In the Middle East, Israel announced that its 98th Division had completed the encirclement of Bint Jbeil, a key town in southern Lebanon, and begun an assault as part of its ongoing military operations against Hezbollah.
On a more hopeful front, US startup Panthalassa deployed its Ocean-2 device in Washington state’s Puget Sound — a 10-meter sphere connected to a 60-meter submerged tube designed to convert ocean wave movement into constant electricity. After years of failures in wave energy technology due to high costs and mechanical breakdowns, the company believes surging energy demand may finally make the approach viable as a complement to solar and wind.
And from space, Artemis II pilot Victor Glover returned to Earth with a message for humanity: the planet is “an oasis in the middle of nothing.” Speaking without a prepared script, Glover said that from space, no borders or human divisions are visible — only a single, fragile system worth protecting.
