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— There's nothing more ironic than a Bourbon monarchy beating the French Republic on Bastille day

History is funny sometimes.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Iranian Air Defense Activity in Bushehr, Southern Iran

🇪🇸👑⚽️ — Via its official media, the Spanish Royal House of Bourbon celebrated Spain's Triumph over France at FIFA World Cup, sharing a video of King Felipe VI alongside the rest of the Royal family celebrating the victory of the Spanish team:
Spain is in the final!

You have once again demonstrated why you are one of the great teams in the world. Now, with an entire country on your side, the time has come to fight for the title.

Thank you for making us enjoy this path. Go for it, Spain!

Israeli soldiers enjoy watching the World Cup at the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.

The Iranian regime has dramatically expanded its domestic crackdown on dissent and access to foreign information by formally implementing a sweeping blacklisting system under its post-war espionage law.

The measure, issued by the Ministry of Intelligence under Article 4 of the 2025 legislation, brands dozens of foreign media outlets, journalists, human rights organizations, think tanks, opposition figures, and hundreds of online accounts as "hostile" entities, exposing Iranians who communicate with or share content from them to severe criminal penalties.

Under the legal framework, punishments can range from years of imprisonment to capital charges.

The lists encompass Israeli state institutions, Persian-language broadcasters, opposition figures, Western democracy and human rights organizations, and various armed groups, significantly expanding Tehran's legal restrictions on information sharing and foreign engagement.

https://www.ekhtebar.ir/مصادیق-تبصره-ماده-4-قانون-تشدید-مجازات/amp/

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Video shows the moment when IRGC launched ballistic missiles from Tabriz a while ago

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Video shows the launch of two missiles from Tabriz around 2:10 a.m

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — USAF Airstrike in Dehloran, Ilam Province, Western Iran

🇧🇭⚠️ — Air Raid Sirens in Bahrain

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Explosions in Bushehr, Southern Iran

Lebanese authorities arrested Mohammad Ali Shamseddine, a figure with access to senior Hezbollah circles, at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport as he was preparing to travel to Iraq.

Investigators determined that Shamseddine, who traveled regularly between Lebanon and Iraq and was married to an Iraqi woman, used trips from Iraq to Turkey to meet operatives connected to Israel’s Mossad and deliver detailed intelligence collected in Beirut on Hezbollah personnel, movements and locations.

The information he supplied enabled Israel to identify and strike Hezbollah targets and was linked to the deaths of several officials in 2024, including 4 senior security commanders such as Fuad Shukr and operations chief Ibrahim Aqil among the figures whose locations may have been compromised.

Shamseddine remains in Lebanese custody as the military judiciary investigates the full extent of the intelligence network, his handlers and any additional collaborators.

🔥 🇨🇦 👨‍🚒 Views of just one of the wildfires ripping across Ontario, Canada yesterday. Similar fire behavior is expected today.

Fires in Minnesota and Canada have made air quality across the east coast of the United States “unsuitable for everyone.”

Hundreds of thousands of acres have burned in the last 48 hours.

📎 The Hotshot Wake Up

🔥 🇨🇦 👨‍🚒 There are currently 838 wildfires burning across Canada. More than 100 are in northwestern Ontario, sending thick smoke to the Great Lakes and Northeast U.S.

📎 Collin Gross

🌬 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 NW winds will carry that smoke across the Great Lakes, Northeast, & Mid-Atlantic today & tonight.

Reduced visibility & degraded air quality may persist through the end of the week.

📎 NWS State College

🌆 🇺🇸 🔥 Live camera overlooking Rochester, New York. This image is untouched, not edited or oversaturated in any way. The wildfire smoke situation right now is very reminiscent of 2023 when it got so bad.

📎 Eric Snitil

🔥 🇨🇦 🚂 Views from train engineers near Armstrong, Ontario, Canada, as wildfires continue to push across the province.

Multiple fires have ran 20+ miles in the last 24 hours, and others have crossed the international border from Minnesota into Canada.

📎 The Hotshot Wake Up

🔥 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Fires from Ontario, Canada about to cross into Minnesota.

Two large wildfire in Minnesota crossed the international border into Ontario yesterday.

https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/minnesota-wildfires-burn-33000-acres

📎 The Hotshot Wake Up

🌬 🔥 🇨🇦 Startling satellite loop showing numerous intense, fast moving wildfires tonight from far northern Minnesota and into Ontario.

Extreme heat signatures and thick smoke plumes are visible, with one fire even producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a fire-induced thunderstorm.

📎 Collin Gross

🌆 🇨🇦 🔥 The sky over Toronto, Canada, has turned an eerie shade of orange due to smoke from wildfires across the country. A similar scene happened in NYC in June 2023.

https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-air-quality-advisory-effect-new-york-city-due-canadian-wildfire-smoke/19513490/

📎 ABC7NY

🌬 🔥 🇨🇦 24 hour fire spread in Ontario, Canada.

Fires making 20+ mile runs

📎 Hotshot Wake up