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WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by President Trump
  
  
• China: Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries
  CCP-Linked NGO Network Prepares "Emergency Protests" In US After Trump's Iran Strikes Jeopardize Oil Flows To China
  Xi Purge Latest: China's Top Legislature Abruptly Sacks 9 Top Military Officials
• Russia: Most crew members of crashed Bolivian Air Force plane survive — firefighters
  Russia Condemns US Attack On Iran, Warns Of Possible 'Radiological Catastrophe'
  
• United Kingdom: Watch: Smoke rises in Tehran as explosions heard across country
  UK Locks In Critical Minerals Deal With Kazakhstan To Cut Reliance On China
  Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to India with trade on his mind.
• India: 'Exercise utmost caution': India issues advisory as Israel, U.S. bombs Iran
  
  
• France: Sweden confirms Russian drone intercepted near French aircraft carrier
  
  
• Japan: Russia weighs halt to peace talks unless Ukraine cedes territory
  
  
• Spain: 92% Of Illegal Arrivals At Spain's Canary Islands Are Men, And Half Of 'Unaccompanied Minors' Are Adults
  
  
• South Korea: N. Korea ships 33,000 containers of weapons to Russia
  
  
• Canada: A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America
  Canada sending $8M in food aid to Cuba as humanitarian crisis deepens
  
• Venezuela: Venezuelan oil really available to Cuba again?
  
  
• Israel: Israel Launches Wave Of Strikes On Lebanon In Precursor To Potential Iran War
  Iron Dome interceptions seen in skies above Jerusalem and Tel Aviv after night falls | AP News
  

• White House:
  White House Releases Photos of President and Vice President Monitoring Iran Strikes
  
  
• State Department:
  Pursuing Sustainable Health Outcomes Under the Trump Administration’s America First Global Health Strategy in the Republic of Guatemala, the Republic of Guinea, and the Republic of El Salvador
  US Again Demands Iraq End Maliki Nomination
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
  Secretary of War Ends DEI Requirements in Scouts
  Army orders $186 million in Switchblade kamikaze drones, tank killers
• Justice (DOJ):
  FBI Raises Alert Nationwide After Strikes on Iran
  
  
• HHS:
  Trump Admin to Withhold $259M in Medicaid Funding to MN
  
  
• House:
  Bill Clinton -Epstein Depostion: No wrongdoing and no knowledge of Donald Trump Involvment with Epstein
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  Justices appear dubious of challenge to constitutionality of foreclosure sales
  President Trump's administration asks justices to allow it to remove protected status from Syrian nationals
  

• Oil Shipments in Persian Gulf Already Disrupted by Iran Attack
  President Trump's allies David and Larry Ellison win battle for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix bows out
  OpenAI Secures Record $110 Billion Funding Round Backed By Amazon, Nvidia, & SoftBank | ZeroHedge

• SOCOM on the hunt for ‘acoustic rainbow’ tech for silencing drones
  NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture
  Chesapeake Bay Locked in Ice

• Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses
  Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
  

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