JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 121 JUNE 28,26 - IRAN AND US TRADE STRIKES.
THE NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN) will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them, (MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them; (DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The 500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February, the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel) are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species: Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors, and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The 500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
Attacked Gulf states slam Iranian 'aggression'Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes, threatens to end negotiations-FM Araghchi cites Hormuz ‘arrangements’ as reason for tension; Bahrain says residential building in capital damaged, nobody killed; Trump: Iran violated truce with ship attack By AP and ToI Staff Today, 4:43 pm
Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday morning targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to early morning US airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continued its attacks.Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight sparked the crossfire now gripping the region and have imperiled negotiations for a lasting ceasefire. A multinational maritime body overseen by the US Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman for both inbound and outbound traffic, setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.The global community has long considered the strait an international passageway, despite its sitting in Iran’s and Oman’s territorial waters. In recent days, Iran has twice attacked vessels going through a route on the Omani side of the strait backed by a United Nations agency.Iran insists that it alone must govern the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf that once carried a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated the claim during a state visit to Iraq on Sunday.“Any interference in this matter, any attempt to establish new or separate arrangements from those currently being carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will only lead to further complications, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and increase the level of tension, just as over the past two nights we witnessed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz that led to an increase in tension and confrontation,” he said in Baghdad.The United States and Iran are still debating the terms of an interim peace deal, including shipping arrangements through the strait, removing a US blockade and sanctions and addressing the future of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.Under the memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month, the US and Iran have 60 days to iron out the details, though the continued tit-for-tat strikes threaten to torpedo the deal before it can be finalized.Bahrain,Kuwait slam Iranian ‘aggression’The Kuwaiti military said air defenses intercepted incoming Iranian drones and missiles Sunday morning, just after the US strikes.Kuwait, which hosts a major US Army base, said it had detected and intercepted two ballistic missiles and there were no reports of injuries or damage.Kuwait’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it “expresses its condemnation and denunciation of… in the strongest terms, the recurrence of Iran’s heinous aggression against the State of Kuwait, the latest of which was at dawn today, in a flagrant violation of its sovereignty.”Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said the Iranian strikes damaged a residential building near the international airport and no one was killed.The ministry released photos of an eight-story building, with the top floor destroyed, filled with rubble and its windows blown out.Bahrain Ministry of Interior reports material damage to a residential building in Muharraq Governorate following an Iranian attack. Advertisement No casualties reported. Authorities are on-site.#Bahrain ???????? Source: @moi_bahrainhttps://t.co/nkpgHup0fW pic.twitter.com/Cvb5HdD327 — Shin (@hey_itsmyturn) June 28, 2026-Bahrain is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, whose base there came under repeated attack during the war. The damaged building on Sunday was not near the fleet’s headquarters, in downtown Manama.Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it called “a dangerous escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated aggression.”Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for both attacks.Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire with ship attack-The latest strikes came after the US and Iran traded attacks earlier in the weekend.The US military’s Central Command said it struck Iranian military “surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities and minelayer capabilities” on Sunday, following an attack on a ship at sea early Saturday morning.That ship, the Panamanian-flagged tanker Kiku, carried crude oil for the state-run energy company of Qatar, a key mediator between Iran and the US.In a social media post, Trump said the US had “struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” He warned of a point where the US may no longer be able to be reasonable “and will be forced to militarily complete the job.”“If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.The incident followed a similar back-and-forth that occurred just days prior, when an Iranian drone struck a merchant vessel off the coast of Oman on Thursday, and the US military retaliated with strikes.
US strikes Iran after attack on cargo ship; Vance vows ‘violence will be met with violence’Iranian Revolutionary Guards claim to target US sites around region in retaliation for strikes, threaten that ‘if the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader’By Agencies 27 June 2026, 4:32 am
The US struck Iran on Friday in response to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The confrontation marked the most significant test yet to an interim understanding reached a week ago by the two countries to begin working to end their months-long war and reopen the pivotal waterway.US President Donald Trump said the drone attack violated the ceasefire. The strikes came shortly after Trump told reporters, “You’ll find out,” whether the US would respond.US Central Command said the military struck missile and drone locations and coastal radar sites in Iran.“I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, actually four of them,” Trump said at the White House shortly before the US struck back. When asked why there would be strikes when Trump has insisted talks with Tehran are going well, Trump said of Iran: “They’re a little bit different.”He then abruptly cut off questions, and reporters were ushered out of his office.Ebrahim Azizi, who heads the Iranian parliament’s national security commission, responded to Trump on social media earlier Friday, saying, “The Strait of Hormuz is governed by Iran, so: Respect the rules” and to “not mistake control for escalation.”“This is not a violation of the ceasefire; it is ceasefire management,” Azizi wrote.Friday evening, Vice President JD Vance said on social media that Iran should “pick up the phone” if there are disagreements about the ceasefire agreement.“But violence will be met with violence,” Vance said.Strikes conclude an hour later-The US strikes on Iran concluded about an hour after US Central Command announced the military action on social media, a US official with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing military operation.Following the strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened a “swift and decisive” response, Iran’s state TV reported.The IRGC claimed it repelled an attack by the US against Sirik Island, which is located on the shores of the Strait of Hormuz, later announcing that it attacked US sites in the Gulf region in retaliation for the American strikes.“If the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader than this,” the IRGC said, according to a post by state TV on Telegram.The British military said on Thursday that a container ship was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman, coming hours after Iran threatened vessels to stop using the route. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said no injuries were reported.The development came during a fragile time for the US and Iran as they work to negotiate a permanent end to the war. Iran has increasingly challenged the region and the US over its control of the Strait of Hormuz, even with the current interim deal it reached with the US last week.The attack on the cargo ship happened while a United Nations maritime agency was beginning an operation to move stranded ships out of the strait this week, using an alternative route, hugging the shores of Oman rather than sailing through the central part of the strait.The International Maritime Organization halted the evacuations after the attack and said on Friday that they won’t resume until there are guarantees that the other ships won’t be attacked.About 115 ships were able to move out of the strait in recent days, leaving about 500 still in the area, said Arsenio Dominguez, the agency’s secretary-general.The opening of the alternative passage through the strait was expected to relieve pressure on the world economy and remove Iran’s main source of leverage in ongoing peace talks with the US.The US and Iran are still negotiating the terms of the deal, including issues such as getting ships through the key strait and addressing the future of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Under the interim deal, the two sides have 60 days to work out the details.Cargo ship attack poses a test for shipping-Shipping analysts said the drone strike cast a shadow over what had been a growing stream of trapped vessels finally leaving the Gulf and an increasing flow of tankers carrying crude oil.“A week of widening commercial confidence in the Strait of Hormuz has hit its first significant test,” said marine data company Windward on X. It said that while the strait remains operationally open with 43 transits recorded after the incident, “the pace of normalization has slowed.”On Wednesday, before Thursday’s drone strike, 78 vessels transited the strait, the highest since the war began, although below the prewar averages of 130 or more per day.At least two tankers reversed course while attempting to transit the strait on the UN-backed route near Oman after Iran insisted vessels use only the Tehran-approved routes, according to marine data and analytic firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence.More than two dozen ships were still transiting the strait’s southern route after the attack, Lloyd’s said Friday.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Trump threatens to ‘complete the job’ in Iran as US military launches fresh strikes-CENTCOM says it hit 10 targets ‘in and near the Strait of Hormuz’ in retaliation for drone attack on Panama-flagged tanker; IRGC responds by hitting US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 6:06 am-JUN 28,26
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran will “no longer exist” if the United States is “forced” to resume the war, as he accused Tehran of violating a ceasefire by striking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.The threat came after US forces said they struck “multiple” Iranian targets Saturday in another tit-for-tat response to attacks on shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz.“United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.“There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!” Trump wrote.US Central Command said the strikes were in response to an Iranian drone attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker Kiku, which was carrying some two million barrels of crude.The US military said the latest response targeted “surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities.”In total, it said it hit 10 Iranian military targets “at multiple locations in and near the Strait of Hormuz.”Iranian media reported several explosions in the Sirik and Qeshm areas of southern Iran.U.S. Navy and Air Force fighter jets conducted strikes tonight on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations in and near the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's drone attack on M/T Kiku. pic.twitter.com/Z0TLZRqmF6 — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 28, 2026-In the wake of the strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also accused the US of violating the terms of the ceasefire, announcing that its navy and aerospace forces had launched joint missile and drone attacks targeting US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation.“Violating the ceasefire is contrary to Clause 1 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s Press TV.In a statement, Kuwait’s military said that its air defenses were “engaging hostile missile and drone attacks.”In Bahrain, which hosts a major US naval base, the interior ministry said air raid sirens had been activated and urged residents to “remain calm and head to the nearest safe place.”A US official speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters that there were no reported US casualties or major impacts or damage to US facilities in the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian attacks.The IRGC warned that any further US action would be met with a “crushing response.”In a statement, the IRGC said it “destroyed eight important US military facilities at the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait and at the Fifth Fleet naval base in Port Salman in Bahrain.“Any enemy aggression, whatever the pretext, even against insignificant targets… will have a crushing response,” the IRGC added.The clashes brought new tension to the negotiating process meant to end a war launched by the United States and Israel at the end of February.They also underlined the risks still facing one of the world’s most important sea lanes for oil and other commodities.On Friday, the United States also conducted strikes that it said were in response to another Iranian attack on a ship, the Ever Lovely.Iran said Saturday it had hit US targets in the Gulf in its own retaliation. Bahrain said it was targeted by several Iranian drones early on Saturday and accused Tehran of “sabotaging peace efforts.”Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said “if the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader.”Shipping lanes under fire-The flare-ups in violence highlighted ongoing wrangling over control of the Strait of Hormuz.Iran imposed a blockade in the strait soon after the US and Israel, on February 28, launched a bombing campaign on the Islamic Republic in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The blockade has triggered a global spike in energy prices.Traffic through the Strait has increased since the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month, but is still well below prewar levels.Iran has warned vessels not to enter or leave the Gulf through the Strait without permission, but ships have continued to move, some using a route not authorized by Tehran.The US and Iran are still debating the terms of the interim peace deal, including issues such as getting ships through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf and addressing the future of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.Under the memorandum of understanding, the US and Iran have 60 days to iron out the details. As talks are held behind closed doors, Trump and Iranian leaders have seemed to negotiate in public, trading threats and claiming concessions the other side denies.Israel is not a party to the agreement or negotiations between the US and Iran, and Israeli officials have criticized the memorandum of understanding for its lack of a concrete concession from Iran on its nuclear program.Despite the latest flare-up, oil prices have fallen sharply on hopes that traffic through Hormuz would recover. In peacetime, it carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas exports.The economic impact on Iran remains unclear, but on Saturday, the country’s statistics agency said that year-on-year inflation had hit 88.6 percent, up from 68 percent in February.
Iran fires drones at Bahrain, oil tanker hit in Hormuz as clashes test deal-IRGC says it targeted ‘US terrorist army’ in response to overnight strikes following Iranian attack on ship that tried to leave strait; Bahrain: Iran ‘sabotaging peace efforts’By Agencies 27 June 2026, 3:15 pm
Iran fired drones at Bahrain on Saturday in an apparent response to overnight airstrikes by the US, shaking uneasy efforts for a US-Iran peace deal.A ship also came under attack in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, and security sources told Reuters an explosive drone targeted a recently evacuated camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north of Iraq’s Erbil. No casualties were reported in either incident.Meanwhile, a multinational maritime body overseen by the US Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman in the Strait of Hormuz to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic — likely setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.The US had on Friday said it struck military storage and radar sites in Iran in response to an Iranian drone attack on a ship trying to get out of the strategic waterway on Thursday.The attacks were the first known exchange of fire between the US and Iran since the two countries last week reached a memorandum of understanding to hammer out a final deal within 60 days.Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said the US military’s “brutal attacks, which targeted Iranian coastal surveillance facilities, are a blatant violation” of the interim agreement, which calls for a halt to all regional hostilities.In a statement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency on Saturday, following the US strikes, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted several unspecified locations “of the US terrorist army in the region.”Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, later said “several Iranian drones” targeted the Gulf state in “a flagrant threat to the security of citizens and residents.”The Iranian attacks were “sabotaging peace efforts,” Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said.Threat to ships in Hormuz still ‘substantial,’ says US Navy agency-Separately, the British military’s Maritime Trade Operations center said an oil tanker was struck and damaged by an “unidentified projectile” in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.“The vessel sustained damage to their bridge; all crew are reported safe,” UKMTO said. Another British marine security firm, Vanguard Tech, identified the vessel as the Panama-flagged tanker KIKU.Just after the report of the ship attack, the Joint Maritime Information Center, overseen by the US Navy, said the route near Oman’s shores is expanding to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic.In its announcement, the Joint Maritime Information Center warned that the threat to ships in the region was “substantial.”“Mariners are advised of the existence of mines and should expect a naval presence as clearance operations continue,” it said.Iran has insisted ships must obey its orders and is warning it will start charging fees for transit through the strait, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas once passed. However, ships have been increasingly trying to leave the Gulf in recent days, to Iran’s ire.On Friday evening, US Vice President JD Vance said on social media that Iran should “pick up the phone” if there are disagreements about the ceasefire agreement.“But violence will be met with violence,” Vance said.Iran imposed a blockade in the strait soon after the US and Israel, on February 28, launched a bombing campaign on the Islamic Republic in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The blockade has triggered a global spike in energy prices.The fighting entered a truce on April 8. Israel is not a party to the agreement or negotiations between the US and Iran, and Israeli officials have criticized the memorandum of understanding for its lack of a concrete concession from Iran on its nuclear program.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
US considering moving Gulf bases hit by Iran westward, including to Israel — report-WSJ says Iran’s retaliatory strikes did greater damage to the Middle East’s only US Navy base, in Bahrain, than the Pentagon has acknowledged By ToI Staff 26 June 2026, 11:11 am
The United States is considering moving Middle East military installations westward, including to Israel, to reduce their exposure to Iran’s missiles and drones, which dealt the region’s sole US Navy base some $400 million in damage largely unacknowledged by the Pentagon, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.Tehran’s retaliatory strikes, following the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran on February 28, hit US military installations across the region, killing 13 servicemembers and wounding hundreds.Buildings harmed at the Naval Support Activity Bahrain (NSA Bahrain) base, which lies some 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Iran, include the Fifth Fleet headquarters, a barracks, several warehouses and a potable water tank, the Journal said Thursday, citing satellite and social media images.No one was killed at the base, according to the US military, the Journal said.The outlet said it estimated the cost of the damages based on procurement reports and the Pentagon’s publicly available cost modeThe estimate included only construction costs, the Journal said. It cited an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank as saying that, depending on what the buildings housed, that estimate could end up being dwarfed by other costs of the damage. For example, according to CSIS, two satellite communication terminals that Iran destroyed early in the war cost some $20 million each, the report said.The damage to NSA Bahrain has led the US to weigh revamping the base, including by moving command centers underground and passing on rebuilding some of the destroyed structures, according to US officials familiar with the deliberations who were cited by the Journal.The US may also curb its presence in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and shift some of it westward, following Iran’s targeting of military installations in the two Arab states, the officials said.The U.S. Navy base in Bahrain was repeatedly targeted between late February and June. Strikes that got through caused extensive damage, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of satellite imagery, social-media footage and interviews with current and former… — Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) June 26, 2026-According to two of the officials, one of the destinations being weighed is Israel, where dozens of US jets parked at Ben Gurion Airport since the lead-up to the Iran war have stymied Israelis’ travel.US President Donald Trump has faced fierce criticism in the US, including within his own Republican party, over the spiraling cost of the Iran war, which also sparked a global spike in energy prices after Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for oil shipments.Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is seeking roughly $80 billion in supplemental funding to shore up defense supplies in the aftermath of the war, which entered a truce on April 8.The US and Iran last week reached a memorandum of understanding that kicked off 60 days of negotiations to end hostilities across the region.Israel is not a party to the MOU or the negotiations, and Israeli officials have criticized the agreement, which requires a halt to Israel’s operations against Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, and contains no concrete concessions from Iran on its nuclear program.Agencies contributed to this report.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH) (DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”
PM: Israel will maintain buffer zone for as long as needed-Israel and Lebanon ink framework deal for ending conflict, including minor IDF withdrawal-After US-Iran MOU almost derailed talks last week, Israel agrees to pull out of two areas beyond south Lebanon buffer zone; Rubio hails ‘beginning of the beginning’ of road to peace By Jacob Magid-27 June 2026, 1:14 am
Israel, Lebanon and the United States on Friday signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for an eventual peace deal between the two long-time Middle East adversaries.The agreement — which includes a pilot effort in which Lebanese soldiers take control of some small areas currently held by Israeli troops, as well as a process aimed at disarming the Hezbollah terror group — is the result of five rounds of talks in the US capital.The deal “begins to put in place a framework for lasting peace and security,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the signing ceremony, noting: “It’s the beginning of the beginning. There’s a lot of work ahead.”The framework deal was reached on the fourth day of the fifth round of talks that the US has mediated between Israel and Lebanon in Washington, beginning in April. The latest round of fighting in the country kicked off when Hezbollah attacked Israel on March 2, in support of Iran. Several truces declared since then have unraveled.The areas the IDF will withdraw from have already been cleared of Hezbollah infrastructure. In some cases, this has included Israel razing entire Lebanese villages to the ground on the border, with the IDF arguing that Hezbollah was using much of them to plan and carry out attacks against Israel.Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said Israel will maintain its buffer zone in southern Lebanon until the Lebanese Armed Forces demonstrate that they can dismantle Hezbollah and assume responsibility for security.Leiter stressed that the deal will not be based on a fixed timetable, but on measurable progress by the Lebanese army in disarming Hezbollah.Additional “pilot” handovers from the IDF to the LAF will take place as benchmarks are met, he said.Asked whether Gulf states, France, Italy, or other international partners would be used to help secure southern Lebanon, Leiter said it was too early to discuss that idea.He said other countries could take part in Lebanon’s reconstruction, but only after Hezbollah has been disarmed.Rubio: Framework is ‘beginning of the beginning’Rubio, in a statement declaring the creation of a “trilateral Military Coordination Group for Lebanon (MCG4L), facilitated by the United States” that will implement the agreement, also announced an “immediate” $100 million donation by the US toward humanitarian assistance in coordination with the UN.He also said the US Defense Department was “prepared to reimburse the Lebanese Armed Forces with more than $30 million under existing authorities and appropriations to support the president’s vision for an enduring peace in Lebanon.”At the signing ceremony at the State Department in Washington, Rubio appeared to acknowledge the limited scope of the agreement, calling it “the beginning of the beginning.”“There’s a lot of work ahead. We don’t in any way underestimate the difficulty of the task ahead, but we understand the importance of it, how vital it is, and we are honored to have played a part in bringing this together,” he said, before going on to praise the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the US, who headed their countries’ respective negotiating teams.Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh called the framework “the first step on the road to restoring Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity, securing a permanent and final cessation of hostilities, enabling our people to go back to their land and allowing all Lebanese to live in peace, security and prosperity.”“This was a long and difficult meeting. We are grateful to the host and to the two delegations for their cooperation during these talks,” she added, in an apparent nod to Israel.‘Lioness’: Israel’s Leiter praises Lebanese diplomat-Ambassador Leiter gave longer remarks, but made a point of thanking Hamadeh by name “for being a very tough negotiator,” telling her: “You and your team set an example for patriotism to your country. You fight like a lioness, madam ambassador.”Leiter recalled that he began talks on Tuesday, warning of an impending “trainwreck,” after the US decided to include a ceasefire in Lebanon as part of the memorandum of understanding it reached last week with Iran.The decision appeared to undercut Washington’s own efforts to prevent Iran from maintaining an influence over developments in Lebanon. The US had established the direct talks between Israel and Lebanon in April, specifically to ensure that Iran would not be involved in future discussions about Israel’s continued presence in Lebanon.But either because of Iran’s significant leverage in the Strait of Hormuz or because Washington believed that Iran was needed to rein in Hezbollah, the US agreed to Tehran’s demands that the memorandum of understanding inked last week include a ceasefire in Lebanon, and then agreed to allow Iran to be part of the deconfliction mechanism that was established to ensure that ceasefire — both moves infuriating Jerusalem and Beirut.“Iran and its proxies wanted a trainwreck,” Leiter said at the signing ceremony, before arguing that such a result was prevented thanks to Rubio’s leadership. Rubio has not been a part of the talks with Iran, which have been led by US Vice President JD Vance.“We’ve put the train back on the tracks, and it’s running in the right direction. Final destination: peace between our two countries,” Leiter said. “In this performance-based, trilateral framework agreement, Iran is out, Hezbollah is out, and the road to peace between Israel and Lebanon is in.”He went on to maintain that the agreement would not have been possible without the resilience of Israel’s northern residents, the IDF, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.Netanyahu: We’ll maintain buffer as long as needed-Netanyahu issued a video statement shortly after the agreement was announced, touting the framework and stressing it will allow Israel to remain in the buffer zone it created in southern Lebanon.“We will maintain (the buffer zone) until Hezbollah disarms and as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said.“This is also a major blow to Iran. Iran is trying to coax us to withdraw from southern Lebanon by force. And in essence, Israel, Lebanon and the United States are telling Iran – it is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon. Neither you, nor Hezbollah nor any terrorist organization,” he continued.“We are also allowing the Lebanese army to start preparing to seize territory. We are creating two pilot zones — both recommended by the IDF.”“One is south of the Litani River and outside the (original) security zone altogether, and the other is north of the Litani — a small area in the expanded security zone that we conquered in the last two weeks, and which the IDF says it does not need,” Netanyahu claimed.“We are maintaining the original security zone, which covers the range of (Hezbollah) anti-tank missiles. We are not allowing Hezbollah, nor the Lebanese population, to enter that area. The most important thing is that Israel says: ‘Our security comes first,’” the prime minister said.His office issued a separate statement on the framework, explaining that it paved the way for future agreements between Israel and Lebanon.“The IDF’s freedom of military action will be maintained throughout the security zone to eliminate threats of any kind,” the prime minister’s office said.Withdrawal is from areas that are beyond buffer zone-Explaining just how minor the planned IDF withdrawal from south Lebanon will be, an Israeli official said troops will only be pulling back from two areas that are located beyond the original borders of the buffer zone that was established in April.In the two-plus months that followed, the IDF pushed further north, adding additional territory to the buffer zone. It is from two of those areas that Israel has agreed to withdraw in today’s agreement with Lebanon; they do not include the Beaufort Castle, which Israel recaptured in May.That lookout point was seen as a symbol of Israel’s previous military occupation in south Lebanon, which lasted for 18 years until the government withdrew troops in 2000, deciding they were not significantly enhancing the security of residents of the north even while suffering regular casualties.Israel, in this week’s talks, insisted on maintaining the original borders of the buffer zone, arguing it needs that amount of territory within Lebanon to ensure northern border towns are not within the range of Hezbollah missiles.It appears unlikely, though, that such a limited withdrawal will satisfy Iran or its Hezbollah proxy, who argue that Israel is violating the memorandum of understanding signed last week, which required a permanent end to military operations in Lebanon.Both Israel and Lebanon came into what was the fifth round of negotiations furious at the US for the latter’s decision to sign the MOU, a source told The Times of Israel.The US conduct led Israel to initially harden its position in talks with Lebanon this week, significantly limiting the areas from southern Lebanon from which it said it was prepared to withdraw, the source said.Lebanon, meanwhile, felt that it had to take a harder line in negotiations with Israel to counter the notion that Iran wields greater influence over affairs in Lebanese territory than it does.Accordingly, Lebanese negotiators presented maps for a proposed IDF withdrawal that were more expansive than what Israel was willing to accept at this stage, which was already very little due to the political pressures Netanyahu’s government is facing, according to the source.Lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah, a representative of the terrorist group’s political wing, said Lebanese authorities would not be able to enforce the framework agreement unless, with US support, “they go to civil war,” Al Mayadeen reported.Fadlallah said Hezbollah would confront any measure taken by Lebanese authorities and would hold on to its weapons even more, adding that the group’s opposition is “serious” and would not allow authorities to implement their commitments on the ground.Agencies contributed to this report.
Houthis: Lebanon has right to 'overthrow puppet government'Hezbollah says Israel-Lebanon agreement ‘null and void’; Israel said bracing for attack-Naim Qassem calls deal a ‘humiliation’ as allies threaten civil war; terror group’s MP slams Beirut’s ‘submission’; Israeli defense official vows ‘severe’ response to any attack By ToI Staff and Agencies 27 June 2026, 7:58 pm
Hezbollah’s leader on Saturday pilloried the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement signed in Washington as “null and void” and a surrender of Lebanon’s sovereignty, with the terror group’s top ally in Beirut’s parliament going as far as calling it an “incitement to civil war.”The deal Beirut and Jerusalem signed Friday, the result of five rounds of talks in the US capital, is intended to pave the way for an eventual peace agreement. It includes a pilot effort in which Lebanese soldiers will take control of some areas held by Israeli troops, as well as a process aimed at disarming Hezbollah.Rejecting the agreement, the terror group’s chief Naim Qassem called it a “humiliation” and said it should be replaced by the Iran-US memorandum of understanding, which was signed the week before in Switzerland, and which linked the ceasefire in Lebanon with the truce between Iran and the US — a move that greatly concerned Israel.In a statement, Qassem said that any attempt to link Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon to the terror group’s disarmament crossed “red lines.”He further accused Lebanese authorities of “legitimizing” Israeli occupation through this “grave blunder,” which temporarily leaves much of southern Lebanon in Israeli military control, until the areas are verified to be cleared of Hezbollah and its infrastructure and handed over to the Lebanese military.Channel 12 and Ynet reported that Israel was bracing for the possibility that Hezbollah will launch attacks on IDF forces or Israeli communities in the coming days in an attempt to undermine the newly signed framework deal.A defense official told Channel 12 that Israel was prepared for such an eventuality, and warned of “a severe and significant response” to any Hezbollah attack.Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, called the deal signed with Israel “incitement to civil war,” and warned against its implementation.Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad, who leads the terror group’s Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in parliament, said the agreement showed “the Lebanese authority’s complete submission to America and the Zionist enemy.”Raad added that by facilitating the deal, the US violated its “explicit commitment to Iran regarding its responsibility to pressure Israel to withdraw completely from Lebanon and respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”Additionally, Hezbollah’s Lawyers’ Association said the deal, which states that Israel and Lebanon “affirm the right of each state to exist in peace,” was a violation of Lebanon’s constitution, which they said “considers Zionism to be a challenge to human dignity” and states “that it is necessary to work to eliminate it.”The legal union added that the terms allowing Israeli troops to maintain temporary control of Lebanese territory “constitute a coup against the constitutional obligations related to preserving the independence of the homeland and the integrity of its territories.“We warn the Lebanese authorities against this dangerous and unprecedented violation of the constitution,” the group said, calling on Beirut “to immediately reverse this decision, stop direct negotiations, and adhere to the option of resistance as a natural, constitutional, and law-based option for protecting and liberating the land.”Also joining in on the threats to the Lebanese government were the Houthis in Yemen, a fellow Iran-backed proxy terror organization, with a senior Houthi official saying Saturday that “the inevitable outcome of this agreement will be one of two scenarios: a devastating Lebanese civil war or a direct Zionist occupation of Lebanon.”“Therefore, the Lebanese people have the right to overthrow this puppet government by any means possible,” the Houthi official added.In Beirut, Hezbollah supporters took to the streets Friday night to protest the agreement.In western Beirut’s Hamra Street, 48-year-old Ahmad Shamas told AFP on Saturday that “the agreement reached is a humiliating and shameful one.”Another local, Husam Beiruiti, 43, wasn’t ready to write the agreement off, as he saw no other solution.“I don’t think it will stop the Israeli aggression. They say it will happen in the future. Let’s wait and see what this agreement achieves,” he added.Not everyone in Lebanon came out against the deal, however, with the Maronite Christian Kataeb Party leader and MP Samy Gemayel congratulating Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam for the “achievement accomplished by the Lebanese state.”I express my congratulations to the President of the Republic @LBpresidency, the Prime Minister @nawafsalam, and the Lebanese negotiating delegation on this achievement accomplished by the Lebanese state. I also extend my thanks to the #UnitedStates of America for sponsoring… — Samy Gemayel (@samygemayel) June 27, 2026“The importance of this agreement lies in the fact that it has affirmed Lebanon’s right to live in peace and established a path toward achieving that goal,” Gemayel said in a post on X.“The Lebanese state has demonstrated that, when it negotiates on behalf of Lebanon and from its legitimate position, it is capable of securing the interests of the Lebanese people,” he said.
Bucking threats, hundreds in Gaza seen protesting Hamas for first time in a year-Signs read ‘God willing, Hamas out,’ and ‘We are not pawns’; demonstrations were planned weeks in advance; resident confirms to ToI that Hamas operatives deployed to deter and try to stop them By Nurit Yohanan-26 June 2026, 8:37 pm
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the Hamas terror group, footage shared on social media appeared to show.The demonstrations against Hamas – which functions as the de facto government in the parts of the Strip not controlled by the Israeli military – were planned several weeks in advance, with activists pledging a major turnout on July 26.But as the date approached, Hamas operatives began issuing threats against Gazans considering taking part in the protests, which may well have impacted turnout.Footage appeared to show protesters carrying signs reading, “God willing, Hamas out,” “We are not pawns,” and “We want to live.” In one video, chants of “Enough with the destruction” (of Gaza) could be heard.It was unclear where exactly in the Strip the protests were taking place.Other footage appeared to show armed Hamas operatives deployed in the streets to prevent demonstrations.HORRIFIC: Hamas militias are deploying their armed, masked men into the streets across the Gaza Strip to crush the protests. pic.twitter.com/PbtAmnJ1jO — Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) June 26, 2026-None of the footage could be easily verified, and it was not published by the major media outlets in Gaza, which are affiliated with Hamas.Earlier this week, several Gaza residents told The Times of Israel that Hamas had warned journalists in Gaza not to cover the protests.Instead, major Gazan outlets on Friday published footage showing empty intersections where protests had allegedly been planned, declaring the “Failure of the June 26 Revolution.”A resident of central Gaza confirmed to The Times of Israel that masked men affiliated with Hamas had been present in the streets of Deir al-Balah to prevent protesters from gathering.He also said a small number of people took part in anti-Hamas demonstrations in Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza, while people stayed home in central Gaza amid Hamas warnings on social media against participating in the rallies.The resident asked not to be named due to concerns for his safety.A Facebook page titled “June 26 Revolution” had called for demonstrations at 18 different locations across the Strip.The day’s events marked the first organized anti-Hamas protests in Gaza since a wave of demonstrations in the spring and summer of 2025.One of the protest’s organizers, Abd al-Hamid Abd al-Ati, a Gazan currently living in Cairo, wrote on his Facebook account that “perhaps the June 26 movement did not achieve all that we had hoped for, but the message was delivered, and the cause for which people took to the streets remains alive.”Under a US-brokered 20-point plan to end the war, which began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Hamas was to disarm and hand over power to a transitional authority, paving the way for an Israeli military pullback and the rebuilding of the enclave, which suffered extensive destruction during the fighting.However, those plans have yet to move beyond the initial ceasefire stage due to Hamas’s refusal to give up its weapons and other disagreements over implementation.Though badly battered, Hamas has maintained enough strength to exercise control over the part of the Strip that the IDF has pulled back from, cementing its hold by executing opponents and others it views as threatening its rule, according to multiple reports.
Over 700 rabbis denounce Mamdani’s AIPAC ‘monsters’ speech as ‘dangerous’ to Jews-Leaders of prominent NY congregations, variety of denominations say mayor has ‘put a target on the backs of American Jews’By Luke Tress-26 June 2026, 2:01 pm
NEW YORK — More than 700 rabbis on Friday released an open letter denouncing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s speech last week that likened AIPAC to “monsters,” saying the comments endangered American Jews and demanding an apology.The rabbis hail from New York and around the US and represent a range of denominations, including Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist.“Mamdani’s recent speech about pro-Israel civic participation is dangerous, unacceptable and beneath the office he holds,” said the letter organized by The Jewish Majority advocacy group.In Mamdani’s speech earlier this month, he likened AIPAC, the prominent pro-Israel lobby, to “monsters” deploying “millions in dark money” to “preserve their power,” enact genocide and foment societal divisions.Jews have long been accused of conspiracies, warmongering, financial deviance and pulling the strings of power from the shadows.After accusations that the comments deployed historical antisemitic tropes, Mamdani doubled down.The rabbis’ letter said the rhetoric was dehumanizing, and that “when the targets of that dehumanization are overwhelmingly associated with the Jewish community the consequences become especially dangerous.”“Mamdani’s words invoke a familiar story about Jewish power, Jewish money and Jewish manipulation of public life,” the letter said. “By casting pro-Israel civic participation as monstrous, conspiratorial and anti-democratic, Mr. Mamdani has put a target on the backs of American Jews and their allies.”As of Friday morning, 717 rabbis had signed the letter.Signatories included representatives of prominent New York congregations, including the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, Temple Israel of the City of New York, the Lincoln Square Synagogue, Romemu, Kehilath Jeshurun and Park Avenue Synagogue.The rabbis cited recent deadly violence against Jews in Colorado and Washington, DC, and violent plots targeting AIPAC that were thwarted by law enforcement.Mainstream Jewish organizations such as the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League, which are often at odds with Mamdani, denounced his speech, as well as leftist Jewish groups who are more sympathetic to the mayor.New York City Council member Eric Dinowitz, a moderate Democrat who chairs the city’s Jewish Caucus and Bipartisan Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, said the statements “invoked age-old antisemitic tropes while ignoring the reality of super PAC spending across our political system.”The rabbis’ letter also decried a “double standard” when it comes to AIPAC, pointing out that US politics are awash in spending from groups like corporations, ideological super PACs and business groups.“When the outrage is reserved for pro-Israel advocacy, and when that advocacy is described with language of hidden money, secret control and sinister power, it gives the appearance of antisemitism. Worse, it places Jews in danger,” the letter said, demanding an apology from Mamdani.“Criticizing Israeli policy is not antisemitic. Treating millions of Zionist Jews as morally suspect, politically illegitimate or less deserving of equal participation in public life is,” the rabbis said.The letter follows a Jewish Majority poll last month that found that the vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers, 82 percent, said they were very or somewhat concerned about the rise of antisemitism in the city, and 17% said they were only slightly or not at all concerned.Anti-Zionism was seen as a contributor to antisemitism, with 58% of respondents stating that the rise in antisemitism was “linked to the normalization of anti-Zionism,” while 25% disagreed.Mamdani has pledged to fight discrimination against Jews and has repeatedly condemned “classic” antisemitism, such as swastika graffiti, but does not recognize any rhetoric that touches on Israel or Zionism as discriminatory. Polls have repeatedly found that a vast majority of Jews feel connected to Israel.After the Anti-Defamation League found last year that some of his appointees had made anti-Zionist statements, including that “Zionism is racism,” calling Zionism a “genocidal ideology,” and stating that Zionists are worse than Nazis, Mamdani defended the rhetoric.“We must distinguish between antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli government,” he said.Mamdani has identified as an anti-Zionist and has framed anti-Zionism as an oppressive “modern political movement” that is separate from Judaism. Opposing political movements is not considered discriminatory in the US.“We are often tarred with the characterization of being antisemitic, and let’s be clear — anti-Zionism is not antisemitism,” Mamdani told a crowd in 2023. “We will not be scared into believing that it is because we know that this is a politically motivated charge seeking to silence us.”
A moon only 10 kilometres wide was hiding around Uranus for decades. Voyager 2 missed it. Hubble missed it. But in 2025, Webb finally caught the faint speck circling near the planet’s inner rings, raising Uranus’s known moon count to 29.Uranus has never made discovery easy. The planet is distant, dim, cold, and tilted so severely that its rings and inner moons present observers with a geometry unlike the more familiar systems of Jupiter and Saturn.By Space Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process-Published June 25, 2026
Uranus has never made discovery easy. The planet is distant, dim, cold, and tilted so severely that its rings and inner moons present observers with a geometry unlike the more familiar systems of Jupiter and Saturn. Even when spacecraft and space telescopes look directly at it, the small bodies near its rings can vanish into glare, distance, and darkness.That is why the newest Uranian moon is such a quiet but revealing find. In 2025, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected a faint point of light near Uranus’s inner ring system. The object, provisionally announced as S/2025 U1, is estimated to be only about 10 kilometres wide. Its discovery raised the known moon count of Uranus to 29.The SETI Institute announcement says the team, led by Maryame El Moutamid of the Southwest Research Institute, found the moon in Webb NIRCam observations taken on February 2, 2025. NASA’s Webb post describes the detection as a series of ten 40-minute long-exposure images. The same reports note that the moon was too small and faint to have been seen by either Voyager 2 or the Hubble Space Telescope.A moon hidden in plain sight-Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft ever to have visited Uranus. It swept past the planet in January 1986, discovered new moons, examined the rings, and gave scientists their first close view of the ice giant system. But a flyby is brief. It gives a spacecraft only one geometry, one observing campaign, and one set of lighting conditions.The newly detected moon was there at the time, assuming its orbit has been stable over the intervening decades. Voyager simply did not have the combination of sensitivity, exposure time, and observing angle needed to pick it out. A 10-kilometre object near a bright planet and a ring system is a difficult target even for good instruments.Hubble also missed it. That is not an embarrassment for Hubble. The telescope changed outer Solar System astronomy and discovered small moons of Uranus in 2003. But this particular moon is fainter than the previously known inner moons. It took Webb’s infrared sensitivity, large mirror, and long NIRCam exposures to separate the small moving point from the surrounding system.Where the moon orbits-The moon circles Uranus at roughly 56,000 kilometres from the planet’s centre, between the orbits of Ophelia and Bianca. It completes an orbit in less than half a day. Its path is close to circular, which matters because circular inner-moon orbits often suggest that the object formed near its current location rather than being captured later from far away.That makes it part of the inner Uranian system, a crowded region of rings and small moons that behave less like separate objects and more like a coupled dynamical environment. The small moons can shape ring edges, supply dust, collide over long timescales, or exchange material with surrounding ring structures.Uranus’s larger moons, including Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, are the better-known members of the family. But the inner moons are important because they help reveal how the ring system is maintained and how unstable the region may be. A tiny new moon does not simply add one more name to a list. It changes the count of bodies that have to be included in any serious model of the system.The most powerful telescope ever built by human beings sits permanently parked 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, sheltered from the Sun by a folded shield the size of a tennis court — keeping one side of the spacecraft at minus 233 degrees Celsius while the other side reaches 85 degrees above zero, a temperature difference of more than 300 degrees across a single instrument that nobody can ever fly out to repair-We tend to think romantic love fades into something quieter with age, but when researchers scanned the brains of people in their 50s and 60s who said they were still madly in love after decades of marriage, they found that the same reward circuits seen in new lovers were still active — suggesting that for some couples, passion doesn’t disappear; it simply loses its anxious edge.Silicon Canals-There is no permanently dark side of the Moon. The far side gets sunlight just like the near side — we simply don’t see it from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked, taking about as long to spin once as it does to orbit us once.Why Webb could see it-Webb was not built only to look at the early universe. It is also an extremely powerful Solar System observatory. Its infrared instruments can study cold, distant objects in detail, and its NIRCam images can reveal faint material near bright targets when the observing strategy is carefully designed.In this case, the advantage came partly from long exposures. The SETI Institute summary says the detection used ten long-exposure frames. Long exposures collect more light from faint targets, but they also make bright objects and scattered light harder to manage. Observers must handle the enormous brightness contrast between Uranus, its rings, its known moons, background sources, and any new faint object.The result is a reminder that “missed” does not mean “invisible forever.” An object can sit inside a well-studied planetary system for decades and still remain undetected until a different instrument looks in a different wavelength range with a different observing plan.What the discovery says about Uranus-Uranus is often treated as a quieter outer planet than Jupiter or Saturn, partly because it has had so little spacecraft attention. But its moon and ring system is not simple. The planet’s small inner moons are packed into a relatively tight region. Some occupy positions near rings, while others may be involved in the long-term stirring, confinement, or replenishment of ring material.Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute, one of the scientists involved, said in the announcement that no other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus. He also noted that the relationships between those moons and the rings point to a chaotic history and blur the boundary between a ring system and a moon system.That is the deeper value of the find. A tiny moon may seem minor compared with a major satellite like Titania, but small moons can act as tracers of a system’s structure. Their locations, sizes, and orbital relationships reveal what the rings are doing and how the inner system has evolved.The new moon also hints that the inventory may still be incomplete. If Webb could find one body smaller and fainter than the previous inner moons, then more objects may remain hidden in the glare and geometry of Uranus’s inner system. The known count of 29 may not be the final count.A planet waiting for a return-The discovery lands in a wider scientific context. Uranus has not had a dedicated spacecraft mission since Voyager 2. Most of what scientists know about its atmosphere, magnetic field, rings, and satellites comes from that single 1986 flyby, later telescope campaigns, and remote observations from Earth orbit or beyond.That is a thin data set for a giant planet. Uranus is one of the Solar System’s two ice giants, a class of world that may be common around other stars. Understanding its moons and rings is not merely bookkeeping. It helps scientists understand how icy planetary systems form, how ring systems change, and how small bodies survive or are destroyed near large planets.Most assessments tell you what type you are. This one tells you what you’re avoiding.A future Uranus orbiter would transform the field. It could map the rings, measure the small moons repeatedly, study their surfaces, refine their masses and orbits, and search for additional bodies. Until then, telescopes like Webb are doing some of the work from afar.The power of a faint point-The new moon is small enough that it would be a modest asteroid if it orbited the Sun. Around Uranus, it becomes part of a much larger story. It occupies a place near the rings, moves with the inner moons, and may help define the architecture of a system that is still not fully catalogued.The discovery also shows how Solar System science often advances. Not always through dramatic new landscapes, but through faint points, repeated images, careful orbital checks, and the recognition that a dot is moving with a planet rather than sitting in the background.Voyager 2 gave Uranus its first close inspection. Hubble extended the search. Webb has now found what both missed. A moon only about 10 kilometres wide was not gone, new, or hiding by intent. It was simply too faint for the tools that came before.For Uranus, that tiny speck is now part of the official family. For astronomers, it is a warning against thinking the outer Solar System has already been counted. Even around a planet visited by a spacecraft and watched by Hubble, there are still small worlds waiting for the right instrument to notice them.
In one drilled Martian rock, Curiosity found 21 organic molecules — seven never before detected on Mars — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure that belongs to the same chemical family as precursors to RNA and DNA.The most interesting thing about the new Curiosity result is not simply that Mars has organic molecules.By Space Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process-Published June 25, 2026
The most interesting thing about the new Curiosity result is not simply that Mars has organic molecules. That part is no longer surprising. Curiosity has been finding evidence of preserved organics in Gale Crater for years. What changed in the Mary Anning 3 sample is the range of chemistry that survived inside one drilled Martian rock.According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the 2020 sample contained 21 carbon-containing molecules. Seven were identified on Mars for the first time. Among them was a nitrogen heterocycle, a ring-shaped molecule containing nitrogen that belongs to a chemical family relevant to the precursors of RNA and DNA.That does not mean Curiosity found life. It does not even mean the molecules were made by life. NASA is careful on this point: scientists cannot yet tell whether the organics were produced by biological or geological processes, and either route remains possible. But the result does show something important about ancient Mars. Complex carbon chemistry can be preserved in Martian bedrock for billions of years, even on a planet whose surface is exposed to radiation and oxidising chemistry.The rock called Mary Anning 3-The sample came from a site on Mount Sharp, the layered mountain rising from the centre of Gale Crater. Curiosity drilled there in 2020, in a clay-rich region known as Glen Torridon. The particular sample was nicknamed Mary Anning 3, after the 19th-century English fossil collector and palaeontologist.The setting matters. Gale Crater once held lakes and streams, and the rocks in this part of Mount Sharp record repeated wet and dry episodes in ancient Martian history. Clay minerals are especially good at trapping and preserving organic compounds. On Earth, clays can protect fragile molecules by binding them into mineral surfaces. On Mars, that same protective tendency may help organics survive long after the environment that formed them has vanished.The new peer-reviewed paper in Nature Communications reports the in situ detection of more than 20 organic molecules from clay-bearing sandstones in the roughly 3.5-billion-year-old Knockfarrill Hill member of Glen Torridon. The phrase “in situ” is important. These molecules were detected by an instrument carried on Mars, not by a sample returned to Earth.How Curiosity opened the chemistry-The analysis was done by Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, the compact laboratory inside Curiosity’s belly. Curiosity’s drill grinds selected rock into powder. That powder is delivered to SAM, where it can be heated so gases are released and measured by instruments including a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer.For Mary Anning 3, Curiosity used a rarer method called wet chemistry. SAM added the sample to a cup containing tetramethylammonium hydroxide, usually shortened to TMAH. This reagent can help break apart larger, more difficult-to-detect organic material into smaller fragments that instruments can identify.That distinction matters because the molecules Curiosity detected may not have been sitting in the rock as simple loose compounds. Some could have been released from larger organic material during the chemical experiment. The Nature Communications paper says the TMAH experiment liberated molecules preserved in ancient macromolecular or free organic matter within Martian bedrock.On 12 April 1961, a 27-year-old Russian fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in history to leave the Earth — sealed inside a metal sphere just over two metres wide, with the spacecraft’s controls locked because nobody knew what the human brain would do in weightlessness, and instructions to open a sealed envelope only if he lost his mind during the 108 minutes he spent orbiting the planet alone-People who were the oldest child in a 1970s household often became, by default, a small additional parent to their younger siblings, and the role they took on at nine or ten is, in many cases, still running underneath their adult relationships forty years later-The Artful Parent-In November 2011, NASA launched a car-sized rover called Curiosity toward Mars on a planned two-year mission to look for evidence of ancient lakes and rivers — and almost 15 years later, the rover is still moving across the Martian surface, still drilling into rocks, and still transmitting data back to Earth-In other words, Curiosity may be seeing pieces of a larger chemical archive. The rover is not reading a whole book. It is extracting fragments from a page that has been buried, altered, irradiated, and then chemically opened inside a robot laboratory.Why the nitrogen ring drew attention-Organic chemistry on Mars has often been discussed in broad terms, but the details are where the science becomes interesting. Carbon-containing molecules can be simple or complex. They can be delivered by meteorites, formed through non-biological reactions, altered by radiation, or produced through life-related chemistry. A carbon molecule by itself is not a biosignature.The nitrogen heterocycle matters because nitrogen-bearing rings are important in prebiotic chemistry. On Earth, nitrogen-containing ring structures are found in the bases used by RNA and DNA. The molecule detected by Curiosity is not DNA, not RNA, and not evidence of cells. But it belongs to a family of structures that astrobiologists care about because such chemistry sits closer to the pathways by which more complex biological molecules can be assembled.NASA quoted Amy Williams of the University of Florida, the paper’s lead author, saying the detection was notable because such structures can be chemical precursors to more complex nitrogen-bearing molecules. The JPL release also notes that nitrogen heterocycles had not previously been found on the Martian surface or confirmed in Martian meteorites.That is the careful significance of the result. It does not say ancient Mars had life. It says one ancient Martian rock preserved chemistry that overlaps with the kind of chemistry needed before biology can become possible.In November 2011, NASA launched a car-sized rover called Curiosity toward Mars on a planned two-year mission to look for evidence of ancient lakes and rivers — and almost 15 years later, the rover is still moving across the Martian surface, still drilling into rocks, and still transmitting data back to Earth-The seven new Martian detections-The 21 molecules identified in Mary Anning 3 make up the most diverse collection of organic molecules Curiosity has found in a Martian rock so far. Seven of them had not been detected before on Mars. The list includes molecules with aromatic structures, sulfur-bearing chemistry such as benzothiophene, and other carbon-rich compounds that can be produced or preserved in several ways.Benzothiophene drew attention because it contains both carbon and sulfur and is known from meteorites. The comparison is useful. Meteorites have delivered organic compounds across the early Solar System, and Mars has been receiving extraterrestrial material for billions of years. If some of the Mary Anning 3 chemistry came from infalling meteorites, that would still be scientifically important. It would mean Mars can preserve delivered organics inside ancient rocks.But endogenous formation is also possible. Organic molecules can arise through non-biological geological chemistry, especially where water, minerals, heat, and carbon-bearing compounds interact. Biology is only one possible source. The hard work now is distinguishing between pathways that can produce similar molecular fragments.Why preservation may be the main result-Mars is a difficult place for organic molecules to survive near the surface. Radiation from space can damage chemical bonds. Perchlorates and other reactive compounds can complicate the record. Wind erosion, dust, temperature swings, and long exposure times all work against a clean archive.Yet Mary Anning 3 appears to have held a surprisingly rich organic inventory. That is why the finding matters for future Mars exploration. If 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rocks can preserve diverse organics, then carefully chosen samples may still contain chemical information about the planet’s early environments.Most assessments tell you what type you are. This one tells you what you’re avoiding.Your Direct Message: a free 8-minute psychological assessment from DMNews. Maps the Tension you’ve normalized, the Noise you hide behind, and the one truth your therapist is building toward but hasn’t said yet.The discovery also links Curiosity’s work to later and future missions. Perseverance has found organic signatures in Jezero Crater, while ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover is designed to drill below the radiation-battered surface. NASA’s JPL notes that future instruments, including the Mars Organic Molecular Analyzer on Rosalind Franklin and the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer for Titan, are built to use similar wet chemistry approaches.That continuity is important. Mary Anning 3 is not just a one-off surprise. It is a test of how to search for fragile chemistry on worlds where the best evidence may be old, altered, and partly hidden in minerals.The line between chemistry and life-The temptation with a result like this is to jump too quickly from “organic” to “alive.” Scientists use the word organic in a chemical sense: molecules built around carbon. Many organic molecules have nothing to do with biology. They can form in interstellar clouds, meteorites, hydrothermal systems, atmospheres, and laboratory reactions.Still, organic molecules are relevant to habitability because life as we know it requires carbon chemistry, liquid water, energy sources, and certain elements including nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen. Ancient Gale Crater had water. Curiosity has found minerals that record habitable conditions. Now Mary Anning 3 adds a richer inventory of preserved organics to that picture.The result is therefore not a claim that Mars was inhabited. It is a stronger reason to take its ancient chemistry seriously. One drilled rock has shown that Mars can hold onto molecules more diverse than earlier detections alone suggested, including a nitrogen-bearing ring linked to prebiotic chemical families.For a rover that landed in 2012, that is a reminder of how slowly Mars gives up its details. The finding came from a sample drilled in 2020, analysed over years, and interpreted through both Martian data and Earth laboratory comparisons. The headline number is 21 molecules. The deeper lesson is that ancient Mars still has chemical memory left to read.Twelve figures that put your place in the cosmos into staggering perspective — with real imagery from NASA, Hubble & Webb. Pop in your email and we’ll send you the free PDF.
NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission-By MARCIA DUNN-Updated 9:01 AM EDT, June 28, 2026
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions. A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once it takes off from an atoll in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands aboard an airplane-launched Pegasus rocket. Liftoff could occur as early as Tuesday.Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher, more stable orbit as soon as possible to survive.NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — also at risk — could be next.Like Swift, Hubble is losing altitude as the sun erupts with one flare after another. Katalyst Space CEO Ghonhee Lee said his company’s next-generation robot, still in development, could save the day for the much bigger Hubble in a couple years.Only China has attempted a mission like the upcoming one, successfully boosting a satellite into a higher graveyard orbit four years ago.“This is the first American space robot to go up and do anything like this,” Lee told The Associated Press. “NASA has all these big senior observatories … all of them can benefit from a service like this. So what we’re proving with this mission is this is a new play in the playbook that’s available.”It will take Katalyst’s autonomous spacecraft, named Link, about a month to rendezvous with Swift and catch it, and another couple months to raise its orbit from the current 224 miles (360 kilometers) to the desired 373 miles (600 kilometers).The 1.6-ton (1.4-metric ton) gamma ray observatory must be above 185 miles (300 kilometers) for the rescue to work. It’s expected to reach that point of no return in October, according to the latest estimates.Roughly the size of a small kitchen refrigerator with a 40-foot (12-meter) solar wingspan, Link sports three arms with a reach of just over 3 feet (1 meter). Each arm has two finger-like pinching grippers that resemble the hands of a Lego mini figure.If all goes well, Swift could be back in business by September, according to Lee.Worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Swift was never designed to be repaired, let alone retrieved by hands — human or otherwise. That’s what makes this so challenging, according to company officials, who stress there is no guarantee it will work.NASA signed a contract with Katalyst last September with only two requests: It has to be a rush job, but please don’t make things worse. Nine months later, the company is ready to rumble.“I have to be honest. No one thought it was going to be possible. No one thought we would get as far as we’ve already gotten today,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA’s astrophysics director.NASA has bought a little more time for Swift, turning off all scientific instruments to slow its descent. Observations ceased in February.NASA’s science mission chief Nicky Fox said it’s worth the effort.“If we let Swift reenter, we would lose that telescope. We would lose a lot of capability,” she said. “We don’t currently have the budget to build another one to replace that.”While everything cannot be saved in space, Swift is special, said Domagal-Goldman.True to its name, Swift is designed to pivot quickly to capture late-breaking astronomical events such as gamma ray bursts and exploding stars. With more discoveries expected by the Webb Space Telescope and soon-to-launch Roman Space Telescope, Swift, if saved, would be busier than ever as “NASA’s first responder.”Katalyst sees Swift as the jumping-off point for a new repair business in space. The company’s next-generation robotic rescuer, scheduled to fly next year, will tackle satellites as high as 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) up. Lee envisions hundreds of robots in orbit one day, not only fixing and hoisting satellites but also refueling them and building solar farms, data centers and other platforms.Thirty-six-year-old Hubble, which received repeat servicing by spacewalking astronauts during the shuttle era, could follow in 2028 with a life-extending Katalyst boost.“It’s a national treasure,” Fox said. “People love Hubble.”___This story corrects spacecraft name to Link.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN ( 500 million Dead )
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION-HEAVENLY OBJECTS) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
1,400 DEAD IN THE QUAKE, 4,000 INJURED AND 50,000 MISSING.
Frustration grows in Venezuela as earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 By REGINA GARCIA CANO, ANDRY RINCÓN and MEGAN JANETSKY-Updated 11:32 PM EDT, June 27, 2026
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Tensions flared Saturday as desperation grew in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and the death toll rose sharply to 1,430.Families reported at least 68,900 people missing Saturday, three days after the one-two punch of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes devastated the South American nation.Venezuelans looking for loved ones and neighbors used shovels, heavy equipment, ropes and bare hands atop mounds of toppled concrete throughout La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit states. They were joined by a growing number of international rescue teams who began to climb through the rubble, offering a small glint of hope to anguished families.Tensions peaked over what many Venezuelans viewed as an inadequate response by the government, whose soldiers, firefighters, police and military cadets were evidently underprepared to respond to the scope of the tragedy. Frustration was amplified by efforts to project the image of a robust state response.Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours as crucial for retrieving people alive, though that can be extended if they have access to food and water. Venezuelan officials said 17 flights carrying more than 1,600 rescue team members had touched down by Saturday.
The Manila Times-1,400 dead, 50,000 missing in Venezuela-Story by Agence France-Presse
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Rescue crews raced Saturday to find survivors in the rubble of Venezuela’s powerful earthquakes as the death toll reached 1,430 and hopes dwindled more than three days after the earth roared and rumbled.Tens of thousands of people were reported missing as collapsed buildings dotted cities in a country already enduring an economic crisis and political upheaval after US special forces captured authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in January.Millions of people were also feared to lack sanitation and other basic needs.Experts say the first 72 hours after natural disasters are the key, narrow window for finding the living. After that, the search becomes one of recovering bodies.A Salvadoran rescue worker who declined to give his name put it this way: “At this point, they are probably dead bodies. Thanks to God, maybe we can find people still alive.” An 11-year-old boy was rescued from the rubble in Caraballeda, in the north of the country, late Saturday, interim leader Delcy Rodriguez said.“Every life is a source of hope for Venezuela,” she said in a post on X, accompanied by a video of the rescue.UN aid chief Tom Fletcher on Friday told AFP the death toll could continue to soar, adding that more than 50,000 people were missing. Facing public outrage at the response by local officials, US-backed Rodriguez thanked other countries for the outpouring of aid.The United States said one runway at Simon Bolivar International Airport was partially functioning to receive C-17 US military planes, while a naval ship had arrived off the coast.The search for survivors saw desperate attempts by local residents to claw away rubble from buildings that collapsed in Wednesday’s two quakes.“It’s just very chaotic, hot and unorganized,” said Australian firefighter Craig Demeillon, 43, who traveled alone to La Guaira from Miami to help. “Hopefully there’s more people to find.”There was joy in the hardest-hit coastal area of La Guaira, north of Caracas, when locals pulled an infant alive out of the wreckage on Friday, around 32 hours after the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 tremors.In one social media video, a man welled up in tears as he held the baby in his arms.The UN migration agency said it had examined available population and damage data and had determined that “up to 6.76 million people could be affected,” and would “require emergency shelter, safe water, sanitation and hygiene services, health care, protection support and essential relief items.”National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez reported on Saturday 1,430 dead and 3,238 people injured, while the UN estimated $6.7 billion in physical damage — equivalent to 6 percent of Venezuela’s GDP.Venezuelans — already battered by years of a failing economy and the turbulence of the US intervention to topple Maduro in January — were furious at the government.Yessica Mendoza was forced to transport her own daughter to a morgue in Caracas after 25-year-old Yesimar Rodriguez and her husband Jhomel Anaya, 26, did not survive the tumbling debris of their home in La Guaira on Wednesday.“We were the ones who pulled them out ourselves. No help ever came,” the bereaved mother, 43, told AFP, adding that the couple would be cremated without a wake due to the rapidly advancing decomposition of their bodies.The government has restricted access to La Guaira state, deployed the military to the area and made it obligatory for volunteers to obtain a safe-entry pass.Anger among those impatiently waiting to volunteer surged as they waited for passes outside a concert hall in the capital.“You need a permit to save lives — just imagine,” complained Carlos Itriago, 27.“I’ve been here since dawn standing in line so I can go rescue people,” said Ezequiel Rivero, 53.“Look at what time it is... how many lives have we already lost by now?” Rodriguez said she had spoken with US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who “reaffirmed their commitment to supporting the response efforts.”The US said earlier it was sending a disaster response team of more than 250 personnel, including three special search-and-rescue units with dogs trained to locate people trapped beneath the rubble.Twenty-one countries were sending search-and-rescue teams, parliament chief Rodriguez said.Venezuela’s worst earthquakes in more than a century have come after the oil-rich country endured more than a decade of economic collapse.The crisis has hollowed out hospitals and public services, driving millions to leave the country.And the country remains in a fragile political transition six months after the US ouster of Maduro.Earthquakes of similar magnitude claimed more than 200,000 lives in Haiti in January 2010 and 73,000 lives in Kashmir in October 2005.Those killed in Venezuela included 28 Portuguese nationals, six Spaniards, two Brazilians, seven Chinese nationals, one Chilean, one Italian-Venezuelan and one Uruguayan.
Death toll in Venezuela quake tops 1,400 as rescue efforts intensify By Vivian Sequera-June 27, 20269:22 AM EDTUpdated 2 hours ago
LAGUAIRA/CARACAS, June 27 (Reuters) - The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas.The updated toll came as rescuers fanned out across La Guaira and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and bodies from the rubble, often complaining of scant heavy equipment and a limited official presence.Officials said more than 1,600 foreign rescuers had arrived and that additional teams were on the way, adding to a growing international response to the twin quakes that struck on Wednesday and unleashed hundreds of aftershocks.In Caraballeda, one of the worst-hit areas of La Guaira, U.S. helicopters ferried rescue teams into a dusty landing zone, according to Reuters witnesses, dropping off crews before taking off again.Among the crowds of volunteers was Alejandro Serrano, a 33-year-old industrial engineer who had traveled from San Cristobal in western Venezuela searching for his 24-year-old sister, Ana Serrano, who lived in the Bahía Mar building in Caraballeda, which was destroyed in the quakes.Serrano said he searched Thursday night at Caracas' Perez Carreno Hospital, but did not find her. He said he had given his sister's details and the address to rescue teams from Argentina and El Salvador."I hope they don't find her" in the rubble, he said, meaning he hoped she was still alive. "But I need to find her."SLEEPING IN THE STREET-Residents said the response in some areas had been uneven, though heavy machinery was working in parts of Caraballeda and Los Corales by Saturday.In the small Los Corales area known as Valle del Pino, Beisy Rivas, 60, said five or six homes in her neighborhood were still standing but had been damaged."Since the night of the earthquakes, almost all the neighbors have been sleeping in the street because of the aftershocks," she said. "My nerves are on edge, thinking about the dead and about the people who lost relatives."Nearby, Yendri Santana said some homes in her 30-house development had cracks in the walls, though no one there had died. Sitting on a curb with Rivas after collecting food donations from a truck, Santana said her sister had lost her small home but survived."It hurts to see people struggle so much only to lose everything," she said.Authorities continued to restrict access to La Guaira and maintained controls on the main road from Caracas, saying traffic was slowing emergency vehicles. Civilians not attached to official rescue teams needed credentials to pass checkpoints.Power throughout the region was gradually returning. Venezuela's power grid, crippled by years of underinvestment and economic sanctions, regularly experiences problems, leading to daily, hours-long blackouts in some regions.55,000 MISSING-Although the government has said hundreds are missing or trapped, more than 55,000 people are listed as unaccounted for on a website promoted by the country's opposition.The U.S. Geological Survey estimated more than 10,000 deaths were possible from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, which would place them among Latin America's deadliest of the last century.The disaster could have political consequences for interim President Delcy Rodriguez, who has portrayed herself as an agent of change even though she served as vice president to Nicolas Maduro, who was ousted and arrested by the U.S. in January.Pope Leo, speaking in Rome on Saturday, offered prayers for the victims, their families and those involved in relief operations, and said he hoped global solidarity with Venezuela would endure.The U.S. has sent aid to Venezuela in the aftermath of the quakes. A senior U.S. administration official said on Saturday that a funding package worth hundreds of millions of dollars is expected to be announced within the next day or so, in addition to $150 million that the Trump administration has already committed.A White House official also told Reuters that a renewed push by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who left Venezuela late last year, for U.S. help to return home is frustrating senior officials in Washington, who said it was too soon after the disaster.Reporting by Vivian Sequera in La Guaira, additional reporting by Mayela Armas and Deisy Buitrago in Caracas, Julia Symmes Cobb in Bogota, Eliana Raszewski in Buenos Aires and Karen J. Brettell in Washington, writing by Julia Symmes Cobb, editing by Alexander Smith, Alistair Bell, Chizu Nomiyama, Rod Nickel
Europe's heat dome causing triple digit temps. We explain where and why-Story by Janet Loehrke and Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY
Parts of Europe are enduring a record-breaking early summer heatwave."France has just experienced its hottest night since measurements began in 1947," said Jason Nicholls, international meteorologist with Accuweather, speaking about the evening of June 23. "That follows the hottest afternoon ever recorded nationwide 37.8 °C (100°F)."The extreme heat has led people to seek relief in cooler waters. In France, 40 people have drowned in the past few days, the prime minister said on June 23.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.A powerful, high-pressure heat dome has spread across the continent, trapping a stagnant mass of superheated Saharan air. This unusually intense heatwave extends from the Iberian Peninsula to major Western European capitals. Several regions are expected to break their all-time heat records, which typically occur in July, according to Severe Weather Europe.Europe is warming at more than twice the global average, according to the World Meteorological Organization, making such prolonged heat episodes increasingly likely.Areas in Europe experiencing excessive heat-European heat waves can be especially dangerous because of relatively poor ability to mitigate the heat. Just about 20% of European households have air conditioning. By contrast, nearly 90% of American homes have some kind of AC. Reuters reported that in Paris, residents were facing sleepless nights in apartments ill-equipped for heat.What's causing Europe's heat wave? Jet streams naturally shift in broad loops known as Rossby waves. When these waves grow exceptionally large, they can stretch and constrict the flow, isolating a high-pressure zone between the northern and southern branches, according to the Weather.com."The heat is due to the upper low that developed over the Azores late last week," said Nicholls. The upper low has since moved closer to Spain and France. "The longevity is due to a blocking pattern over central Asia."Atmospheric blocks keep high-pressure systems stalled over an area for days or even weeks, leading to intense and prolonged periods of extreme heat, according to the Climate Adaption Center.Impact of a heat dome in Europe-The heatwave in Europe is coming from a heat dome, which is "an exceptionally hot air mass that develops when high pressure aloft prevents warm air below from rising, thus trapping the warm air as if it were in a dome," according to the National Integrated Heat Health Information System.When will Europe see relief from the heat?"The heat should ease from northwest to southeast across Europe starting this weekend," said Nicholls.According to Weather.com, London will endure intense heat through June 26, with conditions easing over the weekend. Paris, meanwhile, will remain in the grip of the heat through June 27, with thunderstorms on June 28 paving the way for cooler air to arrive by June 29.Across Germany, the heat wave will strengthen and persist through the weekend before moderating on June 29. In the broader Central European region, peak heat is expected from this weekend into June 29, followed by a gradual cooldown arriving between June 30 and July 1.
Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C-Story by Neil Murphy
Europe's unprecedented early summer heatwave may be responsible for hundreds of excess deaths, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).Temperature records were broken across the continent again on Sunday – including in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic – as the extreme heat continued to move east.In a post on X, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since 21 June "linked to high temperatures in Europe"."Heat stress is often called the 'silent killer' - and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures," he said.On Sunday morning, France's national health ministry said there had been around 1,000 more deaths than expected in the country since Wednesday.Many of the extra fatalities are among those aged 65 over, the agency said, after logging a 40% rise in the number of people dying at home."Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average," Tedros warned.Millions of people across the continent are currently "living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling", he added.On Sunday, Germany experienced its hottest-ever day for the third consecutive day after 41.7C was recorded in the east of the country, preliminary data showed.A station in Coschen, near the Polish border in eastern Brandenburg, recorded 41.7C at around 16:00 local time.The Czech Republic set its second temperature record in two days, recording 41.1C at Doksany, north of Prague, the meteorological institute CHMI said.CHMI said it expected the heat to peak on Sunday, with rather heavy storms forecast for western areas later.Poland also broke its all-time temperature record with 40.5C in the town of Slubice, a spokeswoman for the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) told the AFP news agency on Sunday.Climate change was responsible for the extreme weather, Tedros said, warning that Europe was warming at "twice the global average"."Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the 'once-in-a-generation' heatwave is now occurring nearly annual," he said.He called on European countries to "implement heat health action plans", as part of a push to safeguard health in the face of climate change.
Moment lightning strikes Eiffel Tower as European nations bask in record temperatures-Story by Perkin Amalaraj.
This is the electrifying moment the Eiffel Tower is struck by lightning as thunderstorms swept across Paris following a major heatwave. Photographer Bertrand Kulik, 46, watched nature put on a breathtaking display from his home in the French capital last night, photographing repeated lightning strikes hitting the iconic landmark. The storm that engulfed Paris last night saw winds reach up to 93mph, while countless lightning strikes illuminated the sky above the City of Lights.Kulik said: 'I took these photographs from my home in Paris. I had a front-row seat to the storm and could feel how privileged I was to be in the perfect place to capture these images and witness the phenomenon.'The storms came after a massive days-long heatwave this week, which French officials said had caused around 1,000 more deaths than expected.'Since June 24, approximately 1,000 additional deaths (unconsolidated figures) have been observed compared to the deaths recorded in previous months,' Public Health France said in a statementMany of the extra fatalities are among those aged 65 and upwards, the agency said, after logging a 40 percent rise in the number of people dying at home. Parisians took to sleeping outside last night as temperatures rose above 40C amid a sweltering heatwave that continues to grip Europe. Pictures showed people lying on inflatable mattresses and blankets in the French capital's green spaces in the early hours of Saturday morning. Meanwhile parts of Europe are set to bake in heat today. At least 191 million people are forecast to endure temperatures of at least 35C on Sunday, with the heat particularly intense in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. A total of 381 million people in Europe, excluding Turkey, will see temperatures surpass 30C, according to analysis based on forecasts from the German Meteorological Service and 2025 population projections from the Joint Research Centre collated by Austrian NGO Klimadashboard. The World Health Organisation said Sunday that over 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded in Europe since June 21 in connection with the record-breaking heatwave roasting much of the continent. 'Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling,' WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, adding that 'more than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to high temperatures in Europe'.Poland surpassed its all-time heat record with temperatures reaching 40.5C, a spokeswoman for the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) said. 'According to telemetry data and operational data at this moment,' the new high was registered in the western town of Slubice, she said. Poland's all-time temperature record was set in 1921.In Sweden, several people were injured, including one seriously, when lightning struck a tree at an amusement park in southern Sweden on Sunday.'Today we had a severe thunderstorm over Tosselilla, which led to several lightning strikes directly in the area. This has resulted in a few people being injured,' the Toselilla Sommarland park said in a post to Facebook.It initially said there were no serious injuries, but local health officials later said a 45-year-old woman was in hospital with 'serious injuries'.Two others were taken to hospital by ambulance, while two adults and five children were seeking treatment.'All with minor injuries,' regional health authority Region Skane said in a statement.Public broadcaster SVT reported that the amusement park had anticipated the storm and made sure no visitors were on the rides or in the waterpark pools.However, lightning struck a tree on the site, and a group passing nearby was hit by falling debris.The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) on Sunday issued warnings for large parts of southern Sweden as thunderstorms and heavy rain swept across the region.In the UK, an amber warning for extreme heat has been extended but the record-breaking hot spell is coming to a close.The Met Office warning covering the East and South East now runs until 9am on Sunday.Heat records were broken on three consecutive days from Wednesday, reaching a provisional peak of 37.3C in Santon Downham in Suffolk on Friday, and Saturday saw a high of 32.3C in the same location.The day's heat and humidity has caused thunderstorms to develop, and a yellow thunderstorm warning is active until 11pm on Saturday.It says frequent lightning, large hail, gusty winds and brief heavy downpours are possible in central and eastern parts of England.Thunderstorms have already hit the UK and the weather disrupted flights on Saturday.A total of 484 inbound and outbound flights were delayed across Gatwick and Heathrow airports by the evening, according to the FlightAware tracker.Heathrow had 42% of its flights delayed and Gatwick 50%, it said.Meanwhile, early on Saturday morning, Kent Fire and Rescue Service were responding to three house fires caused by lightning strikes.The thunderstorms forecast on Saturday evening will move rapidly north-eastwards before clearing above the North Sea.The Met Office warning said short term loss of power is possible and damage to vulnerable structures.High temperatures are clinging on in East Anglia and some face another tropical night that will not drop below 20C on Saturday.However, temperatures are expected to drop by around 5C or 6C the following day.This will produce highs of 25C to 26C on the eastern coast and around the mid-to-low 20Cs elsewhere.Humidity levels will also fall to give 'a much fresher feel than what we saw for the latter part of last week', Met Office meteorologist Liam Eslik said.The heatwave smashed the long-standing record for June heat, which dates back to the summer of 1976, by more than 1C, which is significant given such records were usually broken only by a fraction of a degree in the past.A total of six people drowned during the hot weather and there were 15 water-related fatalities in May.Scientists warned that the heatwave would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, with human-driven climate change fuelling more intense and frequent extreme heat events.Health chiefs warned of the impact the conditions were having on services this week as they faced significantly more life-threatening emergency calls.Hundreds of schools and nurseries were forced to close and a hosepipe ban was brought in for Kent amid surging demand.Several hospitals declared critical incidents, with University Hospital Southampton forced to cancel a number of planned operations and some outpatient appointments.The heatwave was driven by a 'heat-dome' – an area of high pressure that stalls over a region and traps heat – settling over western Europe and bringing extreme conditions across the continent.This has been compounded by human-driven climate change, mostly caused by burning fossil fuels, which is making such extreme heatwaves more frequent and intense.
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2 before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab (JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e] shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a -Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain
DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17
First From Daniel Chapter 2
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES
Now From Daniel Chapter 7
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV 17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16
REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.
REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA
THE CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8, DAN 7:23-24
WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME
NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
COUNCIL FOR EUROPE ON DEFENCE
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/document/download/6d6f889c-e58d-4caa-8f3b-8b93154fe206_en?filename=SAFE%20Regulation.pdf
Pressure grows to suspend EES checks during European summer travel-Airport operators warn mandatory border enrollment cannot keep pace with peak travel as calls grow for temporary flexibility-Jun 26, 2026, 1:32 pm EDT | Masha Borak
Airports in Rome are considering suspending the Entry-Exit System (EES) during the summer travel season.Marco Troncone, chief executive of Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), warned on Thursday that allowing passengers to skip the biometric border registration scheme was the only way to avoid a “disaster” in the coming weeks.“We are very worried for the summer,” Troncone told The Financial Times. “The process proves to be incompatible with the peak volumes that we are going to face. So the only way is to open up the valve. There is no way that we can deliver 100 percent of the enrollment.”Aeroporti di Roma manages Rome Fiumicino Airport and Rome Ciampino Airport.Italian airports are not the only ones struggling with the rollout of the system. On Tuesday, Stefan Schulte, president of industry group Airports Council International Europe (ACI EUROPE), said that airports “urgently need full flexibility for border control authorities to suspend the EES whenever needed.”Schulte notes that the decision on suspensions is left to individual governments, not to airports themselves. Politicians should “stop pretending… that the EES is working just fine,” he told the BBC.He also cautioned that the summer peak extends well beyond early September, and that failure to address it could result in a total system breakdown.“Passengers are queuing for hours at peak traffic times and I just do not know how we will be able to cope in the coming weeks with the expected increase in traffic,” says Schulte, who is also head of the company that owns Frankfurt Airport.The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has previously warned that waiting times for passport checks this summer could reach six hours.UK travelers, in particular, have been suffering through long queues and missed flights. Last week, a Ryanair flight from Athens to London reportedly left without 20 to 50 passengers due to passport control delays. Similar scenes played out in April, when just 34 of 156 passengers managed to board their easyJet flight from Milan to Manchester due to the EES rollout.Last month, Greek officials said they would exempt British visitors from biometric registration upon arrival in the country for summer holidays, but the Greek Foreign Ministry later denied the claim.According to the EES rules, all third-country nationals must register their facial and fingerprint when entering the Schengen Area. To prevent long queues, the European Commission has allowed all 29 Schengen countries that use the system to partially suspend EES operations throughout the summer.The EU, however, does not plan to soften the new border regime after September, with Frontex warning last week that queues could persist for another two years.
Biometrics market signals strong as providers expand reach-Jun 27, 2026, 1:27 pm EDT | Chris Burt
The expansion of the global biometrics market, fast and steady, can sometime be obscured by the controversies that come along with powerful new technology and a competitive business environment. Headlines from the past week serve as a reminder of the momentum behind biometrics providers and digital identity projects around the world, and reveal some interesting clues about the direction those projects will take going forward.M&A and investments-ROC’s acquisition of ZTC is targeted at expanding its video intelligence platform end-to-end, building its face biometrics core capability into an overall digital forensics investigation platform. The deal continues the post-IPO clarification of vision for ROC serving a customer base beyond its federal government core.Incode is building a network for sharing fraud signals while doubling down on its privacy-first, decentralized vision through the acquisition of Identiq. A key market expansion operating here is the threat of agentic AI, which can be mitigated by pooling data. Incode CEO Ricardo Amper has also shared insights into the deal with Biometric Update for an interview article coming next week.Investors remain bullish on IDfy, and by extension the Indian KYC market, as seen in the $23 million the company has picked up to expand its risk detection tools. IDfy is marching towards an IPO with a self-declared timeline of 5 years.Intellicheck’s growth has landed it on the Russell 3000 index as one of America’s largest publicly traded companies, which helps positions its stock with institutional investors.Familiar faces, new tech-NEC is supplying live facial recognition to Western Australia Police for trial deployment in public spaces, in one of the first deployments of LFR in a democratic country other than the UK. If the UK’s example holds, a single van in a single state could expand over time to a much broader rollout.BioRugged is already bigger than many people realize, particularly non-identity industry insiders, but is offering its new height-aware biometric camera platform to European system integrators first, in a different strategy from its past products.Passkey adoption has reached the point where those platforms that are holding out can be named and shamed. Enter “Why No Passkeys?”, which calls out the most popular sites in each country still lacking passkey support.Familiar challenges, new tech-A dramatic expansion in biometrics use, like ambitious plans to make digital identity practically universal, comes with urgent privacy concerns.EU Member States will be allowed, but not required, to let people opt out of including face biometrics in their EUDI Wallet, under an agreement struck last week. Epicenter.works warns that pressuring people to share their sensitive data will only prevent them from using it as it becomes useful to them.As identity is woven into infrastructure, the pipeline of governance policies and protective technologies will accordingly increase in importance.To help grow that pipeline, the UN and UNDP are each launching accelerators; the former for DPI safeguards and the latter for open-source African DPI.The same kind of innovative data protection infrastructure World uses for biometrics processing is available to all identity companies. Taceo CEO Lukas Helminger tells Biometric Update a market is forming for technologies like his company’s Private Shared State cryptography.Please let us know your favorite podcast or webinar series about the biometrics and digital identity industry in the comments below or through social media.
Ethiopia builds DPI to power sovereign digital state-MESOB super app showcases how digital ID, payments and cloud infrastructure are converging into a unified national platform-Jun 26, 2026, 10:53 am EDT | Ayang Macdonald
Ongoing efforts by the government of Ethiopia to build a digitally sovereign state were in the spotlight recently during the MESOB Innovation Exhibition event which took place in the capital Addis Ababa.The event, which brought together several tech startups and other industry stakeholders, was an opportunity to further reflect on how the country is trying to build its sovereignty stack, a convergence around identity, finance, data governance, and infrastructure hemmed into a single and interoperable ecosystem that will define national autonomy in the medium and long term.MESOB is a platform built to drive digital government services in Ethiopia, with 185 government services already integrated with the super app.Ethiopia is running the second largest digital ID project in Africa, after Nigeria, with more than 40 million people already registered for it, a testimony to its growing scale and adoption.Through the foundational identity known in the local language as Fayda, it is also building other public infrastructure, integrating services with passport applications being the latest in series, and streamlining how people get authenticated for service delivery.According to an analysis by the Institute of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia is not just digitizing services; it is building the institutional muscles needed to govern in an increasingly networked world.The piece argues that just as roads and power grids once defined state reach, digital infrastructure such as the Fayda digital ID and the Telebirr payment system now define the state’s operational coherence and economic visibility.Combined with a robust data protection framework (Proclamation No. 1321/2024), Ethiopia is seen as trying to build a system where trust is institutionalized, like Kenya is trying to do, and one that ensures citizens engage with digital services because they are convinced the state can protect their data.These DPI efforts, according to the analysis, are also helping to build trust architecture by reducing the friction between citizens and institutions, allowing the state to see, serve, and tax its economy in ways that were previously impossible. In some ways, the write-up qualifies the efforts as moving Fayda beyond a card to something that acts as the nervous system connecting finance, health, and education, to mention just a few.Ethiopia’s sovereignty push mirrors a growing global trend whereby DPI is no longer seen as a technical supplement to governance, but as its very foundation. Other countries like Papua New Guinea are leveraging domestic and international partnerships to address digital skills and capacity gaps in their sovereignty push.As part of the sovereignty dynamic, the Ethiopian government is also looking toward self-reliance on national data cloud and the manufacturing of digital devices under the Ethiopia National Cloud initiative.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the facility is being built at the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute and it will have a capacity that surpasses that of all existing data infrastructure in the country.In May, the PM mentioned that the cloud infrastructure could be available within 18 to 24 months, adding that it will go a long way in driving the country’s digital transformation efforts.
Nepal cancels ID tender, betting on domestic control-Government cancels international support tender and brings ID management in-house as card backlogs, outages and security concerns grow-Jun 23, 2026, 2:41 pm EDT | Lu-Hai Liang
Nepal is facing mounting problems with its national identity system as printing challenges, a purported security issue and a tender cancellation is adding to delays.The government has scrapped a global tender for the operation, maintenance and technical support of the National Identity Card Management Information System (NIDMIS). The Kathmandu Post reports that the Nepali government has instead chosen to manage the system internally.The NIDMIS Support and Maintenance tender was cancelled on May 8. The Prime Minister’s office and Council of Ministers will take full control of the system, which is under the umbrella of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the constituent Department of National ID and Civil Registration.According to an official quoted by The Kathmandu Post, the tender process was cancelled before technical evaluation was completed. The tender was published on December 17, 2025, and three companies applied. These were Gravity Group IND LLC of Dubai, Iris Corporation of Malaysia and IN Smart Identity (formerly Idemia Smart Identity) of France.The department’s director general Namaraj Ghimire was shifted to the Muslim Commission on May 11. The Ministry of Home Affairs made joint secretary Krishna Poudel the new director general on June 1. According to an official from the prime minister’s office, the decision was made to ensure domestic control of citizen data and that technical experts would be brought in to strengthen Nepal’s digital sovereignty.Functions including biometric enrollment, data storage and card printing have depended on foreign technology providers. Technical support for the national ID programme was provided by Advantage International Pvt Ltd, a local branch under Idemia, with which the Nepali government signed an agreement in 2018. It covered biometric registration, smart card production, personalization and other technical services.Following that agreement’s expiry, the now-cancelled international tender was launched.The administration of prime minister Balendra Shah, who took office on March 27, is looking to centralize digital governance and IT systems. Shah’s government is planning to establish an Information Technology and Electronic Governance Office, which will sit alongside the just created Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation.However, the country is facing a sharp reduction in card‑printing capacity. One of the two French‑supplied industrial printers has failed and the other is running without proper maintenance. This has cut daily output of national ID cards from 16,000–18,000 to about 3,000. Technicians warn the department lacks the expertise to recover from a major system failure.The slowdown has increased an already large backlog. Biometric data has been collected from 20 million people, but only 7.8 million cards have been printed. Recent server outages have further disrupted services and dropped public confidence.Nepal’s digital transformation step sees security setback.Less than 24 hours after a National Identity Card download service was launched, the service became unavailable. The outage followed an investigation by online publication Khoj Samachar, which found alleged security issues with the system.The download service was intended to let citizens download their National Identity Cards directly to their smartphones without needing to visit government offices. It was seen as a step forward in Nepal’s ongoing digital transformation, allowing citizens to avoid paperwork and visiting physical centers.The investigation reportedly found the system could expose sensitive personal documents, as anyone only needed to obtain someone’s full name, date of birth and citizenship issuance date to access and download that person’s national ID document. There was reportedly no additional verification layer.According to Eurasia Review, the Khoj Samachar investigation sparked much online discussion and concern, while it also reported the system was offline (404’d) less than a day after the report was published.Overall, ID delays are becoming more serious as the national ID is increasingly required for passports, licences, banking, social security and other essential services. While the government argues that local management improves data sovereignty, officials fear the department lacks the skills and resources to operate the system reliably. Successful rollout hinges on how quickly technical capacity can be rebuilt.
Google brings liveness detection to anti-bot verification-New verification method analyzes hand movements and anatomical landmarks in real time-Jun 22, 2026, 11:05 am EDT | Lu-Hai Liang
Google is testing a new reCAPTCHA method that asks users to perform simple hand gestures on camera. The service is part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense.The biometric verification system analyzes short video clips of a user’s hand and extracts 21 knuckle‑point coordinates to determine human liveness. The approach reflects trends toward using anatomical or behavioral cues to distinguish humans from bots.Google says the footage is processed in real time, never linked to an identity and deleted as soon as the verification ends. The company stresses that no images or videos are stored beyond the verification moment, and the extracted landmark data is not reused for training or other purposes. Audio is never recorded. All information collected falls under the Google Privacy Policy, and camera access requires explicit user consent. Permissions can be revoked at any time through browser settings, and Google says it does not share gesture‑related data or permissions with third parties.Google doesn’t describe the feature as biometric authentication, but the extraction of anatomical landmarks places it in a regulatory grey zone at a time when UK and EU authorities are scrutinizing even ephemeral biometric processing. Google is emphasizing data minimization with no identity linkage, retention or secondary use.The gesture check is a privacy‑preserving evolution of CAPTCHA rather than a wholly new biometric system. Whether regulators and privacy advocates accept that distinction will inform how widely the feature is deployed. Some users online have expressed concern about the use of a camera, saying it’s more intrusive than traditional CAPTCHAs. Lokesh Sparrow on X argued the approach raises “serious privacy concerns” as it requires camera access for routine verification. “It also raises real accessibility issues for people with hand disabilities or those in poor lighting conditions, making basic web access more difficult for many users,” he added. Google says it is developing additional accessible alternatives and that users who cannot perform gestures will still be offered visual or audio challenges.AI fraud drives banks toward biometric identity defenses.
Global banking sector invests in fraud prevention to develop ‘culture of vigilance’ Jun 25, 2026, 4:32 pm EDT | Joel R. McConvey
New survey data from KPMG shows a majority of banking executives preparing for AI to cause major disruptions to established business models. The 2026 Banking Technology Survey says 80 percent of respondents anticipate “significant shifts” over the next three-to-five years, and are making adjustments accordingly.“What we’re seeing across the banking sector is a convergence of priorities – AI, payments modernization, cybersecurity, and tech-driven M&A are no longer separate agendas,” says Peter Torrente, who leads KPMG’s U.S. Banking Sector activity, in a release. “That shift exposes the challenge to keep pace across technology, risk, and growth simultaneously.”Headline numbers show a cascade effect: 76 percent of banking executives say they have seen an increase in the number of cybersecurity attacks on their banks in the last year. In response, 92 percent are increasing their budgets to address the risk. And 84 percent are increasing cybersecurity investment specifically to address risks introduced by AI.Operational efficiency and automation is receiving the most investment in the next 12 months, but security and fraud prevention is a close second.Among top threats are AI-introduced vulnerabilities in code, deepfakes and securing agentic technologies. Eighty percent of banks are implementing regular audits to ensure data security, privacy and compliance.Notably, uptake in adoption of biometric tools is set to increase; 32 percent of banking leaders say they are already using AI-enabled biometrics to secure payments and access management – but 72 percent plan to integrate the technology over the next three years.Defense tools must evolve at speed of fraud-An article from J.P.Morgan dives into fraud in the age of AI. Insights from authors Vincent Meluzio from J.P. Morgan Payments and Douglas Wilbert from Accenture are consistent with the larger industry view: “fraud risk is on the rise, yet 60 percent of surveyed financial institutions do not have a dedicated response plan with forensic tools to investigate agent driven fraud.”Defense technologies “must evolve as fast as the threats they’re designed to counter.”“A static defense posture is a losing one. But technology is only part of the equation. It works best when complemented by fundamentals: knowing where to verify against an authoritative source, knowing what questions to ask and recognizing when something doesn’t feel right.”The authors advocate for a culture of vigilance that includes training and clear escalation protocols, and note the importance of collaboration: “no single organization can solve the problem of deepfake fraud alone. By sharing intelligence, best practices and technology innovation, organizations can strengthen collective defenses in ways no one can achieve independently.”Synthetic identities become banking’s next fraud battle-Proof’s latest post in its Fraud Files series looks at “Stolen Credentials, Fake Biometrics, and the Synthetic Identity Wave.” The piece says core assumptions about identity verification – “that some information stays secret, that documents can be trusted, and that a face in a camera is a real face” – are under “sustained, commercial-scale attack.”It cites analysis from Shattered.io, drawing on research from Flashpoint and DeepStrike, which shows that infostealer malware exfiltrated more than 1.8 billion credentials from 5.8 million infected devices in 2025 alone. “DeepStrike found that stolen passwords and session cookies now appear in 86 percent of data breaches. Stolen logs are bought, repackaged, and resold through dark web marketplaces that operate like subscription services.”Stolen identity data can be used to create synthetic identities. Proof says synthetic identity fraud is “the defining threat of 2026.”“Fraudsters combine real SSNs, addresses, and birth dates with fabricated names and manufactured credit histories to create identities that have never existed, yet can pass onboarding checks.” These fake identities can accumulate credit histories over time; “by the time a synthetic identity executes fraud, it may have a year or more of clean transaction history behind it.” U.S. unsecured credit losses tied to synthetic identity fraud are projected to exceed $3.1 billion in 2026, and the threat is growing at roughly 16 percent annually.A major vector for synthetic identity attacks is injection. Injection attacks bypass the camera to work on the software or hardware level, “injecting pre-generated synthetic media directly into the video stream before verification occurs, so the system processes a manufactured image from the start.”No longer the domain of technical specialists, these fraud tactics are available on the commercial market. “The Deepfake-as-a-Service market has a customer support channel, subscription tiers, and repeat buyers. Biometric injection attacks are straightforward commercial transactions.”A takeaway is that layered defenses combining biometric verification, device analysis and behavioral risk scoring are now a baseline requirement. “Static attributes can’t anchor identity.Each of these attack patterns works because it targets a system built on the wrong foundation.”Entrust adds biometric risk-based authentication-Entrust has launched “a new approach to preventing account takeover in the age of AI.” According to a release, the Entrust Biometric Authentication product combines biometric identity verification with adaptive risk-based authentication to protect critical and high-risk interactions. It takes the verified identity established at enrollment and “extends it across every access point and interaction,” anchoring it to a biometric check, providing defense against presentation, injection, and deepfake attacks by requiring identity assurance at key moments.“Too many organizations are treating authentication as a login problem, but attackers have already moved beyond access,” says Mike Baxter, chief technology and product officer at Entrust. “Preventing account takeover in the age of AI requires confirming the person behind every interaction. Entrust helps organizations apply the right level of assurance at the right moments while delivering secure, low-friction experiences.”Per the release, the solution uses three authentication methods, designed for different levels of risk. A biometric passkey provides biometric authentication at high-risk moments by binding authentication to a verified human identity. Face authentication speeds up everyday verification and step-up authentication. And motion authentication helps defend against deepfake, replay, and injection attacks in high-assurance use cases with ISO/IEC 30107-3 PAD Level 1 & 2 conformant liveness detection, independently tested by iBeta Quality Assurance.Banks accelerate fraud technology spendin-A new survey commissioned by behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch notes the “disconnect between detection and investigation” at play in the Benelux market.“While banking leaders in the region report relatively strong confidence in their fraud controls, 82 percent say their bank still spends more than a day investigating fraud cases, which is significantly above the global average,” says BioCatch Director of Global Fraud Intelligence Thomas Peacock, in a release.However, investment is coming. “Benelux respondents overwhelmingly say their bank plans to upgrade its fraud prevention technologies, with 92 percent reporting planned investments and 59 percent saying their organization is either already implementing new solutions or actively evaluating vendors.”Voice biometrics joins layered defenses-Voice security products provider Illuma is partnering with UK Credit Union to bring advanced authentication and fraud prevention capabilities to the credit union’s contact center and self-service channels, according to a release.UK Credit Union will implement Illuma’s IllumaSHIELD platform, which offers real-time voice authentication technology as the core offering, with options to add advanced fraud prevention, adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA), deepfake detection, and human-AI collaborative intelligence. The platform continuously evaluates risk, allowing the credit union to step up authentication when needed.“AI-driven fraud is forcing financial institutions to rethink how they secure the voice channel,” said Milind Borkar, CEO of Illuma. “UK Credit Union is taking a forward-looking approach by adopting voice security that continuously verifies identity, blocks threats in real time, and improves both the member and agent experience – while eliminating friction from every interaction.”
EUDI Wallet biometric compromise draws privacy concerns-Member states can allow users to opt out of including facial images, but privacy advocates warn many citizens may still face pressure to share biometric data-Jun 23, 2026, 2:20 pm EDT | Masha Borak
EU member states have reached a compromise on a contentious biometric requirement for the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallets. Under an agreement struck on June 18th, individual EU member states will be allowed, but not required, to let users opt out of including a biometric facial image in their digital ID wallet.The agreement resolves a standoff between the European Commission, which had pushed for mandatory portrait images, and a bloc of member states that objected on privacy grounds. Digital rights advocates, however, say the compromise falls short of protecting citizens and could pressure people into sharing sensitive biometric data whether they want to or not – potentially creating a backlash against the digital ID scheme.“If they are pressured and forced to use it, I think we’ll just create a pushback from society and people will simply not use this in situations where it might actually be useful for them,” Thomas Lohninger, executive director of digital rights group Epicenter.works, told Biometric Update.The EUDI Wallet is set to offer residents and businesses in EU countries a means to safely identify themselves online and access public and private services across the bloc. Although they are not mandatory, European countries must offer a digital ID wallet to their citizens by the end of 2026.The European Commission has been seeking to make facial images mandatory for the EUDI Wallet through Implementing Acts that set the technical rules for wallets’ core functionalities, including specifications for Person Identification Data (PID). The plan, however, has caused a rift among Member States participating in the eIDAS Committee, which is tasked with drafting and voting on the Implementing Acts.The issue was finally settled at a Committee meeting on June 18th, where the two sides agreed on the amended version of the rule, which is now set to be formally adopted. According to the rule, EU member states can choose to make the portrait image optional, allowing users to decline adding a portrait image to their personal identification data.Organizations such as European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Epicenter.works point out that countries are not obliged to provide this option to their citizens. Those member states that make the portrait image mandatory could end up leaving them with no option but to share their biometric data with a requesting company or authority whenever they need to prove their age, sign a contract, or order a book.“It’s a vastly different thing to have your biometric portrait image in a government-issued digital identity system that’s mostly used for e-government,” notes Lohninger. “The [EUDI] wallet is a means to conduct business. It will be the basis for doctor visits, it’ll be the basis for public transport and aviation. So having your portrait in this piece of technology might carry vastly different consequences.”According to people familiar with the matter, the Commission’s reasoning for including a facial photo of a user is to maintain the EUDI Wallet’s interoperability with Australia, Japan, and Canada, which have adopted the ISO mobile driving license standard (18013-5) that mandates a portrait image. Another reason for having a facial image is for easing identification in proximity scenarios, meaning it can be used in face-to-face interactions with service providers.In its May response to concerns raised by digital rights advocates, the Commission explains that the portrait image is meant to “support the verification of the identity of the wallet user where genuinely needed.”“The selective disclosure feature ensures that the portrait is presented only where it is requested by a relying party and the user has approved its disclosure. A portrait cannot, for example, be requested for simple age verification,” writes Christiane Kirketerp de Viron, acting director for Cybersecurity at the Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).Epicenter.works, however, says that users may be pressured to share biometric data with employers or public authorities.“The power dynamics in our society are such that there are many situations where consent is not really given,” notes Lohninger.The inclusion of biometric data in EUDI wallets may also lead to future GDPR issues. Users may have little recourse against relying on a party established in different European countries with weak enforcement of privacy laws.Epicenter.works also argues that the European Commission has been attempting to use the Implementing Acts to negate many of the safeguards introduced in previous negotiations with lawmakers on the EUDI Wallet.The group, which is involved in the APTITUDE consortium testing EUDI Wallets, has raised other privacy concerns related to the project, including missing registration certificates, pseudonymity, Big Tech loopholes and weakened anti-tracking protections.For now, whether the EUDI Wallet becomes a trusted tool or a contested one may depend less on the compromise reached in Brussels and more on the choices individual governments make when implementing it at home.
Why border security is moving beyond the checkpoint-Jun 22, 2026, 1:47 pm EDT | Baiyun Gao By Baiyun Gao, Solution Architecture Lead, Securiport, LLC.
The border defines a nation, and immigration and border management are among the core functions of any state. As economic inequality, demographic shifts, regional conflicts, and environmental risks reshape migration flows, securing the border grows ever more difficult.To address these pressures, immigration and border management are shifting from officer-led inspection toward an integrated digital platform. The reason is partly arithmetic: a frontline officer has perhaps 30 to 60 seconds with each traveler, and in that window must authenticate the document, check it against watchlists, and read the person for signs of risk. This window is too narrow for modern threats. The integrated digital platform (IDP) shifts processing upstream through Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) screening, giving authorities hours of pre-arrival intelligence. Using public and private intelligence, the platform separates low-risk travelers, who move quickly through automated lanes, while giving officers time and focus for higher-risk travelers.The integrated digital platform has five pillars: policy, operations, technology, human capital, and partnerships. Legally, states must establish strong frameworks for API/PNR data collection, watchlist authority, biometric data use, and interagency data sharing, while fulfilling their international obligations. At the operational level, agencies need continuous inspection capacity across air, land, and sea borders, backed by carrier liaison programs, secondary screening, and asylum processing. Technology must do several things at once: capture and match biometrics, authenticate documents, score risk before arrival, and screen against integrated watchlists – all on a cybersecurity foundation strong enough to protect the immigration databases these systems run on. None of it works without people: trained officers on the front lines, adjudicators to decide asylum claims, administrators to keep the data clean, and lawyers to keep the process sound. And no single agency holds all the pieces. Coordination – with Interpol, national police, carriers, regional bodies, and organizations such as IOM and UNHCR – is what turns isolated systems into one working whole.The next wave of innovation has arrived, expanding what is possible.Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs), pioneered by ICAO, are expected to replace passports with a secure phone credential. DTCs could speed up authentication and create a more seamless travel experience.Mobile biometrics are moving identification out of airports and into the field. Authorities can use an app to capture faces and fingerprints on the street. The next step is to add this functionality to smart glasses.OSINT-augmented risk profiling searches the open web for signals absent from official watchlists and matches faces against billions of images on social media and public websites.The advance of AI is impossible to ignore, and it enters border management as a stack, not a single tool. At the top is pre-arrival intelligence: models scanning passenger data for route anomalies, suspicious bookings, document risks, and hidden links between travelers. In the middle is identity automation: facial recognition, fingerprint and iris matching, liveness detection, ePassport verification — confirming that the person at the gate is who the credential says. At the front line are mobile systems: handheld devices, apps, vehicle-mounted cameras, and wearables that move the check off the counter and into the field.This changes border logic. The question is no longer just “Is this traveler on a watchlist?” but “What does the pattern around them suggest?” AI can connect weak signals — a travel history, documents, routes, prior encounters, and a fragment from open sources — faster than an analyst working alone. Drawn together, those scattered traces expose what no single record reveals: organized crime, human trafficking, document fraud, terrorist travel.But the same power raises the stakes. A risk score can quietly penalize a traveler for things that have nothing to do with them: poor data, biased historical patterns, a carrier’s incomplete submission, the model’s own opacity. And a false positive at a border is no minor inconvenience — it can mean detention, a missed flight, denied entry, or a family torn apart. Generative AI is about to make all this harder.That is why the real frontier is accountable AI, including governance, explainable, auditable and justifiable, checked by human reviewers, and open to appeal — and all of it must hold up under procurement scrutiny and, eventually, in court. The next border will not be measured only by how many travelers it processes per hour. It will be judged by whether its intelligence layer can make the border faster, safer, more proportionate, and more explainable.In border security, the future platform is not simply technology; it is the science that delivers safe nations.About the author-Baiyun (Ben) Gao is the Solution Architecture Lead with 20+ years of professional experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, AI, and secure SaaS solutions. TOGAF certified, he has led solution engineering and delivery across government, aerospace and defense, cybersecurity, satellite communications, broadcasting, and enterprise technology sectors. He focuses on translating architecture into measurable business value through scalable platforms, modernized delivery practices, and customer-centered innovation.
US Army begins fielding next-generation battlefield biometrics system-Jun 26, 2026, 4:44 pm EDT | Anthony Kimery
The U.S. Army has begun fielding a new multimodal biometric collection system designed to give military police and other forces faster access to identity information in tactical environments, starting with a first unit equipped event in May for the North Dakota Army National Guard’s 131st Military Police Battalion.The fielding, conducted by the Army’s Product Manager Biometrics (PdM), included two days of training on the Next Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC).PdM is a dedicated acquisition office under Project Manager, Terrestrial Sensors. They design and field biometric systems to help soldiers rapidly verify identities, track adversarial networks, and secure areas in real time.NXGBCC collects fingerprints, iris scans, facial images, and voice samples, allowing soldiers to submit biometric data and receive identity information in near real time.The North Dakota event marks the transition of NXGBCC from years of development, soldier testing, and prototype work into initial fielding with selected Army units.The Army said the system reached Initial Operational Capability on May 28, less than two weeks after the 131st Military Police Battalion training event.The program’s next steps are already scheduled. The Army lists new equipment training throughout fiscal 2026 and projects award of a Biometric Production and Sustainment (BPS) contract in the third quarter of this fiscal year, which ends June 30.The award is expected to help determine how the Army procures, fields, supports, and maintains NXGBCC as it moves beyond the first unit.NXGBCC is intended to replace two existing Army biometric systems: the long-running Biometrics Automated Toolset-Army, known as BAT-A, and the Near Real Time Identity Operations capability (NRTIO).BAT-A has been the Army’s primary tactical biometric collection system for roughly two decades, while NRTIO provides near-real-time collection and identity verification support in operational environments.The new capability is intended to consolidate and modernize those missions while adding voice as a biometric modality alongside fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images.Army officials describe NXGBCC as the first Army biometric collection capability built as software rather than a system tied to specialized, proprietary hardware that must be separately sustained.That approach will allow the Army to operate the capability through a mix of mobile devices and laptop-centered kits for static operations, rather than relying on a single legacy collection platform.In prior soldier testing at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, military police personnel used both mobile collectors and static kits, operating in connected and disconnected conditions.The Army has positioned NXGBCC as a system for military force protection and identity intelligence.According to its program description, the capability is intended to help commanders identify combatants and persons of interest, manage enemy prisoners of war and civilian detainees, assist with displaced persons and refugee processing, and support access control, and intelligence missions during large-scale combat operations.The system is part of a broader military identity data architecture centered on the Department of Defense (DOD) Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).In a 2024 technical direction letter awarded to Parsons Corp., the Army said it would integrate NXGBCC’s mobile and static collection devices with the Ares Gateway Transaction Manager.The gateway was to operate in a government-provided AWS Impact Level 5 cloud environment and transmit biometric submissions to ABIS for comparison. Potential matches would then be returned through the gateway to the collection device in near real time.Army officials have said NXGBCC submissions can be searched against more than 30 million biometric encounters and more than 13 million identities in ABIS, as well as a large unresolved latent-fingerprint collection.Those figures illustrate the scale of the enterprise system behind the new field kits, although the Army has not released public information on biometric error rates, algorithm suppliers, or matching thresholds for NXGBCC.The planned BPS award will cover more than the new system alone. An April Army request for information described the anticipated requirement as support for the Army’s broader Biometric Collection Capability portfolio, including BAT-A, NRTIO, and NXGBCC.The Army sought companies capable of providing program management, hardware and software procurement, fielding, sustainment, software engineering, cloud services, help desk support, and cybersecurity.That makes the award an important bridge between legacy systems and the next-generation collection capability. It could also determine how long BAT-A and NRTIO remain in service as NXGBCC expands to additional units.The Army has not publicly disclosed which units will receive NXGBCC after the 131st Military Police Battalion, how many systems are being fielded, or the total value of the BPS contract. The April request for information was a market research notice, not a solicitation or contract award, and did not include a proposed contract value.The Army is moving from legacy biometric kits toward a portable, software-based system that can collect multiple forms of biometric data, operate in tactical settings, and connect field personnel to a large Defense Department identity repository.For military police units, the capability could be consequential. The Army’s own mission documents tie NXGBCC to detainee operations, population processing, force protection, and identification of suspected adversaries in high-threat environments.As new equipment training continues through the rest of fiscal 2026, the BPS award will be the next major indicator of how quickly the Army intends to scale the system, what support structure it will build around it, and whether it will provide more public detail about the technology, data flows, and safeguards governing one of its most significant new battlefield identity tools.
Major UK banks back reusable digital ID network for financial services-Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and others back pilot enabling customers to verify identity and age through banking apps-Jun 26, 2026, 3:27 pm EDT | Masha Borak
Major UK banks and financial institutions, including Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds, are teaming up with industry group UK Finance to launch a new digital verification service for the financial sector.The project has completed proof-of-concept work and is scheduled for a live pilot in a controlled real-world environment in the coming months, according to UK Finance. Other financial companies participating in the new digital verification service are Nationwide Building Society, NatWest Group and Santander.The new identification service focuses on private sector commercial and retail use cases. Users would be able to use the digital verification service for online purchases, property transactions, or opening accounts, verifying age and identity through online platforms, says UK Finance.“The financial services sector is ideally placed to deliver a secure and trusted digital verification service,” says Jana Mackintosh, managing director of Payments and Innovation at UK Finance.The technical side of the service is being developed by Select ID, a digital identity verification marketplace launched in 2024 by the Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA) with support from Barclays, Visa and Northern Trust. The scheme allows customers to select a preferred digital ID provider to carry out their KYC and AML verification.Last year, Select ID announced a Reusable Digital ID Network partnership with companies such as SQR, Luciditi and Australia-based ShareRing. The company is being advised by Norwegian BankID, a bank-led identification system scheme used by 97 percent of the Norwegian population.According to the plan laid out by Finance UK, customers would be able to verify personal details, such as name, age, or address, through their banking app and share them securely with third parties. At the same time, they would retain full control over what information is shared and when.“Using already verified information, shared only with the customer’s explicit consent, could help make digital transactions safer, quicker and more convenient as well as ensuring customers have full control over how their data is used,” adds Mackintosh.The scheme is aligned with the UK digital verification services trust framework. The bank-led initiative, however, is separate from the UK government’s digital ID project, which faces an uncertain future amid political changes, including the departure of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Earlier this month, the Labor government established an independent advisory panel tasked with engaging with the financial services sectors, trade organizations and digital ID providers.
Kenya considers linking national ID database to CCTV facial recognition network-Jun 26, 2026, 2:59 pm EDT | Chris Burt
Kenya’s government is planning to link the country’s civil registry database with a CCTV network spanning six cities to enable facial recognition as part of an attempt to strengthen law enforcement.The proposed CCTV network will be operated by the National Police Service, and have access to the National Registration Bureau database through an integration by the Ministry of Interior, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said in an interview reported by Kenyans.The Ministry announced its intention to roll out surveillance cameras in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and Nyeri earlier in June. The Eastleigh Voice reports that the Nairobi deployment is expected to become operational three to six months after the procurement is complete.Kenya’s government is in the final stages of procuring the facial recognition surveillance system, according to Murkomen, and is hoping to complete the tender for up to 25 billion Kenyan shillings (approximately US$190 million) within two months.The government plans to integrate system with the Integrated Command, Control and Communication Centre (IC3) as part of an overall upgrade. The NPS also launched a facial recognition system using NEC technology within the IC3 for its CCTV network along major roads and highways back in 2018.“Once we establish this technology, we will slowly build in the data of various people based on information in the ID,” Murkomen said. “Police will now be able to use the faces of Kenyans with their pictures in the official data.”Law enforcement is restricted from populating facial recognition databases with data from civil IDs in many countries around the world, on grounds that it treats the entire population as suspects. UK police appear to be gaining the power to search civil databases, however.Kenyans reports that when asked about data protection and privacy, Murkomen noted that the cameras would be installed only in public spaces.
