Crazy footage from yesterday in the Nineveh Governorate of Northern Iraq, close to the Kurdish-majority city of Erbil, showing an American Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS), a copycat of the Iranian Shahed-136, striking a building utilized by Iraq’s Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

Before the Assyrian Christian Genocide of 1915 an Assyrian Christian woman from Tkhuma, Hakkari (present-day Turkey)—one of the last generations to live freely in her ancestral homeland. Between 1914 and 1924, more than 70% of the Assyrian Christians of Hakkari were systematically killed. The survivors were forced into exile, fleeing to the Nineveh Plains, Urmia, and beyond—ending an Assyrian presence in Hakkari that had endured for thousands of years. But Hakkari was only one part of a much larger tragedy. Across the Ottoman Empire—in Mosul, Urmia, Siirt, Diyarbakir, Adana, Mardin, Tur Abdin and Beirut—entire regions were devastated Eyewitnesses spoke of rivers running red and wells filled with bodies. Villages were burned. Churches were desecrated. In the spring of 1915, a storm of violence swept across the empire. This was not random. This was not temporary. This was systematic destruction. The Christian Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks, and Maronites—ancient peoples rooted in faith, language, and identity—were targeted for annihilation. For the Assyrians, this catastrophe is remembered as Seyfo/Sayfo—the Year of the Sword. Families like the woman in this photograph were torn apart: • Fathers executed • Mothers violated • Children taken, orphaned, or left to die along endless death marches. Entire communities vanished. Historians estimate that over 3.5 million Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks, and Maronites were killed. Today, more than a century later… The memory lives on. The pain remains. The voices still echo. We remember.

Nineteen humanoid robots waltzed with human partners in Shanghai this week. The interesting problem isn't the dancing. It's the partner. 🤖 Choreography alone is solvable, a robot executing a fixed sequence on a flat stage is a well-understood control problem. But adding a human changes the category. A partner applies unpredictable forces through the arms and torso, arrives fractionally early or late & shifts weight in ways no script anticipates. To the robot, that's a continuous stream of disturbances it has to reject while staying upright, in sync with music & in position on a crowded stage. Balance under unmodelled contact is the same problem that stops humanoids working in warehouses and homes. Objects shift, floors slip, people bump into things. A stage with a human partner is a rare public test of exactly that. The hardware: Unitree H2, 180 cm, roughly 70 kg, 31 degrees of freedom, leg joints rated to 360 newton-metres, onboard compute scaling to 2,070 TOPS on Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor. The eyes are cameras. Unitree says the routines ran autonomously in real time. That means no teleoperation & no remote correction, not improvisation. The choreography was learned in advance; what's live is the balance & synchronization. Nineteen machines holding that simultaneously, in front of an audience, with no single failure visible, is the real measurement worth noting here. 📐

Nineteen Muslim refugees were accused in the r*pe of a 12-year-old at a parking garage. Guess how many got convicted?!?! ⠀ The scene was near Vienna Central Station. The first man tried was a 17-year-old Syrian. The court acquitted him and said there was no proof she had not consented. ⠀ He had confessed. He threw her cash as a “gesture of goodwill.” The girl’s lawyer called it a mockery. ⠀ A later Favoriten trial put ten men in the dock, Syrians and others from Turkey and the Balkans, ages 16 to 21. All ten walked. Prosecutors never charged underage abuse because they said they could not prove the men knew she was 12. ⠀ Austria’s 2025 convictions for r*pe of minors were 53 percent foreigners. That is the migration record, not a courtroom score of 19-for-19. ⠀ The United States is pulling the same mix through illegal crossings and refugee pipelines while an Islamic political bloc grows. Pew counts about 5.5 million U.S. Muslims, up from 2.4 million in 2007. ⠀ Mosques went from about 1,200 in 2000 to about 2,800 in 2020. Dearborn is majority MENA. CAIR claims more than 2.5 million Muslim voters. Hamtramck already has an all-Muslim council and a public hijab try-on for little girls. ⠀ Sharia politics starts with the claim that a child can consent. Vienna showed what a weak court does with that claim. ⠀ #Austria# #Vienna#

Nieves María Josefa Vázquez Peteira is one of the oldest active drivers in Spain. At 102, she lives in Santalla de Rioaveso, located in the Galician municipality of Cospeito (Lugo). She obtained her driver's license out of pure necessity in the 1990s at the age of 69. Since then, she has been driving her trusted Citroën ZX almost daily.

#ChinaInPhotos# Nineteen-year-old Tang Wei from Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua, came to Changsha in Hunan Province with his dog Bobo to fund his upcoming vocational college tuition. Admitted for September entry, Tang faced a financially stretched family supporting his younger brother. Unwilling to be a burden, he arrived carrying just 2,000 yuan, luggage, camping gear and Bobo, a dog from his grandfather. Tang worked long hours as a food delivery rider, with Bobo always beside him. Unable to afford accommodation, he camped under the Liuyang River Covered Bridge. After locals discovered his plight, they donated supplies, helped source shelter and connected him with opportunities. His story gained widespread attention following media coverage. He was later offered a temporary safe room by property staff and a job with free board and lodging from a local enterprise through September. Tang is thankful for Changsha’s compassion. He intends to keep working hard to save for school, focus on his studies after enrolment and pay the kindness forward one day. #ChinaStory# #HeartwarmingMoment#

In the nineteenth century, travelers reportedly discovered a strange abandoned village hidden far from major towns. Homes stood empty. Cooking utensils remained inside kitchens, personal belongings were still scattered across rooms, and food was reportedly left behind. Yet the villagers were gone. There were no clear signs of a battle, no obvious disaster, and no convincing evidence explaining where everyone had disappeared. Searchers looked through nearby forests and roads, hoping to find clues. Nothing solved the mystery. Some believed the villagers had fled because of disease or danger. Others suspected conflict, migration, or something never recorded by history. The truth remains uncertain. What happened to everyone? To this day, the mystery continues to fascinate people because the village appeared to be abandoned without a clear explanation.