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Global AI Powerhouses Clash: China’s AI Revolution Challenges U.S. Tech Dominance

Chinese AI Models Gain Global Traction For years, the United States led the AI race, but 2025 is proving to be a turning point. Chinese artificial intelligence companies are rapidly rising and “undermining America’s dominance” in the field bastillepost.com. Across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and even Europe, organizations are increasingly switching from U.S. AI…
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Israeli Satellite Images of Iran Attack – 2025 Deep‑Dive Report, Expert Quotes & Latest Evidence

1. Why space was decisive in “Operation Rising Lion” When Israel and the United States struck dozens of Iranian nuclear‑ and missile‑related targets in mid‑June 2025, every phase of the campaign—target discovery, mission‑planning, precision‑guidance and battle‑damage assessment (BDA)—ran on a constant stream of satellite imagery. 2. How Israel’s spy‑satellite stack works Tier Principal satellites Key strengths (2025) Imagery role…
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Trump’s High‑Wire Act: NATO Shockwaves, Middle‑East Firestorm, and a Congress on Edge—What the June 24, 2025 Frenzy Really Means for America and the World

At lightning speed on 24 June 2025, President Donald Trump upended foreign and domestic politics: he jetted into The Hague demanding a historic 5 %‑of‑GDP defense pledge from NATO, proclaimed (and then scolded) a shaky Israel‑Iran cease‑fire hours after ordering U.S. B‑2 strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, and watched Congress shelve an impeachment bid even as lawmakers advanced War‑Powers curbs. Oil…
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Missiles, Markets, and Regime-Change Rumors: 11 Jaw-Dropping Revelations From the Israel-Iran Showdown (LIVE UPDATE)

A dramatic 24-hour burst of missile fire, bunker-buster strikes, and dizzying political messaging has pushed the Iran-Israel war to its most perilous point yet. Iran’s “symbolic” barrage on America’s Al Udeid air base in Qatar came only a day after U.S. B-2 bombers flattened three Iranian nuclear sites, while Israel kept pounding targets in Tehran.…
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Fordow Exposed: Jaw‑Dropping Satellite Images Reveal the Mountain‑Shaking U.S. Strike on Iran’s Deepest Nuclear Stronghold

In the space of a single June weekend, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant—long considered Iran’s most impregnable atomic fortress—went from hidden menace to smoking headline. Newly released commercial satellite photos reveal at least six cavernous craters in the rocky ridge protecting the underground centrifuge halls, evidence that the United States unleashed a dozen 30‑thousand‑pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs)…
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Strait of Hormuz Crisis: World’s Critical Oil Chokepoint at the Center of a Geopolitical Storm

Latest Developments: June 2025 Crisis In the past 48 hours, the Strait of Hormuz has become the flashpoint of a sudden international crisis. Iran’s parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities politico.eu. This move came after a dramatic escalation: on June 22, 2025, the United…
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Operation Midnight Hammer: How Stealth Bombers, Fighters, and Bunker Busters Obliterated Iran’s Nuclear Sites

June 21–22, 2025 – In a massive overnight strike, the United States unleashed a coordinated assault on Iran’s most fortified nuclear facilities – Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan – under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer. This unprecedented attack, conducted in the early hours of June 22 local time, brought together America’s most advanced stealth bombers,…
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Midnight Hammer: How U.S. Stealth Bombers Obliterated Iran’s Nuclear Sites and Shook the World

Prelude to the Strike: Escalation of a Long-Simmering Conflict For months, tensions between Iran and its adversaries had been building toward a breaking point. In mid-June 2025, Israel launched a daring military campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, saying it “wanted to remove any chance of Tehran developing nuclear weapons” theguardian.com. Israeli airstrikes beginning on June…
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Shock From Space: Commercial Satellite Photos Reveal How U.S. Bunker‑Busters Crushed Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Mountain

SummaryNewly released high‑resolution pictures from Maxar and Planet Labs show the once‑impenetrable Fordow uranium‑enrichment plant gashed open after the 22 June U.S. air‑strike, with blast‑sealed tunnel mouths, greyed mountain rock and lingering smoke plumes. Image‑forensics, expert interviews and open‑source intelligence indicate that successive GBU‑57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP) bombs pulverised access shafts, cut external power and…
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Mind‑Blowing Satellite Images Reveal Fordow’s Cavernous Crater: Inside the High‑Resolution Photo Forensics that Exposed the Collapse of Iran’s Underground Nuclear Fortress

A cascade of newly released commercial‑satellite photographs confirms that last weekend’s U.S. bunker‑buster raid on Iran’s Fordow enrichment plant gouged fresh holes into the mountain and triggered a landslide of rock and debris that experts say may have entombed the centrifuge halls. The imagery—captured by Maxar, Planet Labs and others—has become the centerpiece of a…
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