🇫🇷🤝🇮🇹 Le Pen to Meloni: Let’s team up and form EU Parliament’s No. 2 group

On the eve of next week’s EU election, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is inviting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to team up and form a right-wing super-grouping that would be the second-biggest party bloc in the European Parliament.

The far right is projected to perform well in the June 6-9 election but there are still intense doubts about which parties would be able to work together as cross-border political groups — because many of the national parties are sharply divided — especially over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The latest projections suggest 68 seats for ID and 71 for ECR, making 139 lawmakers in the 720-seat chamber. AfD is on course for 17 seats and the unaffiliated Hungarian Fidesz party currently has 12 MEPs. All together, something over 165 seats would seem to be in play for the (currently disunited) far right.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-giorgia-meloni-italy-france-eu-election-far-right-block-european-parliament/

🇺🇸🔍🇧🇷 — 🧲 Magnetic anomaly in Brazil is growing, shows a report from the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the United Kingdom's Defence Geographic Centre (DGC).

☀️ This phenomenon, also monitored by NASA, is characterized by a significant decrease in the Earth's magnetic field, which allows solar-charged particles to come closer to the planet's surface. NASA and other space agencies closely monitor this phenomenon due to the potential problems it can cause to satellites and communication systems.

⚠️ Such an anomaly can lead to a variety of impacts, including possible damage to satellites due to increased radiation and disruptions in radio wave propagation. With the expansion of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), the Earth's magnetic protection in the southern and southeastern regions of Brazil, extending to areas reaching Africa, is compromised.

❗️ NASA highlighted that particle radiation could disable onboard computers and affect data collection from satellites passing through it. Moreover, the magnetic anomaly serves as an indicator of changes in the Earth's magnetic fields, which is of interest to the agency.

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🇰🇵❌🇯🇵❗️ — North Korea fired a long range missile in direction of Japan!

The emergency J-alert system has been activated all over the country!

💥 🇯🇵 🇰🇵 Explosion seen in the sky after Japan issued J-alert due to projectile launch from North Korea

📎 Faytuks

🇰🇵❌🇯🇵 — 📰 Japan's NERV OSINT system quoting NHK News:

North Korea's missile launch appears to have failed, disappears from radar, government official

https://fxtwitter.com/UN_NERV/status/1795100398623379879

🌐❌🇷🇺 — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: NATO is already in direct confrontation with the Russian Federation

🇨🇺⚠️ — Energy Crisis: Last Sunday, power outages affected more than a third of Cuba (33%) during peak consumption hours (afternoon-evening) due to the complex energy situation caused by breakdowns, maintenance, and the lack of imported fuel

❗️ Prolonged power cuts of between 10 and 15 hours daily in some areas have resurfaced in recent weeks, exceeding a third of the population affected, reflecting the tense energy situation.

📝 All provinces are affected, including Havana, for which the UNE (Union Electrica) publishes the "scheduled" blackouts for each neighborhood on its Telegram channel every week.

⚡️ For this date, the forecast by the company - dependent on the Ministry of Energy and Mines - anticipates a maximum electricity generation capacity of 2,235 MW and a maximum demand of 3,220 MW during peak hours.

💸 The Cuban regime has rented several floating power plants (of which only five remain) to alleviate the lack of generation capacity. This solution is quick but temporary, polluting, and costly.

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