Türkiye’s Bayraktar KIZILELMA unmanned fighter jet completed a real-flight test of its Electronic Warfare Self-Protection System, validating onboard threat detection and countermeasures.

The platform features homegrown AESA radar (MURAD), Gökdoğan BVR missiles, IRST/EOTS sensors, and now integrated EW defenses.

FIFA pledged about $70–75 million to rebuild football infrastructure in Gaza.

Funding includes $50M for a 20–25k national stadium, $15M academy, 50 mini-pitches ($2.5M), and 5 full-size fields ($5M).

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman on China:

The progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack and also not just in AI but in many fields is remarkable.

The reason I'm pushing back on underestimated is it feels like every conversation I have is like, "Oh, China's beating us. What do we do about it?" So, I think people are aware of what's happening there.

Yes, Chinese progress is amazingly fast.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

There is no military solution for Iran's nuclear program.

That was tested last year... they couldn't kill our nuclear program.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

The U.S. side has not asked for zero enrichment.

USS Ford is entering the Mediterranean.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

We don't consider Americans as our enemy.

We consider the American government's policies as hostile against Iran.

When those hostilities stop, then we can perhaps consider a different kind of relationship.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

The richest ten percent of the world's population today receives more than half of the income and holds seventy-five percent of the wealth.

That is to say, absolutely unsustainable figures—also immoral and, of course, outrageous. And from the democratic powers, what we have to do is try to solve this very dramatic reality.

And that is why Spain supports the creation of this intergovernmental group of experts against inequality.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Those who have more must contribute more, and therefore Spain will not stop in ensuring that this endeavor is also fulfilled on a global scale.

German Chancellor Merz:

We stand on the side of the Ukrainian people without any ifs or buts.

We will never accept how a criminal Russian regime systematically wages war against the civilian population of this country, against old people, against women and against children.

The whole thing garnished with an almost unbearable Nazi propaganda against the Ukrainian people, a people that suffered under German and under Russian tyranny like hardly a second on earth.

This will always meet with our determined contradiction.

German Chancellor Merz on Russia:

History teaches us one thing: appeasement does not create peace. It only encourages the aggressor in the first place.

Whoever follows a naive pacifism today, who follows a naive pacifism today, promotes the wars of tomorrow.

German Chancellor Merz:

We no longer live in the old system, but also not yet completely in a new one.

We, in this part of Europe, we are not at war, but we are also no longer at peace.

The threat to our freedom, it is palpable.

German Chancellor Merz on relations with the US:

For all the political tensions we have, for all the political tensions we are currently experiencing with the United States of America, the Americans—that is at least my feeling—they are our friends, they are my friends, and they should also remain our friends.

That's why we don't give up this friendship lightly and we will always fight for it to stay.

But it's also true, the United States of America itself is increasingly losing interest in the role of a guarantor power for the international order and its interest in its role as a reliable trendsetter.

We would do well to make this clear to ourselves without illusions and without nostalgia.

German Chancellor Merz:

German business model was clear for quite a long time.

Strong exports, global markets, reliable supply chains, cheap energy, security above all through the Americans.

And with all of that, we wanted the greatest political restraint.

That will no longer work in the new world.

The competition has become harder, costs have risen and it is fought with hard bandages. The epochal break affects us all.

The decisive question is therefore not whether we change our economy, but how quickly we manage these changes and how successful we will be in the process.

German Chancellor Merz on China:

China today sees itself in explicit opposition to the U.S. and claims to define a new multilateral order according to its own rules.

Freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of the press do not occur in this understanding.

The commitment to the universal validity of human rights is rejected there as interference in internal affairs.

May I ask the question again?

Given this situation, couldn't it be right that we Europeans together with the Americans have to counter their common understanding of freedom, our common image of humanity with something better than what we hear from the Middle Kingdom?

That too belongs to the truth of our relationship.

German Chancellor Merz:

We won’t raise productivity by promising a four-day week for everyone.

We can and must become more flexible. We must reward the willingness to perform.

We must facilitate the return to the job.

German Chancellor Merz on AfD:

80 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, forces are growing in our country that mock the victims of the Nazi regime, who admire imperialism, who scoff at the postulate of human dignity, who scoff at the rule of law and our Basic Law, who want to turn back our social progress of decades.

We will not allow—and I say it once again—that these people from the so-called "Alternative for Germany" ruin our country. We will not allow it.

This party here, in this hall, in this federal party congress—East and West, North and South—this party cannot be a partner for us. We will not do it.

And we must take up this fight, also in the autumn in the East, to prevent right-wing radicalism from moving back into the state chancelleries in Germany.

German Chancellor Merz on "antisemitism" in Germany:

More than 80 years after the end of the Second World War and after the end of National Socialism, there is again open and also violently carried out antisemitism in Germany from Islamist groups, from the left and the right wing, and partly disguised in the guise of the media, culture, and freedom of expression.

We will not accept hatred of Jews in this country.

We stand at the side of all Jewish women and men in Germany. And we stand at the side of Israel.

Russia's Medvedev:

You mentioned Kaja Kallas? And who is that? Even her colleagues don’t speak to this person.

If you’ve noticed, Foreign Ministers of many European countries don’t communicate with her, let alone the US Secretary of State.

NEW: NATO is deploying Türkiye’s drone carrier TCG ANADOLU toward Latvia’s coast under Eastern Sentry.

The largest vessel in the Steadfast Dart 26 fleet will operate under NATO Allied Air Command, reinforcing air surveillance and air defense along the alliance’s eastern flank.

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The Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) chief European political correspondent Bojan Pancevski:

Zelensky told his closest advisers the negotiations had essentially failed — and that they must prepare for three more years of war.

Everyone was shocked. Naturally, no one wants three more years of war.

Until that moment, they were planning elections and a referendum. Then suddenly — a 180-degree turn.

One possibility is that Trump told him, “This is my final offer. It won’t get any better. This is what we have for you.”

And perhaps that was not sufficient for Zelensky, meaning he cannot give up territory under those conditions.