2026-06-18 18:00 UTC | BLOCK 954288
BITCOIN $62,527 | GOLD $4,214 | OIL $78.28
1. Niger airport attack kills 35 as security forces hunt gunmen
-- Niger’s defense ministry said 22 assailants, 11 soldiers and two civilians died in Thursday’s attack on Diori Hamani international airport in Niamey, with no group claiming responsibility.
-- A strike on the capital’s main airport and adjacent military base exposes the junta’s weak security perimeter as Sahel militants test transport hubs and state authority.
2. Treasury sanctions Lebanese officials over Hezbollah support
-- The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Lebanese officials and others accused of helping Hezbollah, according to Reuters, as Washington tries to stabilize the region after the U.S.-Iran deal.
-- Fresh sanctions narrow the room for any sanctions-relief bargain by separating nuclear diplomacy from Hezbollah-linked enforcement.
3. DOJ sues Philadelphia over mask ban for federal officers
-- The Justice Department sued Philadelphia and city officials over a law barring masked federal officers, requiring identifiers and restricting unmarked vehicles.
-- The lawsuit tests federal supremacy in court while putting civil liberties, officer anonymity and local criminal exposure in direct conflict.
4. Zimbabwe lower house backs seven-year presidential term
-- Zimbabwe’s National Assembly passed constitutional amendments that would extend presidential terms from five to seven years and postpone the next election to 2030.
-- Senate approval would rewrite election law, entrench ZANU-PF’s control and give other long-ruling African parties a template for delaying voter tests.
5. Popa botnet ties consumer TV boxes to residential-proxy abuse
-- KrebsOnSecurity reported researchers linked the Android-based Popa botnet, active for four years on millions of consumer TV boxes, to NetNut and parent Alarum Technologies.
-- Cheap streaming hardware is turning home IP addresses into rentable infrastructure for ad fraud, account takeover and data scraping, widening liability for users and proxy buyers.
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