🇻🇪⚡️- The death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has been updated to 2,295 dead, and 11,267 injured, and nearly 50,000 people are still unaccounted for 9 days after the earthquakes first hit.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine, reports that last night Russia conducted its largest attack on the city during the war, with at least 86 injured, 13 people killed, and attacks in all districts of the city.

The Ukrainian Air Force reports that Russia used 74 missiles and 496 drones last night against Ukraine.

🇻🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The Vatican has excommunicated six priests from the Society of Saint Pius X.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a decree, declares the SSPX to be in a situation of schism.

🇾🇪⚡- Ahmed Al-Shami, Ansarullah's Deputy Minister of Information, denies reports of de-escalation talks between Ansarullah and the (Saudi-backed) Homeland Shield Forces.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Assad al-Shaibani, Syrian Foreign Minister, visited Beirut to meet Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. Al-Shaibani assured the Lebanese that Damascus has no intention of invading Lebanon, or combating Hezbollah on Lebanese territory.

🇨🇫🇸🇩⚡- Over the past few hours, Central African Republic helicopters have been attacking positions in Sudan along the border targeting FPRC pockets.

🇾🇪 - Situation in Yemen as mobilization continues on both sides of the line of contact:

Over the past two weeks, both pro-Ansarullah and pro-Saudi tribal forces have been gathering in the al-Rayyan area of Yemen's northern al-Jawf Governorate. The mobilization by Saudi-backed tribes began in response to a tribal call to arms issued by Sheikh Hamad bin Fadgham of the Bakeel tribal confederation, who is currently being held by pro al-Houthi forces.

Fadgham's appeal was linked to the case of Samira al-Zubairi—allegedly Mira Hussein, a daughter of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein—who was arrested by Ansarullah authorities and subsequently expelled from her residence. The property was reportedly granted to her by former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a long-time ally of Saddam Hussein.

According to Fadgham, as many as 8,000 tribal fighters have responded to his call and joined the mobilization effort.

Nearly two decades after Saddam Hussein's execution, his legacy continues to cast a long shadow over Yemen, once again fuelling internal tensions and conflict.

🇸🇾⚡️- Loud explosion heard in Damascus.

🇸🇾⚡️- The explosion happened in a café in the city center. Multiple injuries.

🇸🇾⚡️- A bomb caused the explosion. 4 deaths, at least 10 injured.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Iranian drone strike on Kurdish separatist positions in Soran, Erbil Governorate, Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "The United States spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect them, without getting any benefit from so doing: U.S. 999 Billion Dollars, United Kingdom, 90.5 Billion Dollars, France, 66.5 Billion Dollars, Italy, 48.8 Billion Dollars, Poland, 44.3 Billion Dollars. Others, including Germany, are MUCH LOWER. (2014-2025) Ridiculous!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸 - Trump makes a rare X post.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- The Washington Post has now laid off all of its full time reporters who covered the Gaza War full time since 2023. The last couple to go, Heba Farouk Mahfouz and Louisa Loveluck, had been caught on multiple occasions brazenly lying about the conflict including lies about President Biden's positions on Gaza and Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US only added 57,000 jobs in June, the unemployment rate fell to 4.2% due to people leaving the workforce. Workforce Participation is now at its lowest levels since March 2021.

47,000 of these jobs were in education and healthcare.

April and May's job growth was also revised down, 74,000 jobs were reported that didnt actually exist.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal.

Killing senior Iranian leaders had been part of Israel’s strategy from the start of the war. But American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials — Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Parliament — spiked during delicate cease-fire negotiations that began in April.

Fearful that an Israeli assassination effort would doom the negotiations, the United States, went so far as to ask other countries in the region to warn Iran about the possibility Israel could target the two officials.

While U.S. strikes focused on Iran’s navy and missile forces, Israel prioritized targeting the leadership in the early phase of the war, intent on killing as many high-ranking officials as it could.

That included killing potentially more pragmatic leaders that the Trump administration had hoped to negotiate with, such as Ali Larijani, Iran’s top national security official, and Kamal Kharazi, a former Iranian foreign minister. Both men were involved in the negotiations with the United States when they were killed in Israeli airstrikes," - The New York Times, citing multiple U.S. officials.