WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 104 JUNE 11,26 - US PUMPS 49 + ROCKETS INTO IRAN SIGHTS.

WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 104 JUNE 11,26 - US PUMPS 49 + ROCKETS INTO IRAN SIGHTS.

THE NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.

JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39    
32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN) will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them, (MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them; (DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS NOW)

WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The 500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February, the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April. 
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel) are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species: Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors, and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April. 

The 500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and November. 
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia. 

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

Trump: US will be attacking Iran again today; ‘they keep playing us for suckers’-US president says Tehran taking too long to negotiate deal, ‘now they’ll have to pay the price!’; Iran says American strikes in south damaged water supply for thousands-By Jacob Magid,Agencies and ToI Staff 10 June 2026, 5:21 pm

US President Donald Trump said the US would be attacking Iran again on Wednesday, indicating that Tuesday night’s strikes against the regime were only the first part of Washington’s retaliation against the Islamic Republic for shooting down an American military helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.“We’re going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard,” Trump said in the Oval Office, when asked to explain his Truth Social post from earlier today, when he said that Iran would have to “pay a price” for taking too long to reach a deal.“We hit him hard yesterday, and we hit him again hard today — in case you miss it because you don’t turn on your television set,” Trump told reporters.US Central Command said late Tuesday night that it had targeted Iranian military assets in response to the helicopter downing. This led Iran to target several US military bases throughout the region on Wednesday with missiles and drones.Trump again claimed that the sides were close to a deal that would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, before saying that Tehran has been dragging its feet on signing the deal. The US leader, on May 24, claimed the agreement was largely negotiated, and for weeks before that also asserted that an agreement was on the verge of being signed.With the president now indicating that the US was prioritizing retaliation against Iran, it would appear that a signing was not imminent.“They keep playing us for suckers,” Trump said, adding that Iran would be facing a far worse retaliation had the pilots in the downed helicopter been injured by the Iranian drone, which he claimed was “a bomb that was lodged in the helicopter that didn’t explode.”Asked whether he’s again considering attacking Iranian energy sites, Trump declined to answer definitively, saying he could “knock them out” if he wanted.He insisted a deal with Iran has been “fully negotiated,” but that Tehran is stalling on signing because it knows how “significant” the concessions would be.He added that the US has managed to get ships through the Strait of Hormuz, including 22 last night, thanks to Iran not having a functional radar system.Earlier, Trump warned that Iran would “pay the price” for stalled negotiations, saying that he may order fresh strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges.Iran has “taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price!” Trump posted on Truth Social.“Iran’s military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their navy and air force, doesn’t even exist anymore,” Trump insisted, despite Iran’s successful downing of an Apache attack helicopter, and only hours after Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, all of which host US troops, came under Iranian fire.“They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle East is DEAD!” he declared.“I may keep going [militarily],” he later said in comments in a phone interview cited by Fox News, which reported that Trump was “getting closer” to ordering strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges.“They had a chance to sign a deal and survive,” the US president added.The comments again underlined the American leader’s whipsaw approach to the war, after he suggested on Monday that a deal to end the conflict could be reached in “two or three days.” Trump’s comments also came as an official with knowledge of the situation told Reuters that Qatari negotiators traveled to Tehran on Wednesday morning in an effort to finalize an agreement, after consultations with the United States.Trump had initially downplayed the helicopter incident during a phone interview on Tuesday, saying it “wasn’t a big deal,” since “the pilot is fine.” But hours later, he posted that “the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”Early Wednesday, US fighter jets targeted “air defense, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites,” US Central Command said, in what it described as a  “proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”CENTCOM later said the strikes hit Iranian air defenses, ground control stations and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz.U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian… — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 9, 2026-Iran strikes back-Iran’s top diplomat vowed that there would be a response, and Tehran later claimed attacks against US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.Jordan said it shot down five incoming missiles, which Iran said targeted the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. The base has hosted American F-35 fighter jets and other aircraft. Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency reported there were no injuries.The first 4 ballistic missiles that Iran launched targeted the vicinity of Amman, Jordan. Air defence activity was seen near the city. This explains why no sirens sounded in the Gulf States initially. The other 1-2 missiles targeted Bahrain. https://t.co/prZ9pdZiy6 pic.twitter.com/SImG4m4I0S — AMK Mapping ???????? (@AMK_Mapping_) June 10, 2026-Bahrain and Kuwait said they intercepted incoming fire, without elaborating.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the American attacks as a violation of Iranian sovereignty in calls with his counterparts from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and emphasized the inherent right of self-defense, including reciprocal action,” according to a post on his office’s Telegram channel.Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said in televised comments that in light of the new attacks, Iran would review its stance on negotiations to end the war.According to Iranian state media, Wednesday’s US strikes near Bandar Abbas caused thousands of Iranians in the southern port town of Sirik to lose access to drinking water. The reports said airstrikes hit two reservoirs in the area.???? Video of the attack by the US army on drinking water tanks in the Bemani district of Sirik County, Hormozgan https://t.co/ME1oPhKxAc pic.twitter.com/NYBuWZxWEJ — IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) (@iribnews_irib) June 10, 2026“Unfortunately, following this attack, 20,000 residents of the region have lost access to safe drinking water, and with temperatures ranging between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius, conditions have become extremely difficult and critical for local inhabitants,” Iran’s state television quoted local water company officials as saying.“The destruction of these reservoirs has created a major problem for the region’s water supply network,” it added, noting that the area had insufficient groundwater to replace the damaged reservoirs.Efforts were underway to find alternatives for villages affected in the area, according to a senior water company official in the southern province of Hormozgan.Cargo ship fights off gunmen near Yemen; first Europe-bound tanker leaves Hormuz-Guards aboard a cargo ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden exchanged fire with gunmen in a small boat and repelled their attack, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. No group immediately claimed responsibility.The UKMTO later reported a fire in the engine room of a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, saying one person was hurt and two others were missing. It wasn’t immediately known what caused the fire.Tehran has continued to block most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which before the war carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil and liquefied natural gas. Washington, in turn, has imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.However, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Tuesday that ship traffic through the strait was rising “very meaningfully” during the ceasefire.Backing up his claim, maritime data published Wednesday showed that a tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil was heading toward Europe after leaving the Gulf at the end of May, the first such shipment since March.The Advantage Victory, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May 27 without indicating its destination, data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler showed.The vessel revealed its destination only on Monday, with its AIS signal indicating “NL RTM,” the code for Rotterdam in the Netherlands, one of Europe’s biggest ports. It is scheduled to arrive on July 7.The tanker, which was loaded with Iraqi oil at Basra on February 24 and March 1, is currently off the coast of Madagascar, according to its transponder.It was the first tanker to traverse the Strait of Hormuz with oil heading to Europe since March 1, a day after the US and Israel began the war on Iran with massive strikes across the country.Around 103 oil tankers have left the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz since March 1, carrying a total of 185 million barrels of crude oil, according to Kpler data.From the beginning of the war until mid-April, oil leaving the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz was primarily Iranian, at 81 percent. Since mid-April, when the US blockade of Iranian ports began, tankers have come mainly from other Gulf countries (84 percent), with most unloading for clients in Asia or the Middle East.The destination of some tankers, primarily Iranian, is unknown.

US claims secret mission to protect ships from Iranian attacks-US launches strikes for second straight night in bid to force Iran to agree on deal-Trump hints at further attacks if Iranians reject proposed agreement: ‘We’ll bomb the s**t out of them’; Islamic Republic targets Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain after latest US strikes, threatens to hit vessels traversing Strait of Hormuz By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 6:41 am-JUN 11,26

For the second night in a row, the US military launched what it called “self-defense strikes” against Iran early Thursday, as President Donald Trump vowed even more attacks if no peace deal is secured. In response, the Islamic Republic threatened to target any ship going through the Strait of Hormuz.The US military’s Central Command announced the strikes were complete about four hours after they began shortly after midnight in Tehran, saying in a post on X that the targets included “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran.”“The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression,” CENTCOM said.Iranian media reported explosions across the country’s south near the Strait of Hormuz, the same area where US forces had already bombarded air defense, radar and other sites on Tuesday. Iranian sources reported new hits by “enemy projectiles” in Qeshm, Kargan and Sirik.The attacks were the latest development in an escalating exchange of strikes that have further strained the fragile ceasefire declared in early April to halt the US-Israel war with Iran, which began at the end of February.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in response to Thursday’s strikes that it launched attacks on US military targets at airbases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.Iran’s top joint military command also warned it would fire on any vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely closed for months. Iranian media reported that two ships were fired upon.CENTCOM denied the strait was closed, saying commercial ships were still transiting the strait despite Iran’s threats. Trump said earlier in the day that vessels have been crossing the strait without Iran’s permission as part of a clandestine military mission.Amid the strikes, Trump told a Fox News reporter that he had spoken directly with Iranian officials who asked him to stop strikes on the country — which he said would happen shortly.He was quoted, however, warning that if Iran didn’t sign a proposed deal from US negotiators that would open the Strait of Hormuz and ensure Tehran cannot acquire a nuclear bomb, “We’ll bomb the shit out of them.”Trump, who was speaking from the White House Situation Room, stressed that Israel was not involved in the strikes.Iranian state media subsequently denied that Iranian officials were in contact with the US president, citing a senior official who said “Trump’s false claim that Iranian officials contacted him is a cover to evade war with Iran.”Similar to Trump, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the US strikes as part of an effort to force Iran into a deal to end the conflict, telling reporters during a visit to Central Command in Florida that the attacks would “advance our military interests and also enhance our diplomatic position.”“President Trump said we’ll be hitting Iran hard, and we will be because Iran has a chance to make a good deal,” Hegseth said. “You can see when someone is trying to tap, tap, tap on a deal. Instead, they’re going to have tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran.”“We don’t have to restart,” Hegseth continued, saying that the Pentagon was “prepared to set the terms to ensure we get the kind of deal that President Trump expects.”“Those strikes, that will happen tonight, they will be strong, they will be clear. If they happen tomorrow night, they will be strong, they will be clear, and throughout Iran has an opportunity to make a deal — that’s the point.”He also said the pilots of an Apache helicopter that was shot down Tuesday in the Strait of Hormuz are in “good shape.” The downing of the helicopter led to the first night of strikes, which Iran responded to by attacking Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, all of which host US troops.‘We were told to show restraint’Along with the two bouts of fighting between the United States and Iran, this week saw Israel and the Islamic Republic engage in brief back-and-forth strikes after Israeli hit Hezbollah targets in Beirut.Speaking Wednesday to The Times of Israel, an Israeli diplomatic official pointed to what he calls the “justified” US feeling that it needed to respond to the helicopter downing, though it had just called on Israel to show restraint in response to Iranian fire.“The US understandably felt that not responding would have made them look weak, but when we said the same thing following attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, we were told by the administration to show restraint,” the Israeli official said.While US officials have regularly expressed their frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in anonymous conversations with reporters in recent weeks and months, reciprocal ire has been almost unheard of from the Israeli side, as Jerusalem seeks to keep Trump in its corner.The decision by the Israeli official to speak out, even anonymously, highlighted growing angst in Jerusalem over the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict.While Trump did express frustration both privately and publicly with Israeli decisions to aggressively respond to attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, he did not explicitly demand ahead of time that Netanyahu not carry out those strikes, the Israeli official acknowledged.Accordingly, the Israeli official admitted there were limited practical ramifications to the US warnings to Israel about not retaliating harshly against Iran and Hezbollah.Underscoring the frustrations between the sides, US Vice President JD Vance told CBS News in an interview aired Wednesday that Netanyahu has “certainly gotten some things wrong” in his relations with Washington amid the war, but called him a “good partner.”Vance also said that when US and Israeli interests diverge, the US must pursue its own interests, “unfortunately for the Israelis,” after declaring earlier in the week that the potential US-Iran deal was a “home run for the American people,” though Israel may not like it.“Even when we’ve been close partners, sometimes we have interests that are perfectly aligned, and sometimes we have interests that are misaligned,” Vance said of Israel and the US. “And what I’ve seen with the prime minister is that he aggressively asserts the interests of his country.”Vance added, “We have to fundamentally be focused on what is in the United States’ best interest. So they’ve been a great partner in a lot of ways, but we also have to focus on what is in America’s best interest, and where that diverges, we, unfortunately for the Israelis, have to choose the side of the American people, which we always do.”Asked if Netanyahu has made mistakes in his relations with the US regarding Iran, Vance responded, “Look, he’s certainly gotten some things wrong,” but declined to elaborate.“He’s been a good partner, we’re going to keep on working together, but where interests diverge, the United States is going to pursue the best interests of our nation, and that’s how it’s going to be.”Despite the comments from Vance, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office insisted that Trump and Netanyahu were “fully coordinated.”“The PM and President speak every other day, sometimes every day, and are fully coordinated,” the source told The Times of Israel.US claims secret mission to protect ships traversing Hormuz-The war has disrupted roughly one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and natural gas, sending prices sharply higher. Iran has blocked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, while the US has maintained its own blockade on Iranian ports.The conflict has become a political headache for the White House, with public polls showing Trump’s approval ratings sinking amid voter anger over high gasoline prices. Some Republicans have openly worried the war’s unpopularity could cost them control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.Oil prices rose nearly $3 following Trump’s threat of escalation, and extended gains in early Asian trade on Thursday.Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that vessels carrying 100 million barrels of oil have defied Iran to travel through the strait as part of a secret military mission.Hegseth said ships have been transiting the strait “in the middle of the night, protected by the United States in a way that Iran can’t stop, they can’t see it.”Separately, the US military said it had disabled an oil tanker transporting Iranian crude in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday for a second consecutive day.

US renews Iran attacks as Trump vows to hit 'hard'

Washington, United States, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-The United States launched a new wave of attacks against Iran on Wednesday, with President Donald Trump vowing to "hit them hard" after talks to end the more than three-month war faltered.US Central Command said American forces began "additional self-defense strikes" at 5:15 pm Washington time against multiple targets in Iran, in response to what it called Tehran's "unwarranted and continued aggression."Iranian media reported explosions across the country's south near the Strait of Hormuz, the same area where US forces had already bombarded air defense, radar and other sites on Tuesday.Iranian sources reported hits by "enemy projectiles" in Qeshm, Kargan and Sirik.The second straight day of US attacks followed Trump's complaint that Tehran's negotiators were "playing us for suckers.""We hit them hard yesterday. We're going to hit them again hard today," Trump told reporters. "We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along."Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested the strikes could extend into a third night, saying they would be "strong" and "clear."The escalation drew international calls for restraint on the eve of the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting and Iran is participating in.UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned against a return to "full war."Iran's UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani rejected Trump's threat, saying "no sustainable deal can be reached through threats, intimidation, or the use of force."But diplomacy had not collapsed entirely, with Qatari negotiators traveling to Tehran "to meet with the Iranians in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps," a diplomat with knowledge of the situation said.The war began at the end of February with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran, rattling the region and global markets before an increasingly shaky truce took effect.The conflict has driven energy prices higher since Tehran retaliated by virtually closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of global oil normally passes.Trump said Wednesday that the US military had secretly helped 100 million barrels of oil pass through the contested strait.Global stocks mostly fell Wednesday as renewed fighting, higher US inflation and weakness in technology shares weighed on sentiment, while oil prices climbed about two percent.- Gulf on alert -Iran said it attacked American bases in Jordan and Bahrain on Tuesday after US strikes on the Islamic republic in retaliation for the earlier downing of a helicopter.The Apache was the second crewed aircraft Washington has confirmed losing to Iranian fire during the war. Its two crew members were rescued, the US military said.Bahrain said it intercepted and destroyed "a number of Iranian aerial attacks," while Jordan said it shot down five missiles, with no casualties or damage.Kuwait's military said its air defenses were also engaging "hostile aerial targets."Tehran's foreign ministry warned neighboring states against letting the US or Israel use their territory for attacks.The US military also said an American warplane fired on and disabled a tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was attempting to carry Iranian oil in violation of a US blockade.The violence also drew calls for de-escalation from Iranian allies Russia and China.China urged both sides to "stop intensifying the conflict and escalating the situation."Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must include a truce in Lebanon, drawn into the conflict when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2.Israel responded with airstrikes and a ground invasion that have killed more than 3,600 people, while exchanges with Hezbollah have continued despite a nominal truce.A medical source told AFP that Israeli strikes on south Lebanon killed 12 people on Wednesday.burs-ft/sms

US, Iran hit each other again as hopes for quick peace deal fade.

Tehran, June 11 (AFP) Jun 11, 2026-The United States launched fresh attacks against Iran on Thursday, prompting Tehran to retaliate, as US leaders accused their counterparts of dragging out negotiations for a deal to end the three-month war.The second straight day of tit-for-tat strikes, with Iran targeting US bases across the Gulf, sent oil prices rising again.US President Donald Trump, who had repeatedly said negotiations with Tehran were close to an end, said Wednesday that Iran keeps "playing us for suckers" and will now "have to pay the price".Hours after, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces began "additional self-defense strikes" at 5:15 pm on Wednesday Washington time -- early Thursday in Iran -- in response to what it called Tehran's "unwarranted and continued aggression".Iranian media reported explosions across the south near the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Minab, and sources reporting hits by "enemy projectiles" in Kargan and Sirik.CENTCOM said later that it had "completed" its strikes on "Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites".American forces "fired precision munitions on Iranian targets that posed a threat to U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters", the command said.The renewed hostilities came as Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said that if Trump required it, "we'll negotiate with bombs, and we're very good at it".In response to the US strikes, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said they had struck US targets on bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and that they also "hit and destroyed Sheikh Isa air bases", according to the state-run IRNA news agency.Iranian media said the army had conducted drone strikes targeting communications antennas and radar facilities belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.An air raid alert was issued in Bahrain and residents were urged to "head to the nearest safe place", the Gulf nation's interior ministry said on X.Kuwait closed its airspace temporarily as its military said its air defence systems were working to intercept "hostile aerial targets".Iran also renewed its warning over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas transport which it has essentially closed."Are you making the sacred Strait of Hormuz unsafe?! We will make the region hell for you," Majid Mousavi, the head of the Iranian Guards' aerospace force, said in a social media post.The Iranian navy said it had hit two ships trying to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, state television IRIB and the Mehr agency reported.Another Iranian news agency, Tasnim, quoted the country's military operational command as saying the crucial waterway was "completely closed" and that "any vessel traffic" there would be targeted.CENTCOM denied that, saying "commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz tonight".Trump said Wednesday that the US military had secretly helped 100 million barrels of oil pass through the contested strait.- 'Bomb the S out of them' -Earlier, American broadcaster Fox News reported that Trump said Iranian leaders had called him directly in the White House Situation Room as the US bombs began falling.Iran's Guards quickly denied Tehran had done so, the IRNA news agency said.Trump said US forces hit Iran with 49 Tomahawk missiles and some targets were as close as 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Tehran, Fox News said.Its reporter Trey Yingst, who spoke to Trump, quoted the president as saying that if Iran did not accept US terms for ending the war, "We'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night".It was the second straight day of US attacks, following tit-for-tat strikes this week partly in response to the Iranian downing of an American helicopter.The fresh salvos followed Trump's complaint that Tehran's negotiators were taking too long, having suggested earlier this week that an accord was days away."We hit them hard yesterday. We're going to hit them again hard today," Trump told reporters Wednesday morning."We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along."Hegseth suggested the strikes could extend into a third night, saying they would be "strong" and "clear".The escalation drew international calls for restraint on the eve of the World Cup, which the United States is co-hosting and Iran is participating in.UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned against a return to "full war".Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, meanwhile, rejected Trump's threat, saying "no sustainable deal can be reached through threats, intimidation, or the use of force".Still, diplomacy has not collapsed entirely, with Qatari negotiators travelling to Tehran "to meet with the Iranians in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps", a diplomat with knowledge of the situation said.The war began in February with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, shaking the geopolitical balance in the Middle East and roiling global markets before a ceasefire took effect on April 8.Asian stocks tracked losses in New York, while oil prices jumped as much as two percent Thursday, extending similar gains the day before.Iran has also insisted that any deal to end the war must include a truce in Lebanon, drawn into the conflict when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2.burs-ft-mjw/hmn

US renews Iran attacks, Tehran says it closed Strait of Hormuz.

Washington, United States, June 11 (AFP) Jun 11, 2026-The United States launched a new wave of attacks against Iran on Wednesday night as efforts to end the three-month old war sputtered, and Tehran hit back saying it will target any ship going through the Strait of Hormuz.US Central Command said American forces began "additional self-defense strikes" at 5:15 pm Washington time, early Thursday in Iran, against multiple targets in Iran, in response to what it called Tehran's "unwarranted and continued aggression."Iranian media reported explosions across the country's south near the Strait of Hormuz, the same area where US forces had already bombarded air defense, radar and other sites on Tuesday. Iranian sources reported new hits by "enemy projectiles" in Qeshm, Kargan and Sirik.The Iranian navy said it hit two ships trying to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, state television IRIB and the Mehr agency reported. Iranian media also reported that Iran had attacked the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, hitting communication antennas and radar facilities.After the new American air strikes "any vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will be targeted," the Khatam al-Anbiya command said, according to Tasnim news agency. The strait is now closed "completely closed to all types of vessel," the command said.But US Centcom denied this, saying "commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz tonight."President Donald Trump said that as the bombing was underway Iranian leaders called him directly in the White House Situation Room and asked him to halt the attack, Fox News reported.Iran's Revolutionary Guards quickly denied Iran made such a request, the IRNA news agency said.Trump said US forces hit Iran with 49 Tomahawk missiles and some targets were as close as 40 miles (60 km) from Tehran, Fox said.If Iran does not accept US terms for ending the three-month-old war, "President Trump said, quote, 'We'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night,'" said Fox News reporter Trey Yingst, who spoke to the president.- 'Playing us for suckers' -The second straight day of US attacks followed Trump's complaint that Tehran's negotiators were taking too long and "playing us for suckers." Earlier this week he had suggested a peace accord was just days away."We hit them hard yesterday. We're going to hit them again hard today," Trump told reporters Wednesday morning. "We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along."Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested the strikes could extend into a third night, saying they would be "strong" and "clear."The escalation drew international calls for restraint on the eve of the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting and Iran is participating in.UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned against a return to "full war."Twenty-two countries including the United States and European nations also warned Iran on Thursday to stop attacking people "on our soil.""Attempts to kill, kidnap, harass, intimidate, or otherwise attack people on our soil, undermines national sovereignty and international norms. These actions must stop immediately," they said in a joint statement.Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, meanwhile, rejected Trump's threat, saying "no sustainable deal can be reached through threats, intimidation, or the use of force."But diplomacy had not collapsed entirely, with Qatari negotiators traveling to Tehran "to meet with the Iranians in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps," a diplomat with knowledge of the situation said.The war began with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran, rattling the region and global markets before an increasingly shaky truce took effect.The conflict has driven energy prices higher since Tehran retaliated by virtually closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of global oil normally passes.Trump said Wednesday that the US military had secretly helped 100 million barrels of oil pass through the contested strait.Global stocks mostly fell Wednesday as renewed fighting, higher US inflation and weakness in technology shares weighed on sentiment, while oil prices climbed about two percent.- Gulf on alert -Iran said it attacked American bases in Jordan and Bahrain on Tuesday after US strikes on the Islamic republic in retaliation for the earlier downing of a helicopter.The Apache was the second crewed aircraft Washington has confirmed losing to Iranian fire during the war. Its two crew members were rescued, the US military said.Bahrain said it intercepted and destroyed "a number of Iranian aerial attacks," while Jordan said it shot down five missiles, with no casualties or damage.Kuwait's military said its air defenses were also engaging "hostile aerial targets."Tehran's foreign ministry warned neighboring states against letting the US or Israel use their territory for attacks.The US military also said an American warplane fired on and disabled a tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was attempting to carry Iranian oil in violation of a US blockade.Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must include a truce in Lebanon, drawn into the conflict when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2.burs-ft/sms/dw/mjf

Iran says will target any vessel traffic in Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-Iran's military command said Thursday it will target any ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, after it struck two vessels attempting to pass through the strategic waterway, as talks to end the war faltered.The United States launched a new wave of attacks against Iran on Wednesday, with President Donald Trump vowing to "hit them hard" after accusing Tehran's negotiators of "playing us for suckers".The Khatam al-Anbiya command said Thursday, "any vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will be targeted" adding that the strait is now "completely closed to all types of vessel", according to the Tasnim news agency.Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy, quoted by state television IRIB and the Mehr agency, said that "two ships attempting to illegally pass through the Strait of Hormuz were hit"."Following repeated violations of the ceasefire by the American enemy, the Strait of Hormuz will be closed until further notice," it said."We warn that no vessel should leave its anchorage in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. Approaching the Strait of Hormuz will be considered cooperation with the enemy."Iranian media reported explosions across the country's south near the Strait of Hormuz, the same area where US forces had already bombarded air defence, radar and other sites on Tuesday.

Iranian media reports explosions in south near Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-Iranian media early Thursday reported explosions in the country's south near the Strait of Hormuz after Washington acknowledged carrying out defensive strikes.Explosions were heard in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the island of Qeshm, the cities of Minab and Sirik, they said.Iranian sources reported hits by "enemy projectiles" in Qeshm and the cities of Kargan and Sirik.American forces began "additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran," US Central Command said in a post on X, adding: "The strikes are in response to Iran's unwarranted and continued aggression."bur-ach/pdw

UN watchdog demands stockpile 'information' from Iran.

Vienna, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-The UN nuclear watchdog's governing board on Wednesday approved a western resolution demanding that Iran immediately provide information and give access to its uranium stockpile and production facilities.Iran's nuclear sites have been targeted in US-Israel attacks and Teheran's envoy to the United Nations in Vienna told AFP the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) vote would hinder talks with the United States on ending the Middle East war.The resolution, drawn up by Britain, France, Germany and the United States, was passed only hours after Iran and the United States staged military strikes on each other after Iran downed a US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz.The resolution said it was "essential and urgent" that Iran "without delay" provide the IAEA with "complete information on nuclear material inventories and design information for facilities".The resolution -- passed by 21 votes to three with 10 abstentions -- also demanded that Iran "grant the agency all access it requires to verify this information". One country on the 35-member board did not vote, said diplomats.- 'Counter-productive' -The IAEA estimates that Iran had 440 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to 60 percent, close to the level needed for a bomb, as Israel and the United States launched their first attacks in June last year.Iran suspended cooperation with the IAEA then and inspectors have not seen the material since.Western nations say the information and access is crucial now to determining whether uranium has been diverted.The agency said in a report ahead of the board meeting that Iran's refusal to allow access was a "proliferation concern".Iran's ambassador at the United Nations in Vienna, Reza Najafi, rejected the new resolution as "counter-productive", "politically motivated" and "legally flawed".He warned of fallout on the already fraught talks with US negotiators on ending the Middle East war.The vote "cannot help and, would be indeed counterproductive to the current situation," Najafi told AFP."It further complicates the volatile situation, volatile ceasefire, and the unfinished negotiations between Iran and the US."He added: "We have warned about the consequences of such a wrongful act by the US and its supporters."The IAEA board adopted a resolution in November calling on Iran to cooperate with nuclear inspectors.Since the Middle East war erupted with US-Israeli strikes on February 28, Iran has negotiated with the United States but resisted demands to give up its nuclear programme.Western countries and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon. It denies the charge.str-bg/tw/jj

US demands Iran give UN nuclear watchdog access: draft resolution.

Vienna, June 8 (AFP) Jun 08, 2026-The United States is demanding Iran provide "precise" information on its enriched uranium stockpile and give the UN nuclear agency access "without delay", according to a draft resolution seen by AFP on Monday.The draft resolution is expected to be submitted for a vote this week to the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that started meeting on Monday.Last week, the IAEA in a confidential report reiterated that the lack of access to nuclear sites in Iran constituted a "proliferation concern".The draft resolution affirms that it is "essential and urgent" that Iran "without delay" provides the agency with "precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran".Tehran must also "grant the agency all access it requires to verify this information", it adds.To be passed, the draft resolution needs to be submitted and approved by the 35-member IAEA board of governors.In a press conference after opening the board of governors' meeting, IAEA head Rafael Grossi said he had "sporadic contacts with the foreign minister (of Iran) and others, but basically the channel of communication is broken"."Of course, when you have active shelling or bombing, inspections are not possible, but there are many things that can be done. And the important thing is this dialogue," he said.The IAEA has not had access to some key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel, joined by the United States, launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites.Nuclear facilities have also been hit in the latest war, which erupted on February 28. The IAEA has repeatedly urged access.Prior to US strikes in June 2025, the IAEA calculated that Iran possessed approximately 440 kilogrammes (970 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60 percent.This is close to the 90 percent needed to make a bomb and well above the 3.67-percent limit set by a now-defunct 2015 agreement with Iran.The fate of this stockpile is uncertain.Israel and the United States have long accused Iran of wanting to build a nuclear weapon.Tehran has repeatedly denied having any military ambitions, insisting on its right to the technology for civilian purposes.On Saturday, Iran denounced as a "tool of political pressure" the report by the IAEA expressing concern over its lack of access to Iranian nuclear sites.

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH) (DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

DEATH CULTIST SUDANESE DEMON TRYS TO BEHEAD IRELAND CITIZEN.PROTESTS BETTER HAVE ERUPTED.

attempted beheading as Sudanese suspect is ID’d-By Chris Bradford-Published June 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m. ET

The man who was repeatedly stabbed in a sickening, caught-on-camera attack that sparked riots in Northern Ireland lost his left eye in the near-beheading – as the Sudanese suspect was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday.Stephen Ogilvie, thought to be 44, suffered injuries to both eyes after Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid, 30, allegedly tried to behead him late Monday night, the Sun reported.Barbaric video footage showed Ogilvie being pinned under the knifeman — with a horrified witness heard crying, “He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off.”Stephen Ogilvie, a man injured in an attempted beheading. 6-Ogilvie suffered serious injuries to his right eye and had deep slash wounds in his head, face and back, the hearing in Belfast was told. Alodid was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and possessing a blade.He was arrested minutes after the assault — and allegedly told emergency services, “I have killed someone. I don’t know if they are dead.”The migrant — who reportedly exploited a legal loophole to get into the UK — is also accused of threatening to kill a radiographer on the same day as Monday’s attack, the hearing was told.“I will kill you,” Alodid allegedly told the radiographer.Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid allegedly tried to behead his victim.Alodid appeared on video and stayed silent during the hearing. He was denied bail and will next appear in court on July 8.Police “strongly” opposed bail and a detective warned that potential future offenses could be “serious and unpredictable in nature.”Judge Stephen Keown said the risks of granting Alodid bail were “far too great” due to the risks of reoffending and harm to the public.The judge also noted that Alodid could be a flight risk. The migrant entered the UK via the Common Travel Area — an open-border zone which allows British and Irish citizens to travel freely.The stabbing sparked anti-immigration protests, which developed into riots across Northern Ireland Tuesday night – with masked yobs hurling petrol bombs at cops and setting homes and cars alight.Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s First Minister, said “groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” branding it “outright thuggery.”Two officers were injured amid the disorder, Jon Boutcher, Northern Ireland’s chief constable revealed in a press conference Wednesday, branding the protests an “act of self-harm.”“What we saw last night was an insult,” he told reporters, ordering protesters to “take control” of their actions.“It was an insult to the victim of the terrible attack that many of you will have watched online.”Cops were forced to rescue families with babies as young as two months old as yobs ran amok.An extra 200 cops will be deployed to the region to support local officers amid fears of further nights of protest.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.“There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.“It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it. Those responsible will feel the full force of the law.”Demonstrations were also reported in cities across Scotland and England, including in the city of Southampton – which saw protests following the death of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.

Sudanese Belfast attacker had ‘leave to remain’ in UK-A piece of information has come out about a Sudanese man who allegedly attempted to behead a man in Northern Ireland. WARNING: Graphic.Frank Chung @franks_chung June 10, 2026 - 8:44AM

A Sudanese man who was arrested after a horrifying “attempted beheading” in Belfast had leave to remain in UK, police have confirmed.

The fresh information proves that the man was an immigrant who had recently entered the UK.The new revelation is likely to feed into the hands of Britain’s far-right groups with immigration detractors already sparking violence in the past week over the death of Henry Nowak, a white teen who was stabbed to death by a Sikh man.The disclosure comes as tensions rise in Northern Island. All bus services in Belfast were cancelled on Tuesday night, local time, after a bus was set alight in a pro-British area near the city centre.Crowds have gathered in other parts of the city as well as in nearby Antrim. A motorway was blocked by protesters.Demonstrations have also been seen in other UK cities, such as Southampton, following the attack with people carrying UK and England flags.Police said the Belfast victim – a man in his 40s – suffered “significant” injuries to his eyes in the brutal attack which was shockingly caught on video.Graphic mobile phone footage of the incident showed a man straddling the bloodied victim’s chest and hacking at his neck as bystanders scream “he’s trying to cut his head off”.“He’s just killed him, hurry up!” a man says in the video.As the victim struggles weakly to get away, the attacker raises what appears to be a small knife in the air screams something unintelligible in a foreign language.“Get off him ya f**kin rat!” a woman yells.The attacker then takes the knife to the man’s throat in front of the horrified witnesses as the victim groans.“He’s trying to cut his head off! Hurry up! He’s slicing his head off!” the man says.Bystanders rush in and attempt to overpower the attacker, with one yelling “kill him!”The sound of something metal can be heard hitting the ground as another local rushes in and begins whacking the offender in the head with a hurling stick.The attacker falls to the ground but refuses to release the victim from the headlock.Another bystander kicks the offender in the head before police arrive at the scene and rush into the commotion.The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed one man was in custody.“Police in north Belfast are currently in attendance at Kinnaird Ave following the report of a stabbing incident shortly after 10.30pm on Monday June 8,” police said in a statement.“A man has been arrested in relation to the incident and is in police custody while a second man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries.”Police later confirmed they had arrested a Sudanese man in his 30s, who is understood to have lived in the area, on suspicion of attempted murder.Officers will remain at the crime scene and have asked for witnesses or anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage of the incident to come forward.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the attack was “sickening” and he will have “absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets”.“My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened,” he added.PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said “a critical incident” has been declared and police have begun an investigation to establish a motive.“This brutal attack will have sent shockwaves through the community causing real concern.“I want to reassure the local community that we are treating this attack with the utmost seriousness.“Our investigation is continuing at pace.”The shocking attack comes in the wake of the brutal stabbing murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa in the southern city of Southampton last December.Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years after he was found guilty late last month following a two-week trial in Southampton Crown Court.Harrowing bodycam footage released last week showed Hampshire Police officers arresting and handcuffing the teen as he bled to death, after the killer and his family members falsely accused the student of a racially motivated attack.The footage sparked violent riots in Southampton on Tuesday that left 11 police officers injured, and fuelled fierce debate over alleged “two-tier policing” in the UK that critics claim favours ethnic minorities over white people.Fourteen people have since been charged with violent disorder.The high-profile case has sparked a diplomatic row between the UK’s left-wing Labour government and the Trump administration in the US.“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilisation dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” US Vice President JD Vance wrote on X over the weekend.“His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.“Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response – the only response – is righteous anger.“One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.”A spokesman for Mr Starmer hit back at “people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division”.The Downing Street spokesman added that the Nowak family has “said they do not want his death to be used to create further division”.“Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances,” the statement said. “That is who we are as a country.”frank.chung@news.com.au

Nuclear weapons spending hits record high amid new 'arms race': studies.

Geneva, June 8 (AFP) Jun 08, 2026-Worldwide spending on nuclear weapons soared to a record high last year as atomic-armed countries moved more warheads from storage onto delivery systems, experts said Tuesday.The nine nuclear-armed states jointly spent nearly $119 billion on their arsenals last year, up 19 percent from 2024, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)."A new nuclear arms race is upon us," its report warned.ICAN, and a separate study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday, voiced alarm at the growing nuclear risk amid swelling geopolitical tensions.The dramatic spending hike on nuclear weapons came as countries rushed to modernise their arsenals and deploy more of their stockpiles, the studies showed.Susi Snyder, ICAN's director of programmes and co-author of the latest report, said the scale-up, coupled with fears that artificial intelligence could increase the risk of nuclear weapons use, was deeply alarming."To be perfectly honest, I'm terrified," she told AFP.- 'Risks are rising' -SIPRI's report highlighted that the total estimated number of nuclear warheads had been declining for decades, falling to 12,187 at the start of this year, but warned the number of weapons available for potential use had risen, to 9,745."Even though we have lower numbers of nuclear weapons, the level of nuclear dangers and nuclear risks are rising," SIPRI director Karim Haggag told AFP.He pointed to worrying signs, including the breakdown in strategic arms controls and competition between great powers with nuclear arms.SIPRI predicted that overall nuclear arms stockpiles were likely to begin growing again in coming years "as the pace of dismantlement is slowing, while the deployment of new nuclear weapons is accelerating".The United States and Russia together hold around 83 percent of the world's nuclear arms stockpile, with more than 5,000 warheads each. China is expanding its nuclear arsenal faster than any other country, SIPRI said, estimating that it counts around 620 warheads."Intensifying geopolitical competition means a very strong incentive on the part of China to increase its reliance on nuclear weapons," Haggag said.ICAN's report indicated that all nuclear-armed states, which also include Britain, France, India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan, were increasing investments in their arsenals.The nine countries jointly spent nearly $17 billion more last year than in 2024 on the weapons of mass destruction.Washington spent more than all the other countries combined, dishing out $69.2 billion on nuclear weapons in 2025 -- an increase of $12.4 billion from a year earlier, ICAN said.The United States was followed by China, which was estimated to have spent $13.5 billion last year, then Britain at $12.6 billion and Russia at $9.5 billion, it said.Over the past five years, it determined that the nine countries had spent over $470 billion on their arsenals.- Long lifespans -Those investments are expected to grow going forward.Examining longer term projections, ICAN highlighted figures from Britain, France and the United States showing plans to spend billions to develop and maintain nuclear weapons systems well into the next century.Other countries too were introducing new weapons systems with long lifespans, it said.The report pointed out that planned new US Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles were expected to remain operational past 2100, while swelling US plutonium pit production indicated that the country's warheads would last through 2120.That will mean significant investment, with US nuclear arms spending over just the decade between 2025 and 2034 projected at close to $1 trillion.Researchers said the huge sums were particularly jarring at a time when the global humanitarian system was reeling from dramatic funding cuts.Just a single day of nuclear weapons spending last year could have provided food security to more than two million people, they said.Instead of providing aid or healthcare for their populations, the nuclear-armed states were investing in "an arsenal that they themselves know they cannot use without committing a war crime", Snyder said."There seems to be a total disconnect from reality."

UAV NEWS=ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms by Clarence Oxford.

Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026-ThinKom Solutions has unveiled Alecto, a self-funded, mobile high-power microwave (HPM) directed energy weapon designed to defeat unmanned aircraft system (UAS) swarms. Based in Hawthorne, California, the company developed the system using its proprietary Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub (VICTS) antenna technology, targeting Counter-UAS (C-UAS) requirements for the Department of War and the Department of Homeland Security.Alecto couples ThinKom's patented VICTS steerable mechanical phased array with vacuum electronics to produce peak power densities described as orders of magnitude greater than gallium nitride-based active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs). The combination eliminates the need for prior target knowledge, a feature the company says is critical when countering rapidly evolving drone threats.The system is engineered for fire-on-the-move operations and can be integrated onto compact platforms including Infantry Squad Vehicles and Unmanned Ground Vehicles. ThinKom says the design significantly reduces Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) compared to conventional HPM systems, enabling installations that were previously impractical on smaller vehicles.Alecto offers horizon-to-horizon coverage in a low-profile package. The VICTS antenna provides high precision and low sidelobes, which ThinKom says allows the system to deliver effects on target without collateral damage to surrounding equipment or personnel. The system includes a tablet-based operator interface and is compatible with key command-and-control networks. It complies with U.S. military HERO, HERP, and HERF electromagnetic safety standards for protecting personnel, equipment, and fuel.While C-UAS is the primary mission, ThinKom describes Alecto as having broad counter-electronics capability. The HPM approach delivers a deep magazine and low cost per shot, combined with rapid beam steering and instantaneous effects, making it suitable for engaging drone swarms."By investing our own capital, we have been able to greatly accelerate the development cycles, embodying the agility required by the Department of War," said Dan Roman, ThinKom Vice President of EW/HPM.The development aligns with a November 2025 memorandum from Emil Michael, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, which identified directed energy as a critical technology area requiring innovation in support of the National Defense Strategy.Alecto represents ThinKom's first product in the HPM market. The company says it plans continued investment in HPM across multiple platforms and applications, including base defense, maritime, airborne, homeland security, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense. ThinKom's existing high-volume production experience in airborne phased array antennas is cited as a factor supporting Alecto deliveries at scale.

Drone rescue highlights US Navy's autonomous push.

Washington, United States, June 11 (AFP) Jun 11, 2026-The use of a sea drone to rescue two US Army aviators apparently shot down by Iran underscores the growing importance of such vessels in Washington's naval operations, analysts said Wednesday.Military officials told US media the operation near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday was their first-ever rescue carried out by drone at sea, with an operator piloting from afar.Drone warfare has already taken huge leaps during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the use of unmanned vehicles to recover wounded soldiers from frontline areas.The Hormuz incident comes amid a years-long push by the US Navy to integrate autonomous technology into Middle East operations."The surface drone that assisted in Monday's rescue of the Apache crew off the coast of Oman was a US Navy Corsair unmanned surface vessel operated by US 5th Fleet's Task Force 59," said Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American forces in the Middle East.Hawkins told US media the pair, who President Donald Trump said had been shot down by Iran, were picked up by the drone. They were transported to another location before being plucked out of the sea by helicopter in a two-hour rescue operation.Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said the drone's role in the rescue was a "surprise.""These drones are being used for surveillance and aren't necessarily equipped for search and rescue. That said, this highlights their versatility and ability to take on new missions," he said.Task Force 59 was unveiled in 2021 under the US Navy's Middle East command, focusing on testing and implementing unmanned systems and artificial intelligence."For pennies on the dollar we can put unmanned platforms out there, we can couple it with artificial intelligence and then, I think critically important, we can use our manned ships much more efficiently, much more effectively," then-Fifth Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper told reporters in October 2022.Leaders of the congressionally mandated National Commission on the Future of the Navy wrote in a January op-ed: "A distributed fleet that combines manned platforms with unmanned surface and undersea vehicles can expand sensing, complicate enemy targeting, and cover a wider area."- 'Persistent maritime awareness' -The Corsair, made by Texas-based Saronic Technologies, was introduced to the Middle East theater in March, Hawkins said.The 24-foot, diesel-powered "autonomous surface vessel" can be launched at sea, allowing larger ships to deploy and retrieve it without returning to port, Saronic said in a blog post.During a January test run, the Corsair at times faced conditions that "could not have been endured by a human operator."The company concluded that the vessel can loiter autonomously at sea for more than 50 days."This capability allows operators to maintain persistent maritime awareness without the cost, risk or fatigue associated with crewed operations," Saronic said.- Hot water -"The United States has been increasingly focused on using these systems effectively," said Scott Savitz, senior engineer at the Rand Corporation research organization.CENTCOM and US Naval Forces Central Command "took a lead on this and that experimentation has presumably paid off."Among the challenges of deploying sea drones in the Gulf is its water, which is hotter and saltier than other bodies, he said.Other autonomous vessels in the region are involved in operations such as launching anti-air weapons, conducting surveillance, tracking submarines and clearing mines.For Savitz, the aviators' rescue highlighted the functionality of drones beyond headlines about their role in attacks in the Ukraine war."I'm so pleased it will be a reminder to people that these things are not only useful for one-way explosive attacks," he said.

China's Xi in North Korea for rare visit.

Pyongyang, June 8 (AFP) Jun 08, 2026-China's President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to North Korea on Monday, where he met an emboldened Kim Jong Un who has drawn closer to Moscow while expanding his country's nuclear weapons programme.Xi's trip to Pyongyang was his first since 2019, and came after he hosted a series of world leaders including US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Beijing.China, Washington's chief geopolitical rival, has been North Korea's main trading partner by far for decades and a key source of diplomatic and economic support for a country hit by international sanctions.But Kim has boosted an alliance with Putin in recent years, securing critical support from Moscow after sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces.In an article published on the front page of North Korea's Rodong Sinmun, Xi underlined the special relationship between the two sides."No matter how the times change or how the international situation evolves, the traditional friendship between China and North Korea is always invincible," Xi wrote.Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan were met at the airport by Kim in a red-carpet welcome complete with military salute and cheering crowds.Huge portraits of the two leaders loomed over Kim Il Sung Square during a grand welcome ceremony, where Xi and Kim inspected the honour guard as a military band played their national anthems, state broadcaster CCTV showed.- 'Irreversible' -While the two countries are quick to talk up their friendship, North Korea's commitment to its nuclear programme has been a thorn in the relationship.Beijing has said it wants to see a denuclearised Korean peninsula, but North Korea has repeatedly declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state, particularly after Kim and Trump's 2019 summit collapsed over Pyongyang's weapons programme and sanctions relief.China-North Korea exchanges faced a further blow soon after, when Pyongyang shuttered its borders during the Covid-19 pandemic.Xi's trip came just weeks after he held talks with Trump, during which the White House said the leaders "confirmed their shared goal to denuclearise North Korea".But leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister said on the eve of the visit that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme was "the line of no retreat".Minseon Ku, a diplomacy professor at DePaul University, told AFP that "Beijing probably has accepted North Korea as a nuclear state", but Xi "will probably tell Kim that China wants stability more than anything".Seong-Hyon Lee, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center, also said Beijing is shifting towards "underwriting regime durability" rather than seeking to coerce North Korea into denuclearisation."China's broader regional strategy benefits from a stable, heavily armed, and aligned buffer state that absorbs US and allied military bandwidth," he told AFP.Xi last met Kim in September, when he invited the North Korean leader and Putin to a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.- Military alliance -Trump has made little progress on North Korea, especially on the nuclear front, despite his earlier high-profile summits with Kim.North Korea is also the only country with an official, binding military alliance with China.North Korea could also serve as a useful counterweight to US partners in the region, including South Korea and Japan, analysts said.Long-frosty China-Japan ties have deteriorated since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a security hawk, suggested last year that Tokyo might intervene militarily in any Chinese attempt to take self-ruled Taiwan."As China's international standing rises, Beijing is likely seeking to draw Pyongyang more actively into its diplomatic orbit," said Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert at Kyungnam University.Some analysts say the summit could be Xi's way of countering Russia's growing influence over North Korea, but DePaul's Ku noted that "overall, Moscow is not a major power like China"."Moscow-Pyongyang power relations are more equal than Beijing-Pyongyang; Moscow needs Kim for their war in Ukraine as much as Kim needs technology sharing and food from Russia," she said.Residents living close to the North Korean border expressed hope for greater openness from Pyongyang.South Korean tour guide Jun Sang-gab, 65, said he hopes that "North Korea opens its economy" and follows China's development model."If they (the North) establish themselves economically, there won't be any incidents like armed unification or war" on the Korean peninsula, he told AFP.

Russian strikes kill five, damage nuclear storage facility: Kyiv.

Kyiv, Ukraine, June 7 (AFP) Jun 07, 2026-Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least five people and damaging a nuclear storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukrainian officials said.Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was "partially destroyed", according to Ukraine's Energoatom nuclear energy operator.Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war -- now in its fifth year -- remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Britain on Sunday for talks with his allies on how to pressure Russia to end the fighting, after Russia's Vladimir Putin rejected direct peace talks with his Ukrainian counterpart."A 'shahed' hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility," Zelensky said in a post on X, referring to the Iranian-designed "Shahed" drones that Russia fires at Ukraine on a nightly basis."As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia's brazenness, which long ago went off the charts," he added.The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".The facility is located in a remote area of forest around a dozen kilometres (seven miles) from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and is designed to house spent nuclear fuel from Ukraine's three active nuclear plants.- Deadly strikes -Both sides accused each other of renewed attacks on civilians Sunday.A Russian bombardment of a public transport stop in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region left at least two people dead, while a nearby drone strike killed a 56-year-old minibus driver, authorities said.Separate Russian attacks on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed two men, governor Oleksandr Ganzha posted on Telegram.In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike on a car in the Belgorod border region killed a woman and injured her husband, local authorities said.Hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Russia now occupies around a fifth of its neighbour: the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, most of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk -- collectively referred to as the Donbas -- and large parts of the southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.bur-cad/rmb

US seizes 13 domains suspected of Chinese spying.

Washington, United States, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-US authorities on Wednesday seized 13 internet domains they suspect were used by Chinese agents to obtain classified information from Americans with security clearances.Last week, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance -- composed of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand -- issued a rare warning that Chinese military intelligence services were using LinkedIn and other job platforms to pry secret information.In a statement on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice announced the seizure of domain names allegedly used by sham consulting sites to target Americans with access to classified information."Today's seizures send a clear message that any attempts to exploit Americans trusted with access to our nation's most sensitive information will be exposed and dismantled," said US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, said the seizures illustrate "the lengths the Chinese government's intelligence services will go to as they try to use AI-generated content to trick, recruit, or coerce current and former US security clearance holders into sharing sensitive information."Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg warned Americans they should treat any offers of quick income for vague consulting "with extreme caution and remain vigilant for warning signs of malicious targeting."The unnamed conspirators behind the websites "have denied any involvement by any foreign government," according to the Justice Department statement.sst/eml/md/des

Zelensky meets allies in UK after strike hits Ukraine nuclear site.

London, June 7 (AFP) Jun 07, 2026-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Britain Sunday for defence talks with leaders of the UK, France and Germany after new Russian strikes killed five people and hit a nuclear site in Ukraine.Zelensky was greeted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street, where he was set to also meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who arrived earlier for the talks."The main focus is our defense in the war, greater cooperation for the security of all of Europe in the area of air defense, and our shared view of diplomatic prospects -- Europe must be part of the negotiations and must be strong," Zelensky said on X ahead of the talks.The Ukrainian president also said he would meet King Charles III on Monday.Kyiv is asking its Western allies for more ammunition deliveries for its anti-air defences as Ukraine endures daily Russian strikes. Zelensky is also seeking ways for the allies to further pressure Russia to end the fighting.On Sunday, Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine, with one of the attacks damaging a nuclear storage facility near the Chernobyl disaster site, Ukrainian officials said.Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was "partially destroyed", according to Ukraine's nuclear energy operator, Energoatom.Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war -- now in its fifth year -- remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East.Russian leader Vladimir Putin has rejected direct peace talks proposed by his Ukrainian counterpart.Zelensky, in an earlier online post, said Russia had used an Iranian-designed Shahed drone to "hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility" in the Chernobyl exclusion zone."As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia's brazenness, which long ago went off the charts," he said.The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".The facility is located in a remote area of forest around a dozen kilometres (seven miles) from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and is designed to house spent fuel from Ukraine's three active nuclear plants.- Deadly strikes -Both sides accused each other of renewed attacks on civilians Sunday.A Russian bombardment of a public transport stop in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region left at least two people dead, while a nearby drone strike killed a 56-year-old minibus driver, authorities said.Separate Russian attacks on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed two men, governor Oleksandr Ganzha posted on Telegram.In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike on a car in the Belgorod border region killed a woman and injured her husband, local authorities said.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Russia now occupies around a fifth of its neighbour: the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, most of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk -- collectively referred to as the Donbas -- and large parts of the southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.burs/giv/jhb

Vietnam looks to Estonia for digital identity expertise and unifying data.

Jun 9, 2026, 2:30 pm EDT | Lu-Hai Liang-Vietnam is accelerating its digital public infrastructure (DPI) roadmap through a new strategic partnership with Estonia.The collaboration focuses on leveraging Estonia’s experience in building secure electronic identity systems and unified data frameworks. It comes as digital identity expertise is increasingly becoming an export as countries deepen partnerships.Vietnam has established national databases and its core digital identity platform VNeID, but policymakers acknowledge there’s a gap between infrastructure deployment and active citizen engagement.Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bùi Hoàng Phương noted that digital governance only succeeds when public interactions become routine. Vietnam now aims to transform VNeID from a basic authentication tool into a multi-service digital gateway.The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Science and Technology hosted the joint seminar in Hanoi to refine Vietnam’s national digital citizenship strategy. In attendance was Hannes Astok, executive director and chairman of the management board at the Estonian e-Governance Academy, reports Vietnam News.A focus of the bilateral exchange is adopting Estonia’s “once-only” data principle. In Estonia, state agencies share data automatically across interconnected platforms so citizens only submit information once. This architectural approach eliminates data fragmentation across different government sectors.Estonian experts noted that secure, state-backed identity systems are essential to maintaining public trust in these automated networks. The Baltic country has been sought out by the likes of Benin, Kenya and Germany for its expertise in digital governance and digital identity, and Cybernetica has been contracted by Côte d’Ivoire to build an interoperability layer.To get to this level of infrastructure maturity, experts recommend Vietnam strengthen its personal data protection frameworks and interconnect its fragmented data platforms. Elevating digital literacy to ensure widespread adoption is another pillar.Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyễn Văn Long called for increased technical cooperation between the two countries, in areas like research, expert exchanges and the development of common data-sharing mechanisms. Vietnam is targeting 2035 for fully digital citizen–government interactions and wants to develop the VNeID app into a multi-purpose national digital platform.

Analysis 'Rocket and missile arsenals are effectively zero'Depleted but dangerous, Hamas is holding its fire against Israel. The quiet may not last-While others attack, the terror group has largely vanished from the battlefield as it licks its war wounds and focuses on controlling Gazans, but experts warn the situation is far from stable-By Stav Levaton-Today, 6:10 am-JUN 11,26

The war that Hamas ignited on October 7, 2023, has since expanded far beyond Gaza, drawing in Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. But as Israel found itself under attack from multiple fronts in recent months, the group that started the conflict has been strikingly absent from the battlefield, largely holding fast to a ceasefire that halted fighting in October.That absence, however, should not be mistaken for defeat, experts warn. Despite two years of sustained Israel Defense Forces operations and months of diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war for good, Hamas remains armed and in control of most of Gaza’s territory east of the ceasefire line.“On their side of the Yellow Line, [Hamas has] a monopoly on force,” Jonathan Ruhe, a military expert at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, told The Times of Israel. “That feeds into their whole strategic concept, which, at this point, is to show that they won the war because they survived.”When US President Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point plan to end the conflict eight months ago, disarming Hamas was one of its central pillars, paving the way for an International Stabilization Force tasked with securing the Strip during a transitional postwar period.But footage circulating online since the ceasefire took effect in October appears to show the terror group reasserting its presence across parts of Gaza, with armed operatives patrolling streets, staging public displays of force and seeking to demonstrate that its military wing remains intact.At the same time, Hamas has refrained from launching any significant attacks on Israeli territory since the ceasefire came into force.The relative quiet has persisted even as the IDF continues to carry out near-daily strikes in Gaza, which Israel says are aimed at thwarting threats to its forces or responding to violations of the truce.Hamas’s last known attempt to fire a rocket at Israel came in January, when the IDF reported detecting a failed launch from the Gaza City area.Unable, not unwillingAccording to Samuel Ben-Ur, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the absence of rocket fire should not be mistaken for a change in Hamas’s intentions.“If they could carry out another October 7-style attack today, they would,” Ben-Ur said. “Their strategy is to inflict as much pain as possible on Israel… and force it into a concession.”Instead, he argued, Hamas’s restraint is more likely a reflection of its current capabilities than its ambitions.That position is backed up by Israeli military officials, who said in March that while the terror group has likely been attempting to rearm amid the ongoing ceasefire, it is nowhere near attaining the strength it had before the war, when it and other terror organizations would regularly fire rockets from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel.The IDF assessed that Hamas’s efforts to rearm were “very limited,” largely because the group no longer has access to its weapons-smuggling routes, primarily across the Egyptian border.As a result, Hamas has resorted to even more clandestine means. In February, Hebrew media reported that the terror group was employing submersible containers that travel just below the water’s surface to float contraband such as rocket-building materials from the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza.A weakened military, an intact regime-In light of such efforts, Ben-Ur emphasized that there are still “no reports that suggest they’ve been able to build up their rocket arsenal.”Before the war, Hamas was believed to possess between 18,000 and 30,000 rockets and unguided missiles, according to estimates by the Institute for National Security Studies.IDF officials believe that the terror group still possesses hundreds of rockets manufactured before the war that were not destroyed during the IDF’s two-year-long ground offensive, as troops did not reach all areas of the Strip.Hamas’s “rocket and missile arsenals are effectively zero,” said Ruhe.Its ability to manufacture rockets has also been largely dismantled after nearly three years of Israeli strikes targeting its production infrastructure.In an effort to prevent Hamas from restoring its missile production capabilities, the military has recently been targeting commanders in the group’s rocket and missile program, as well as weapons manufacturing operatives.In March, the IDF struck and killed a commander in Hamas’s supply and logistics department who worked to advance the terror group’s “precision missile project.” Two months later, the military similarly killed a key Hamas operative involved in weapons production who served as a major source of technical expertise for the terror group.Further deteriorating its military wing, the IDF killed Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad on May 15, as well as his successor, Mohammed Odeh, 11 days later.Still, the targeting of Hamas’s military personnel and erosion of its rocket arsenal does not mean the group has been disarmed. Analysts assess that the organization continues to possess small and medium arms, including assault rifles, machine guns and explosives used to manufacture improvised explosive devices, which have remained one of the primary threats facing IDF troops operating inside Gaza.Hamas has also retained access to drones, many of which are commercially available and can be adapted for military use. However, Israeli restrictions on the entry of dual-use goods into Gaza since the start of the war have likely limited the group’s ability to acquire such systems at the scale it once could.Last month, an IDF officer told the Walla news outlet that Hamas is believed to possess fiber-optic drones that are resistant to electronic jamming – the same technology Hezbollah has been using in deadly attacks on Israeli troops during the ongoing fighting in Lebanon.Yet, analysts believe that Hamas is concentrating the use of what weapons it maintains not to fight Israel but rather toward what Ben-Ur described as its “top priority,” entrenching its control over Gazans living under its rule.“There have been more instances in the past couple of weeks of [Hamas] executing Palestinians in the street,” he said, a practice the terror group has implemented during past ceasefires as well. These executions often target members of rival gangs in Gaza, as well as dissidents and Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel.No clear path to disarmament-Given Hamas’s continued military presence in the Strip, analysts argue that the question is no longer whether the group will willingly disarm, but who, if anyone, will forcibly take its weapons. Israel says disarmament must take place before plans for the Strip’s post-war rehabilitation can get underway in earnest, leaving the territory in a tense limbo.Ruhe argued that Hamas is using its remaining military capabilities to send a clear message: any effort to remove the group from power — whether by Israel, local rivals, or the yet-to-be-established International Stabilization Force — will face fierce resistance, and the organization has no intention of voluntarily surrendering its weapons.“Until you find someone to disarm Hamas by force, none of the rest of [Trump’s 20-point plan] is going to click into place,” he said.According to Ben-Ur, the IDF remains the only actor currently capable of carrying out that mission, a step that would mean resuming large-scale military operations against Hamas.While that “has to happen if Hamas is to be disarmed,” it does not necessarily mean a return to the full-scale war that devastated Gaza over the course of two years, he said.Rather, a similar process seems to be taking place gradually, with Israel expanding its control and squeezing Hamas and Gaza’s civilian population into an ever-shrinking area.Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had ordered the IDF to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, up from the current 60%, and well beyond the territory Israel was permitted to temporarily hold under the ceasefire agreement.While critics have portrayed the move as evidence of Israel’s intention to permanently seize territory in Gaza, Ben-Ur argued that it should instead be viewed as an extension of the military’s ongoing campaign to dismantle terror infrastructure in areas under the army’s control.What comes next for Gaza remains deeply uncertain. But Ruhe stressed that the status quo — a weakened Hamas that remains armed and in power — is unlikely to provide lasting stability.“If Gaza continues to fester… and falls farther and farther down [Israel’s] list of priorities,” as Jerusalem focuses on more immediate threats elsewhere in the region and once again underestimates Hamas, Ruhe warned, the conditions that enabled the group to surprise the country on October 7 could eventually repeat, raising the risk of another large-scale onslaught from a group still armed and dangerous.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.

Future plan is for overland alternative to Strait of Hormuz-Turkey, Saudi Arabia agree on major regional railway line bypassing Israel-Ankara touts deal that would curb Jerusalem’s influence, as lack of Israeli-Saudi normalization stalls progress on a India-Europe trade corridor passing through Jewish state-By Michael Bachner-10 June 2026, 11:41 am

Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed landmark agreements Tuesday for a new railway line connecting the countries via Syria and Jordan, aiming to extend it in the future to Oman to serve as an overland trade route bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, a central oil trade route currently blockaded by the US and Iran amid their war.Ankara boasted that the project would reduce Israel’s regional influence, and various commentators said the development sidelined the Jewish state’s attempts to set up railway trade routes from East Asia to Europe passing through the country.While Israel and the US in 2023 backed an ambitious plan to link India with the Middle East, Israel and Europe, this has hinged on a normalization agreement being signed between Jerusalem and Riyadh. Extensive US efforts to broker such a deal have stalled as the Saudis have demanded irreversible progress toward establishing a Palestinian state as a precondition, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government has rejected this out of hand.The two separate memorandums of understanding signed Tuesday by Turkey and Saudi Arabia are seen as a revival of the Hejaz railway, which ran from Medina to Istanbul in the early 20th century, with branches in Lebanon and in Haifa in Ottoman-era Palestine.According to various regional media outlets, as Turkey’s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu traveled to Riyadh to sign the agreements, Ankara’s Trade Minister Ömer Bolat met Syrian Economy and Industry Minister Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar in Gaziantep, near the border between the two countries.“The reduction of Israel’s influence in the region, together with increased political and economic solidarity among us, will bring economic prosperity, peace and stability to the Middle East, the Gulf and Türkiye’s southern borders,” Bolat boasted.Observers similarly described the initiative as a blow to Israel.Former US diplomat Hady Amr said it “deliberately bypasses Israel and the UAE.”A Facebook page with almost 900,000 followers run by fans of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman presented it as a “fatal blow to one of Israel’s most strategically significant economic projects,” referring to the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor, known as IMEC. The post claimed that “the Israel-India-UAE axis has been destroyed.”While the new initiative aims to establish a major overland alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, some Israeli firms already established smaller routes through Saudi Arabia early in the regional war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in order to bypass a chokehold imposed by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea.

DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN ( 500 million Dead )

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6  I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7  And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9  I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION-HEAVENLY OBJECTS) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

South Asia monsoon risks both floods and drought: experts.

Kathmandu, Nepal, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-South Asian communities face "serious hazards" from intense rains this season, even though the approaching monsoon is expected to bring lower than normal rains overall, risking drought, experts warned on Thursday.The Hindu Kush-Himalayan range, which stretches from Afghanistan to Myanmar, holds the largest reserves of ice and snow outside the Arctic and Antarctica and feeds at least 10 major Asian river systems that underpin water, food and energy security across the continent."The outlook points to a drier monsoon overall, but that does not mean lower risk," said Manish Shrestha, a hydrologist at the Kathmandu?based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)."Short, intense rainfall events can still trigger serious hazards."Long, dry spells followed by extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD warned, raised the risk of floods and landslides.Deadly weather-related disasters are common during the monsoon season from June to September but experts say climate change, coupled with urbanisation, is increasing their frequency and severity.The summer monsoon, which brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall, is vital for agriculture and therefore the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region home to around two billion people.Lower levels of snow in the mountains -- or "snow persistance", the time that snow remains on the ground -- meant the region was starting with a "weaker seasonal water buffer", said Sher Muhammad from ICIMOD."Warmer temperatures, combined with reduced rainfall, could limit the recharge of rivers, springs and other water systems," he said.Experts said stronger early warning systems were needed."Drought and flood risks can no longer be managed separately," said Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a senior adviser at ICIMOD said in a statement."Early warning systems, short-term forecasts, and locally driven preparedness need to work together to address increasingly complex hazards."Melting glaciers can also add to the volume of water, while unregulated construction in flood-prone areas exacerbates the damage.

South Asia monsoon risks both floods and drought: experts.

Kathmandu, Nepal, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-South Asian communities face "serious hazards" from intense rains this season, even though the approaching monsoon is expected to bring lower than normal rains overall, risking drought, experts warned on Thursday.The Hindu Kush-Himalayan range, which stretches from Afghanistan to Myanmar, holds the largest reserves of ice and snow outside the Arctic and Antarctica and feeds at least 10 major Asian river systems that underpin water, food and energy security across the continent."The outlook points to a drier monsoon overall, but that does not mean lower risk," said Manish Shrestha, a hydrologist at the Kathmandu?based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)."Short, intense rainfall events can still trigger serious hazards."Long, dry spells followed by extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD warned, raised the risk of floods and landslides.Deadly weather-related disasters are common during the monsoon season from June to September but experts say climate change, coupled with urbanisation, is increasing their frequency and severity.The summer monsoon, which brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall, is vital for agriculture and therefore the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region home to around two billion people.Lower levels of snow in the mountains -- or "snow persistance", the time that snow remains on the ground -- meant the region was starting with a "weaker seasonal water buffer", said Sher Muhammad from ICIMOD."Warmer temperatures, combined with reduced rainfall, could limit the recharge of rivers, springs and other water systems," he said.Experts said stronger early warning systems were needed."Drought and flood risks can no longer be managed separately," said Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a senior adviser at ICIMOD said in a statement."Early warning systems, short-term forecasts, and locally driven preparedness need to work together to address increasingly complex hazards."Melting glaciers can also add to the volume of water, while unregulated construction in flood-prone areas exacerbates the damage.

Death toll from Philippines quake rises to 46.

General Santos, Philippines, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-Rescuers in the southern Philippines pulled a body from the rubble of a collapsed supermarket on Wednesday, as the death toll from a major earthquake climbed to 46.The 7.8-magnitude tremor just off the coast of Mindanao on Monday brought down buildings, triggered landslides and set off tsunami warnings across a swathe of the southern island.Joey Deluvio, 39, was one of two employees at a supermarket in General Santos City that has been the focus of recovery efforts despite the constant threat of aftershocks.Life-detecting equipment had traced a "weak pulse" earlier in the operation, local rescuer Michelle Chua told AFP on Wednesday, but "when they got to the body... there were no signs of life".Deluvio's body was found pinned between two beams, Chua added.The national disaster agency raised the death toll to 45 on Wednesday, while the number of people missing jumped dramatically from four to 17.However, the figure for fatalities did not include Deluvio, the civil defence office confirmed.Most of the additional dead were from Davao Occidental province, and most had been killed in landslides or collapsing buildings, civil defence official Rafaelito Alejandro said in a radio interview.

Odds rising for very strong El Nino: EU monitor.

Paris, France, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Wednesday said global forecasters were increasingly confident that a very strong El Nino warming weather pattern could form later this year.Scientists say there is a high likelihood of El Nino conditions developing over the Northern Hemisphere summer, with some forecasts pointing to a potentially record-breaking event.El Nino is a natural climate phenomenon that warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, bringing worldwide changes in winds, rainfall patterns and erratic weather.Copernicus said its June outlook "further strengthens the likelihood of a large El Nino event"."The odds are strongly in favour of a moderate to strong, or probably strong to record-breaking, event at this stage," the service's director Carlo Buontempo told AFP.Its outlook combines El Nino predictions from nine of the world's leading meteorological centres -- including in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan -- into a single forecast.Some 75 percent of these models predict average sea temperatures in key El Nino zones in the Pacific could surge 2.5C or more by November -- exceptionally high projections.Last month, confidence was just 50 percent."From May 1st to June 1st all models effectively shifted upward their predictions," said Buontempo, a climate scientist. The median forecast was just above 3C in November, he said.This would be well above what is dubbed "super" El Nino territory and rank among the most powerful ever recorded.Just three events -- 1982/83, 1997/98 and 2015/16 -- have breached 2C since the first major El Nino recorded in the modern era in 1877/78.- Strong signal -Copernicus stressed that "individual models are not unanimous in the support for a very strong event" but those at the lower end had historically underestimated El Nino strength.Scientists say that observations in the real world also point to an unusual event taking shape.Sea temperatures in key El Nino zones of the equatorial Pacific are rapidly rising and an enormous pool of abnormally warm water is massing beneath the surface.El Ninos build strength as the ocean and atmosphere increasingly "couple" over the summer months, shifting air pressure, cloud patterns and winds.This feedback loop can turn a modest El Nino into a blockbuster event, supercharging heat and triggering chaotic weather worldwide.El Nino tends to peak late in the year but heat in the oceans releases more slowly into the atmosphere, pushing up global temperatures the following year.Climate scientists interviewed by AFP said 2027 would likely surpass 2024 as the hottest year on record.Scientists say that every El Nino is different, but major events often follow familiar patterns.This includes drought across parts of the Amazon, Indonesia and Australia, disrupted monsoons in India, and shifting rainfall throughout the tropics.Scientists stress that stronger El Ninos raise the odds of more severe impacts -- but do not guarantee them.Long-range forecasts carry significant uncertainty and their reliability generally improves as the period being predicted draws closer.

India says working to stop water flowing into Pakistan.

New Delhi, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-India is working to ensure "not a single drop of water" will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi suspended a major treaty last year.Pakistan has previously said it would consider any attempt to change the flow of cross-border waterways as an "act of war", and says that the 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT) remains in force as there is no mechanism to unilaterally withdraw from it."It is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years," Minister of Water C.R. Patil told India's ANI news agency late Tuesday.Patil, speaking in Hindi, said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The treaty governs the use of water from six rivers, whose headwaters originate in India but flow into Pakistan as part of the Indus basin -- a resource relied on by hundreds of millions.The Indus cuts through ultra-sensitive demarcation lines between India and Pakistan in contested, Muslim-majority Kashmir -- a Himalayan territory both countries claim in full.India said in May 2025 that it suspended its IWT membership, after accusing Islamabad of backing a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of Kashmir -- charges Pakistan denied.The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a four-day conflict -- with intense drone, missile and artillery exchanges, killing nearly 70 people on both sides.The issue of water has remained a bitter point of contention since.Earlier this month, Pakistan accused India of wanting to "weaponise" water, after two initiatives were announced by New Delhi on the section of the Chenab River it controls.In May, India's government-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation issued a tender notice for a proposed tunnel project that would transfer water from the Chenab River to the Beas Basin.India's power ministry said in January it was undertaking "sediment removal" at Salal Power Station on the Chenab River "following the termination of the Indus Waters Treaty".Experts say that India's existing dams do not have the capacity to block or divert water, and can only regulate timings of when it releases flows.Cutting flows would have serious implications for Pakistan's agriculture and overall economy, but any project would take several years before they have an impact.An official in the Indian-controlled Kashmir said that any work would "not be possible to start before mid-2027", and would take at least five years to complete.

World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub.

Paris, France, June 10 (AFP) Jun 10, 2026-The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communities of deep-sea life.It is also the deepest and oldest known whale graveyard on Earth, according to research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, with some fossils dating back 5.3 million years.From inside a small submersible, the Chinese researchers saw an array of strange animals -- many believed to be new to science -- living off the whale carcasses.A new, though extinct, species of whale was also identified among the nearly 500 skeletons found up to 7,000 metres deep along a 1,200 kilometre corridor of bones in the Indian Ocean west of Australia.Lead study author Xiaotong Peng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told AFP that the researchers were "astonished" when the scale of their discovery became clear.It was known that when whales die and drop to the seafloor, their sunken bodies -- called "whale falls" -- provide a source of food to bottom-dwelling creatures."But discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected: the size of distribution, the depth and the age range were far beyond anything we had imagined," Xiaotong Peng said.The researchers had several theories for why so many whales died in this particular corridor, including that it is a popular foraging area and has a V-shaped trench that funnels carcasses to the ocean's floor.- 'Truly incredible experience' -For the discovery, the Fendouzhe submersible carried out 32 dives in 2023 -- though what it found was only revealed in Nature on Wednesday.The sub took up to three people on the dives, collecting the fossil samples using robotic arms.Study co-author Peng Zhou said witnessing the whale graveyard "was a truly incredible experience"."The vibrant ecosystems we saw offered a completely different perspective on this otherwise dark and cold ocean floor."Among the animals they discovered living off the carcasses were jellyfish, worms, snails, crustaceans, brittle stars and molluscs called bivalves.Extrapolating from the number of bones they found, most of which were from beaked whales, the scientists estimated there could be more than 10 million carcasses across the area called the Diamantina Zone.The soft tissue and lipids inside that many carcasses "translates to roughly 6.7 million tonnes of sequestered carbon," Xiaotong Peng said.This provides an immense source of sustenance for animals, similar to how hydrothermal vents create their own ecosystems on the ocean floor.Some of the animals seen by the scientists also live in hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, suggesting whale carcasses could help connect these deep-sea communities to each other.While this is by far the largest whale graveyard yet found, fossils found during trawling suggest there could be others off South Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Crozet islands, according to the study.- 'More blockbusters to come'? -University of Hawaii oceanographer Craig Smith, who discovered the first whale fall in 1987 but was not involved in the new research, told AFP it was "extremely exciting"."The vast number of fossil whale falls documented, including a new species of beaked whale, is truly amazing and is of major importance to understanding whale evolution and whale distributions over geologic time," he said.Whale fall researcher Amy Baco-Taylor at Florida State University told AFP the "remarkable discovery" would "likely provide many new insights"."It does seem very strange" that so many whales died in this area, Baco-Taylor admitted, adding that "we don't know enough about whale consciousness".US palaeontologist Stephen Godfrey compared the "truly unique discovery" to past major underwater finds, such as when scientists first identified hydrothermal vents teeming with life on the ocean floor in 1977.He called for future submersible voyages to find more whale graveyards across the world.This discovery "reminded me of a trailer for the first in a series of epic movies", Godfrey commented in a linked Nature paper."I hope that there will be many more of these blockbusters to come."

Small Near-Earth Asteroids Show Distinct Composition From Larger Objects, Study Finds by Clarence Oxford.

Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026-An international team of planetary scientists has found that the smallest near-Earth asteroids differ markedly in composition from kilometer-scale objects, a size-dependent trend with direct implications for meteorite origin studies, asteroid-family evolution, and planetary defense modeling.The study, led by Dr. Nick Moskovitz of Lowell Observatory, analyzed 189 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and identified a clear compositional shift as object size decreases. S-complex asteroids - the type most closely linked to ordinary chondrites, the most common class of meteorites - account for roughly 65 percent of kilometer-scale NEAs but fall to about one-third of objects smaller than 50 meters.The research draws on more than a decade of observational data, spanning 2014 to 2025, collected under the Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object Survey (MANOS). The team used three major 4-meter-class telescopes: the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona, the SOAR Telescope in Chile, and the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Asteroids were classified according to how their surfaces reflect sunlight across four wavelengths, providing a direct measure of surface color.A key methodological challenge involved correcting for rotational brightness variations - the brightening and dimming that occurs as an asteroid spins. Without those corrections, measured colors can be skewed, introducing biases into both individual measurements and population-wide statistics."If you don't account for how an asteroid brightens and dims as it spins, you can end up with misleading colors," Moskovitz said. "For individual objects, the effect can be dramatic, and for population studies, it can introduce subtle but important biases."After combining their classified sample with results from comparable surveys, the team assembled a broad dataset spanning a wide range of NEA sizes. The compositional shift from larger to smaller objects was consistent across the combined dataset.The researchers examined several candidate explanations for the trend, including solar heating, tidal resurfacing during close Earth encounters, and variations in regolith grain size. None proved sufficient on its own. The findings instead align with recent dynamical models indicating that small NEAs originate disproportionately from a limited set of young asteroid families in the Main Belt - families whose bulk compositions differ from the broader population supplying larger NEAs to near-Earth space."This is one of the clearest pieces of evidence yet that the smallest NEAs come from a different mix of sources," Moskovitz said. "It helps explain why the meteorites that land on Earth don't perfectly match what we see among larger asteroids."The results also carry operational significance for planetary defense. Small NEAs are statistically the most likely class to enter Earth's atmosphere, and accurate compositional data are needed to model atmospheric entry behavior and assess ground-impact risk."Understanding what small NEAs are made of is essential for impact-risk assessment," Moskovitz said. "Knowing their compositions helps us model how they behave if they were to enter the atmosphere and to inform any risk posed by an object large enough to reach the ground."

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2 before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab (JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e]  shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a -Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain

DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17

First From Daniel Chapter 2

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES

Now From Daniel Chapter 7

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV 17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16

REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man. 

DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.

REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.) 

THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo

THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.

LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)

01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA

THE CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8, DAN 7:23-24

WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME

NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html 

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

COUNCIL FOR EUROPE ON DEFENCE
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/document/download/6d6f889c-e58d-4caa-8f3b-8b93154fe206_en?filename=SAFE%20Regulation.pdf

Europe moves to secure sovereign cybersecurity and chips.

Jun 10, 2026, 2:01 pm EDT | Lu-Hai Liang-Europe’s push for sovereignty over its digital systems has new developments in cybersecurity and semiconductor manufacturing. New initiatives from Palo Alto Networks, Deutsche Telekom, GlobalFoundries and Qualinx show how the continent is moving to operational sovereignty.Palo Alto Networks and Deutsche Telekom have introduced Sovereign Cortex with T Security, a cybersecurity solution tailored to Europe’s most regulated sectors. It combines Palo Alto’s AI-driven Cortex SecOps platform with enhanced data sovereignty controls that are independently overseen by Deutsche Telekom.The offering is designed to help organizations use cloud-based, AI-powered security while meeting strict European regulations such as GDPR, NIS2 and DORA. These rules require not only that data is stored in specific locations but also tight control over who can access it, how it is encrypted, how access is monitored and how support operations handle it.Sovereign Cortex with T Security addresses these needs with additional sovereignty measures across the entire system. These include customer data, telemetry, encryption keys and audited access logs. It also ensures that all support staff are based in Europe and that contracts are governed by European law.This allows organizations to benefit from advanced cybersecurity capabilities without compromising regulatory compliance or data sovereignty. “European organizations – from public authorities to critical infrastructure operators – have been clear with us: they need real time AI-driven security and they need verifiable data sovereignty controls, and they should not have to choose between them,” says Helmut Reisinger, CEO of EMEA at Palo Alto Networks.“This is our direct response to what customers and regulators across Europe have been asking for – a service that honors Europe’s sovereignty, maintains the security effectiveness and modular platformization our customers depend on, and reflects the trust they place in us.”Sovereignty appears to be the direction of travel among major powers, as Europe and the U.S. were namechecked in a recent address by a senior official for India. The technology secretary for India suggested its large market needs to have “some degree of strategic autonomy” with potential implications for biometrics and DPI vendors. Meanwhile, the EU has been advised to establish its own platform for testing and evaluating biometric technologies. The policy brief calls for an independent capability comparable to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)It should be noted the difference between the cloud and physical data centers, with the latter currently seeing heavy capital expenditure by U.S. corporations such as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. Amazon has talked up the costs of building and operating data centers, but has also outlined practical digital sovereignty with a series of blog posts. At MOSIP Connect 2026, a panellist in Rabat said that keeping your own cryptographic keys can be of greater importance to sovereignty compared to other measures like data residency and cloud sovereignty.Europe looks to establish its own supply of secure chips-GlobalFoundries (GF) and Qualinx have completed the first fully European, end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing process at GF’s Dresden facility, proving that secure chips for aerospace, defense and critical infrastructure can be designed and produced entirely within Europe.Supported by the European Chips Act the project keeps all design data and production steps, such as mask services and wafer fabrication, within the EU. “Our partnership with Qualinx marks the first operational milestone: it shows that complex, security-relevant ASIC designs for aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure can already be industrialized today using a fully European, trusted manufacturing path,” says Dr. Manfred Horstmann, SVP and general manager at GlobalFoundries.GlobalFoundries plans to further automate and scale this sovereign manufacturing flow by 2026, with broader industry use expected from 2027. The company is also working with partners like Deutsche Telekom to ensure that all associated data processing and transfer remain within European infrastructure, strengthening overall security and data sovereignty.“Together with GlobalFoundries, we’ve optimized our Digital RF technology on GF’s FDX with a secure end-to-end flow, culminating in the launch of our ultra-low-power reconfigurable Global Navigation Satellite System SoC and Analog Front End,” says Tom Trill, CEO of Qualinx.The development could benefit biometrics and digital identity vendors by enabling access to EU-made chips, helping to meet strict data sovereignty and supply chain requirements. It has to be considered in light of the EUDI Wallet and the ecosystem expected to support it. It may also mean the creation of fully sovereign identity solutions and less reliance on non-European hardware, though the impact would be gradual as the model scales.

EU Council advances business wallet framework for corporate digital identity.

Jun 10, 2026, 6:37 pm EDT | Chris Burt-European Business Wallets could create a market for rapid online authentication and risk intelligence checks to replace inefficient manual checks under the EU’s proposed new regulation. The General Secretariat of the EU Council presented the proposal to the Councillors as a step towards agreeing on an approach to the European Business Wallet (EBW).An extension of the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Framework Regulation would help reduce administrative burdens, ease cross-border processes and enable businesses to digital manage representation rights and authorizations, the General Secretariat states in an email. The proposed regulation is attached to the email as an annex, and makes up the bulk of its 84-pages.EBWs should use qualified electronic signatures, seals, and digital attribute attestations for identification and authentication with full legal power. They should integrate a qualified electronic registered delivery service (QERDS) to enable secure data exchanges.Regular reference is made to the eIDAS 2.0 framework and its governing regulation No 910/2014, and accordingly, onboarding should interoperate with existing digital identity solutions through the EUDI Wallets of legal representatives or their equivalents.And like EUDI Wallets, they should operate at Level of Assurance “High.” LoA High brings in standards for identity proofing and authentication that include biometrics use along with spoofing protection in the form of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD).Authenticating the representative of the business, therefore, opens up a new set of biometric checks which will presumably have to be repeated at different points in the business’ lifecycle, and possibly at regular intervals.IAD firms that provide the technology and labs that offer testing against the European standard are explored in-depth in the 2026 Injection Attack Detection Market Report and Buyers Guide from Biometric Update and Goode Intelligence.Business wallets and the credentials they store also may require sanctions checks and other steps that EUDI Wallets for individuals do not, which would need to be carried out by identity verification and AML providers.The Council also presented the proposal to the EU’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) Council on Tuesday.EU Member States are expected to accept EBWs for administrative procedures within 24 months of the regulation entering into force, with complex functionalities granted an extra year.

IAD testing set to take off as QTSP deadline passes, EUDI Wallet onboarding begins-Europe writing biometric injection attack protection into digital ID regulations.

Jun 9, 2026, 3:58 pm EDT | Chris Burt-Independent assessments of biometric injection attack detection (IAD) are about to become significantly more prominent, with the deadline for Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs) to align with eIDAS 2.0 passing on May 21.Youverse traces the inclusion of the IAD standard in the rules for remote onboarding to the EU’s Digital Identity Wallets to Article 24 of eIDAS 2.0 in a recent blog post. “Article 24 turns identity proofing into evidence engineering,” the company explains, by framing identity proofing by QTSPs as a question of evidence, and its trustworthiness.The implementing regulation for EUDI Wallet enrollment passed in April, and Wallets are launching now, with more on the way to meet the November deadline. To onboard people, they will need High-level IAD certification.Onboarding processes that rely on eIDs only meet assurance level “Substantial” only reaches LoA “High” with additional procedures, though. Hence the new regulation, which sets the “reference standards and specifications” for those additional procedures, including the European IAD standard.ETSI 118 461 references standards for biometric matching performance, Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and CEN TS 18099 for IAD.To issue credentials to EUDI Wallets and Qualified Electronic Signatures (QESs), an LoIP “Extended” to “High” level is required, and high-level IAD certification, along with passing an equivalent compliance assessment for biometric presentation attack detection (PAD), is required for Extended Level of Identity Proofing (LoIP).IAD firms that provide the technology (including Youverse) and labs that offer testing against CEN TS 18099 are explored in-depth in the 2026 Injection Attack Detection Market Report and Buyers Guide from Biometric Update and Goode Intelligence.

Smart glasses, mobile FRT normalize ambient biometric surveillance-Meta’s smart glasses and ICE’s mobile facial recognition point to future in which cameras, AI, and identity databases make public life searchable in real time-Jun 8, 2026, 8:53 am EDT | Anthony Kimery

Meta’s smart glasses and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) expanding use of mobile facial recognition point to a broader shift in how biometric identification is being normalized in American life, moving away from fixed checkpoints and specialized systems into everyday devices capable of real-time identity lookup.Meta is building consumer wearable technology, while ICE is expanding field-based biometric tools for immigration enforcement. The purposes differ, but both point toward a world in which cameras, AI, facial recognition and identity databases are increasingly integrated into mobile and wearable systems used at the point of encounter.The future being built is one in which the camera is no longer just a camera, the phone is no longer just a phone, and glasses are no longer just glasses. They are portals into identity systems. They make the face a query and turn public presence into searchable data.The policy question is whether that future will be constrained before it becomes normalized.The concern is not simply that one company is adding more AI features to smart glasses, or that one federal agency is giving more officers access to a face-matching app. It is that consumer technology and government enforcement are moving toward the same always-available biometric identification embedded in ordinary devices.In Meta’s case, the issue centers on smart glasses that combine cameras, microphones, AI assistants and increasingly sophisticated computer vision capabilities.WIRED reported last week that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of its smart glasses, raising concerns that wearable devices are becoming platforms for identifying people in everyday environments.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said its “threat lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition code is present through static analysis of the application,” adding that the code could support biometric face-matching using stored facial templates.Meta has pushed back on claims that it is broadly enabling face recognition on the devices, with spokesperson Andy Stone responding publicly on X to dispute aspects of the reporting.But the larger issue is not limited to whether a particular consumer feature is active by default or available to all users today. The more important point is that the hardware and software stack is plainly moving toward wearable cameras, AI interpretation, contextual awareness, and the technical ability to associate a face with an identity.And that is precisely the kind of ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure that privacy advocates have warned about for years. Smart glasses are not just another camera. They are worn at eye level, designed for continuous or repeated use, and socially presented as ordinary consumer electronics.Unlike a phone, glasses can record or analyze the world from the wearer’s point of view with little visible indication of doing so. When AI and face recognition are added to that interface, the device becomes something closer to an ambient identity sensor.On the government side, ICE reportedly plans to provide more than a thousand state and local law enforcement agencies with access to a facial recognition application that can be used to verify a person’s immigration status.The plan would put biometric immigration-status checks into the hands of local and state law enforcement agencies, allowing police officers to use face scans during encounters far from the border or formal immigration processing environments.Under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, ICE can delegate federal immigration enforcement powers to local police. In November 2025, Customs and Border Protection quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for local law enforcement officers working under the federal 287(g) immigration enforcement program.These developments fit neatly into a larger pattern at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where federal immigration enforcement agencies have been moving steadily toward mobile biometric identification.To that end, officers are increasingly able to use phones or other handheld devices to capture faces, fingerprints, or other data in the field and to query federal databases.The significance of this is not only that the government has large biometric repositories, but that access to these repositories is being pushed outward to front-line encounters.Historically, biometric identification was concentrated at controlled locations such as border checkpoints, detention facilities and booking stations. The new model pushes biometric lookup into ordinary field encounters far from those environments.The result is a shift from identity verification as an administrative process to identity verification as an enforcement reflex.That shift becomes even more consequential when considered alongside DHS’s interest in wearable biometric tools.Senators have pressed DHS to abandon its proposed smart glasses plan for immigration officers, warning that such devices could allow officers to identify people in public by capturing their image and running it through biometric systems.The important point is not whether DHS smart glasses are fully deployed, but that the concept is being explored in the same technological moment that consumer companies are making AI-enabled smart glasses familiar to the public.Meta and ICE do not need to be working together for their technologies to reinforce the same social trajectory. Meta can normalize wearable cameras, AI assistants, and face-aware devices as convenience tools. DHS can operationalize mobile facial recognition as an enforcement tool.Together, they move the public toward acceptance of a world in which people can be identified by devices in motion.The policy question is whether society is prepared for that architecture to become routine in both public and private settings. Privacy advocates argue that the risk is not limited to misuse by a single officer or company.The deeper risk is the creation of a persistent identification layer over public life.Once mobile and wearable biometric identification becomes technically available and socially normalized, the threshold for using it will fall.There is also a visibility problem. Traditional surveillance cameras are mounted, fixed, and at least theoretically subject to signage, policy, or public debate. A smart glasses wearer is mobile. A phone-based facial recognition app is discreet.A police officer holding a device may not appear to be doing anything more invasive than taking a photo, while a private citizen wearing smart glasses may not appear to be conducting biometric analysis at all.That makes meaningful consent difficult. People in public may know they can be seen, but they may not know they are being scanned, identified, cross-referenced, and logged. The difference between observation and biometric identification is enormous, but wearable and mobile systems collapse that distinction.Accuracy and bias concerns remain central as well. Facial recognition systems have long raised questions about false matches, demographic performance disparities, poor-quality images, and the consequences of using algorithmic outputs in fast-moving law enforcement settings.In immigration enforcement, the stakes are especially high. A mistaken match or an improperly interpreted result can contribute to detention, questioning, removal proceedings, or broader investigative attention.But even a perfectly accurate system would still raise profound civil liberties questions. The problem is not only whether the machine identifies the correct person. It is whether the state, corporations, or private individuals should have the power to identify people at scale as they move through ordinary life.

Frontex warns EES border queues could persist for another two years-Travel and airline groups warn prolonged delays could deter visitors and cost European destinations billions in tourism spending

Jun 10, 2026, 2:13 pm EDT | Masha Borak-The EU’s biometric-based Entry-Exit System (EES) may continue to cause long queues at borders for another two years, a Frontex official has said. At the same time, the travel industry warns that queues could divert holidaymakers to other destinations, causing EU countries to potentially lose billions in visitor spending.The EES is seeing different rollouts across Europe, with some states still struggling with the border scheme, according to Uku Särekanno, deputy executive director of Frontex.“We expect the situation will stabilize in one or two years because the most challenging part is the first enrolment,” Särekanno said on Tuesday at an event organized by the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA).The news that the EES could cause queues for two more years has raised concerns in the travel industry.The World Travel & Tourism Council  (WTTC) warns that up to 41 million visitors could abandon their European travel plans due to the long queues, while US$45.4 billion in spending could be at risk should significant delays become persistent.Last week, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that waiting times for passport checks this summer could reach six hours.UK-based airlines, including Ryanair, have been particularly vocal about the issues facing British travelers.“If the EU’s own expectation is that queues will last up to two years, that’s not a teething problem – that’s a serious policy failure,” Tim Alderslade, the CEO of trade association Airlines UK, told The Times.Europe has approximately 1,700 air, land and sea border checkpoints and inconsistencies in the technology have been causing delays and queues, notes Särekanno. Frontex is currently trying to ensure a “coherent approach” to border procedures.According to the EES rules, all third-country nationals must register their facial and fingerprint biometrics every 3 years. However, since the system’s full launch in April, many border points have been collecting biometric data each time a traveler enters the country.To prevent long queues, the European Commission has allowed all 29 Schengen countries that use the system to partially suspend EES operations throughout the summer. The EU, however, does not plan to soften the new border regime after September, notes Särekanno. ABTA and other industry partners have been trying to change this decision by lobbying the European Commission to extend contingency measures while issues remain“It is ultimately a political decision for the Commission and member states to determine these matters,” says Luke Petherbridge, the organization’s director of public affairs.The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), on the other hand, has been calling on the EU to prioritize adopting the EES pre-registration app, Travel to Europe, and urging member states to boost operational readiness at border crossings, including ensuring fully functioning equipment and sufficient staffing.“By making greater use of digital pre-registration tools, improving traveler communications and ensuring operational readiness at border crossing points, Europe can reduce friction and deliver the seamless experience travelers expect,” says Gloria Guevara, president and CEO of WTTC.A survey conducted by the organization across more than 2,500 travelers from the UK, U.S., Canada and Australia showed that around one-third could give up plans to travel to the Schengen Area if they face regular border waits of three to four hours.Greece walks back on EES waiver for Brits-Among the countries facing the longest queues due to the EES are popular tourist destinations such as Spain, France, Portugal and Greece. Last month, Greek officials announced that the country would exempt British visitors from submitting biometric data when arriving in the country for summer holidays, sparking speculation that other countries might do the same.Soon after, however, the Greek Foreign Ministry said it had no information that “specific nationalities are temporarily exempt from the relevant procedure.”European and Greek authorities note that suspensions of the EES are permitted only during periods of high passenger traffic at specific entry points and do not apply to any country or nationality, according to Greek newspaper Ekathimerini.Similar messaging is coming from Croatia, another tourist hotspot that was rumored to be waiving EES registration requirements for UK tourists. Schengen countries can only apply temporary relief in special cases, such as long waiting times at border crossings, the Croatian Ministry of Interior clarifies.“The mentioned model can be implemented in a time-limited scope, a maximum of six hours in extraordinary circumstances that lead to such dense traffic that the waiting time at the border crossing becomes too long,” the Ministry says. “This specifically means the creation of an EES personal file without excluding [sic] biometrics.”Border authorities are still required to scan travel documents and record the visitor’s time of entry, The Sarajevo Times reports.

Nigeria links digital identity ambitions to digital sovereignty agenda-With more than 130 million people enrolled in digital ID, attention is shifting from registration to utilization, infrastructure and national control of digital systems.

Jun 10, 2026, 1:43 pm EDT | Ayang Macdonald-Nigeria is increasingly framing digital identity, data infrastructure and online services as matters of digital sovereignty, as the country seeks to reduce reliance on foreign platforms and extract greater economic value from its growing digital economy.Officials and industry leaders argue that greater control over digital infrastructure, data hosting and identity systems is essential to economic growth, citing estimates that Nigeria loses an estimated $850 million annually through dependence on foreign digital services, external data hosting and other high-value digital services.The shift comes as Nigeria builds Africa’s largest digital identity system, with more than 130 million people enrolled, and turns its attention from enrollment to the practical use of digital credentials across government and private-sector services.Despite the rapid expansion of its digital identity program, adoption of digital credentials and locally hosted digital services remains relatively low, raising concerns about the country’s ability to capture the full economic value of its digital transformation efforts.Adesola Akinsanya, president of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), argues that digital sovereignty should not be viewed as isolation from the global internet, but as the development of a secure and resilient digital ecosystem that gives Nigeria greater control over its data, infrastructure and digital identity systems.Senator Shuaib Salisu, chair of the Senate Committee on ICT and Cybersecurity, has similarly argued that digital public infrastructure should be treated as critical national infrastructure, reflecting a growing view among policymakers that identity systems, data exchanges and other DPI components are strategic national assets.The emphasis on digital sovereignty mirrors a broader trend across Africa, where governments are increasingly linking digital identity, digital public infrastructure and economic development. In the Sahel, for example, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have launched regional biometric identity and travel document initiatives as part of wider efforts to strengthen regional autonomy and control over critical infrastructure.

Canada joins push for social media age assurance with new digital safety law-Law tabled today would set minimum age of 16 for Canadians to use Big Social.

Jun 10, 2026, 1:15 pm EDT | Joel R. McConvey-Canada will follow Australia in prohibiting kids under 16 from having social media accounts. CBC News reports that the measure is included in the Liberal government’s new Digital Safety Act, to be tabled in the House of Commons today.The bill will also address AI chatbots and establish a new digital regulatory body.The government of prime minister Mark Carney has moved quickly on online safety legislation in the wake of prior governments’ failed efforts, and in the context of a global push to regulate social media and other online content considered a risk to youth.Age assurance is not identity verification-One of the loudest opponents of age checks in Canada is privacy lawyer and technology commentator Michael Geist, who argues that a social media age ban would create privacy risks for millions of Canadians through mandated age verification requirements.But much of the debate hinges on a fundamental question: what kind of age assurance are we talking about? Critics often treat age assurance, age estimation and identity verification as interchangeable concepts. They are not.Modern age assurance can take several forms, ranging from facial age estimation and reusable age credentials to device-based and account-based approaches. Many are specifically designed to establish whether a user is above or below a threshold age without revealing their identity.Geist argues that age estimation raises privacy concerns because it may rely on additional surveillance of users’ posts, messages and contacts. That criticism applies to profiling approaches proposed by some social media platforms, but not necessarily to facial age estimation systems offered by specialist providers. In those systems, an image is analyzed to estimate age, not to identify the person.Questions about accuracy remain legitimate. According to guidance published by the UK Home Office, facial age estimation performance can vary across demographic groups depending on training data, image quality and other factors. For that reason, many providers deploy age buffers rather than attempting to distinguish precisely between, for example, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old.The broader policy question is whether governments can realistically enforce minimum-age requirements without some form of age assurance. Critics argue the focus should be on regulating platforms rather than users. Supporters counter that age restrictions become difficult to enforce if platforms are never required to determine a user’s age.That debate is now moving from theory to policy. Australia has already adopted a social media age minimum. The UK is implementing age-check requirements under the Online Safety Act. The European Union is developing age verification tools. Canada now appears poised to join that trend.The question is no longer whether governments will intervene. It is what form age assurance should take, how privacy can be protected, and who should be responsible for enforcing the rules.‘Fix the platforms’ or die tryingLike many, Geist ultimately makes the argument that age restrictions fail to address the underlying concerns with social media.“Rejecting a ban does not mean rejecting regulation. Rather, it places the emphasis on the need to regulate the platforms, not the user. The right model is the duty to act responsibly that was at the core of the original Online Harms Act, combined with algorithmic transparency requirements and meaningful safety obligations. The government can impose requirements on how platforms are designed and create liability for failure to meet them without locking anyone out or assembling a nationwide ID system.”As is typical with this assertion – it’s better for the government to try and make social media safer than it is to require every user to prove their age – Geist’s argument hinges on three massive, highly dubious assumptions.The first is that establishing a law requiring age assurance for every user equates to “a nationwide ID-verification system.” There is no indication that an age assurance mandate for social platforms has any connection whatsoever to a nonexistent plan for a Canadian national digital ID.Moreover, Geist does not seem to understand the capabilities of current privacy preserving age assurance technology, which does not perform identity verification. Even as this second assumption contradicts Geist’s fear that third-party providers will wreak havoc on Canadians’ data, it undergirds the whole notion that “since Canada has required every user to prove who they are in order to police a single age line, that requirement and the system built to enforce it remain in place regardless of whether a particular restriction is later lifted.”Regulating Big Tech means wrangling with trillionaires-Finally, while Geist doesn’t want private age assurance providers to know your age, and wants nothing to do with a centralized government identity system, he’s okay with Meta and X having your data; he’d just like them to be a bit nicer. This is “the need to regulate the platforms, not the user.” Thus, the final assumption: if governments just came down a bit harder on Big Tech, they might clean up their products and get serious about contributing to the greater social good.The evidence overwhelmingly shows that Silicon Valley’s social media tycoons will use their legal apparatus, political influence, and practically limitless wealth to fight any regulation that disrupts business as usual. They have tied up U.S. courts seeking injunctions against state-level age laws. They have challenged regulatory fines and used their platforms to insult regulators. They have roused the U.S. government to lash out at Europe, the UK and Australia on their behalf, branding the wave of overseas online safety laws as a “censorship regime.”Which is to say, if the solution is not biometric age assurance, but regulations that crack down on what platforms are actually allowed to do and be, the Canadian government should be mustering enough lawyers to fill a dozen hockey rinks. If Geist cared as much about privacy as his brand would have us believe, he might better focus his attention and skills on Meta and Google, and see how well his arguments and vigor stand up under the crushing weight of the Palo Alto technopoly.Should people need a social media license? In coverage from Global News, Margot Denommé, a former Crown attorney who now leads the group Raising Awareness Against Digital Dangers, draws an interesting analogy between social media and smoking, driving and other potentially risky activities.“We didn’t need to be sitting at our desk smoking to understand that cigarettes cause lung cancer,” she says. “We give youth driver’s education before we put them behind the wheel of a car.”“I believe that we need to take the same approach when it comes to an age minimum (for social media).”

Fingerprint Cards builds beyond sensors with AllKey platform expansion-New distribution agreement aims to accelerate adoption of AllKey Ultra chip, ByteSeal adopts AllKey authentication platform.

Jun 10, 2026, 12:04 pm EDT | Lu-Hai Liang-Fingerprint Cards (FPC) is continuing its shift from biometric sensors to broader authentication and identity platforms through a new ByteSeal launch with Elementik and a global distribution agreement with AdvanIDe for its AllKey Ultra chip.Elementik has introduced an upgraded version of its ByteSeal platform, now powered by FPC’s AllKey fingerprint authentication system. It’s an evolution from the earlier BM-Lite technology to a more advanced solution offering enhanced security, usability and integration.“Migrating from BM-Lite to AllKey was a natural next step in a partnership that has underpinned ByteSeal from the very beginning,” says Nikhilesh Wani, founder and director of Elementik, a technology company based in Pune, India, and which builds identity hardware.The new ByteSeal platform is designed for passwordless authentication allowing fingerprint-based access, in line with growing demand for scalable alternatives to traditional credentials. FPC launched its AllKey Software Platform in March to hone in on the authentication chain and broaden the company’s offering.Wani says FPC AllKey gives ByteSeal a faster, more reliable biometric experience in the credit-card form factor the product requires, along with “the headroom” to scale as they take the hardware credential vault category mainstream.“This launch demonstrates how customers are increasingly standardizing on FPC’s latest biometric platforms as their products evolve and scale,” says FPC CEO Adam Philpott. “Just as importantly, this launch is part of a broader collaboration that continues to deepen, creating new opportunities for biometric authentication across a growing range of applications.”In another announcement, FPC revealed a global partnership with AdvanIDe, a specialist distributor of semiconductor and secure identity technologies. Under the agreement, AdvanIDe will act as a channel partner for FPC’s AllKey Ultra single-chip solution, supporting demand generation and maintaining stocked inventory to ensure immediate availability.Launched in November 2025, AllKey Ultra integrates fingerprint sensing, biometric processing, and secure element functionality into a single chip. The solution targets high-security applications requiring low power consumption, simplified integration, and hardware-based authentication.With Singapore-based AdvanIDe’s international reach and market experience in secure silicon and embedded systems, the partnership is expected to accelerate adoption of AllKey Ultra across industrial, enterprise and identity-driven markets. “FPC’s vision and commitment to security-critical applications align perfectly with our own strategic direction and key competencies,” says Holger Roessner, CEO of AdvanIDe.Philpott commented that the partnership with AdvanIDe strengthens their global go-to-market strategy for AllKey Ultra: “Their strong technical capability, customer proximity, and focus on secure and identity-centric solutions make them an excellent match for this product.”Together, the two announcements speak to FPC’s broader strategy to expand beyond standalone biometric sensors and consolidate into complete system solutions.

ICE moves to keep Parsons embedded in HSI overseas biometric alert program.

Jun 10, 2026, 12:03 pm EDT | Anthony Kimery-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intends to award Parsons Corp. a sole-source contract to support a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) biometric program used with foreign law enforcement partners, according to a redacted procurement justification that says the company’s systems are already deployed abroad and would take years and millions of dollars to replace.The redacted justification provides a rare glimpse into the contractor-dependent infrastructure behind HSI’s Office of International Operations’ Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP), which operates largely outside public view while extending U.S. biometric screening through foreign law enforcement partnerships.The justification, prepared by ICE’s Office of Acquisition Management, says the agency plans to procure Amazon web hosting services, mobile device management licenses, and labor from Parsons in support of the “Ares suite of services.”BITMAP is one of the clearest examples of how U.S. biometric screening infrastructure extends beyond domestic ports of entry and into overseas law enforcement partnerships.The award comes as DHS and ICE continue to expand biometric, mobile, and data-driven enforcement capabilities across immigration, border security, and foreign-partner programs.Unlike a border inspection system operating only at U.S. airports or land crossings, BITMAP is designed to work through foreign counterparts, making the program both a counterterrorism and transnational-crime screening tool and an extension of U.S. identity infrastructure into partner countries.ICE’s public description of BITMAP says the program provides specialized technical equipment and advisory support to foreign law enforcement counterparts for the collection of biometric and biographic information.HSI says the program is used to identify foreign nationals who may pose a security threat, including individuals associated with transnational criminal organizations, terrorism or other law enforcement concerns.The estimated value of the contract is redacted, as are several operational details about the foreign deployments and systems supported by Ares.The unredacted portions of the document make clear that ICE views Parsons as entrenched in the program’s technical architecture and that the agency does not believe another contractor could take over the work without a lengthy and costly transition.“Parsons has been supplying the HSI BITMAP program with like services for several years,” the justification says. HSI BITMAP staff reviewed similar services and products from other contractors, the document says, but concluded that Parsons had beaten competitors’ pricing and provided steady support.The justification says it would take “at least two years” to develop, test and fully implement a competitor’s product across the redacted number of locations where the program operates.Elsewhere, the agency says replacing part of the current software and interfaces would take approximately a redacted amount of time and require significant HSI staff resources.The contract is structured as a firm fixed price award for three months. ICE says services were previously awarded under a contract which ended March 31.ICE says the services covered by the Parsons contract include continued operation of redacted systems, maintenance, and development support for the Ares gateway and Ares device user application, and infrastructure needed for redacted operational functions.The agency says the devices, gateway maintenance, and needed system-development work would cease without the contract.Development of the gateway and deployment of devices was described as a multiyear process that could not be replicated without several years of development, testing, foreign deployment and foreign training activities.That language is significant because it suggests Parsons is not merely providing commodity cloud hosting or device management services. The company appears to operate or maintain a proprietary technical ecosystem that supports biometric collection, alerting, or data-sharing functions for HSI’s foreign-partner operations.The new justification places Ares inside that broader BITMAP framework. While key operational details are blacked out, the document says the requirement is to provide support services and system development for equipment and software that “facilitates and enhances this capability.”It also says the work ensures that redacted overseas users “utilize devices and services provided by Parsons.”The redactions prevent a full public accounting of where the systems are deployed, how many devices are supported, which foreign partners use them, and what databases or alerting mechanisms the systems connect to.The unredacted text shows the program depends on deployed devices, a gateway, a device user application, cloud hosting, mobile device management, and continuing system development.The justification also indicates that the systems are already operational abroad. The services and ecosystem provided by Parsons are described as “unique to the application and devices currently deployed abroad.”ICE says the development effort included “foreign deployment” and “foreign training activities,” and that a lapse in the contract would leave foreign partners without redacted capabilities.The justification says Parsons has invested significant time developing the ecosystem using in-house employees, creating what ICE describes as “a significant intellectual property concern that cannot be sold.”That proprietary position is central to the sole-source rationale. ICE says transitioning to another contractor would require developing a secure HSI ecosystem, testing it, and replacing a redacted number of deployed assets.The document also raises familiar oversight questions surrounding sole-source procurement and vendor lock-in in sensitive biometric programs. ICE’s rationale is that Parsons is uniquely positioned because it built and supports the current system.But that same rationale also illustrates how proprietary development can limit competition once a contractor’s technology becomes embedded in field operations.ICE says HSI BITMAP is continually looking for more cost-effective ways to overcome barriers to competition by meeting with other contractors and U.S. government agencies. But the immediate result is a noncompetitive award to preserve an existing Parsons-run ecosystem.Parsons has a broader history of DHS work, including prior task-order activity for the department and contracts involving technology support.The BITMAP Ares justification, however, points to a particularly sensitive role in supporting the technical backbone of an HSI program that helps foreign partners collect and use biometric and biographic information for U.S.-linked alerting and screening.The agency’s redactions leave unanswered questions about the scope of the system, the number of countries involved, the volume of biometric records collected, the databases used for matching or alerting, and the rules governing retention, sharing, accuracy, and redress.

Next Biometrics sees growing government demand in Taiwan and Malaysia-Contracts for fingerprint sensors and reader modules add to growing public-sector demand for biometric authentication across Asia-Pacific.

Jun 10, 2026, 10:21 am EDT | Lu-Hai Liang-Next Biometrics has received three government orders from Taiwan and Malaysia during the second quarter of 2026.The contracts cover the company’s FAP20 fingerprint authentication sensors and its reader module, which will be used across various governmental applications. The orders, described by the company as modest in value, are scheduled for delivery within the second quarter and will be fulfilled from existing inventory.The announcement comes as the digital identity market in the Asia-Pacific region continues to expand rapidly. According to industry estimates, the sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent between 2026 and 2031.This growth is largely driven by national identity programs, increasing mobile commerce and the widespread adoption of digital wallets that incorporate biometric authentication.Ulf Ritsvall, CEO of Next Biometrics, welcomed the development, highlighting the company’s first public sector order in Taiwan and continued traction in Malaysia. “It is really encouraging to receive our first public sector order in Taiwan and further orders from Malaysia,” he says.“We can see that digital authentication and identification is a growing market in Asia-Pacific, led by government initiatives. Our solutions are bringing the speed, security and liveness detection that governments need to authenticate access to public services and enable national digitalization plans.”Next Biometrics booked its first ever order in Malaysia earlier this year, with Malaysian government departments purchasing Next’s Oyster III biometric reader to perform identity verification for a range of use cases.The Oyster III plug-and-play fingerprint reader is designed to improve security and streamline identity and access management workflows. The device supports modern software standards and integrates with both new and existing systems through the Windows Biometric Framework.Next’s portfolio includes its proprietary Active Thermal solution, which combines heat detection and 3D imaging to verify users. The approach aims to enhance authentication speed and strengthen resistance to spoofing attacks compared with conventional fingerprint technologies. The sensors are also designed for low energy consumption.

BigBear.ai deploys biometric cargo security system in Panama-Platform combines biometrics, AI and real-time cargo monitoring to strengthen supply-chain visibility and customs enforcement.

Jun 9, 2026, 11:46 am EDT | Lu-Hai Liang-Panama Transshipment Group (PTG), the country’s largest logistics operator, will be the first deployment partner for International Shipping Compliance, an AI-powered cargo security platform developed by BigBear.ai with Narval Holding Corp. and its subsidiary ISC.Launched in August 2025, the platform uses advanced analytics and biometric technology to track cargo movement in detail. It allows operators to monitor where shipments are, who is handling them and whether any changes occur during transit.The application creates a digital, auditable chain of custody for goods by linking drivers, transport vehicles and cargo containers through biometric verification. A centralized operations platform then compiles real-time data allowing logistics providers to detect anomalies, monitor cargo flows and generate actionable intelligence. Authorities can use this data to streamline inspections and respond more quickly to potential risks.The system is designed to give customs and border agencies better insights, helping them identify risks earlier and reduce the likelihood of contraband entering legitimate supply chains. “Criminal organizations no longer rely solely on covert routes or hidden smuggling corridors,” Miller says.PTG has already started using the system to improve visibility and transparency across its supply chain. Troy Miller, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and now Senior Vice President of Department of Homeland Security Solutions at BigBear.ai, said the technology addresses a growing challenge in global trade.“Even the best customs and law enforcement agencies around the world can only physically inspect a fraction of global cargo,” Miller said. “The answer is not slowing commerce. It is making supply chains smarter, more transparent, and more secure.”“Today, they exploit the very arteries of legitimate global commerce — ports, free trade zones, trucking routes, and containerized cargo systems that power the world economy. That is what makes this new commercial deployment in Panama so significant, and why others can learn from the rapid implementation .”BigBear.ai CEO Kevin McAleenan said launching the system in Panama positions it for wider adoption across the region. Narval Chairman Mario Pérez Balladares emphasized the strategic importance of the initiative, noting that Panama plays a key role in transshipment across the Americas.The Panama Canal handles a significant share of global maritime traffic, and the country’s ports process millions of containers annually. However, the volume of trade also makes it a target for criminal networks seeking to move narcotics, counterfeit goods and other illicit cargo through legitimate channels. Authorities have reported major drug seizures in recent years linked to containerized shipments, an issue Miller discussed in a BigBear.ai blog post.BigBear.ai is engaged in biometrics deployments in airports and retail.