Great HONOR to have the Palm Beach International Airport be renamed The president Donald J. Trump International Airport.

Australian PM:

Opening match of Big Bash League, Australia's T20 cricket league, to be played in India.

An Egyptian chip company has halted the production of all packaging and food products bearing Lionel Messi's label, and will now feature photos of players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Erling Haaland, and Kylian Mbappé instead.

🇺🇸The Defense Department was funded with a budget of nearly a trillion dollars, but it is running out of cash, according to three U.S. officials, a former defense official, outside experts and two congressional staff members.

🇺🇸 Trump removes Election Assistance Commission members, report says

- On Thursday, President Donald Trump terminated the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission , removing leadership of the independent federal agency responsible for certifying voting systems.

- The firings follow a Supreme Court decision bolstering presidential power to remove independent leaders, alongside Trump's persistent advocacy to implement nationwide proof of citizenship requirements and Election Day mail ballot deadlines.

- Of the four-member bipartisan commission created by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, one Republican appointee resigned while two Democratic appointees received termination notices from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Thursday.

- Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes criticized the move as "irresponsible and dangerous," warning it undermines nonpartisan administration, while The Brennan Center for Justice noted the agency faces a leadership void.

- With the Trump administration having previously reduced the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the EAC's removal sparks alarm among election officials regarding federal interference and security support for states ahead of the midterms.

🇷🇺Kremlin

We will no longer believe the West wants negotiations on Ukraine

The Israeli Media reported:

Saudi Arabia is attempting to exclude Israel from the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) project and reroute it towards Syria and Turkey.

🇹🇷 Turkey has sold its S-400 air defence system to a Gulf country — possibly the UAE or Qatar. Since Russia won’t take it back, reports.

Turkey ditched the Russian S-400 for the American F-35.

🇨🇩🦠 The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 1792, including 625 deaths.

📊 Elon Musk says SpaceX $SPCX will be worth more than Earth if it accomplishes its goals.

🇬🇧 Riots in London too.

🇺🇸 Lego Trump incinerated in hellish fireball at Iran's funeral for Khamenei

Israeli Energy Minister Cohen:

'If Turkey wants to establish military bases in Syria , then we will too'

LGBTQ+ cruise ship with 2,000 passengers denied entry to Egypt following a similar rejection by Turkey.

🇪🇺The European Parliament approved “Chat Control 1.0,” allowing chat surveillance in Brussels. This regulation lets platforms scan private messages, posing as voluntary but enabling extensive monitoring of communications.

The measure passed despite opposition, with 314 MEPs voting against it and only 276 in favor. A simple majority wasn't enough; a higher absolute majority was needed.

Previously rejected, it was reintroduced just before the summer break, raising concerns about privacy and judicial oversight in digital communication.

🇧🇬Bulgaria Wants MiG‑29 Parts Before Gerans Finish Them Off

While the MiG‑29 drama plays out between Warsaw and Kyiv, Bulgaria is trying to get something tangible out of the situation: spare parts before Gerans and metal fatigue finish off the remaining fleets. Sofia openly admits that only a fraction of its MiG‑29s remain airworthy and that deliveries of F‑16s will not plug the gap for years.

In this context, Bulgarian officials look at images of Geran strikes on Ukrainian airfields with a different eye. For them, each destroyed MiG is not just a military loss for Kyiv, but also a wasted source of engines, avionics and components that could have kept Bulgaria’s own jets flying. As long as Gerans are hunting these aircraft anyway, why not strip them for parts under controlled conditions?

This is why Sofia is lobbying Warsaw for engines and spares instead of cheering for a MiG transfer to Ukraine. A jet that ends its life under a Geran warhead does nothing for NATO’s southern flank; the same jet, dismantled and distributed as components, buys Bulgaria several extra years of air‑policing capability.

The irony is sharp. While political speeches in Brussels focus on defending Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, smaller allies are watching Gerans reduce expensive fighters to scrap and quietly competing over who gets the last usable pieces of Soviet metal before drones and time destroy them all.

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