🇺🇸 - President Trump demands that GOP kills the Senate filibuster that allows Democrats to keep the government shut.

🇧🇪 - Netizens mock Belgium en masse, after the nation's defense minister was caught admitting that the country is so small that its air space 'is not sufficient to run test missions for the new F-35 jets that the country received'.

🇪🇺 - EU has a brand new idea - to admit fresh member states for a trial period. They will be limited in membership rights and will face exclusion, if misbehave.

EU rediscovered the concept of colonialism.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 - German government keeps refusing to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles, even though earlier Chancellor Merz promised it.

🇪🇺 - EU's chief diplomat Kaja Kallas announced that Albania, Montenegro, Ukraine, and Moldova all might become EU members by 2030.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - In London, an undisclosed 31yo football agent arrested after he threatened a 20yo Premier League footballer with a gun at a busy street and tried to extort and blackmail him.

However, later police let him go for the duration of the investigation under condition that he won't approach the victim meanwhile.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 - European Commission admitted that inmates in Ukrainian prisons are being subjected to torture.

🇺🇳🇷🇺 - World Aquatics allowed Russian water polo players to compete internationally starting with 2026.

🇿🇦🇷🇺 - The Trump-Putin meeting at the G20 summit in South Africa is impossible, as Putin's chief economic advisor, Maxim Oreshkin, named as head of the Russian delegation to the event. Putin will not come.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - China unhappy that the US released pictures of Chairman Xi smiling from the latest meeting between him and President Trump in South Korea.

Normally, Chinese government attempts not to publish images of their national leader having good time or smiling.

🇬🇧 - David Beckham received knighthood from the King.

🇺🇸🇦🇲 - Tucker Carlson to make series of reports on Armenia and its woke globalist leadership.

🇷🇸🇷🇺 - Russia expressed preference not to have Serbian ammo used by its enemies against Russian troops - after recent statements by the Balkan country's leader about its readiness to sell ammo to the EU.

🇭🇺🇪🇺 - Hungarian foreign minister promised that his country will block Ukraine's attempt to become EU member state even in the probational format.

🇫🇷 - Near the city of Montpellier, an elderly French cyclist missed his turn, fell off a 40m tall cliff, spent few days in the ravine only drinking red wine. Proceeded to be rescued, only got minor injuries.

🇵🇭 - Powerful typhoon caused significant damage to the Philippines.

🇬🇧🇮🇳 - Gopichand Hinduja, the head of Britain’s richest family, has died aged 85.

He and his family topped the latest Sunday Times Rich List with a net worth of £35.3 billion (€40.05 billion).

🇺🇸🇷🇸 - Serbia's parliament began to debate on Tuesday a plan that would fast-track the development of a luxury compound in Belgrade proposed by the investment company of US president Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The Serbian authorities and Mr Kushner's US-based Affinity Global Development signed a 99-year lease deal in May 2024 allowing the company to overhaul two buildings which once housed the headquarters of the Yugoslav People's Army.

🇷🇸 🇷🇺 Vučić: Serbia strives to ensure its ammunition does not end up in Ukraine, but sometimes it happens

"We have 30 thousand people who depend on the sale of ammunition. Currently, it is a good market and we can sell everything we produce. But when we sold, we received two very serious statements from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service against Serbia and personally against me, because they found some shells on the Ukrainian side," he said.

If we were to impose sanctions on Russia tomorrow and recognize the so-called Kosovo, we would be in the EU, but I do not think we should recognize the so-called Kosovo, I do not think we should have imposed sanctions on Russia, Vučić added.

🇺🇸 - The California father accused of killing his infant son and falsely claiming he had been kidnapped was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison.