🇮🇷 Trump Vows More Iran Strikes — Leaves Door Open to Talks
U.S. missiles struck targets across Iran on Friday as President Trump threatened "major military punishment" for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen, while simultaneously signalling openness to a diplomatic deal.
The U.S. military also fired on and disabled a tanker ship it said had been "repeatedly warned" and failed to comply with an American blockade on Iranian ports. The strikes come two weeks after the collapse of an interim truce meant to end the conflict. Trump said the U.S. was "locked and loaded" for further action.
No casualty figures were included in the available reporting. The situation remains active and unresolved.
🕌 Five Dead as Israeli Settlers Open Fire in West Bank Village
A shooting attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Till left five people dead — four Palestinians and one Israeli.
The attack marks one of the deadliest settler violence incidents in the West Bank in recent months, occurring amid ongoing conflict across the Palestinian territories.
🇮🇷 Iran Kills U.S. Personnel in Strikes on Three U.S. Bases
Iran has struck American military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan, killing U.S. personnel — a significant escalation after 12 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian targets.
Tehran targeted radar, communications, air-defense and aviation assets, hitting facilities linked to the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, and Ali Al Salem and Muwaffaq Salti air bases in Jordan. The strikes represent Iran's direct retaliation against the military infrastructure supporting U.S. operations across the region.
The exchange marks a sharp new phase in the conflict: Iran is now targeting the logistical backbone of American power projection in the Middle East, and U.S. personnel deaths bring direct military confrontation between the two countries into open territory.
🪖 Ukraine Hits Russian Retailer Wildberries Four Times in a Week
Ukrainian drones struck Wildberries warehouses near St. Petersburg for the fourth time in a week overnight on July 24, forcing the company to suspend operations at logistics complexes in Shushary and the "Utkina Zavod" industrial zone in the Leningrad region. Facilities in annexed Crimea were also hit.
The strikes on Russia's largest online retailer have killed nine people and left small sellers facing millions of roubles in losses, according to reports. Wildberries confirmed the attacks and the operational suspension.
The repeated targeting of a major civilian commercial hub marks a notable escalation in Ukraine's long-range drone campaign inside Russian territory.
🇪🇺 Greece Exposes Cracks in EU's Russia Energy Sanctions
EU member states reached agreement on the latest Russia sanctions package, with Brussels framing it as a show of European unity — but negotiations revealed persistent divisions over energy measures.
Greece led resistance to tighter restrictions on Russian energy, highlighting the core dilemma facing the bloc: sustaining economic pressure on Moscow while protecting member states heavily dependent on Russian supplies. The standoff underscores that, three years into the war, the EU's sanctions architecture remains constrained by the energy vulnerabilities of its southern and eastern members.
The compromise outcome signals that European unity on Russia, while largely intact, has limits — particularly where energy security and national economic interests collide directly with bloc-wide foreign policy goals.
🇪🇺 EU Fines Google €890M Under Digital Markets Act
The European Commission has fined Google's parent Alphabet €890 million ($1 billion) for two separate breaches of the EU's Digital Markets Act — the bloc's landmark law curbing Big Tech power.
A €460 million penalty covers Google illegally favouring its own Shopping, Hotels, and Flights services in Search results over rivals. A second €430 million fine targets Play Store rules that prevented app developers from directing users to alternative payment options outside Google's platform.
The ruling comes as Washington prepares fresh trade tariffs on the EU, raising the diplomatic stakes of Brussels' continued crackdown on American tech giants.