🇧🇷💸❗️ — Major Crisis in the Brazilian government begins after a corruption scheme involving the Trade Union of President Lula da Silva's brother was uncovered by the Brazilian Federal Police with 90 billion Brazilian reais (16 billion dollars) being diverted in 2023 alone from the Brazil's National Institute of Social Security (INSS)

This could be the biggest corruption scandal in the country's historical

🇷🇺📞🇺🇦 — Kremlin says that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not travel to the Istanbul talks

—🇭🇷/🇩🇪/🇺🇦 NEW: Croatia transfers 30 M-84 Yugoslav tanks to Germany for future delivery to Ukraine.

Ukrainian media report the tanks will be refurbished in Germany before being sent to Ukrainian forces; Berlin reportedly offered a discount on Leopard 2A8 tanks in return.

📰 Source: About Serbia in Russian channel.

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🇺🇸📞🇷🇺🇺🇦📉 — Donald Trump is not going to Turkey to join Russia-Ukraine talks, a US official has said to Sky News

Also, Vladimir Putin is not listed in a list of Russian delegates attending.

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇦📍🇹🇷 — ⚡️ Kremlin:

"Vladimir Putin signed an order on the composition of the Russian delegation for negotiations with Ukraine

Text of the order:

1. To approve the following composition of the delegation of the Russian Federation for negotiations with Ukraine:
Medinsky V.R. – Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation (head of the delegation)
Galuzin M.Yu. – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (member of the delegation)
Kostyukov I.O. – Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (member of the delegation)
Fomin A.V. – Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (member of the delegation)

2. To approve the following composition of experts for negotiations with Ukraine:
Zorin A.S. – First Deputy Chief of Information of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Podobreevskaya EC – Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Humanitarian Sphere
Polischuk A.A. – Director of the Second Department of the CIS Countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Shevtsov V.I. – Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Defense

3. This order shall enter into force on the date of its signing."

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🇸🇦💲🤝🇺🇸 — 🏠 The White House | Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic $600 Billion Investment Commitment in Saudi Arabia | May 13, 2025:

"STRENGTHENING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR ECONOMIC PROSPERITY:

Today in Saudi Arabia, President Donald J. Trump announced Saudi Arabia’s $600-billion commitment to invest in the United States, building economic ties that will endure for generations to come. The first deals under the announcement strengthen our energy security, defense industry, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals. 

The deals celebrated today are historic and transformative for both countries and represent a new golden era of partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

From day one, President Trump’s America First Trade and Investment Policy has put the American economy, the American worker, and our national security first."

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🎥🖥⚡️🤝🇸🇦 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Nvidia, AMD Secure Saudi AI Data Center Deals During Trump's Gulf States Tour | May 14, 2025:

"Several U.S. tech companies announced big AI deals in the Middle East after the White House announced the kingdom's commitment to invest $600 billion in the U.S.

Among the largest deals, Nvidia will supply 18,000 of its cutting-edge Blackwell chips to Humain, an AI startup just launched by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

Tuesday's announcement comes as part of the White House's Gulf tour, which includes President Trump and top CEOs.

"I am so delighted to be here to help celebrate the grand opening, the beginning of Humain," CEO Jensen Huang told the audience at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday, adding, "It is an incredible vision, indeed, that Saudi Arabia should build the AI infrastructure of your nation so that you could participate and help shape the future of this incredibly transformative technology."

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🇺🇸🇸🇦🇹🇷📞🇸🇾 — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the meeting between Trump, MBS and the "President"-Emir of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa

Today, President Trump, at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, met with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

President Erdogan of Turkey joined by phone.

President Erdogan praised President Trump for lifting sanctions on Syria and committed to working alongside Saudi Arabia to encourage peace and prosperity in Syria.

The Crown Prince also commended President Trump for his decision to lift the sanctions, calling it courageous.

President Trump thanked President Erdogan and the Crown Prince for their friendship, and told President Al-Sharaa that he has a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country.

President Trump encouraged President Al-Sharaa to do a great job for the Syrian people, and urged him to:

➡️ 1. Sign onto the Abraham Accords with Israel
➡️ 2. Tell all foreign terrorists to leave Syria
➡️ 3. Deport Palestinian terrorists
➡️ 4. Help the United States to prevent the resurgence of ISIS
➡️ 5. Assume responsibility for ISIS detention centers in Northeast Syria

President Al-Sharaa thanked President Trump, the Crown Prince, and President Erdogan for their efforts to put together the meeting, and recognized the significant opportunity presented by the Iranians leaving Syria, as well as shared U.S.-Syrian interests in countering terrorism and eliminating chemical weapons.

President Al-Sharaa affirmed his commitment to the 1974 disengagement with Israel.

President Al-Sharaa concluded with his hope that Syria would serve as a critical link in facilitating trade between east and west, and invited American companies to invest in Syrian oil and gas.

The Russia-Ukraine war and the war in Gaza was also discussed.

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🇮🇷❗️🤝🇺🇸 — 📰 NBC News | Top Iranian official says Tehran would forego highly enriched uranium in nuclear deal with Trump | The comments from a member of the supreme leader's inner circle appear to be the clearest public statements yet on Iran’s willingness to reach an agreement with the U.S. | May 14, 2025:

"Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions, a top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader told NBC News on Wednesday.

Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is one of the most senior Iranian officials to speak publicly about the ongoing discussions.

He said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly-enriched Uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich Uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.

Asked if Iran would agree to sign an agreement today if those conditions were met, Shamkhani said, “Yes.”

His comments appear to be the clearest public statement yet on Iran’s expectations and willingness to reach a deal from the supreme leader’s inner circle. Iran’s supreme leader has the final say on all matters of national security."

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🇻🇦🟰🇺🇸🕊 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Parallel Peace Blitz: New Pope & Trump Are Saying Similar Things As Conflicts Rage | May 14, 2025:

"The newly installed Pope Leo XIV is making clear that he's preparing to go on a peacekeeping blitz at a moment of several hotspots and major war zones across the globe.

(...)

In a fresh message this week, the Pope has also called for the release of all prisoners of war (POWs) and further praised the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, reportedly brokered by President Trump, it should be noted.

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Interestingly, Trump too has begun to present himself as a 'peacemaker' - and his message to the Middle East this week has been one of 'deal-making, not chaos' - and so the timing of this dual messaging from the Vatican as well as Washington could make for better chances at peace in the various conflict zones. However, it remains that Trump has been in the Gulf overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars in new weapons sales... so there's that.

On Iran, Trump said at a state dinner in Doha to his Qatari hosts on Wednesday, "You’re also working with us very closely, with respect to negotiating a deal with Iran, which is the far friendlier course that you would see."

"I mean, two courses, there’s only two courses. There aren’t three or four or five, there’s two. There’s a friendly and a non-friendly, and non-friendly is a violent course, and I don’t want that. I’ll say it up front. I don’t want that, but they have to get moving," the president added, as he attempts to forge ahead on a new nuclear agreement with Tehran."

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🇶🇦🤝🇺🇸 — Qatar signs an agreement with Boeing to purchase 160 aircraft — the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company's history

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🇺🇸🇹🇷✈️📹 — Last night, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Antalya, Turkey

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🇺🇸📞🇺🇦 — United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham speak with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, prior to today’s peace talks in Turkey between Russia and Ukraine.

🇺🇦📞🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the Russians are not serious about peace talks following Putin's failure to attend a face-to-face meeting between the sides in Ankara

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🇺🇦🇹🇷❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Recep Tayyip Erdogan recognised Crimea as Ukrainian territory, something he describes as a "very important signal and a sign of political support"

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