"At least six police officers and a priest have been killed in attacks on a synagogue and two Orthodox churches in Dagestan Region, southern Russia. Unknown assailants launched a series of attacks on a synagogue and two Orthodox churches, as well as a traffic police station, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan. The incidents took place in the regional capital, Makhachkala, and the southern city of Derbent. The assailants also broke into an Orthodox church in Derbent and killed a local priest. The synagogue in the city, which also came under attack, was allegedly set on fire. Sounds of gunfire can still be heard in central Derbent, according to witnesses. Local law enforcement officers are reportedly still engaged in a fight against the attackers near the Orthodox church." RT
"A candidate for the French snap election representing Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) anti-mass-migration populist party was attacked and hospitalized by a “group of masked people”. Marine Le Pen slammed “ultra-left militias” after a group of her activists, including a Parliamentary candidate, were set upon by a group of black-clad attackers in the city of Saint Étienne, in the Loire. The RN activists were “pushed around and insulted”, and “projectiles” including rotten fruit, water, and flour were thrown. The assailants were described by the victims and witnesses were a “group of masked people” and “dressed all in black”. " Breitbart
"This morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a coordinated strike with high-precision long-range sea-based weaponry on the training site for the flight and technical personnel of Ukraine's air forces," the ministry stated. Earlier in the day, Ukrainian media reported explosions in Kiev, Kharkov and the Zhitomir region. Air raid sirens were sounded in 15 regions of the country." Sputnik
"A preliminary 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern Caribbean Sea. The quake occurred about 20 miles northeast of Yaguaraparo, Venezuela, or 60 miles from Port of Spain, Trinidad, shortly before 12 a.m. local time, according to the USGS. About 4.4 million people in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would have experienced some shaking." Yahoo
"The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported two maritime incidents involving merchant vessels. The first occurred in the Red Sea, where a suicide drone struck a vessel. The second incident took place in the Gulf of Aden. UKMTO said the crew had been rescued by an "assisting ship," and the abandoned ship "remains adrift at position 14°31'N 053°08'E." ZH
"In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces held back 55 Russian attacks in the direction of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. That’s according to Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesman for the Khortytsia Operational-Strategic Grouping of Troops, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, commenting on the latest developments in the Pokrovsk and Toretsk axes." Ukrin
"At least three people were killed and 23 others injured in a series of Russian midday strikes on Kharkiv’s administrative center shortly after an air raid alert with emergency services working tirelessly to provide assistance and deal with the aftermath of the glide bomb attack." UV
"The British political establishment went into full meltdown on Friday as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested that Western expansionist policies in Ukraine “provoked” the Russian invasion. Mr Farage sparked the conniption during an interview with BBC Panorama published on Friday, in which he said: “I stood up in the European Parliament in 2014 and I said, and I quote, ‘there will be a war in Ukraine.’ Why did I say that? It was obvious to me that the ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man a reason to his Russian people to say, ‘They’re coming for us again,’ and to go to war.” Breitbart
"Dust from Africa here the next 10 days. Will help keep things quiet it looks like this next week, especially in the Caribbean," Mike's Weather Page wrote in a post on X, along with a forecast model showing the dust will reach Florida and the rest of the Gulf Coast by next weekend. Before the Saharan dust arrives in South Florida, a heat dome has scorched parts of the eastern US for the past week, and this intense heat is expected to continue into next week." ZH
