Stock Market News 13 June 2025 - 25 June 2025

Gemini CLI was released by Google on June 25, 2025, as an open-source Apache-2.0 tool integrating Gemini 2.5 Pro into the terminal. Gemini 2.5 Pro in the CLI provides a 1,000,000-token context window and a free tier of up to 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day for personal Google accounts. The CLI runs natively on macOS, Linux, and Windows (no WSL) as an npm package requiring Node.js 18+, installable with npm install -g @google/gemini-cli. It includes built-in Google Search for real-time data and supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect to external data sources and tools.

On January 1, 2023, Switzerland officially adopted EU drone regulations (EASA), introducing Open/Specific/Certified categories and a 120 m altitude cap. The minimum age to pilot a drone solo is 12, with pilots aged 12–15 requiring supervision by a 16+ year-old. Operator registration with FOCA is mandatory for drones with a camera or weighing 250 g or more, and a single registration covers all drones. Visual line of sight (VLOS) is required at all times, and FPV flights are allowed only if a co-located observer maintains unaided visual contact. The maximum altitude is 120 m above ground level, with FOCA authorization

Shortly after 02:00 local time on 22 June, seven U.S. B‑2 Spirit bombers dropped 14 MOPs on Fordow with Tomahawks suppressing Iranian SAM sites. Maxar/Planet imagery shows six precisely spaced entry craters along the ridge above the centrifuge halls, forming a textbook double‑tap pattern consistent with the MOP fuse sequence. Damage signatures include collapsed tunnel portals, landslide debris, scorched support buildings, and dust plumes obscuring the cliff face and vent shafts. Fordow is carved 80–100 m inside Kuh‑e‑Fordow mountain, reinforced by concrete and IRGC air‑defence rings, and was designed for 3,000 centrifuges with IR‑6 cascades enriching to 60%. IAEA Director‑General

Operation Midnight Hammer, conducted June 21–22, 2025, targeted Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites. Seven B-2 Spirit bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base flew an 18-hour mission to Iran, delivering 14 GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Pens, marking the first-ever operational use of the MOP. To maximize surprise, at least six B-2s were observed flying west toward the Pacific as a decoy while seven B-2s proceeded east to strike. More than two dozen Tomahawk land-attack missiles were launched from an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine stationed in the Middle East to strike Isfahan around 2:15–2:35 AM local time.

Before the Strike: Trucks and Bulldozers Spotted at Fordow Satellite surveillance captured telltale signs of Iranian preparations at Fordow. On June 19, 2025 a Maxar satellite image shows cargo trucks parked outside the underground entrance of the Fordow complex foxnews.com. The next day (June 20) another image reveals bulldozers and heavy vehicles moving toward the tunnel entrance foxnews.com. These vehicles were clearly visible in the raw imagery – Fox News reports that “trucks and vehicles can be seen at the Fordow site” in pre-strike pictures foxnews.com foxnews.com. Open-source analysts say this “unusual activity” likely indicates that Iran was shuffling equipment

On 21 June 2025, the U.S. strike package used B-2 launched GBU-57 bunker-busters and sea-launched Tomahawks to damage Natanz and Isfahan and cut external power to Fordow. Maxar Technologies and Planet imagery circulated minutes after President Trump’s confirmation, enabling open-source observers to map bomb craters, scorched roads, and collapsed roofs at Natanz and Isfahan. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said the sudden loss of external power made it “very likely” the roughly 15,000 Natanz centrifuges were badly damaged or destroyed, based on satellite evidence. Fordow is buried 80–90 meters inside Mount Kuh-e-Daryacheh and was designed to withstand direct air attack, with

Jupiter is the Solar System’s largest planet, about 318 Earth masses, with a rotation period of roughly 9.9 hours per day. It is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, with a metallic hydrogen layer that powers a strong magnetic field via a dynamo. The Great Red Spot is a storm at least 300–350 years old, about twice Earth’s diameter, whose roots extend roughly 300 miles (500 km) into the atmosphere. Jupiter’s magnetosphere extends 1–3 million kilometers toward the Sun and a tail over 600 million kilometers long, with a field 14–54 times stronger than Earth’s and new radiation zones near

Google Cloud Speech AI provides Text-to-Speech with 380+ voices across 50+ languages using WaveNet/Neural2, Speech-to-Text in 125+ languages, and Custom Voice generally available in 2024. Azure Speech Service offers Neural Text-to-Speech with 446 voices in 144 languages (as of mid-2024), Speech-to-Text in 75+ languages, and Custom Neural Voice with cloud or on-prem deployment. Amazon Polly delivers 100+ voices in 40+ languages, includes Neural Generative TTS with 13 ultra-expressive voices by late 2024, and Amazon Transcribe supports 100+ languages. IBM Watson Speech Services provide Text-to-Speech in 13+ languages and Speech-to-Text in 8–10 languages, with 2024 Large Speech Models and on-prem deployment

The United States fields the LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM (silo-based) with a ~13,000 km range that carries 1× nuclear RV (W78/W87, ~335 kt) and the UGM-133 Trident II D5 SLBM (submarine-launched) with >12,000 km range capable of up to 8 MIRVs (W76/W88). The U.S. LRHW “Dark Eagle” program develops a long-range hypersonic boost-glide missile with a ~2,775 km range using a 2-stage solid booster and an HGV. Russia fields the RS-28 Sarmat heavy ICBM (silo-based) with 10,000–18,000 km range and Mach 20+ reentry, and it deploys the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle. China’s DF-41 is a mobile, road-mobile ICBM with a

The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation stealth air-superiority fighter that first flew in 1997 and achieved Initial Operational Capability in December 2005, with 187 production aircraft completed by 2012. It can sustain supersonic flight without afterburner, achieving supercruise at speeds above Mach 1.5. In standard configuration it carries eight internally mounted air-to-air weapons: six AIM-120C AMRAAMs in the main bay and two AIM-9 Sidewinders in the side bays, plus an internal M61A2 20mm cannon. Two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines provide approximately 35,000 lbf thrust each with 2D thrust-vectoring nozzles for post-stall maneuvers. The F-22 has a service ceiling above

Starlink’s upfront CapEx was estimated at about $10 billion and later as high as $30 billion, SpaceX launched over 8,000 Starlink satellites with about 4,000 in operation by April 2025, and the service exceeded 5 million subscribers worldwide by 2025. Amazon’s Project Kuiper is a $10 billion plan for a 3,236-satellite constellation, with 27 production satellites launched by April 2025 and a requirement to have 1,618 satellites in operation by July 2026 under its FCC license. Telesat Lightspeed plans 198 satellites, has secured roughly $2.54 billion in funding, aims to launch by mid-2026 and deliver global service by around 2027,

The F-16 began as General Dynamics’ YF-16 in the USAF’s Lightweight Fighter program, with the prototype’s maiden flight in 1974 and the first operational F-16A delivered in 1979. It introduced relaxed static stability and fly-by-wire controls, enabling exceptional agility and the ability to sustain 9 g turns. The cockpit features a frameless bubble canopy for 360-degree visibility and a 30-degree-reclined ejection seat to improve high-G tolerance. More than 4,600 F-16s have been built since 1976, and as of 2025 about 2,084 remain operational across 25 nations. An international NATO consortium—Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway—co-produced early F-16s, assembling 348 jets

The Sukhoi Su-57 Felon is Russia’s first fifth-generation stealth fighter, developed under the PAK FA program, with the T-50 prototype’s maiden flight on January 29, 2010 and the name Su-57 adopted in 2017. It measures about 20.1 m in length, 14.0 m wingspan, and 4.8 m in height, uses internal weapon bays, and employs radar-absorbing coatings to minimize radar signature. The aircraft is powered by two AL-41F1 (Izdeliye 117) engines delivering about 88.3 kN dry thrust and 142 kN with afterburner each, for over 28 tons of combined thrust and speeds near Mach 2.0 at altitude. Current engines enable supercruise

In April 2023, AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 demonstrated the first two-way voice call from an off-the-shelf smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S22) to a satellite. In November 2022, Apple launched Emergency SOS via Satellite on iPhone 14 using Globalstar, with the service free for two years. In September 2022, Lynk Global received the FCC license for commercial satellite-direct-to-phone services, enabling a 10-satellite initial constellation for SMS. 3GPP Release 17, frozen in 2022, formally added Non-Terrestrial Networks support so standard 5G devices can connect to satellites with adjusted timing and error correction. In 2024, Viasat and BSNL demonstrated two-way SMS connectivity using a

The FAA divides drones into Recreational and Part 107 Commercial categories, with the latter requiring a Remote Pilot Certificate (minimum 16 years old, English proficiency, passing the Unmanned Aircraft General – Small exam, TSA background check) and a certificate valid for 2 years plus 24‑month recurrent training. Recreational flyers must pass the TRUST safety test, and any drone over 0.55 pounds (250 grams) must be registered with the FAA for $5 and remain registered for 3 years with the registration number on the drone. Remote ID became mandatory for drones that must be registered starting Sept 16, 2023, with enforcement

In 2024 Prozorro concluded over 3.2 million public contracts totaling about 888 billion UAH, and in the first four months of 2025 it handled about 1.2 million contracts worth 444.4 billion UAH. As of 2024, Prozorro connects 10 authorized e-procurement platforms plus 2 platforms for observation/auction, with Zakupivli.Pro (Prom.ua) handling about 50% of tenders, DerzhZakupivli Online about 25%, E-Tender about 14%, and SmartTender about 7%. Prozorro.Sale complements public tenders by handling privatization auctions and state asset sales, with E-Tender functioning as a Prozorro.Sale marketplace. Private tenders are voluntary but common, with large firms like Naftogaz and DTEK issuing RFPs and

<li Foreigners can own 100% of Ukrainian LLCs (TOV) and Joint-Stock Companies (JSCs), and an LLC can be formed with no minimum capital while registration commonly takes 1–3 days. <li A Ukrainian Joint-Stock Company (private or public) requires a minimum capital of 1,250 times the minimum wage (about UAH 10 million, roughly €217k) and its shares are securities regulated by the NSSMC, with formation typically 3–4 months. <li Foreign nationals may register as Private Entrepreneurs (FOP) with a Ukrainian TIN and notarized passport translation, often in-person registration, and in 2025 the uResidency program enables eligible foreigners to open a FOP

As of 2022, about 96% of Swedes use the internet. Nearly 99% of Swedish households have internet access. 67% of the population has at least basic digital skills. Fiber-optic broadband is available to over 98% of premises, with about 85% of buildings connected and Very High Capacity Network coverage of roughly 83%. By 2024, roughly 98% of households or businesses are either connected to or near a network capable of 1 Gbps speeds. By 2023 around 82% of the population had access to 5G service, up from 18% in 2021. The 2016 National Broadband Strategy aimed for 95% of households