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Description: Controversies continue to mount around the degree of success the US Midnight Hammer operation brought in depleting Iran’s nuclear program. After the leaked DIA assessments, the media pipeline was flooded with other unidentified and unnamed sources who claimed that even though the program has experienced substantial setbacks, caused by the attacks, it was still very active and could be revived completely. The Iranians remained reserved in their public portrayal of the attacks as they only confirmed the program was considerably damaged without getting into the degree of the damages. IAEA Director General, Rafael Grossi, commented that damage assessment on the bomb
Description: Ukraine’s President, Volodymir Zelenskyy announced that his country would join other countries from Eastern Europe in abandoning the Ottawa land mine treaty from 1997. The treaty is signed by 164 countries worldwide while the other 33 have refrained from joining the agreement which bans the usage of anti – personnel mines. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland have already agreed to unilaterally abandon the treaty as country officials have stated that Russia’s consistent incursions pose substantial territorial risk for the EU and NATO members. The mines are banned due to their indiscriminate targeting of individuals as most of the victims from land mine
Description: The Israeli military has issued an emergency evacuation order concerning citizens in the northern cities of the Gaza Strip. IDF has killed more than 100 people in the past couple of hours, most of whom were civilians attempting to reach humanitarian aid. The evacuation order comes on the back of the planned expansion of military operations in the Gaza Strip. US President Donald Trump, feeling victorious for having secured the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, announced that significant progress has been made in recent negotiations of ending Israel’s war in Gaza and the West Bank, without outlining details. Hamas, Israel’s main opponent, was repor
Description: More than 140 thousand people gathered to protest the rule of their populist President Aleksandar Vucic, naming the incumbent government of being complicit in large scale corruption, ties with organized crime and censure of media rights. The students issued an ultimatum last week, calling President Vucic to disband the Parliament and organize snap elections, which could see the end of his 12 – year rule in the country. Vucic vehemently denied calling snap elections and opted for repression instead, naming unidentified state actors to have been behind the student protests attempting to topple the current Serbian government. The demonstrations blocked key traffic
Description: Suicide bomber driving a car packed full of explosives killed 13 soldiers at a military outpost in North Waziristan. Pakistan quickly pinned the attack to have been sponsored by India, while India categorically denied the accusations, calling Pakistan to provide evidence of its claims. Responsibility for the attack was later claimed by a group called Hafiz Gul Bahadur, which is an armed fraction of the Pakistani Taliban. Relations between Pakistan and India have been severely damaged since the Apr 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack, when affiliates of the Pakistani Lashkar e Taiba claimed responsibility putting India and Pakistan on a nuclear confrontation. Pakistan h
Description: Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, has come under severe scrutiny over her controversial call with influential Cambodian President of the Senate, Hun Sen. Protests were organized by Thailand’s main ultranationalist opposition on Saturday, with thousands calling for Shinawatra’s resignation after she reportedly handed over Thailand’s pride, honor and regional standing through information disclosed in the phone call with Hun Sen. The Cambodian influential politician has disclosed that he deliberately recorded the conversation and shared it between Cambodia’s political and military echelon, however, the reasons and the motives behind his actions remained u
Description: The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the country’s President when it decided to limit the birthright citizenship law and overruled independent judges from several counties in the US. The Supreme Court, by overruling local federal courts, extends the President’s powers and limits federal legislative bodies from intervening around Trump’s executive orders. SCOTUS also decided to reverse the decision from the federal courts on banning transgender people to join the military and also allowed Trump to continue with its mass deportation policies which controversially left many people in no man’s land on their immigration status. Legal experts have warned that the di
Description: Russian air forces have launched the largest aerial assault to date on Ukrainian targets by dispatching more than 540 aerial weapons including drones, decoys and missiles. The attack targeted several Ukrainian cities in the western parts of the country while the city of Kherson on the south and the Kharkiv region sustained most infrastructural damage with one person reported to have died while several were injured. The attacks arrive a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced renewed initiative from their side to reengage in negotiations with the intelligence chiefs of Russia and the US holding a phone call in order to establish an open channel of e
Description: Foreign Ministers from Rwanda and the DRC have signed the peace agreement, officially marking the cessation of hostilities with some controversial elements still remaining to be resolved. US President Donald Trump hosted the foreign ministers in the presence of US Vice – President JD Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. The general provisions of the agreement stipulate the disarmament of all non – state groups, bilateral respect for territorial integrity, and the creation of an intergovernmental body that would be responsible for extensive economic cooperation between the countries. The general provisions of the agreement also came under scrutiny from seve
Description: US President Donald Trump announced that the US and China have agreed upon the rare earth minerals exports and formulated a framework agreement which would enable China to expedite exports to the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued an unspecified official statement claiming that China would ease the licensing procedures for several items and in return the US would lift several restrictive measures it had imposed on Chinese goods. The trade breakthrough comes after high – level trade negotiations held in May in Geneva and the negotiations in London in Jun, culminating with the phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US President Donald Tru