Brazil 🇧🇷/China 🇨🇳: Brazil tripled its rare earth exports to China in the first half of 2025, according to a report released by the China-Brazil Business Council (CBBC).

French Foreign Minister Jean‑Noël Barrot announced that, beginning this week, Arab nations will for the first time publicly denounce Hamas and call for its dismantling. He believes this will leave the group fully isolated. The move is part of France’s wider plan to support the recognition of a Palestinian state.

President Trump spoke with both Cambodia and Thailand regarding the escalating border clashes and stated that unless they de-escalate tensions and agree to sit down for talks, he will not negotiate any reductions in trade tariffs with either country. Shortly afterward, both Thailand and Cambodia announced they are willing to de-escalate and engage in discussions toward a ceasefire.

According to NBC News, the Department of Justice has granted convicted sex trafficker and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell “limited” immunity to discuss matters related to her 2021 convictions for sex trafficking and related crimes. Maxwell reportedly met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for nearly nine hours over Thursday and Friday. Her attorney said she was questioned about “maybe 100 different people” and that she “didn’t hold anything back.” While she has not formally submitted a request, the attorney confirmed that Maxwell is seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump in exchange for her cooperation with the DOJ.

Multiple Ukrainian-supplied BTR-3E1 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs), currently operated by the Royal Thai Army, were seen in motion near the Cambodian border on Saturday.

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An M60A3 “Patton” Main Battle Tank and a Type 85 Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) from the Royal Thai Army were spotted earlier today positioned outside the shuttered Friendship Border Market in Aranyaprathet, near the Poi Pet Border Checkpoint along the Cambodia–Thailand border.

A major Ukrainian drone strike targeted the Russian city of Stavropol this morning. Reports indicate that up to five drones hit the Stavropol Radio Plant, a facility identified in French sanctions as “one of the primary producers of radio-electronic equipment for the Russian Armed Forces.”

In case you missed it: 50 French Jewish teenagers, all around 15 years old, were removed from a Vueling Airlines flight for what the airline cited as “security reasons.” Israeli Minister Amichai Chikli responded, stating: “There are increasing signs that Iván Chirivella — a Vueling Airlines captain who reportedly trained two of the 9/11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta — may have been the pilot who ordered the removal of the Jewish children from the Valencia-to-Paris flight.”