Nigeria’s Data Protection Commission opened an investigation into Temu over suspected violations of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.

READ MORE

BIG: The U.S. may be closer to war with Iran than most people realize, and it could happen soon if nuclear talks fail.

Trump administration has built up major military forces in the region, including two aircraft carriers, hundreds of jets, and 150+ cargo flights of weapons.

Just in the past 24 hours, another 50 fighter jets — F-35s, F-22s and F-16s — headed to the region.

Officials say this wouldn’t be a small strike, it would look like a weeks-long war, possibly joint with Israel.

One Trump adviser put it bluntly:

The boss is getting fed up… I think there is a 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks.

Israel is reportedly preparing for war “within days,” though some U.S. officials say strikes could still be weeks away.

Source: Axios

READ MORE

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given DRDO a 5-year deadline to develop an indigenous fighter jet engine, amid delays in imported engines for the Tejas:

Assume your 20 years have already ended — now you have only five years left.”

We have to achieve in these five years what other countries take 20 years to do.

Source: The Tribune

Ukraine has paused additional orders of Germany’s HX-2 strike drones after frontline tests revealed launch failures, missing AI features, and vulnerability to electronic warfare.

According to a German military presentation reviewed by Bloomberg, some drones:
— Failed to take off
— Lacked promised AI guidance features
— Struggled under Russian jamming

Germany will not place follow-on orders unless Ukraine formally renews interest.

Source: Defence Blog

France is ready to make major concessions — including large-scale local production and possible reciprocal defense deals — to secure India’s planned purchase of 114 Rafale fighter jets worth over €30 billion.

India approved the purchase, but “details… are still ongoing.”

Most jets are expected to be built in India, with reports saying at least 90 could be produced locally.

India wants tech transfers and integration rights for its own systems.

France may favor India’s Pinaka rocket system in return — seen as a goodwill gesture.

Source: Le Monde

Armenia's PM Pashinyan says Armenians have long viewed events “through Zatulin’s eyes” and urges voters in 2026 to decide whether to trust their own judgment or return to an old political “cycle” that, in his view, ended badly in 2023.

From the 1830s… until October 2022–23, we all… have seen through Zatulin’s eyes.

In 2026, Armenians must choose whose vision they trust — their own eyes, or Zatulin’s eyes?

He warns against re-entering a historical “cycle… that started in the 1850s and ended in 2023.”

NOTE: Pashinyan is referring to Russian MP Konstantin Zatulin, a longtime pro-Armenian voice in Moscow who strongly backed Armenia on Karabakh — but later clashed with Pashinyan and was banned from Armenia in 2022.

Germany plans to massively expand its foreign intelligence agency’s powers, fearing the U.S. could halt intelligence sharing under Trump.

Berlin wants the BND to gain authority for sabotage, offensive cyber ops, AI surveillance and broader espionage, rolling back strict post-WWII limits.

German Chancellor Merz:

Old certainties have been devalued… the BND should operate at the very highest level.

Source: Politico

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett:

Beyond our borders there's millions of people that want to kill us.

They want to kill us. They want to rape our women, murder our kids, and destroy the Jewish State.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett:

At this moment, I assert that roughly seven out of 10 Palestinians in Gaza and the PA want to murder all of the Israelis.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett:

They're not going to love us. The aspiration that the world will love Israel, it's not going to happen.

What we need is that our enemies fear us, our friends respect us, and everyone needs us.

We tried the love us thing for about 3,000 years. Didn't work.

Indian Prime Minister Modi meets with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

French President Macron:

Free speech is a pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech—especially when it is to be guided from one hated speech to another hated speech.

I just want to have a transparent road through these different speeches, and I want, by the way, to have a sort of public order.

I want to avoid a racist speech, hated speech, and so on.

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias is introducing a new arms procurement doctrine that includes a built-in “Türkiye clause.”

The goal: ensure that major weapons systems Greece buys cannot also be sold to Türkiye.

Sources say Dendias wants contracts to include a written guarantee preventing suppliers from selling the same platforms to Ankara — otherwise, “there is no point in spending billions.”

The move follows frustration over Germany selling Type 214 submarines to both Greece and Türkiye, which Athens believes “changed the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean.”

Dendias had previously warned Berlin that such sales could benefit “a country that, although a NATO member, has issued a casus belli against Greece.”

Now, as Greece explores new submarine deals (Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, Sweden competing), the Türkiye factor will be decisive, alongside a requirement for 25% Greek industrial participation in each program.

Source: IN

Former Ukrainian army chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, widely seen as President Zelensky’s top rival, revealed a deep wartime rift between them, including a 2022 security service raid on his office that he calls intimidation.

Zaluzhnyi says tensions started early in the invasion and exploded during a 2022 incident when security agents searched his command center.

“I told Yermak that I would repel this attack, because I know how to fight.”

He believes the raid was a warning shot amid growing disagreements over strategy.

The biggest clash came over the failed 2023 counteroffensive.

Zaluzhnyi says his original plan required concentrating forces into a “single fist” to cut Russia’s land corridor to Crimea — but instead troops were dispersed, weakening the strike.

Polls now show him slightly ahead of Zelensky in a hypothetical post-war election (23% vs 20%).

Still, Zaluzhnyi says he won’t discuss politics during wartime:

“Until the war is over or martial law ends, I am not discussing this.”

Source: AP

Niger’s leader Abdourahamane Tiani met Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers, announcing a “new dynamic” in ties and progress on the 4,000-km Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline linking Nigeria to Algeria via Niger, signaling a diplomatic thaw.

READ MORE

Ukraine–Russia Talks in Geneva End Without Breakthrough

Peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia concluded in Geneva after two days of U.S.-mediated discussions, with both sides describing the talks as difficult and marked by persistent differences.

READ MORE

Senator Graham met with the UAE’s MBZ.

As Clash Report noted earlier, MBZ only had influenza and is alive.

Tucker Carlson in Israel.

AI Summit in India: India's Galgotias University professor presented a robotic dog called “Orion,” describing it on state TV as having been “developed by the Centre of Excellence at Galgotias University.”

Social media users quickly identified the robot as the Chinese-made Unitree Go2, a commercially available model sold worldwide.

The clip went viral, triggering backlash over alleged misrepresentation at an event promoting India’s indigenous AI innovation.

Government officials now asked the university to vacate its stall.

The university later apologized, said the representative was “ill-informed,” and clarified the robot was only a purchased learning tool with “no intent to mislead.”

🇩🇪 Germans now rate Olaf Scholz’s time as chancellor more favorably than Friedrich Merz’s current tenure, one year after the 2025 election.

Results:
35% say Scholz performed better.
22% say Merz performed better.
33% see no difference.

Source: INSA poll for Bild

Zelensky wants a direct meeting with Putin to break the deadlock.

Zelensky said the only real breakthrough would come from a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin and instructed his team to push for a leaders’ summit in Geneva.

Source: Axios