Trump:

Who likes JD Vance? [applause] Who likes Marco Rubio? [applause] Sounds like a good ticket.

That was a perfect ticket. By the way, I do believe that's a dream team, but these are minor details.

That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance.

I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate.

Trump:

With respect to drugs coming in by sea, meaning drugs coming in by water, by the ocean, by the sea.

A lot of people don't know what I mean by sea. They think I'm talking about vision. I'm not. I'm talking about sea. Like the sea.

Finnish President Stubb:

If American policy toward Russia and Ukraine isn't in Europe's interests, as I believe it is, then we need to engage directly.

Yes, it's time to start talking to Russia. I don't know when that will happen. We've discussed with European leaders who will establish contact, but we don't know yet.

The most important thing is that everything must be coordinated among us, especially between the E5 (Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Poland) and the Nordic and Baltic countries, who are on the border.

Source: Corriere

Trump shares a post calling for Obama's arrest.

NHS England plans to grant Palantir and other external contractors an "admin" role with unlimited access to identifiable patient data.

Microsoft fired Alon Haimovich, the general manager of its Israeli subsidiary, along with other senior managers following an internal investigation.

The probe was tied to a 2025 Guardian and +972 Magazine report revealing that Israeli intelligence used Microsoft Azure cloud servers to store mass-surveillance data on Palestinians.

The intercepted data covered Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Qatar's former PM Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani:

The military action did not serve the region in general. America harmed its friends in the region.

The military operation served Netanyahu personally, it served his agenda.

He openly talks about a new map of the region, new alliances, a Greater Israel.

They are ignorant of the structure of power in Iran.

This pyramid has been built over 47 years, since the day the Shah left. It won't collapse the way they think.

Qatar's former PM Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani:

Iranians have been accustomed to entering negotiations, succeeding in delaying them, and continuing indefinitely. There is sometimes a trick in not using a trick.

Iran is not prepared to give up its nuclear program to America for free. They view it as an existential, sovereign matter.

One Iranian official once told me: Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons — and look what happened to it.

Iran, as a state, sees Israel and Pakistan possessing nuclear weapons — even if they say they don't seek them.

I believe this is the conclusion they will reach — after 20 years, after several years, they will get there.

Zelensky held what he called a "good meeting" with Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

When this war ends, it's clear that the region is not the same.

The Gulf countries have said to us that they clearly see Europe's role there — because it's our neighborhood.

Just look at the kind of help Ukraine has given to the Gulf countries.

In the long term, there is definitely a road for us.

NEW: The U.S. has been holding closely guarded, regular negotiations with Denmark to open three new military bases in southern Greenland.

The new bases would be designated as American sovereign territory.

The bases would focus on surveillance of Russian and Chinese maritime activity in the GIUK Gap.

The U.S. currently has just one base in Greenland — Pituffik Space Base — down from around 17 during the Cold War.

Source: BBC

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Our economic development has stagnated for years — at least seven years — while other countries around us grow, some significantly.

We are forecast a potential growth of less than half a percent for the coming years.

For our country, for our prosperity, for our economy — that is simply too little.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

I hear these days that this social state should be 'cast off as ballast.'

I do not know whom that is meant to warn against.

With me, that will not happen.

NEW: Six senior ministers are preparing to tell Keir Starmer to step down at today’s Cabinet meeting.

Mahmood, Healey, Miliband, Nandy, Cooper, and Streeting agree he should announce a resignation timeline.

Starmer is expected to resist.

Source: The Telegraph

French President Macron:

Africa will no longer be seen as a place for rare earths and other resources to be extracted, but rather to be a partner.

Keir Starmer tells his ministers he wants to “keep governing.”

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We simply failed to modernize our country.

Germany needs to pull itself together.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We cannot simply continue as we have for the last 20 years.

More than 100,000 industrial jobs disappear in Germany every year.

Germany's Chancellor Merz admits previous promises were unrealistic:

The promise that geopolitical upheaval would have no impact on social policy was too optimistic.

We will have to set priorities.

We will no longer be able to do everything at once.

Iranian MP Ebrahim Rezaei:

If Iran is attacked again, we may begin 90% uranium enrichment.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirms Israel sent Iron Dome batteries to UAE:

Israel just sent them Iron Dome batteries and personnel to help operate them.

There’s an extraordinary relationship between the UAE and Israel.

When every other airline stopped flying into Israel, the Emiratis continued.

The UAE is an example.