🚀 🇨🇳 🚢 China has become the second country in the world with an orbital-class launcher system with first-stage booster recovery through controlled reentry and propelled landing.

After delivering its payload to low Earth orbit, The Long March 10B had its booster landing on a recovery ship in the South China Sea with a net-and-hook system.

📎 Visegrad24

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🇲🇦 - Moroccan economic immigrants behaved in typical fashion after their loss to France in the World Cup.

The immigrants set multiple European cities on fire overnight.

- Video one: Paris, France.
- Video two: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Video three: Two young English females in a vehicle are surrounded by a large pack of Moroccans in London, the UK.
- Video four: Düsseldorf, Germany.

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🇨🇦🇳🇴⚡️ — Canada has awarded Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace an C$800 million ($564 million) contract to supply Joint Strike Missiles (JSMs) for its future fleet of F-35 fighter jets.

➡️ The agreement makes Canada the sixth customer for the air-to-ground cruise missile, joining Norway, Japan, Australia, the U.S., and Germany, which have already ordered or fielded the weapon.

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🇨🇩🦠 — The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 1792, including 625 deaths.

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🇰🇵⚡️ — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered measures to strengthen the country's nuclear forces "quantitatively and qualitatively," while calling for a broader modernization of the military.

The decisions were made during an enlarged meeting of the Workers' Party Central Military Commission on July 9, where Kim said North Korea's security and "true peace" can only be guaranteed by building a powerful military capable of countering all threats.

The meeting approved plans to modernize combat systems, expand nuclear forces, upgrade military bases, enhance the capabilities of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, and accelerate the construction of modern naval bases and improvements to shipyard infrastructure as part of a broader effort to strengthen the navy.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — WATCH: A massive Lego Trump set was set on fire in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, during the funeral procession of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

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🇹🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Turkish President Erdoğan:

I believe that the constructive and productive discussions we held with U.S. President Donald Trump will lead to concrete outcomes that meet our country's expectations in the defense industry, particularly with regard to our national fighter aircraft, KAAN, and the F-35 program.

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📝 Admin looking forward reporting the incoming France civil war tonight following the match.

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🪖🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — Sky News Arabia: If a conflict were to happen between Türkiye and Israel in Syria, for example, does that trigger Article 5?

NATO's Mark Rutte: President Erdoğan is an extremely wise president. He has been there for years in this role, and he will avoid getting into a situation that gets out of hand.

Sky News Arabia: What if Mr. Netanyahu makes a conflict unavoidable?

Mark Rutte: Let's not speculate on what could happen, because in the end let's not forget what happened on October 7, 2023. The terrible attack by Hamas on Israel. It started not with Israel...

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🇺🇦📰🇷🇺 Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, Valery Zaluzhny, warns against buying into the narrative Ukraine is winning because of massive media coverage of disparate strikes on Russian refineries and logistics vehicles

In an article published in the The Telegraph, Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian ambassador to Great Britain, warns against thinking that Ukraine hitting trucks on Russian highways will cause Russia's military position to weaken and sue for peace, Zaluzhny calling it "a dangerous misreading of the war" adding that "it reflects a tendency to interpret events through the lens of individual battlefield successes rather than the wider strategic picture".

He continued:

"Modern warfare no longer rewards tactical victories in the way it once did. Advances in drone technology, precision strike capabilities and surveillance have transformed the battlefield, making decisive breakthroughs extraordinarily difficult for either side.

This is no longer a war of swift manoeuvres. It is a war of attrition.

Every tactical gain now comes at an extraordinary cost. Positions can be taken, but holding them, reinforcing them and evacuating the wounded has become increasingly difficult under constant drone surveillance. Success on the battlefield is measured in metres rather than miles, and often at a price that bears little relation to its strategic value.

The same is true beyond the front line. Ukraine’s increasingly effective strikes against Russian logistics and critical infrastructure have imposed real costs on Moscow. But these attacks are expensive, technologically demanding and ultimately reciprocal. Russia retains the ability to strike back with equal or greater force. Neither side can rely on this form of warfare to produce a decisive strategic outcome".

The ambassador adds that Russia's success rests now on exhausting Ukraine's capacity to defend draining its manpower, its resources, causing shortages of goods and other resources and psychologically trying to break the morale of the Ukrainian people.

Searching for a solution to end the war, Zaluzhny points towards NATO as the only thing capable of defeating Russia through the combined militaries and economies of all its member states. Zaluzhny deplores NATO's "defensive culture" which he calls "stuck in the Cold War" and wants it to become more pro-active than it already is.

🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/08/ukraine-ambassador-do-not-assume-russia-has-lost-war/

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🇩🇪⚡️ — German AfD Leader Alice Weidel to Chancellor Merz and his government:

You are stoking fear of war and using it as a blank check to cast aside the last restraints on borrowing under the pretext of spending for security.

You are driving defense spending to astronomical heights without making Germany any safer as a result.

Instead, you are building a state-directed and state-financed arms industry as a replacement for the real industry that your policies have destroyed.

An arms industry whose products you then give away to Ukraine.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny warned against interpreting Ukraine's high-profile strikes inside Russia as evidence that the war is being won, calling it "a dangerous misreading of the war."

Writing in The Telegraph, Zaluzhny said modern warfare "no longer rewards tactical victories in the way it once did," arguing that the conflict is "a war of attrition" where battlefield gains are measured "in metres rather than miles" and come at an extraordinary cost.

He acknowledged that Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics and infrastructure have imposed real costs on Moscow but stressed they are "expensive, technologically demanding and ultimately reciprocal," adding that "neither side can rely on this form of warfare to produce a decisive strategic outcome."

Zaluzhny said Russia's strategy is focused on exhausting Ukraine's manpower, resources, and morale. He argued that only NATO's combined military and economic strength can ultimately defeat Russia, while criticizing the alliance's "defensive culture" as being "stuck in the Cold War."

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🇮🇱⚡️ — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

I have decided to add another 350 billion shekels to the defense budget over the coming decade. A large portion of that will go to the Air Force.

As part of this effort, we will also build a broad, Israeli-made munitions industry—our own weapons, which will reduce our dependence on procurement from abroad.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Ukraine has redeployed assault forces to Konstantinovka for clearing operations.

The northern and northwestern parts of the city remain in the grey-zone, without Russian consolidation. Both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers hold overlapping and intermingled positions here, with no defined line of contact.

Ukrainian forces likely intend to clear this area from Russian infiltrators and re-establish a corridor into the northern part of the city, and then allow the remaining trapped forces in the eastern suburbs to withdraw. It is too early to say if they have achieved any successes yet.

Meanwhile, Russian forces continue to consolidate in eastern Konstantinovka, and have made new advances southwest of the city near the villages of Dolgaya Balka and Stepanovka. Fighting continues for Molocharka, north of Konstantinovka.

🔗 AMK Mapping

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘I could take out Iran in one day. One hour.’

@Middle_East_Spectator

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🗳 🇪🇺 📵 Hyperdemocratic European Parliament reimposes mass electronic surveillance regulation after a majority votes it down three times

An extension of the European Union’s mass surveillance regulation known as Chat Control 1.0 failed to make it out of the European Parliament twice in March. Unable to summon a clear parliamentary majority, advocates (mostly in the centre-right European People’s Party [EPP]) turned to the European Council, which adopted the failed Chat Control 1.0 renewal on 2 July.

The Council’s position hardens automatically into law unless the European Parliament can summon an absolute majority to stop it. To forestall any such majority from forming, the EPP on Tuesday moved with member state backing for urgent procedure, angling to force their scheme through in the last days before the summer holiday, after many MEP’s had already left. The parliament narrowly approved the urgent procedure, and in consequence there were not enough votes to stop Chat Control 1.0 when it came for a vote today. Hours ago, a majority of 314 MEPs voted to stop Chat Control against the wishes of the Council, while a minority of 276 voted to let it happen. Because 314 is less than the absolute majority of 361, Chat Control 1.0 passed even though most MEPs present didn’t want it to.

It was a sleazy vote, not least because it’s far from clear this procedural manoeuvre was even appropriate in this case. Also, electronic surveillance is bad, but if we are honest with ourselves this battle was already lost.

Chat Control 1.0 was first instated in 2021 as a temporary exemption to the ePrivacy Directive of the EU, allowing messaging services and online platforms to scan chats and other electronic communications for child sexual abuse material. The exemption expired in April, but various platforms have continued their surveillance with no legal basis in the intervening months. Now their formal permission to scan our private communications has been restored and extended through April 2028. We are, in other words, merely returning to the prior regime.

Chat Control 1.0 is a temporary stopgap while the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council try to negotiate their Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, or Chat Control 2.0. As envisioned by the Commission, this permanent law would not merely allow platforms to scan private communications for child sex abuse material, but require them to do so; require additional AI-assisted automated scanning not only for known child pornography but also for such vaguely defined activities as “grooming”; and extend scanning to end-to-end encrypted services like Signal via mandatory monitoring on the client side. This insane proposal has been watered down over the years, in large part because of parliamentary opposition, but it’s coming in some form. We’re getting Chat Control 2.0 before Chat Control 1.0 expires, and Chat Control 2.0 will be at least somewhat worse.

What’s amazing to me about all of this is this man:

His name is Manfred Weber, and he’s a Bavarian politician (CSU) who also happens to be president of the pro-surveillance EPP and leader of the EPP faction in the European Parliament. Weber loves electronic surveillance and he has been the driving force behind Chat Control from the beginning. Naturally, Chat Control is something that Weber would have a lot of trouble imposing in Germany, where surveillance is widely deplored and where our Basic Law guarantees as “inviolable” the so-called Briefgeheimnis – “the privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications.”

From his perch in the European Parliament, however, he has been able to hollow out this core constitutional principle of the Federal Republic from a procedurally rigged vote in Strasbourg, without any domestic debate or anybody in the Bundestag having a single thing to say about it.

This is a very advanced novel form of democracy that we have achieved here in the European Union.

🔗 https://www.eugyppius.com/p/hyperdemocratic-european-parliament

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🇹🇼🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — Taiwan obtained critical intelligence on China’s submarine-launched ballistic missile test this week through its long-range early-warning radar network and intelligence sharing with the U.S., according to Taiwan’s Liberty Times.

➡️ The island's U.S.-built AN/FPS-115 Pave Paws radar detected the missile shortly after it was launched from a nuclear-powered submarine in the South China Sea and tracked its initial flight before sharing the data with the U.S., prompting satellites and other early-warning systems to continue monitoring the launch.

➡️ Taiwan's National Security Council said the missile was a JL-2, although Beijing has not confirmed the missile type.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation into the massive explosion at an ammunition depot in Vyshneve, Kyiv region, that was struck by Russian missiles on July 6, President Zelensky said.

Zelensky confirmed the facility belonged to Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's largest state-owned defense manufacturer, calling it an "absolutely terrible situation." He said the investigation is being conducted by the SBU, the Interior Ministry, and the Prosecutor General's Office, adding that "the guilty people will be held criminally liable."

The president also announced there will "definitely be dismissals at Ukroboronprom" over the incident. While he did not say whether espionage is suspected, he noted that investigators have already gathered evidence supporting a criminal case.

The July 6 strike on Vyshneve triggered massive secondary explosions at the depot, killing nine people, injuring dozens, and damaging nearly 300 homes, including 91 that were completely destroyed.

Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko described it as "the most extensive destruction of the residential sector" since the war began.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. intelligence had detected a steady stream of reporting in recent weeks about possible Iranian plots to assassinate President Trump, but the warning from Israel was new and referred to a more specific plot, according to CNN.

➡️ The details of the reported plot remain unclear, and American intelligence agencies have not independently verified the Israeli information.

➡️ Some U.S. officials suggested the Israeli warning may have been intended to influence Trump's deliberations as he considers whether to intensify U.S. military action against Iran.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran has downed about 30 U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the war, according to ABC News, citing a U.S. official.

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👌 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO

- 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist.
- The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers.
- In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1.
- Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces.

Sensing

- All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor.
- Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking.
- Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time.

Safety and durability

- IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands.
- Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer.
- Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles.

Manufacturing

- Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems.
- Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year.

"An API to the Physical World"

📎 The Humanoid Hub

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🇫🇷❌🇲🇦 Ayyoub Bouaddi (born 2 October 2007) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lille. Born in France, he plays for the Morocco national team.

On 15 May 2026, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation announced that FIFA had approved their request to switch Bouaddi's international allegiance to Morocco. On 26 May, he was named in Morocco's 26-man squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Follow @FelipeChannel

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 3rd round of U.S. airstrikes against Iranian coastal areas has begun.

Explosions heard around the city of Chabahar, Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran.

@CIG_telegram

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 Russia and China jointly search for a solution on how to kill Elon Musk's Starlink

Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development partnership far deeper than either country will admit. From air- and missile-defense systems to AI-enhanced drone capabilities, cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is allowing Russian forces to keep pace with Ukrainian innovations while China gains the opportunity to test its wares under combat conditions. Although the threat of increased Western sanctions continues to place constraints on their “no limits” partnership, Russia and China are moving forward with several joint projects — and former U.S. military officers are concerned about Washington’s will to stop them.

By the fall of 2023, Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet network, had become a primary means of communication on the Ukrainian battlefield. Medics used its terminals to coordinate evacuations, artillery crews to correct their fire, and drone operators to fly in real time. “Starlink is now actually the blood of our entire communications infrastructure,” Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s then-minister of digital transformation and now its defense minister, said that September. As of November, SpaceX had delivered more than 40,000 terminals to Ukraine, and the system had grown so central to the country’s war effort that U.S. officials described it as irreplaceable.

That same month, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, engineers from China’s most important space and defense institutions gathered for a secret meeting. One of the items on their agenda was how to destroy Starlink, a prized possession in Elon Musk’s expansive business empire, which awkwardly straddles a geopolitical divide. SpaceX is the Pentagon’s most important space contractor, responsible for building and carrying U.S. spy satellites into orbit, while the U.S. government-run Starshield, the hard variant of Starlink, ensures resilient military connectivity. Meanwhile, Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, whose largest factory is in Shanghai, is heavily reliant on Chinese state loans and the indulgence of the Chinese Communist Party.

📝Anon: Biden and Trump's aggressive anti-China policies pushed Moscow and Beijing closer rather than dividing them, making them cooperate in fields both were previously reluctant to such as missile defense and anti-satellite weaponry. Colossal failure of U.S. foreign policy.

🔗 https://theins.press/en/inv/294635

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Current situation on visible U.S. Air Force strategic aviation and tankers, as it becomes nighttime in Iran:

➡️ One E-3B Sentry AWACS aircraft airborne near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
➡️ Two tankers conducting refueling maneuvers; one KC-135R Stratotanker in the Persian Gulf and one KC-46A Pegasus near Abu Dhabi, UAE
➡️ Four tankers moving north through GCC airspace
➡️ Three tankers returning to base following earlier USAF missions

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🇩🇪🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️ — Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz:

On the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Ankara, we agreed with the American government that U.S. Tomahawk missiles will be purchased by us and stationed in Germany.

We are closing an important strategic gap in our defense while simultaneously working to develop our own European systems and stationing them in Europe.

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🇩🇪 More than 5,000 people have died in Germany this year due to the heat. Most of them died in late June, Reuters reports.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 How a Twitter post led Ukraine's biggest post courier, Nova Poshta, lose almost all of its Ukrainian warehouses

On October 23rd 2025, a British volunteer boasted about the value of the cargo he is shipping to Ukraine's frontline units and visible next to him were boxes carrying Nova Poshta's logo.

Someone working for the Russian MoD must've seen this tweet and since October 2025 Russia has been systematically targeting Nova Poshta's warehouses across Ukraine.

Just in the last month, Nova Poshta warehouses in Dnipropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Kiev and Chernigov.

@CIG_telegram

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇻🇪 Trump: "As far as China's concerned, China can send their ships to us, China can send their ships to Venezuela... we have a lot of overcapacity, and we'll probably sell [oil] for even less money."

📎 Rapid Response 47

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🇸🇦🛢- The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Energy has announced it has fully restored oil flow through the East-West pipeline after the damage inflicted from the recent war. It is now set to produce upwards of 7 million barrels a day.

@GeoPWatch

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