China publicly demonstrated its truck-mounted electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) for the first time, successfully launching a drone from a modular catapult built from multiple linked trucks.

Three or more trucks connect to form a catapult that can be rapidly assembled and moved.

The catapult is part of a broader family of containerized military systems—including missiles, radars, electronic warfare, and command centers—that can be deployed from ships or land.

It is designed to launch drones where runways don’t exist, such as islands, remote areas, or civilian ships converted into drone carriers.

Chinese sources reportedly aim to produce 2,000 containerized systems annually.

Reporter: Your critics say you are profiting off the presidency.

Trump: I am profiting because the stock market is going up. We are all profiting.

How is your 401(k) doing? It's up 85%. "Thank you, President Trump!"

I am profiting because I have a lot of money.

Trump on Iran:

They've come a long way. We hit them very hard last week.

I think they are fine.

Trump:

We can have 50% of the chip market by the time I leave office.

You know what we have now? Nothing.

Trump:

Intel needed some help. I said, "I'll do it for you. But give the United States of America 10% of your company."

He said, "You have a deal." He said it so fast, I should've asked for more.

Trump on Iran:

The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well. They've had very good meetings.

We hit them very hard for three nights, but we're getting along very well.

Reporter: How much did it cost American taxpayers to upgrade the plane?

Trump: It cost very little relative to what it would cost if we did it a different way. This was a gift from a country that's treated us very well.

They are an ally of us in the Middle East—Qatar.

We couldn't build a plane like this. We wouldn't be willing to spend the money necessary. They spent top dollars.

Trump:

We're gonna declassify almost everything.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp:

I am the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel.

I think Israel is on the side of good.

Source: CNBC

Palantir CEO Alex Karp:

Half the people criticizing Israel just don't believe it should exist.

And that's just a fact.

Source: CNBC

Russia has begun importing gasoline from India to ease nationwide fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian drone attacks on its oil refineries.

At least 60,000 metric tons have already been shipped, with Russia reportedly planning to import up to 400,000 tons per month from multiple countries, including Belarus.

The shortages have led to fuel rationing, long queues at gas stations, and record gasoline prices.

Source: Reuters

Keir Starmer:

I'm really proud that we got the gayest Parliament.

I don't think there's any Parliament that is gayer than this parliament.

Anthropic's Claude Code covertly checks if users are from China. The obfuscated logic embedded into its binary reportedly evaluates whether:

▪️A user is operating from China,
▪️Routing through a Chinese URL,
▪️Affiliated with a Chinese AI lab.

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Video from Irkutsk, Russia shows the impact of the fuel shortage.

Blank fuel price displays at a Gazpromneft station, long queues for gasoline, and severe traffic congestion as vehicles line roads leading to gas stations.

Irkutsk is about 4,200 km east of Moscow.

Italian PM Meloni:

I improved my English because I was a Michael Jackson fan—I wanted to understand what the lyrics were saying.

I went further with French because I was passionate about the Decadent poets.

I spoke Spanish because, when I was little, my father lived in the Canary Islands, so I had to manage.

Medvedev will attend the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran as Putin's special envoy.

Source: Tasnim

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker:

Türkiye is an incredibly capable ally. They are seriously committed to the NATO alliance and also the security of themselves and their allies.

We need to continue to strengthen that relationship.

We need all of our allies to be more like Türkiye—to have an industrial base that can manufacture, for example, 50 ships at a time, which is what Türkiye is building right now in their shipyards.

And so, we need to make sure that everyone's moving at pace.

Source: Fox News

For First Time in 20 Years, Majority of Russians Say Economy is Worsening

For the first time since 2006, a majority of Russian adults believe their local economy and living standards are worsening, as wartime growth slows and labor shortages intensify.

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Norway To Ban AI for Elementary School Pupils

Norway's government announced a near-ban on generative AI for elementary school pupils aged 6-13, proposing more funding for books over tablets, starting in the fall term.

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How the UAE Arms Sudan's RSF

UN investigators and defectors reveal an illicit weapons bridge built by the UAE to sustain the RSF:

▪️Darfur gold finances operations
▪️Covert air hubs in Chad & Libya
▪️Cargo includes Chinese drones & UK-origin arms

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JD Vance:

One of the things I learned in the United States Marine Corps serving from '03 to '07 is that we sometimes had leaders who would ask you all to go to war but would not give you a clear mission on the other end.

And one of the reasons why I'm proudest of what the President of the United States has done over these last 18 months is because, when he has asked you to go to war, he has given you a defined mission, he's asked you to go and accomplish it, and, most importantly, he's given you the tools to kick the hell out of the enemy and to come home safely.