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09 July 2025 10:55

🇲🇽 33 Tons Of Gold, Silver Concentrate Hijacked In Mexico

Armed thieves in Mexico hijacked a truck transporting 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate belonging to the Mexican mining firm Grupo Minero Bacis, local media reported. The precious metals heist underscores a surge in highway robberies across the third-world cartel-plagued country—just south of the U.S. southern border—amid rising gold and silver prices driven by global macroeconomic uncertainty.

El Universal said the assailants blocked the tractor-trailer on a stretch of highway near Guadalajara and assaulted the driver and security, and held them hostage for nearly 1.5 hours.

"A group of organized criminals aboard two vehicles robbed a truck belonging to Fletes Durango SA de CV, which was loaded with at least 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate belonging to Grupo Minero Bacis SA de CV, bound for the port of Manzanillo," Grupo Minero wrote in a report.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/33-ton-gold-silver-concentrate-hijacked-mexico

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09 July 2025 09:56

🇮🇷🇦🇫 Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/07/iran-rushes-deportation-4-million-afghans-deadline-women-repression

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09 July 2025 08:07

🇺🇸 ⛈ — Chicago metrologists report flash flooding

Some areas are seeing 6 inches of rain in under an hour

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09 July 2025 07:55

#BREAKING | 31 Dead in Kenya's Saba Saba Protests

Kenya's Human Rights Commission reports 31 killed, 107 injured, 2 abducted, and 532 arrested during Monday's anti-government Saba Saba protests. Police accused of excessive force and violating court orders.

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09 July 2025 07:45

🇺🇸 Trump considers a Federal take over of governance of Washington DC: “We have tremendous power at The White House to run places when we have to. We could run DC. We're looking at DC ... we would run it so good... we're thinking about doing it, to be honest with you”

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08 July 2025 20:53

🇺🇸📊 There's an 18-point gap partisan gap between younger and older members of Gen Z

🔵 22 to 29 year olds favoured Democratic candidates by a margin of 6.4 points

🔴 18 to 21 year olds favoured Republican candidates by a margin of 11.8 points

❓ The divide could be explained by how each group experienced the shock of COVID-19

https://youthpoll.yale.edu/spring-2025-results

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08 July 2025 18:52

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼 - Local Congolese outlet Actualite says fighting across the front in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has stopped.

With a US-brokered ceasefire in place, territorial control between the DRC military, FARDC, and M23, AFC, has frozen along its current front-lines.

M23 control 12,750 sqkm, that's 48% the size of Rwanda. Some of the major towns and cities the group captured include Goma, Kitsambiro, Kiwanja, Masisi, Bukavu, Kavumu, and Kamaniola. However, M23 were unable to achieve the capture of Lubero, Pinga, Mera, and Kasika - populated centers the group desperately fought for.

The ceasefire does not demand a withdrawal of Rwanda's Armed Forces, RDF, from M23-controlled territory. Kigali denies the presence of RDF in Congo. The ceasefire is exclusive to FARDC, plus the anti-M23 group 'Wazalendo', and M23, it does not include Uganda's military operations against CODECO in the Ituri region.

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08 July 2025 17:12

🇩🇪 The German government offers 4 billion in state subsidies to its faltering industry

Instead of fixing the energy crisis which led to the collapse of industrial production, Berlin is bribing industrial concerns with tax money.

The planned subsidies are in the form of tax exemptions on energy used by factories.

However, there is an ongoing debate if Berlin can afford this scheme because German economists believe it will double the budget deficit and push it towards an unsustainable level.

🔗 https://archive.ph/45rNh

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08 July 2025 16:35

🇵🇱 Polish ultras near the German border are coming out in a show of force.

The citizen-organized Border Movement wants to stop German police from pushing migrants into Poland.

PM Tusk's government has labeled these groups "militias" and slapped them with "dozens of fines."

🔗 Remix News

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08 July 2025 16:24

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US has requested, through mediators, to continue the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is considering accepting the proposal for talks, and to begin a new round of negotiations in an effort to lift sanctions and determine the level of enrichment," - Mehr News, Iranian outlet.

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08 July 2025 14:13

🇨🇳❌🇩🇪 A Chinese warship targeted with a laser beam a German military aircraft over the Red Sea.

The German Foreign Office summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin and handed over a protest note over this incident which the foreign office said it endangered the lives of the aircraft crew.

The aircraft that was blinded by the laser beam is a Beechcraft 350 maritime reconnaissance aircraft which was on a surveillance mission at the time.

The German Air Force is part of the EUNAVFOR "Aspides" Mission in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait to protect international shipping from Houthi missiles.

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08 July 2025 12:34

🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦 EU scrambling to cover Ukraine’s $19 billion budget gap — Financial Times

Brussels is urgently exploring ways to fill Ukraine’s $19 billion budget shortfall, Financial Times reports. Options on the table include bilateral grants to Kyiv, awaiting payouts from the G7’s $50 billion loan scheme, or using profits from frozen Russian assets.

EU officials are racing to secure funding ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, set for July 10–11.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that BlackRock has halted its search for investors for the Ukraine recovery fund, which was originally planned to be unveiled at the conference.

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08 July 2025 12:12

🇵🇱🇩🇪 Polish nationalists have been protesting German authorities sending migrants across their border

Germany says they are just returning asylum seekers who first crossed from Poland, but this activism has forced the Polish government into re-instituting border controls, which may be the beginning of the end of Schengen system

I went to the Polish-German border to investigate

Documentary coming soon

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08 July 2025 09:56

🇺🇸🍼 Judge blocks Trump from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding under "big, beautiful bill"

A judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, partially freezing a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just days after President Trump signed it into law.

The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lasts 14 days and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to "take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed" to Planned Parenthood. The ruling, which came after a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, doesn't apply to any other health care providers.

The lawsuit takes aim at a portion of Mr. Trump's signature domestic policy bill that would cut off any federal Medicaid funding to groups "primarily engaged in family planning services, reproductive health, and related medical care" that provide abortions.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-planned-parenthood-judge-blocks-big-beautiful-bill/

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08 July 2025 07:56

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The IDF confirms that 5 Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza yesterday during an Al-Qassam ambush

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09 July 2025 10:25

🇸🇾 The UN predicts that as many as 3.5 million refugees and IDPs may return to their homes in Syria this year, and says more aid and funding is needed.

More than 8.2 million IDPs also returned to their area of origin in 2024, the second highest total ever recorded.

https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends

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09 July 2025 08:12

🇺🇸 ⛈ — Netizens report early flooding throughout the Chicago area

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09 July 2025 07:55

🇷🇸❌🇽🇰 — Serbian Foreign Ministry official vows to protect the Kosovo's Serbian ethnic identity until it is Freed from the current Pristina authorities!

“Serbs Will Preserve Kosovo’s Heritage and Pass It to Future Generations Until It Is Freed,” Says Public Diplomacy Director Arno Gujon

“It’s not about agreements or signatures,” Gujon said, “it’s about the transmission of heritage. And Serbs pass that heritage to new generations, who will continue to do so until they free what is theirs.”

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09 July 2025 07:52

🇮🇱🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾 | Trump Claims Netanyahu Urged Him to Lift Sanctions on Syria

During his trip to the U.S., Netanyahu hailed President Donald Trump for opening 'a channel' with the new government in Damascus.

Netanyahu declined to reveal whether Israel is engaged in direct talks with Syria. Only indirect channels have been publicly confirmed to date.

Trump reiterates that he decided to lift US sanctions against Syria at the request of many countries, “including Bibi.”

Trump says he was impressed by Sharaa during their May meeting and lifted US sanctions in order to “give him a chance.”

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09 July 2025 07:17

🇺🇸 President Trump is claiming that his amnesty deal for illegal immigrant workers in the farm, hospitality, and restaurant industries isn't an “amnesty” deal but a “work program.”

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08 July 2025 18:52

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- 7,000 DR Congo military forces and 1,000 Burundi's Armed Forces have arrived in Uvira, eastern DRC. The 8,000 strong force is moving north from Uvira towards the Kasika - Bideka - Kakamba front.

The reinforcements come after large-scale M23 movements were observed, thousands of soldiers crossed from Rwanda into Bukavu, and are preparing to head south.

Note, both sides are currently observing a US-mediated ceasefire.

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08 July 2025 17:17

🇩🇪 Bloomberg reports that Germany is expected to order close to 4.500 new armoured vehicles, including 1.000 Leopard 2 MBT, 2.500 Boxer APC/IFV and 1.000 Patria CAVS APC

The order for the Leopard 2 and Boxer is expected to have a total price as high as 25 billion €, with budget requests to be finalised in the coming months, as pricing is still being negotiated with the respective producers.

Additionally, the Bundeswehr is expected to order close to 1.000 Patria CAVS to replace its current fleet of Fuchs APC. The order is expected to be valued at 2 billion € with FFG to localise 90% of the vehicle's production in Germany.

📝: How will Germany rebuild its military when industrial production is declining and German authorities have no idea as to how to fix the cause of this decline other than offer subsidies they themselves admit they can't afford without going into excessive debt?

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08 July 2025 16:59

🇬🇧 British-made Typhoon production grinds to a halt raising fears about UK defence skills

British production of the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft has ground to a halt because of a dearth of new orders, sparking fears of a loss of critical aerospace industry skills in the UK.

The Typhoon has for decades been assembled at BAE Systems’ sprawling factory in Warton, Lancashire. Work on the final assembly line, however, has now wound down as the factory prepares to deliver the last Typhoon jet for Qatar under a £5bn order placed in 2017.

The UK government has not placed an order for new jets since 2009, while follow-on export orders from Saudi Arabia and Qatar have yet to be agreed.

If new orders are not secured soon, there could be a loss of important industrial skills needed to build the next generation of fighter aircraft via the UK’s role in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

Sharon Graham, general secretary at the Unite union, said workers at BAE and across the UK defence industry “will be asking how a government promising to turn defence spending into ‘British growth, British jobs, British skills, British innovation’ could let it happen”.

The government’s recent decision to purchase US-made F-35A fighter jets rather than commit to a new order for the most advanced Typhoons has reignited debate over its defence priorities. Although the UK has committed to upgrading its current Typhoon aircraft, including with a new radar, it is the only nation in the consortium that has not placed an order for the latest model.

Andrew Snowden, Conservative MP for Fylde in Lancashire, warned last week that if the government “fails to confirm this order soon, we face the very real prospect of losing . . . a vital national capability, the ability to design, assemble and deliver world-class military aircraft independently”.

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08 July 2025 16:24

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister confirms the Mehr News report, and says Tehran has received messages from the U.S. in recent days expressing interest in resuming negotiations.

However, the Deputy Foreign Minister adds trust must be rebuilt before talks can resume.

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08 July 2025 16:07

Pro-Israel "influencer" Visegrad24, in an interview with ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt inside the ADL's HQ, asks Greenblatt if the ADL has to be so anti-White.

Greenblatt won't even give him a crumb.

"I think we all want strong borders– well, I shouldn't say that..."

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08 July 2025 14:00

🇦🇫🇮🇷🇵🇰 At least 1.2 million Afghans forced to return from Iran and Pakistan this year, says UN

https://apnews.com/article/iran-pakistan-afghan-deportation-refugees-ea3fd1f9b995e4f97d8584718cea058d

🇦🇫🇵🇰 Millions of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Set To Be Deported

https://themedialine.org/headlines/millions-of-afghan-refugees-in-pakistan-set-to-be-deported/

🇸🇾 More than 1 million displaced Syrians have returned home since ouster of al-Assad

https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/24/one-million-refugees-have-returned-to-syria-since-the-beginning-of-2025

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia arrests 17,863 illegal residents in a week

https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-arabia-arrests-17863-illegal-residents-in-a-week-1.500188971

📝 LindyMan: "The Iranian gov't discovered Afghans were unknowingly building drones for israelis inside Iran to be used to assassinate their nuclear scientists. So they just decided to deport 100,000 people a week. That's the number America has deported in 7 months.

We tend to think developing countries have a problem with "state capacity" because they are so poor. But it's actually the opposite. Rich countries are unable to do things like this, or build new subways, cities or anything.

Sometimes being too rich makes it hard to accomplish things."

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08 July 2025 12:28

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 Halted military aid for Ukraine may start flowing again — POLITICO

Halted shipments of some American military aid to Ukraine could resume after a series of high-level meetings in Italy and Ukraine over the coming week, according to two people familiar with the planning.

President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg will meet with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov in Rome at an international aid conference followed by a meeting in Kyiv this week and next, with the issue of aid sure to be at the top of the agenda. The Ukrainian government sees the resumption of air defense and precision munitions as critical to its war effort,

The U.S. has indicated to Kyiv that deliveries of engineering equipment and some armored vehicles will resume soon, though no timeline has been given yet,

The Kyiv meeting between Kellogg and Umerov was not originally intended to address U.S. military aid, and was “set up before news of the arms pause came to light last week,” Kellogg spokesperson Morgan Murphy said in response to a request for comment about the meetings.

Trump discussed the aid pause on a call Friday with Zelenskyy, and also addressed a potential ceasefire agreement with Russia. The Ukrainian president said it was “probably the best conversation we have had during this whole time, the most productive.”

That call came a day after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a conversation the president indicated did not go well.

On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that the aid stoppage wasn’t permanent, portraying it as “a pause, to review, to ensure that everything the Pentagon is pushing out there is in the best interests of our military and our men and women in uniform.”

Some of the weapons denied to Ukraine included 8,400 155mm artillery rounds, 142 Hellfire missiles, and 252 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System missiles, which can precisely hit targets up to 50 miles away.

Most significantly, the halted shipment also included 30 Patriot missiles used for shooting down Russian missiles and drones, which have been pounding apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure in Kyiv.

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08 July 2025 11:28

🚢 Red Sea Crisis Update 07JUL2025

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Schizointel/status/1942315552577318997

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08 July 2025 08:53

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Trump says the U.S. is going to send Ukraine weapons to defend itself from Russian attacks.

🔗 Faytuks Network

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08 July 2025 07:55

🇪🇹 Ethiopia's Monumental Milestone: GERD Completion

Ethiopia has marked a historic achievement with the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a project that has redefined energy and development dynamics in Africa. Standing tall on the Blue Nile, GERD is now the largest hydroelectric dam on the continent, boasting an impressive capacity of 5,000 megawatts. The promising output is set to more than double the nation’s energy production, paving the way for Ethiopia to become a powerhouse in Africa's energy sector.

While heralded as a triumph for Ethiopian aspirations, the GERD completion brings critical considerations for regional water security. Neighboring nations Egypt and Sudan have expressed concerns regarding Nile water flow reductions, underlying the importance of diplomacy in forging lasting agreements. Ethiopia's leadership underscores a vision of shared growth and cooperation across the Nile Basin, a testament to potential unified progress in the region.

#Ethiopia #Egypt #Sudan

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