🇵🇦🇺🇸 Panama president says repatriation of migrants crossing the Darien Gap will be voluntary

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that migrants entering Panama through the treacherous Darien Gap will only be sent back to their countries if they agree to do so.

Mulino, who took office July 1, promised to halt the rising flow of migrants entering his country from Colombia and reached an agreement for the U.S. government to pay for repatriation flights.

🗣“This is a United States problem that we are managing. People don’t want to live here in Panama, they want to go to the United States,” he said in his first weekly press conference. If migrants don’t want to return to their countries, “then they’ll go (to the U.S.). I can’t arrest them, we can’t forcibly repatriate them.”

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📰🗯🇺🇸🤑🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 Politico | NATO’s false promises are encouraging misplaced Ukrainian hopes | The alliance’s irresponsible policy toward Ukraine continues, providing false hope, making peace less likely and the war more dangerous | July 18, 2024:

"At the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, commemorating the alliance’s 75th anniversary, leaders offered Ukraine a fresh round of false hope in its war against Russia — which is worse than doing nothing.

Whether by military commitment or intensified support, the pretension that NATO could currently deliver a Ukrainian victory, or secure one later, encourages the country’s leaders to postpone reckoning with their dire circumstances. Moreover, it threatens to further imperil NATO members without a security payoff.

This charade is nothing new, but now is an especially bad time.

After the failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive in 2023, recognition that its forces cannot regain more of its territory has begun to sink in. Indeed, despite the flow of heavy Western aid, Kyiv may struggle to hold what it has — a circumstance that suggests it should start exploring negotiations with Moscow to end or even freeze the conflict via an armistice now, before the battlefield situation worsens and negotiating room shrinks.

But instead, Washington and European capitals are, unfortunately, doubling down — at least rhetorically — continuing to claim Ukraine will someday join NATO. In fact, after promoting a vague “bridge” to Ukraine’s eventual membership before the summit, during the gathering NATO leaders claimed Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to entry."

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🌐🤝🇺🇸 — Mark Zuckerberg said that Donald Trump’s immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring — without endorsing the Republican Presidential Candidate directly

"Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life."

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🇧🇩🔥📹 — A curfew has been introduced in Bangladesh amid protests, and the army has been deployed to maintain law and order, AFP reports.

According to the latest data, the death toll in the unrest has reached 105.

🇸🇴🇹🇷Turkey to send navy to Somalia after agreeing oil and gas search

Turkey is set to send navy support to Somali waters after the two countries agreed Ankara will sen d an exploration vessel off the coast of Somalia to prospect for oil and gas.

President Tayyip Erdogan submitted a motion to the Turkish parliament late on Friday, seeking authorisation for the deployment of Turkish military to Somalia including the country's territorial waters, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The move came a day after the Turkish energy ministry announced that Turkey will send an exploration vessel off the coast of Somalia later this year to search for oil and gas as part of a hydrocarbon cooperation deal between two countries.

Earlier this year, Turkey and Somalia signed a defence and economic cooperation agreement during Somali defence minister's visit to Ankara.

Turkey has become a close ally of the Somali government in recent years. Ankara has built schools, hospitals and infrastructure and provided scholarships for Somalis to study in Turkey.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧❌🇾🇪❗️ — Joint Western Coalition airstrikes target Houthi/Ansarallah positions in Hodeidah, Northwestern Yemen!

— So instead, it might be Israeli 👀