🇫🇷 Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau announces that next week, 4,000 police officers will be deployed to carry out inspections at train stations, buses, and other locations that may be used for smuggling illegal migrants. He states that this will be a massive and relentless operation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - US President Trump says he will be having a Situation Room meeting on Iran in an hour.

Italy, Termometro Politico poll:

FdI-ECR: 30%
PD-S&D: 22%
M5S-LEFT: 12%
FI-EPP: 9%
LEGA-PfE: 9%
AVS-LEFT|G/EFA: 6% (-1)
Azione-RE: 3%
IV-RE: 2% (-1)
+E-RE: 2%
DSP~NI: 1%
PTD-LEFT: 1%
NM-EPP: 1%

+/- vs. 20-22 May 2025

Fieldwork: 10-12 June 2025
Sample size: 3,500

➤ europeelects.eu/italy

🇮🇹 In Italy, since the current ruling coalition, composed of the center-right, right-wing, and national right-wing with Salvini's Northern League, won the elections, the coalition has maintained steady support at a level of 46 to 48 percent. The Northern League has dropped a few percentage points compared to the last elections, from about 13 percent to 8-9 percent, but this electorate has been taken over by the Prime Minister's party, so it balanced out. It is a very interesting situation that a government, which started with international pressure and was described as a revival of fascism, has not lost the trust of voters or public support over three years, in the midst of a governance that was more moderate than expected.

🇺🇸 - The Buss family is entering an agreement to sell majority ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers to Mark Walter, the CEO and chairman of diversified holding company TWG Global, sources tell ESPN. Jeanie Buss will continue to serve in her role as Governor after the sale.

🇺🇸 - Mark Walter notably also owns PWHL as a whole and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

🇺🇸 - If anyone here is interested to buy them, MLS club San Jose Earthquake are up for sale.

🇺🇸 - The president "might be ready to go” for an Iran strike before the carrier strike group arrives - FT

🇨🇦 - BC premier asks PM to list Bishnoi, the crime group the RCMP has linked to the Indian government, as a terrorist entity.

🇺🇸 - Trump has privately approved military plans for strikes on Iran but has not yet given the final go-ahead, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🇺🇸 - President Trump's Situation Room meeting has BEGUN - NBC

🇺🇸 - Trump's situation room meeting on Iran has ENDED, according to CBS.

🇺🇸 The United States Supreme Court upheld the ban on gender transition for children that was passed in the state of Tennessee.

👑🇫🇷 Evening News to relax and recall the times of honor and chivalry: The French won the European Fencing Championship title by defeating the Netherlands, and the French women won the European Saber Championship title by defeating Poland.

🇭🇷 President of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, says that Israel is currently governed by a criminal clique and wants to drag the world into war. Israel can do whatever it wants, and it has been doing so for decades.

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Iran just bombed a hospital were Gaza war veteran were being treated causing extensive damage and dozens of casualties, in addition to hits elsewhere in the country including Tel Aviv

🇩🇪🇮🇱 The Chancellor of Germany, speaking in the context of the current war in the Middle East, said:

"This is dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. We are also affected by this regime. This regime could have brought death and destruction to the world."


These words from the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have sparked widespread outrage in the coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Members of the left-wing coalition partner have called them disgustingly cynical.

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV says that the emergence of AI could cause social changes on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. The Pope states that AI will take away people's jobs and dignity. He mentions that his predecessor, Leo XIII, opposed the Industrial Revolution, and he chose his papal name, Leo XIV, to emulate him in these new times.

🇺🇸 - Trump Administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide prevention hotline.