🇪🇺🗳 Vote of no-confidence against Ursula von der Leyen fails!

360 MEPs voted against the motion, with 175 in favor and 18 abstaining. Out of 720 MEPs, 553 showed up to cast a ballot. The motion would have needed 357 votes to pass.

Despite having the support of her own European People’s Party as well as the Socialists, the liberals of Renew, and the Greens, some MEPs from these groups did not show up to vote.

Gheorghe Piperea, a Romanian lawmaker from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), who brought the motion against von der Leyen, told POLITICO that he expected the motion to fail, but that the exercise was healthy for the EU. He added that he expects the move to “open Pandora’s box” by showing that “it is possible” to challenge the Commission president.

Von der Leyen should brace for “several” more censure efforts, Piperea said.

The EPP disagrees. “The day we return from holidays, we would almost have forgotten about this,” predicted EPP vice-chair Siegfried Mureșan.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-wins-vote-no-confidence-european-parliament/

🇪🇺❌📱 EU to open an investigation into X/Twitter over Grok's recent antisemitic and racist comments

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski wrote in the letter addressed to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen that Grok’s “offensive remarks” and “erratic and full of expletive-laden rants” on social media X could be a “major infringement” of the bloc's content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act.

@CIG_telegram

🇶🇦🇧🇦❗️ — Al Jazeera Balkans, headquartered in Sarajevo, is shutting down after 14 years of operation.

The media was the main supporter of Bosnian Islamists and its integration into the Turkish-MB-Qatar sphere of influence

🔗 The National Independent (@NationalIndNews)

💸📈❗️ — Bitcoin reaches 112,000 USD/coin

🇺🇸📈📝 — US President Donald Trump hails the rise of Tech & Industrial Stocks, as well crypto and NDVIDIA stocks since Trump's "Liberation Day Tariffs"

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian forces continued to advance in the village of Kamyanske, further expanding their bridgehead.

Russian forces advanced on a wide front from the Dnipro River to the eastern part of village. They advanced uphill seizing new positions in the residential areas, at the local school and on the northeastern outskirts. They also advanced further north through the village of Plavni, capturing more of the beachfront houses and the adjacent dachas.

🔗 AMK Mapping

🇺🇸 It has just been revealed that the MASSIVE immigration raid in Camarillo, California is against a MARIJUANA FARM who is suspected of a "massive illegal hiring scheme," per Fox LA

HUNDREDS of workers may have been detained.

🔗 Eric Daugherty

🇨🇳🚢🇯🇵 Two Chinese government ships have entered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture in the East China Sea.

The Japan Coast Guard says the vessels crossed into Japanese waters around Taisho Island within about 10 minutes of each other from around 3:47 a.m. on Wednesday.

The JCG says the vessels tried to approach a Japanese fishing boat that was operating in the area.

The Chinese vessels are equipped with cannons, and were navigating about 19 to 22 kilometers southwest of Taisho Island in a northeasterly direction as of 4 a.m.

Chinese government ships were last confirmed entering Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands on July 3.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250709_08/

🔗 William Yang

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Marco Rubio Holds "Frank" Talks With Russia's Lavrov In Malaysia

The US secretary of state said Lavrov shared new ideas on resolving the conflict which he promised to present to US President Donald Trump, but played down the prospect of a breakthrough.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/marco-rubio-holds-frank-talks-with-russias-lavrov-in-malaysia-8857739

🇺🇸 Protesters in California are now firing weapons at federal law enforcement officers.

🔗 America

🇺🇸❌🇨🇦❗️ — United State President Donald Trump will impose 35 percent tariffs on Canadian products starting August 1, 2025, due to Canada’s “failure to stop the drugs [fentanyl] from pouring into” the U.S.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — In a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Israel's former Defense Minister Yoav Galant says:

“We see everything in Iran.
We hear everything.
We are everywhere...

In more ways than one, we knew more about you than you knew about yourselves.”