🇰🇪 🤝 🇺🇸 Kenya has become the first African “Major non-NATO Ally” of the U.S.

🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🏴 It comes as Washington seeks to push back against growing Russian and Chinese influence in the region.

📢 US President Joe Biden designated Kenya as a "major non-NATO ally" on Monday, making it the first sub-Saharan African nation to receive the designation.

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k) (the “Act”), I hereby designate Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States for the purposes of the Act and the Arms Export Control Act," said a White House memorandum.

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🔶️ Biden then pointed to Nairobi's assistance with the US's national security priorities, including efforts to defeat the Daesh/ISIS terror group as well as al-Shabab in East Africa, what Biden described as "mutual support" for Ukraine and ongoing efforts to deploy a Kenyan security force in the instability-wracked Caribbean island nation of Haiti.

https://trtafrika.com/africa/us-designates-kenya-as-major-non-nato-ally-18176652

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸👤🛰 — Israel eyes use of Musk's Starlink in event of war with Hezbollah


➡️ The Ministries of Finance and Communications are exploring the use of Elon Musk's satellite communications company, Starlink, to maintain internet connectivity in Israel during potential disruptions or power outages caused by an all-out war in the north.

➡️ Last February, Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi signed an operating license for Starlink services in Israel. At the same time, Israel permitted the operation of the service in the Gaza Strip for entities providing humanitarian aid, including operating a field hospital established in Rafah by the United Arab Emirates.

➡️ With the signing of Starlink's operating license in Israel, the Ministry of Communications stated that the service would focus on areas close to the fighting, aiming to provide stable communication to local authorities, emergency units, and government bodies in cases of wired and cellular communication malfunctions.

➡️ According to scenarios by the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and electricity company Noga, damage by Hezbollah to sensitive electricity production and transmission facilities could lead to blackouts in large areas of the country, especially in the northern region. In the event of a power outage lasting more than two hours, the relay stations of the cellular network may also collapse.

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🇷🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Serbia, through third countries, supplied Ukraine with ammunition worth about 800 million euros - Financial Times.

The President of Serbia himself agreed with the estimates published by the publication, noting that this figure corresponds to the approximate indicators for 2-3 years. At the same time, Aleksandar Vucic said that these supplies are part of the “economic revival” of the country and they have a “great opportunity” to make money, since the weapons produced in Serbia are cheaper than Western ones.

According to Vucic, Serbia exports ammunition to the USA, Spain, the Czech Republic and other countries, and where they end up next is no longer his concern .

🇪🇺🇲🇩 The EU has formally launched negotiations on Moldova's accession to the European Union.

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🇰🇵🚀❗️ — 🇯🇵 Japan Coast Guard: North Korean Regime has reportedly launched a suspected ballistic missile

📊 🏴 🏴 Western Africa: jihadist attacks (Q1 2016 - Q2 2024)

Data: ACLEDINFO

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👤📝❕👤🕊🇷🇺 — 🇬🇧 Reuters | Exclusive-Trump handed plan to halt US military aid to Kyiv unless it talks peace with Moscow | June 25, 2024:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine - if he wins the Nov. 5 presidential election - that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more U.S. weapons if it enters peace talks.

The United States would at the same time warn Moscow that any refusal to negotiate would result in increased U.S. support for Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, one of Trump's national security advisers, said in an interview.

Under the plan drawn up by Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump's National Security Council during his 2017-2021 presidency, there would be a ceasefire based on prevailing battle lines during peace talks, Fleitz said."

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❌❌🇵🇱🇸🇪 — Visegrad24, a Main Pro-Intermarium, Pro-West National-Conservative Page on Twitter/X.com, based in Poland and Sweden & spiritual successor of the "Based Poland" virtual movement, was suspended on the platform

The page was routinely included as one of the largest vectors of support for 🇵🇱 Intermarium virtually, and served as a bridge between supporters of the Likud 🇮🇱 Right-Wing Government of Israel, 🇺🇦supporters of Ukraine, 👑👑 Iranian Monarchists, 🇺🇸 moderate Trumpists, and influencers linked to the 🇪🇺 ECR European Union bloc

🇧🇷⚖️✔️🍃 — The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil has reached a majority to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use; the vote of Minister Dias Toffoli was decisive in the ruling.

💬 Toffoli declared that he is against penal punishment for any drug user, not just marijuana. "No user of any drug can be criminalized. That was the intent of the 2006 law, to decriminalize all drug users."

❌ Ministers Cristiano Zanin, Nunes Marques, André Mendonça, and Luiz Fux defended maintaining drug possession as a crime, as decided by Congress in 2006.

🌹 In all votes for decriminalization, the main argument was the inconsistency with which people caught with drugs are classified as traffickers or users.

According to the ministers, this lack of criteria ends up favoring discrimination against poor and black people from the favelas. Even with small amounts, most of them end up being imprisoned as traffickers, while white and middle- and upper-class people almost always avoid harsh punishments, being classified as users.

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💰 Julien Assange received just over 8 #Bitcoin    worth $500k in a single anonymous #donations to cover his debt.

Bitcoiners love to see Assange free 🙌

https://x.com/Crypto_Inside_/status/1805884526498848938

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❌👤🤝 🇵🇱🇸🇪 — Visegrad24 to be restored on Twitter/X.com

🇰🇵🤝🇷🇺 — 📰 Politico: Putin would use North Korean troops as ‘cannon fodder,’ US claims

➡️ If Pyongyang ever decides to send troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine its forces would be used as cannon fodder, Pentagon press secretary Gen. Pat Ryder said at a briefing on Tuesday.

➡️ “If I were North Korean military personnel management, I would be questioning my choice of sending my forces to be cannon fodder in an illegal war against Ukraine. And we’ve seen the kinds of casualties that Russian forces,” Ryder said.

➡️ Russia’s military strategy during the war has involved using its superior numbers of soldiers to overwhelm Ukraine. While it has suffered heavy losses during its illegal invasion, it has been able to replace frontline troops quickly.

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