⚡️🤡 NOW - French President Macron is in the UAE, inspecting troops alongside MBZ.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - Albanian student protesters destroy the Xhorxh Sorros (George Soros) street sign.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - In Albania, street battles against Edi Rama’s Zionist regime continue; police officers are being hunted down in the streets, and it is they who are fleeing from the enraged people. It’s so funny how France’s protests can be blamed on immigrants, but no far-right-wing con artist is brave enough to blame immigrants for the ones in Albania. Come on, guys, do it—your audience would love it.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - This can’t be blamed on Blacks and Muslims so everyone’s silent about it Protests against the Albanian government have turned violent, with footage showing a police officer engulfed in flames during the clashes.

⚡️👀 ICYMI - Sam Altman wants to enable banks to verify that their customers are actually humans, not artificial intelligence. His World project has just launched “World ID for banking and finance,” a technology that proves a real person is behind a banking transaction, primarily through biometric iris verification. Bain Capital, VanEck, and Pantera Capital are among the initial partners. The system also allows users to authorize AI agents to perform certain transactions on their behalf, while retaining cryptographic proof of their human identity. According to Deloitte, losses from AI-powered fraud could reach $40 billion annually in the United States by 2027.

⚡️🇮🇹 NEW - Italy's Central Director of immigration and Border Police, Caludio Galzerano, says that Italy's main goal is to exchange all illegal flows of migration to a legal path: "We are combating illegal migration and we are endorsing supporting legal paths of migration."

⚡️🇦🇱 WATCH - Footage circulating online appears to show a police line in Tirana, Albania retreating in panic after protesters hurled improvised firebombs made from fuel-filled plastic bottles with fireworks attached. The video comes amid days of violent anti-government protests demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - I've shared videos of the riots in Albania here several times, and they're really on a whole different level compared to France.

⚡️🇫🇷 WTF - They can no longer tell them apart. Police officers are attacking other police officers who were in plain clothes and wearing balaclavas. Has an army of plainclothes police officers been ordered to sow chaos and destruction?

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - A shop owner whose store was looted in Paris claims that the police told him they would not respond to "window-smashing incidents." (BFMTV)

⚡️🇪🇸 NEW - Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: We naively believed the United States, a great democracy and ally, would not repeat the mistake it made 20 years ago. It trampled on international law. Except this time, instead of intervening in Iraq, it is intervening in Iran. That is exactly what is happening, and we are paying for it with our own money. In less than a year of war, Europe has paid an additional €100 billion. To give you an idea, that is more than twice what Europe spends on its Common Agricultural Policy to protect farmers, livestock breeders, and fisheries.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Preliminary Report: Luxury boutiques and major retail chains were looted or damaged across France during Saturday’s nationwide cost-of-living protests, with about 1,500 businesses hit and early losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros. — Louis Vuitton — Celine — Dior — Hermès — Burberry — Lacoste — Apple — Decathlon — Sephora — Carrefour — Galeries Lafayette Graffiti such as “Eat the rich” and “Tax the rich” appeared on many storefronts. Retail leaders called for faster compensation and stronger action against the looters.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - Albania continues the fight.

⚡️🤡🇫🇷 NEW - Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal: Social media cannot be a rallying point for rioters or a catalyst for violent copycat behavior. During riots, we must be able to temporarily and selectively block access to certain platforms to stop the mob effect.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bessent on Russia: The Europeans are financing the Russian war machine. The U.S. imports $4 billion of Russian products; $1.8 billion of that is fertilizer. The Europeans import more than ten times that.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - 1 a.m. at the Yves Saint Laurent store in Paris

⚡️🇨🇴 NEW - Protests have been reported in Bogotá, Colombia.

⚡️👮‍♂️ NEW - The FBI arrested an 18-year-old it says swatted a girl's home for years and threatened on Discord to firebomb it. He used a VPN, but his Discord account was registered to his own phone number. He has pleaded not guilty.

⚡️🇦🇱 NEW - In Albania, the protests continue with massive violence.