The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: Iran and Oman prepare Hormuz deal as U.S. holds back on secondary sanctions
  US Threat of Iran Secondary Sanctions Raises Risk of Clash With China, Buyer of 90% of Iranian Oil
  World's Largest Refiner Says China's Oil Demand "Very Likely Peaked Last Year"
• Security Blocs & Alliances: UK Media Speculates CIA Director in Moscow to Thwart Putin Attack on NATO
  Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum
  Polish firm MESKO signs $2B deal to arm 4 NATO nations with MANPADS
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: CIA director makes unannounced visit to Moscow to meet with Russian officials
  US Saudi nuclear deal reaches Congress as experts warn of proliferation risk
  US targets Iran’s trade lifelines — here are the countries most exposed
• China: Chinese navy fires new radar-absorbing YJ-18A anti-ship missile in sea trial
  Deadly flash flood and mudslide cause casualties in Nepal and China
  China denounces US threat of sanctions over trade with Iran
• Russia: Ukraine Knocks Out 8 of Wildberries’ 10 Major Warehouses, Wiping Out 81% of Combined Space
  Moscow court orders in-absentia arrest of FAZ journalist Martens
  Russia Reports: Ukrainian armed forces drop explosives disguised as children’s toys from drones
• India: Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills nine and destroys villages, toll likely to jump
  
  
• France: Around 40 injured after tornado tears through village in the south of France
  
  
• Japan: Suzuki unveils the first "kei" class compliant ultra-compact, lightweight electric car
  Indonesia battles haze as wildfires rage across South Sumatra forests
  
• Spain: Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers
  
  
• Canada: US announces new 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and steel
  Canada should be ready to cut electricity, critical minerals, Ontario's premier says | PBS News
  Former Iranian official living in Toronto was ‘critical’ to terror finance, CBSA alleges
• Continental Africa: Roadblocks and burning tyres in Libya protests over power cuts
  
  

• White House:
  U.S. Secret Service aware of Iranian video threat against Barron Trump
  White House Statement: President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada’s Free Ride
  Presidential Message on Overdose and Drug Poisoning Awareness Week
• State Department:
  U.S. removes Syria from state sponsors of terrorism list after 47 years
  
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  U.S., Brunei Forces Jungle Training During Exercise Pahlawan Warrior
  EOD Airmen Train on Full Spectrum of Explosive Threats
  SecWar Hegseth Greets Troops at STRATCOM, Talks Arsenal of Freedom in Wisconsin
• Justice (DOJ):
  DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025
  Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 monitors to the polls this fall
  
• Treasury:
  Secretary Bessent threatens new Iran secondary sanctions
  
  
• Senate:
  Republicans score much-needed double primary victory in South Carolina, Oklahoma
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  US supreme court rules President Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting
  Supreme Court lifts injunction blocking moratorium on mail voting before midterms
  

• U.S. crude hovers around $80 as oil prices sink on Hormuz deal hopes
  Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
  Norway Supreme Court Oilfield Climate Battle

• How To Watch The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Launch
  NASA LunaRecycle challange incentivizes the invention of new recycling systems for future lunar missions
  This 15-Foot Python Is the First Known Snake to Receive Electrochemotherapy for Cancer. Now, She's Officially Free of the Disease

• A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread
  AI companions vanish without goodbyes as China tightens rules
  Russia’s Starlink Rival “Rassvet” Is Falling—One Satellite Gone, Two More May Be Next

• 400-year-old ‘vampire’ grave discovered in Poland
  Police seize massive Burmese python near Coney Island boardwalk
  Florida zoo treats a manatee, a duck, and a chick with acupuncture

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