🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️ — Why desalination plants are so vital to the Gulf

A single strike can leave a Gulf nation thirsty.

Kuwait says an Iranian attack has hit one of its power and desalination plants for the second time in two days. That sounds technical until you look at what these plants actually do. In Kuwait, desalination provides about 90% of all the country's freshwater, and cities like Kuwait City, Doha, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi lean almost entirely on turning seawater into drinking water. So when a few of these plants get hit, it isn't just damaged infrastructure, it's the water supply of whole populations suddenly at risk. That's the very reason the Geneva Convention bars attacks on drinking water installations in the first place.

Iran, for its part, casts the strikes as retaliation in kind. Its argument is simple: if the US and its partners target Iranian civilian infrastructure, then Iran will strike theirs in return.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian UMPK glide bomb strike reported in Zaporizhzhia.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — An American MQ-9 drone was shot down over Hamadan by Iranian Army air defense systems.

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🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — Fresh explosions reported across Kuwait.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️ — Trump called the United Kingdom a "poor country that's a disaster" and urged it to begin oil extraction in the North Sea.

The U.S. President made these comments in response to the election of Labour Party leader Andy Burnham, who is scheduled to officially take office as Prime Minister on July 20.

According to Trump, fully developing the North Sea oil fields could transform the United Kingdom "into one of the richest countries in the world." He claims that the oil reserves are sufficient for hundreds of years, and that a significant portion of them have yet to be explored.

Trump also criticized the British for buying oil from Norway, calling it "absurd," and stated that the government could remove wind turbines near Aberdeen, which he believes spoil the city's view.

"The United Kingdom has enormous potential, but it all starts with opening up oil extraction in the North Sea. We love you, Scotland," Trump wrote, apparently alluding to the growing separatist sentiment in that part of Britain.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️ — Reports from British media suggest that Andy Burnham will announce the reinstatement of hydrocarbon exploration and extraction in the North Sea as one of his first decisions as Prime Minister.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Footage of the liberation of Volnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israel has already taken control of over 70% of the Gaza Strip, and the front line continues to advance from east to west along three axes: east of Gaza City, east of Deir al-Balah, and east of Khan Yunis (the al-Karara area)

— Al Jazeera.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — The interview that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was supposed to give to American television network FOX News was canceled at the last moment.

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🇺🇸❌🇷🇺🇮🇷 — US President Donald Trump said that Iran should be included in the US sanctions bill against Russia.

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🇨🇦🇺🇦⚡️ — By the end of the year, Canada will deliver an additional batch of 35 LAV 6 ACSV armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, — Prime Minister of Canada.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡️ — North Korea will firmly stand by Russia until victory, the country's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui stated during a meeting with Putin at the Kremlin.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian forces hit a hydrocarbon processing center in the Poltava Region, the Russia defense ministry said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia has released footage of a drone strike on a cargo ship near Odesa.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — The third soldier was vaporized by the Iranian ballistic missile.

Another U.S. service member was killed in Iraq while conducting a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone.

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