BREAKING 🚨: Japan
Japan's 2-Year Yield soars above 1.57%, its highest level in more than 30 years 🤯 👀
France's 30-Year Yield hits highest level since the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Republican Party is experiencing a "Groyper Problem" with over 50% of GOP congressional staff being groypers, Politico reports.
WATCH: Two firefighting helicopters crash while fighting a wildfire in Greece.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇯🇵 US and Japan joint currency market intervention to support the yen is "still ongoing."
China’s economy is losing momentum:
China's manufacturing PMI fell -1.1 points in July, to 49.2, one of the lowest readings since 2023.
This also marks the first reading below 50 since February, signaling contraction in the sector.
At the same time, non-manufacturing PMI, measuring construction and services activity, declined -1.2 points, to 49.0, the lowest since December 2022.
Construction PMI alone dropped 2.0 points, to 47.0 points, the lowest since the 2020 pandemic.
On top of this, China’s GDP growth slowed to just +4.3% YoY in Q2 2026, the weakest expansion since Q4 2022.
China’s slowdown is spreading across its economy.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to avoid launching major new strikes on Iran during a phone call on Saturday, according to U.S. officials.
Source: Axios
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev:
Russian energy infrastructure is being destroyed and taken out of operation.
Russia is no longer able to supply all of its traditional partners with sufficient gas and oil.
We should not abandon the green agenda, but at the same time European banks should reconsider their decision so that oil and gas infrastructure projects can once again receive investment.
If that happens, Azerbaijan will be able to significantly increase its exports of natural gas and oil to Europe, including Germany.
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An Iranian Najm-804 AESA radar hit in a US airstrike near the city of Shiraz.
High-resolution satellite imagery released today shows damage to U.S. troop barracks at Tower 22 in Jordan.
🛰 Satellite imagery confirms the destruction of a tent housing Reconaissance Balloon equipment, at Erbil US Base, Iraq.
The aftermath of an Iranian missile strike on a U.S. military facility in the Middle East, filmed by American service members.
U.S. official to WaPo:
We do not have enough [air defense and long-range munitions due to low supply and battle damage] to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that.
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Fresh satellite imagery captured today shows no visible damage at King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba, Jordan.
Despite IRGC claims that multiple U.S. military aircraft, including C-17A airlifters and a P-8A MPA, were destroyed, the aircraft visible in the imagery appear to remain intact.
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🛰 BIG ! U.S. Special Ops base "Tower 22" at the Jordan-Syrian border was struck. (ht @MoloWarMonitor)
Accommodation for US Soldiers was struck.
On July 16-17 night, IRGC said they fired Missiles at Al-Tanf Base in Syria (possibly misidentified on statement) targeting:
• Radar system
• Several Special Operations Helicopters
• Large number of US Soldiers
Why its big ?
CENTCOM scrambled that day to deny the claim that Iran attacked US troops in Syria, well ... they're right, it's 1km into Jordan, but troops definitely died if they were in these accommodations.
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Chinese-made FK-2000 short-range air defense system deployed at a coastal site in Bahrain.
Bahrain's known air defenses are Western: Patriot, HAWK, Crotale.
At least three MQ-9A Reaper armed drones of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard were destroyed as a result of the ballistic missile strike of the IRGC Aerospace Force at Muwaffaq Al-Salti Air Base in Jordan on July 17, 2026 according to this satellite image released by the state media of the Islamic regime of Iran:
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JUST IN: Trump officials are reportedly weighing blocking U.S. access to top Chinese AI models.
JUST IN - Yemen's Houthis declare a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia effective immediately, say the blockade is in response to Saudi Arabia's continued "unjust and oppressive siege on our dear people for nearly 12 years." — Reuters
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NYT admits that Iran carried out 3 previously undisclosed attacks on US forces in Jordan before the July 18 strike, injuring dozens of American troops and damaging several helicopters.
Pentagon did not publicly disclose the earlier attacks, casualties, or damage
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