😬 Parking gone wrong: At Shanghai airport, a plane rammed a jet bridge with its wing
The incident happened during landing — the aircraft overran the stop line and hit the so-called “tube” that passengers use to board the plane directly from the terminal.
🎈 The US Air Force mistook party balloons for cartel drones
Military officials believed the festive balloons were drones launched by Mexican drug cartels — and shot them down.
The “operation” led to the region’s airspace being shut down for several hours — reportedly for the first time in modern US history.
🇨🇳The Chinese have invented the perfect smartphone for the apocalypse
Inside the Tank X, there’s a strobe flashlight, a camera with night-vision mode, and even a built-in laser projector. The battery lasts up to a week.
A massive competition for the Indian Guard: a large-scale exam was held in the country
In India, 8,000 people filled the airport's runway to take the exam for a position in the national guard.
Thousands of candidates were competing for 187 positions. Due to the large number of applicants, there were logistical issues.
Ultimately, it was decided to conduct the written test directly on the runway. In other areas, stadiums or large playing fields were used for the exam.
Drones and law enforcement personnel were monitoring the testing process.
We put Putin's 19 December speech next to Hitler's 1939 Reichstag address.
Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording.
"I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."
The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response? https://t.co/qQvDbkpDnE
Russia is preparing to cooperate with the U.S. in the Arctic — Kremlin representative Kirill Dmitriev
Earlier, Dmitriev also spoke about the possible construction of an intercontinental tunnel between Alaska and Russia.
Wait, how is this possible? Isn't it the cunning America that wants to steal all the resources from proud Russians, and, according to the Dulles plan, send them into slavery at McDonald's?
No? But this was exactly the narrative you pushed for the last 30 years.
How are you now going to explain your geopolitical "flexibility" to the masses? Even the most die-hard supporters won't understand why existential enemies have become respected partners.
Russia is accelerating development of the International North–South Transport Corridor, a trade network through Iran designed to bypass sanctions
The corridor reduces Russia's economic isolation, while transforming Iran into major Eurasian trade hub
https://t.co/lSvh0Nz3Uk
😅Trump mocked Putin for talking Steve Witkoff’s ear off
“I sent Witkoff to meet with Putin thinking it would take 15 or 20 minutes,” Trump said while speaking in Israel’s parliament. He noted that ending the Russia–Ukraine war turned out to be harder than achieving peace in the Middle East.
“Witkoff didn’t really know much about politics. But his meeting with Putin lasted five hours. I asked, ‘What the hell could you have talked about for five hours?’ And he said, ‘We discussed many interesting things.’”
A quick alternative history lecture from Putin about the Polovtsians and Rurik, maybe? Tucker Carlson already fell for that trap once.
A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world
The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere
https://t.co/ynIdMylpnI
A fire was also spotted in a military unit in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Krasnodar Krai.
Ukraine's Kiberboroshno geolocated the footage, confirming that "As a result of the drone attack, fuel and lubricants were hit at the site of the 76th Separate Repair and Recovery Battalion in the settlement of Slavyansk-na-Kubani."
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💔 Flowers, toys, and tears: Kyiv mourns the victims of the strike
People are bringing candles, flowers, and children's toys to the destroyed apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district.
▪️ On the night of July 31, Russian forces launched a combined strike on the Ukrainian capital. As a result, 31 people were killed in the city, including five children. (source)
It was one of the deadliest attacks on Kyiv since the beginning of the war.
❌ Free internet in Russia is dead today
Putin signed a law imposing penalties for VPN ads and the search for extremist materials.
A fine of up to 5,000 rubles now applies for intentional interest in "banned content." For spreading VPN ads — up to half a million rubles.
🤗 Welcome to 1984! Or the digital dark ages.
✈💥Russian airline giant Aeroflot plunged into chaos
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed that a hacker attack was behind the failure of Aeroflot’s IT systems.
The airline has asked passengers on cancelled flights not to come to the airport.
Massive lines have already formed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airports.
Aeroflot says refunds or ticket changes will only be possible “once services are restored.”
🤗Welcome aboard the meltdown.
On the third day of protests against a law to gut Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies, mysterious young masked men appeared with signs inciting action against Ukraine's government—not demanding to repeal the law, like everybody else.
Appearing right before the protests dispersed, the men lit up flares and disappeared. Ukraine's intelligence warned that "Moscow may inspire provocative actions aimed at escalating protests, deepening divisions, and creating chaos in Ukrainian society - ultimately to weaken state stability during this war for Ukraine's survival."