🇹🇷 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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Turkish FM Hakan Fidan:

Israel needs 'another enemy'.

- 'And you think they're trying to do that to Turkey?'

- 'Absolutely... Netanyahu is a... threat for international security'

🇮🇳🇳🇿 PM Modi has landed in Auckland , as part of the first official visit by an Indian leader to New Zealand in 40 years.He was greeted by PM Christopher Luxon and Senior Minister Mark Mitchell.

‼️🇷🇺⚡🇺🇦| Zelensky:

This week, our warriors achieved significant results in carrying out long-range strikes against Russian facilities that support this war.

Ukrainian drones reached Siberia and struck the oil refinery in Omsk—nearly 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine.

There is now no Russian oil refinery that Ukrainian weapons cannot reach.

Who made this?? 🤣🤣🤣

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded on Iran.

PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!

Snake flood in china with more than 900 snakes.

‼️🇳🇿🇮🇳 New Zealand condemn Pahalgam, Delhi terror attack.

🇮🇳🇳🇿 India, New Zealand upgrade ties to strategic partnership, annouces New Zealand PM luxon.

—India and New Zealand have set a target to double bilateral trade to ₹35,000 crore by 2030.

New Zealand will also join the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) and the Global Biofuels Alliance, further strengthening strategic and economic ties between the two nations.

—India, New Zealand announce Maritime Security dialogue.

—India, New Zealand announce reciprocal logistics supports agreement between Indian, New Zealand Defence force. Sign maritime cooperation arrangement between Defence Ministries.