Cameroon: Protests continue as opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary’s supporters demand recognition of his claimed election victory.

Four people have been reported killed.

Reporter asks Trump about Russia testing a missile with 8,000-mile range.

Trump:

They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores. We don’t need to go 8,000 miles.

Putin ought to end the war — a war that should’ve taken one week is now in its fourth year.

That's what he ought to do instead of testing missiles.

Asked about Steve Bannon’s claim he could run again in 2028, Trump says:

I haven’t really thought about it… I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.

Reporter: You can run as the VP in 2028.

Trump: I would not do that because it is too cute. People would not like that. It would not be right.

Italian Senator Carlo Calenda and American economist Jeffrey Sachs clashed over the 2014 Maidan Revolution on Italian TV:

Sachs: I was there… the U.S. paid protesters $15,000–$20,000 to overthrow Yanukovych.

Calenda: That’s not true. You’re lying. You’re doing Putinist propaganda.

Sachs: You’re calling me a liar?

Calenda: Yes.

Trump arrives in Japan.

He'll meet with new Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi; visit Emperor Naruhito and U.S. Naval Base Yokosuka.

Germany unveiled €377 billion military modernization plan to make the Bundeswehr Europe’s strongest conventional army.

The blueprint lists 320 new projects across land, air, sea, cyber, and space—most led by German firms like Rheinmetall (€88 billion) and Diehl Defence (€17 billion).

Highlights include:
687 Puma vehicles, 561 Skyranger air-defense systems, IRIS-T missiles, new drones, and a €9.5 billion satellite network.

Only 5% of spending goes to U.S. systems (F-35 jets, Tomahawks, P-8s).

Source: Politico

Sudanese humanitarian and ex-MP Siham Hassan Hasaballah was executed by UAE-backed RSF fighters in Al-Fashir, North Darfur.

Hassan was known for organizing food aid under siege and refusing to flee.

China’s PLA shows batch launches of the ASN-301 anti-radiation loitering munition in a training film, the first footage simulating strikes on radar sites.

The drone is a cheap, loitering SEAD weapon meant to “blind” air-defense radars via swarm/attritable tactics.

WATCH: UAE-backed RSF militias are killing civilians fleeing El Fasher.

A circulating video shows militants chasing and shooting at people; one is heard saying, “kill the Nuba” — used there as a call to kill Black civilians.

Zambia and Mozambique announced plans to jointly develop the 1,500-megawatt Mphanda Nkuwa hydroelectric project on the Zambezi River in Mozambique.

Ethiopia's Chief of General Staff Gen. Birhanu Jula vowed Ethiopia would no longer be constrained by its landlocked status:

Two million must not choke 200 million.

We slept for thirty years, now we have awakened and will not sleep again.

We will secure our peace, development, and access to the sea by any means necessary.

Sudan: UAE-backed RSF militiamen filmed themselves mocking a woman they had just killed in Al Fasher, telling her corpse, “get up if you can.”

Sudan: UAE-backed RSF militants continue mass killings in El Fasher.

Somalia: An ISIS-Somalia IED attack near Dhasaan this morning wounded four Puntland soldiers.

Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim, Al Jazeera Mubasher’s El Fasher correspondent, was abducted by UAE-backed RSF militia while trying to flee the besieged city.

He had reported for two years under bombardment, documenting RSF atrocities and famine.

DR Congo: Four children were killed in clashes between M23 rebels and Wazalendo militias in Mbuhi, Masisi.

Mali: JNIM claims to have captured an army checkpoint in Bougoula, Sikasso.

Sudan: New footage shows UAE-backed RSF militants executing civilians in El Fasher.

The UN called for the safe evacuation of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the city’s main army base was seized by UAE-backed RSF militants.

UK PM Keir Starmer will meet with Turkish President Erdogan in Ankara today to finalize a deal for 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets.

Under the plan, Türkiye would get 12 used jets from Qatar and Oman immediately, with 28 new ones delivered later.