak: I have more mandates in the polls, so kindly step aside and let the man with the bigger poll number run the country.
Meanwhile, Yashar! just recruited Eliana Sachs, 25, model and social activist from Beer Sheva, who lost her mother and brother to an Iranian missile strike on the city, to run the party's youth wing.
Eisenkot called her "the Israel of today — determined, values-driven, a true blend of action and spirit". Grief, rebranded as campaign strategy, is apparently the fastest-growing sector in Israeli politics this cycle.
And when Ynet's Moran Azoulai pressed him on his own record, Eisenkot didn't dodge — he doubled down: "As chief of staff I said that until the bodies of the fallen are returned, I won't approve bringing in workers from Gaza.
Not one laborer entered from Gaza in all four years I served as chief of staff." A hard line delivered with the confidence of a man who knows exactly how many mandates that kind of sentence is worth in October.
So who's actually running this campaign — the candidate polling ahead of Netanyahu, or the grief, the guilt, and the billboards doing the polling for him?
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| 11 |  ⁉️Property Lines, Drawn After Midnight
The Yellow Line doesn't need a treaty. It just needs a bulldozer and a shift after dark.
Overnight, yellow concrete blocks landed on Salah al-Din Street in Shuja'iyya, near the intersection with Mashtaha Street in the Sanafer area, sealing off the main north-south artery that runs from Gaza City to Rafah.
Palestinian sources reported the barriers going up while residents were asleep — waking up to find their commute annexed.
This is the same corridor the Israeli military has been squeezing for months, moving the same yellow line that already swallowed 64.9 percent of Gaza's territory as of June, up from 53 percent at the ceasefire's start.
Same night, same script, different neighborhood. In Deir al-Balah, the line pushed west again — this time cutting through land where the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom once stood, about two kilometers from the Strip's border and one kilometer east of Salah al-Din.
Field sources have already logged the pattern of 100-to-350-meter westward creeps here, each one quietly bringing more Palestinian homes inside Israeli-held territory without warning or legal grounding under the ceasefire text.
No summit announced this. No spokesman signed anything. A concrete cube just changed address, and with it, so did the map. Call it urban planning, if the planner carries an M4 and works exclusively at night.
The ceasefire calls this line temporary. The bulldozers apparently didn't get the memo — or got a different one.
If a border can move a kilometer without anyone declaring war, was it ever really a border, or just a suggestion with rebar in it?
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Police and prosecutors had asked for help in finding Ballout, but warned the public to avoid “direct contact” with him, saying he may be armed and dangerous.
Police searched an apartment in the Schöneberg district of Berlin near the scene of the attack in the early hours of Sunday, but said they had found no one there.
Describing Ballout as “generous, emotional, loving”, he said his son had lived with his mother, from whom Tawfik is divorced, and two of his three sisters. Ballout attended school until 10th grade, then bounced from job to job, in security or as a driver.
Tawfik described the family as Shia but “not extremely religious” and said it “does not support Islamic State”, an extremist Sunni group.
Police said the vehicle had struck multiple people after being driven into the Tiergarten. Shortly before 10pm the driver of the white minivan swerved into the park, close to where the route of the Pride march had been earlier in the day, hitting people on a path and crashing into a tree.
Bild cited a witness as saying that a man had emerged from the vehicle and fled on foot. A hunt involving helicopters and officers from several German states was under way across the capital on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in Berlin in warm summer sunshine to celebrate the Pride parade. It is known in Germany as Christopher Street Day (CSD), named after the site of the Stonewall Inn in New York City where riots against police raids touched off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. CSD was first held in West Berlin in 1979.
Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, called the deadly assault “an attack on our free and cosmopolitan society”.
The parade on Saturday ran under the motto “taking a stand is hot”, which organisers said was “in response to increasing hostility” to LGBTQ+ people in Germany.
More than 80 floats and 50 groups on foot joined the procession through the city centre past Potsdamer Platz and the Victory Column monument in the Tiergarten, culminating in a rally at the Brandenburg Gate.
Before last year’s parade, Berlin LGBTQ+ organisations sounded the alarm that attacks had become more frequent while hard-won rights were under threat. Campaigners said a rise in hostility had accompanied the surge in support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), now the most popular party in national opinion polls, as well as an increase in Islamist-inspired attacks.
Far-right leaders were also quick to comment on the attacks. The co-leader of the AfD Tino Chrupalla wrote on X: “We declare the war against Islamists. We will not allow religious extremists to divide our country with violence and intolerance!”
The president of the French far-right National Rally, Jordan Bardella, wrote: “The Islamist threat remains a major issue in Europe and continues to target what they hate most about our civilisation – and what we cherish so much – freedom.”
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| 13 | Berlin’s Pride Festival: One Killed, 30 Injured
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A man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival then going on a knife rampage in an Islamist terror attack has been shot dead by police, German officials have said.
Police confirmed on Sunday evening that the chief suspect had been shot dead, reportedly during an operation at an allotment garden complex in the capital’s Spandau district.
One woman was killed on Saturday evening and 30 others were severely injured after a man drove a rented minivan into a crowd of pedestrians, then attacked people with what appeared to be a machete. The attack took place in the Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate at about 10pm local time on Saturday, close to one of Europe’s biggest LGBTQ+ celebrations.
The attack forced organisers to cut short one of Europe’s largest Pride events and came as Germany remained on edge after a series of deadly vehicle and knife attacks.
The German interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout. “We are dealing here with a suspected perpetrator, who had previously drawn attention to himself through a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene,” he told a press conference near the site of the attack.
He said Ballout had a criminal conviction and had been sentenced as a juvenile to a year and 10 months in prison, but that the sentence had been suspended.
German media reported that Ballout, a German national with Lebanese roots, was a supporter of Islamic State and last year travelled to the Middle East in a failed attempt to join the group. He was then convicted in Germany of “preparing a serious act of subversive violence”, the news outlets Bild and Der Spiegel reported.
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| 14 |  The Strait of Zero: Hormuz's Perfect Shutout
Six ships tried to cross Hormuz overnight. Zero made it through. One had "an incident" — Iranian state media's polite word for a mystery blast. Five just turned around.
"Last night, six vessels that attempted to transit through a route other than the designated one were stopped by the IRGC Navy with warning shots and turned back," Iranian state television announced. Translation: Tehran runs the toll booth now. Payment is fear, not cash.
Down in the Red Sea, the Houthis run their own franchise. Spokesman Yahya Saree confirmed strikes on Aramco sites in Jizan and Yanbu.
Consider it a courtesy call before Saudi crude learns it isn't welcome here either.
The numbers back him up. Kpler data cited by Reuters shows just eleven vessels crossed Bab el-Mandeb on Sunday — the lowest count in months.
Fewer than ten ships a day squeezed through Hormuz all weekend. Two chokepoints. One memo: nobody guarantees your barrel gets home.
Greece's Patriot battery earned its paycheck too, shooting down two ballistic missiles aimed at Yanbu's refineries on Saturday. Count it a rare win, if "someone else's air defense saved our oil" qualifies as national security.
Satellite trackers cited by Iranian outlets claim Kuwait's Al-Ahmadi and Saudi's Al-Jubail terminals are running dry. Tankers are vanishing from the docks like nobody wants to be caught holding the barrel when the music stops.
Throw in unconfirmed chatter about a suicide-drone hit on Aramco's Buqayq complex, and you've got a siege nobody declared and everybody enforces.
Iran's press keeps demanding the blockade be broken. Funny, since the only ships not moving are the ones flying flags Tehran doesn't like.
So who's actually choking off the oil — the ayatollahs playing traffic cop, or the tankers too scared to test the theory?
#Hormuz #Houthis #Aramco #OilBlockade #RedSea
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| 15 |  Mikhail Drapaty, Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine :
“Hitler was right (...) Russia has no right to exist”
The new commander-in-chief of Ukraine, Major General Drapaty, said that Russia has “no right to exist” and made derogatory remarks about the inhabitants of the Russian region of Donbass, which Ukraine continues to claim as its own.
On Wednesday, the YouTube documentary channel Ukrainer W published an interview with Drapaty originally recorded in 2023.
Speaking to journalist Karina Pilyugina, the general said that he had long been anticipating a war with Russia.
“We see that you cannot call them neighbors. It is a nation, with its leaders, which has no right to exist. For thousands of years, nothing has changed there in terms of civilization, Hitler was right (...) neither his mentality nor his imperial ambitions,”
he said.
The journalist asked Drapaty why the residents of the largely Russian-speaking Donbass were more likely to help the Russian troops than the residents of the Kiev region.
The general claimed that the Donetsk and Lugansk regions had long been dominated by ”settlers and criminal elements".
“That is why the population there lacks (Ukrainian national) consciousness. That's my opinion. It seems that too little attention has been paid to Ukrainization there”"
he added.
Drapaty went on to state that a significant number of people in the Donbass “do not want to work, want alms and do not care about the country in which they live”.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski condemned the general's comments as а "perfect Nazi".
He stated that the Ukrainian linguistic and cultural laws are aimed at erasing the identity of Russian speakers and listed the treatment of the Ukrainian Russian minority as one of the causes of the ongoing conflict.
Almaty first became known during the 2014 campaign to suppress the revolt of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, which split from Ukraine following the Western-backed coup in Kiev. The regions voted to become part of Russia in September 2022.
Drapaty replaced Aleksandr Syrsky as commander-in-chief this week amid a political crisis triggered by Zelensky's decision to sack Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov.
The decision sparked protests in Kiev and other cities demanding Fedorov's reinstatement and Syrsky's dismissal. Fedorov and Syrsky reportedly clashed over military strategy in the conflict with Russia.
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| 16 |  🧨 Zelenskyy, the “Freeloader in Kyiv,” Meets Iran’s New Lawfare Warrior
Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has discovered his inner human‑rights lawyer — and his favorite insult.
After an alleged Ukrainian strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian, killing one sailor and injuring another, Araghchi rushed to X to brand it a “blatant UN Charter violation” and accuse Kyiv of acting on Israel’s orders to drag Europe deeper into war.
In the same breath, he calls Zelenskyy “the freeloader in Kyiv,” like a guy who’s been living on Western aid so long he’s now a geopolitical Airbnb guest that never checks out.
The message is simple: Iran, which has been firing missiles at US bases and backing attacks on tankers, wants to rebrand itself as the injured party demanding “international justice.”
The aggressor role gets assigned to Zelenskyy — a man who, in Tehran’s framing, is terrified of the war ending and therefore needs to rope in as many extra players as possible: Europe, Israel, now Iran.
Araghchi weaponizes the language of international law — aggression, commercial vessel, Charter violation, accountability — and turns it on Ukraine, while politely erasing Iran’s own record of hitting shipping and bases.
On X and in calls with EU leaders and Lavrov, he sells a neat story: respectable Iran vs. “freeloader in Kyiv,” Israel as puppeteer, Europe as gullible mark.
It’s a perfect snapshot of 2026 diplomacy: everyone is bombing someone, and everyone is suing someone — but only Zelenskyy gets publicly downgraded to a freeloader.
#Iran #Araghchi #Zelenskyy #UNCharter #lawfare #war #fakeDemocracy
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Melinda Person, president of the New York State United Teachers, the parent union of the Salamanca Teachers’ Association, which represents teachers at the high school, told the Guardian that teachers across the state are concerned about the robot program.
“Our members in Salamanca and educators across the state are sounding the alarm that this is really inappropriate,” said Person. “I would say our initial reaction is this is kind of creepy.”
Person said it was “way out of the realm of what we should be doing in our schools”.
“The answer to the challenges in education is not more screens, it’s not more algorithms, not more robots. What we need in our schools right now are more caring adults and more human connection,” she said.
She said teachers were not anti-technology, but rather pro-child, and take positions based on whether something is beneficial for students.
“Putting a lifeless machine in front of students is a bad idea,” she said.
“I would say a machine that the intention of it is to simulate a human relationship with young people who are just learning those skills of how to interact, how to be with their peers, how to solve conflicts, and putting a robot that looks like a human that will lead to the dehumanization of the profession of education, is exactly the wrong thing for us to be doing.”
Alyson Brown, a community health specialist and local resident and Seneca nation member who graduated from Salamanca, said several students have connections to the traumas of Native American boarding schools.
“Many students have connections to relatives who attended the Thomas Indian school located on our Cattaraugus territory. Many native families are viewing this pilot program as history repeating itself,” said Brown.
“I see nothing positive to come from this being introduced in the classroom setting. I worry for the cognitive development of young minds in this exposure.”
A spokesperson for Realbotix did not comment on criticisms from teachers and Native American residents or the call for a pause from the Salamanca Teachers’ Association.
“Realbotix and Salamanca city central school district announced a limited pilot for fall 2026 involving Optio, an AI-powered educational assistant, and one new Realbotix M-Series humanoid unit,” the spokesperson said by email.
“The program is intended to complement, not replace, teachers by giving students supervised access to emerging AI and robotics tools as part of the district’s existing Stem [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] curriculum.
The partnership also gives educators an opportunity to evaluate these technologies in a controlled classroom environment under district oversight.”
The assistant commissioner of public affairs for the New York state department of education, JP O’Hare, said the agency had been in contact with the school district regarding its purchase of a robot “and has raised serious concerns about student privacy, appropriate safeguards, and the risk that the robot could be used to perform functions that should remain the responsibility of trained, qualified professionals.
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| 18 | New York: Will Human Teachers Be Replaced By Robots?
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The humanoid robot is being introduced as part of a pilot program, along with an AI teaching assistant, at Salamanca high school in Salamanca, New York, located on the Allegany territory of the Seneca nation.
Teachers have criticized the program, deeming it “inappropriate” and claiming it dehumanizes the profession with the introduction of human-like robots. Some local Native American residents have also criticized the pilot program, citing its implementation as “culturally tone deaf”.
The robot, named Sally, was purchased by the Cattaraugus county school district – which includes Salamanca high school – for $57,590.
According to a presentation on the program, Sally will be a closed-loop system, but available virtually to students 24/7 for those with access, and offers personalized learning options.
The district will be the first in the US to deploy a humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant, according to a press release by Realbotix.
“The Salamanca pilot also includes deployment of a Realbotix M-Series humanoid robot, which uses natural conversation, facial expressions and real-time interaction to create engaging, hands-on learning experiences,” the press release states.
Realbotix has denied ties to the sex doll company, and denied any inferences that the dolls – manufactured by Abyss Creations, a subsidiary of Realbotix – are related to the pilot program.
“The Salamanca teachers’ union as a whole is concerned about the background of the company of Realbotix. We’re very concerned about the security of the software that they’re implementing, and whether or not the data will be stored, how it will be gathered, are the recording capabilities,” said Lacey Pihlblad, president of Salamanca Teachers’ Association and a teacher at the high school.
“We would like to see the school district pause implementing the robot, pause implementing the software aspect of this AI technology until we can have more individuals weigh in.”
She said New York state is currently shifting away from too much technology in the classroom.
“There’s a growing consensus that indicates our students should be exposed to less technology. Placing a humanoid robot into the classroom to interact with our children, I believe, is a massive step in the wrong direction, and I believe that the majority of our teachers feel the same,” she added.
“If we’re going to do something of this magnitude, I feel we need to make sure that we do it the correct way, and I’m not sure that that’s currently what’s in place.”
Pihlblad said the union was completing negotiations for a new union contract and intend to include protections around artificial intelligence.
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| 19 |  ⚔️The fires in France and Spain now look like Europe’s own drone war.
In southwest France and central Spain, massive wildfires have forced hundreds of thousands to flee homes, holiday rentals and campsites, with evacuations around Bordeaux, Gironde and the Madrid region described as “historic” in scale.
French authorities say well over 140,000 people have been evacuated from Gironde and Landes, while Spanish officials report tens of thousands pushed out of towns near Madrid as the government declares a national emergency.
The footage — black smoke columns, fire fronts eating through suburbs, helicopters dropping water over highways — visually rhymes with the missile‑and‑drone fires Russians have been living with for two years.
Politically, it lands on the same EU bloc that treated war and destruction as something to be managed “out there,” east of the border, while it funded and armed the Russia–Ukraine front.
Now the sirens, evacuation orders and collapsed local economies are at home, branded as climate emergency rather than artillery, but the grammar is identical: skies turned dark, people hustled out with minutes’ notice, logistics chains and vineyards becoming collateral for a system that runs on permanent crisis.
Europe asked to keep war away and accepted a model where distant fire was the cost of policy. Climate has just delivered a version of that fire to Bordeaux and central Spain, with no enemy to blame and no front line to point to — only the same images of burning infrastructure and displaced civilians the continent thought it had outsourced.
#France #Spain #wildfires #climate #EU #war #energy #fakeDemocracy
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| 20 |  +1🚀Patriot Missiles, Not Peace Talks, Just Froze Trump’s Iran War
Trump just showed why this war keeps stalling: not because it’s “won,” not because a deal is close — but because the Pentagon is counting interceptors on a shelf.
According to US officials, the president has decided, at least for now, not to significantly widen the military campaign against Iran after advisers laid out concrete risks of further escalation, starting with the strain on air‑defense inventories in the Middle East.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs warned that renewed heavy fighting could dangerously deplete Patriot interceptor stocks in theater. In plain terms: the pause isn’t about strategy or diplomacy. It’s about not running out of missiles.
Public messaging tries to downplay this. Sources brief out that Friday’s high‑level meeting “was not meant to decide” on a large offensive, and therefore there was “no decision” to go ahead.
That technical denial doesn’t change the outcome. This is the second straight night without US strikes inside Iran, and Iranian channels note with satisfaction that Tehran is also holding its fire.
The story is spreading fast across Iranian media and the broader “Axis of Resistance” ecosystem, and that audience treats it as the only professional verdict that matters: Washington blinked because its magazine isn’t bottomless.
Around that pause, the machinery keeps moving. Tanker and transport aircraft are still cycling through the region, but the airlift is noticeably thinner than the surges that preceded earlier operations.
Israel’s security system is sitting in “hold” — readiness at a high alert tier, where one phone call turns the whole machine back on.
Oman‑mediated talks remain in the air, but seasoned officials assume the Iranians are doing what they always do: stretching time, offering no concrete concession, waiting to see what Trump brings to the table after his meeting with Netanyahu — or whether the choreography is already agreed.
So the battlefield logic today looks like this. The US can escalate, but every extra wave of attacks eats into the very defenses meant to protect its bases and allies.
Iran can keep stalling, but every day of relative quiet lets it test how far American patience and stockpiles go.
Trump says he’s “not finished” with Iran and that “next week gets really bad for them” if they don’t talk. His generals are quietly telling him that “really bad” has a logistics cost.
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