Chinese SWAT team dominated the UAE SWAT Challenge 2025 in Dubai, beating the U.S. squad.

This year, China sent three teams—Zhejiang SWAT took the championship title, while Anhui SWAT secured bronze.

Google employees react to AI weapons policy shift: “Are we the baddies?”

Google dropped its 2018 pledge against using AI for weapons or surveillance, citing national security.

Some employees reacted with frustration, posting memes and criticism on Memegen, Google’s internal forum.

A top-voted meme showed CEO Sundar Pichai searching: “How to become a weapons contractor?”

Another featured a Nazi soldier asking, “Are we the baddies?” in response to Google’s AI weapons shift.

A Big Bang Theory meme joked: “Oh, that’s why,” referencing Google’s defense ties.

Despite the backlash, only a small group of employees protested, while others supported Google’s closer work with the U.S. government.

Source: Business Insider

Bill Gates:

AI is getting scary and humans won't be needed for most things.

Hundreds of Rwandan troops have been killed in covert operations in eastern DRC, contradicting Rwanda’s claims of non-involvement.

Intelligence and military sources report significant RDF casualties while supporting M23 rebels.

Satellite images of a Kigali (Rwanda) military cemetery show at least 600 new graves since M23’s resurgence.

Officials estimate losses in the thousands, with some RDF soldiers buried in mass graves in DRC.

Families received empty coffins when bodies couldn’t be repatriated.

Kigali’s military hospital expanded, but its mortuary is at full capacity due to the high death toll.

Source: The Guardian

HIMARS strike on a Russian military HQ in the Kursk region.

A King Air F90 small aircraft crashed into vehicles on Marques de Sao Vicente Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil.

The aircraft attempted an emergency landing but crashed into a bus, which caught fire.

At least two deaths have been confirmed.

German Chancellor Scholz:

I completely oppose the resettlement of Gaza residents.

Sanctions against the ICC threaten an institution that is supposed to ensure that tyrants in this world cannot oppress people and start wars.

Troops from the semiautonomous Somali region of Puntland seized territory from Islamic State in a week-long offensive that officials say they hope would attract increased international support.

Somali forces have liberated the Al-Miskaad mountains in the Bari region from IS.

The move targets an increasingly powerful IS group, which last week was targeted by the first airstrikes by the new US administration under President Donald Trump.

Source: Reuters

NEW: Syrian Army announces control over strategic hills near the Lebanese border.

The bodies of 14 South African soldiers killed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived from Goma at the La Corniche One frontier post in Rubavu for repatriation to South Africa today.

Biden and Harris spent nearly $10 million on creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys.

Rep. Nancy Mace slammed the previous administration for cruel and pointless experiments funded by taxpayer money.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas:

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid tomorrow.

Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail.

This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

Taiwan's Ministry of Defence announced today that it has detected six Chinese balloons around the island of Taiwan. At the same time, nine military aircraft, six warships, and two Chinese ships were detected near the island.

Syrian Minister of Finance:

With the current customs tariffs and the removal of taxes and levies, Syrian industry holds strong export potential.

European NATO countries are holding informal talks about deploying troops to Greenland in response to Trump threatening to use US soldiers to seize the island.

Some members even raised the issue of invoking Article 5 against a possible American invasion of a fellow NATO member state.

Source: The Telegraph

A brigade spokesperson within the SDF/YPG/PKK terror group, Mahmoud Habib:

The group does not intend to surrender its weapons to anyone.

New footage of the F90 King Air crash in São Paulo, just 1 minute after takeoff—both pilot and co-pilot died on impact.