Israel bombs southern Lebanon again.

Hezbollah:

We affirm our right to resist the occupation alongside our army and people.

Singapore has passed a new law allowing 6–24 strokes of judicial caning for male scammers and scam-recruiters under 50, a punishment previously used for crimes like rape and drug trafficking.

Somalia: Heavy clashes are reported between Puntland forces and Islamic State militants in the Baaladr Valley area of Bari region.

The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudanese nationals, requiring about 232 people to leave within 60 days or face deportation, despite ongoing conflict and severe hunger in South Sudan.

BREAKING: The US is preparing to establish military presence at an airbase in Damascus.

Source: Reuters

NATO's Rutte:

Until recently, Russia was producing more ammunition than all NATO Allies combined — but not anymore.

NEW: A U.S. watchdog report links UAE Presidential Court secretary general Ahmed Mohamed Al Humairi to a company supplying Colombian mercenaries to Sudan’s RSF militia.

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Ukrainian Special Forces struck a warehouse containing “Shahed” drones and UAV launch sites in Donetsk overnight.

Ukraine is now producing FPV-drone decoys.

They’re built to imitate “waiting” drones along roads, forcing Russian forces to waste real drones to destroy them.

Saudi Arabia’s futuristic mega-project, The Line — a 500-metre-tall, 170km mirrored city meant to house 9m people — has been dramatically scaled back after colliding with engineering limits and soaring costs.

Conceived by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the centrepiece of Neom, the project featured fantastical concepts including a giant suspended “chandelier” building, a floating football stadium, and a deep desert cruise-ship marina.

As planning advanced, architects warned that many elements were physically unworkable or unsafe, and required impossible quantities of steel, concrete, and glass.

Foreign investment failed to appear, timelines slipped, and estimated costs ballooned from $1.6tn to around $4.5tn.

Despite $50bn spent, only early groundwork is complete, including massive piles and excavation.

The planned 20 building “modules” have been cut to about three, making the project widely seen as financially unviable.

Neom insists The Line remains a long-term goal, but insiders say the grand vision has effectively collapsed — undone by physics, cost, and politics.

Source: FT

A satirical video goes viral after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York.

TikTok is now filled with similar videos.

US forces have flown C-130 military transport aircraft to the Damascus-area airbase to test and confirm the runway is usable, as part of US preparations to potentially establish a presence there.

Source: Reuters

After Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral race, far-right Israeli minister Amichai Chikli urged Jewish New Yorkers to leave the city for Israel, calling Mamdani a “Hamas supporter.”

Israel’s Sea Breaker anti-ship cruise missile has entered service with Azerbaijan’s military.

Sea Breaker is precision-guided cruise missile for sea and land targets.

It carries a 113 kg warhead and strikes up to 300 km away.

UK Defence Intelligence estimates 1.14 million Russian casualties since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, including 353,000 in 2025.

Despite slower losses, Russia continues heavy assaults in Donbas, pushing toward Pokrovsk while sustaining significant casualties.

Netanyahu:

The United States has been very clear that the only military forces that will enter Gaza will be those acceptable to Israel.

Israel bombs southern Lebanon.