🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 — South Korea official says Russia provided anti-air missile to North Korea, reports Reuters quoting Yonhap News Agency

➡️ South Korea's national security adviser Shin Won-sik said Russia has provided North Korea with anti-air missiles and air defence equipment in return for sending troops to support Moscow in its war against Ukraine.

➡️ In an interview with South Korean broadcaster SBS aired on Friday, Shin said Russia had given North Korea economic and military technology support, when asked what Pyongyang stood to gain from dispatching its troops to Russia.

"It is understood that North Korea has been provided with related equipment and anti-aircraft missiles to strengthen Pyongyang's weak air defence system," Shin said.

➡️ Pyongyang also appears to have been given military technology by Russia to support its satellite program following its failed attempt to launch a spy satellite earlier this year, he said.

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🇺🇳⚖️❌🇮🇱 — On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC, The Hague) issued arrest warrants for the Prime-Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Prime-Minister Yoav Gallant for War Crimes, the Netherlands-based Court stated on its website

➡️ It is the first time that leaders of a Western-aligned & Liberal-Democratic State have been charged by the court, in the most momentous decision of its 22-year history

➡️ The arrest warrant is in the same style as that issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin, for alleged war crimes and human rights violations.

🔒 Netanyahu and Gallant are at risk of arrest if they travel to any of the 124 countries that signed the Rome statute establishing the court, which neither Israel nor its main Western ally, the United States of America, nor its main enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran, are part of of.

➡️ The US criticised the move, with US President Joe Biden describing the warrants in a statement on Thursday night as “outrageous”.

“Let me be clear once again: whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

✡️ Netanyahu’s office denounced the chamber’s decision as “antisemitic”.

“Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the international criminal court, a biased and discriminatory political body,” the office said in a statement, adding that “no war is more just than the war Israel has been waging in Gaza”.

➡️ The statement pointed to an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct against the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan who sought the charges against the three men in May. Khan, 54, has denied the allegations and said he will cooperate with the investigation.

📝 Much to the delight of the left-wing, humanist-leaning, Islamic and Arab netizen communities who sympathize with the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza and Lebanon, it is indeed laughable, similarly to when they acted against the Russian strongman, the idea that the leader of the Jewish State - a nuclear nation - would actually be apprehended and arrested by the Hague court by any of the parties to the Rome Statute.

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🇹🇷❌🇮🇱🇷🇸 — Press Counselor of the Turkish Presidency Finance Office, Murat Oktay, says that Netanyahu's future will be like the one of Bosnian Serb War Hero Ratko Mladić

➡️ Ratko Mladić is a Bosnian Serb General that fought in Serbian Krajina & Republika Srpska during the collapse of Yugoslavia against the Muslim Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which then received aid from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, during the Bosnian War, having fought against them even during the fateful Siege of Sarajevo and having participated in the Srebrenica events.

➡️ It's long known that Bosnian Serb & Serbia itself leaderships are tied with both the State of Israel and Russian Federation, with Bosnian Serb president Dodik being a huge friend of Netanyahu and Serbian arms companies supplying the IDF with weaponry

➡️ Ratko Mladić was arrested and jailed under orders of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims, serving now a Life Imprisonment sentence

➡️ Israel since 1995 does not recognizes the Srebrenica events as a genocide and multiple times downplayed mass casualty events against Muslims that took place during the Balkan Wars

🇺🇳⚖️❌🇵🇸 — On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC, The Hague) issued arrest warrants for Hamas Commander Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Mohammed Deif) for war crimes, the court said on its website

➡️ The ICC issued arrest warrants for War Crimes against Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif. The tribunal ruled that Deif's warrant was "classified as ‘secret’ to protect witnesses and safeguard the conduct of investigations."

➡️ Deif was one of the reported masterminds of the 7 October attack last year.

➡️ Israel said in early August it had killed Deif in an air strike in southern Gaza in July, but Hamas has not confirmed his death.

➡️ The court said it had issued the arrest warrant as the prosecutor had not been able to determine whether or not Deif was dead.

➡️ The court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan urged the body's members to act on the warrants, and for non-members to work together for "upholding international law".

"I appeal to all States Parties to live up to their commitment... by respecting and complying with these judicial orders," Khan said in a statement.

➡️ Previously, the Palestinian Authority and militant group Hamas both welcomed the warrants — though without mentioning the Warrants against Deif.

➡️ The tribunal's chief prosecutor had also sought warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, but they were both killed in action by Israel Defense Forces

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🇺🇳⚖️❌🇮🇱 — On November 21, 2024, following the decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Former Defense Minister Yollav Gallant, via his official account on Twitter/X, Netanyahu condemned the action

🇮🇱📝 In a post, Benjamin Netanyahu said:

The antisemitic decision of the international court in The Hague is a modern Dreyfus trial, and it will end the same way.

🔗 Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu)

🇨🇦❌🇮🇱 — In video statement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that due to Canada being a signatory of the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, Canada will arrest Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he stepped in Canadian territory

➡️ The same precedent was also used against Russian President Vladimir Putin if he were to step in any Western/West-aligned country as well, in compliance with the International Law

🇮🇹🇳🇱❌🇮🇱 — Italy and Netherlands vow to follow court orders and arrest Netanyahu, reports The Telegraph

➡️ European nations have promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for the two Israeli politicians.

➡️ The ICC accused Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant of crimes against humanity and war crimes for their role in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

➡️ The ICC’s decision to issue the arrest warrants means the two Israeli politicians risk being arrested in any of the 124 countries that are party to the court.

➡️ The ICC has no power to enforce its warrants but technically, any country that has signed the court’s Rome Statue would be obliged to arrest Mr Netanyahu or Mr Gallant.

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🇭🇺🤝🇮🇱 — In open defiance of the so-called Rules-based International Order and ICC rulings, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban invites Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary

➡️ Viktor Orbán invites Netanyahu to Budapest, making Hungary the first ICC country to publicly declare that it will ignore the court’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu in a blow to liberal Pan-European politicians that wanted an unified stance regarding such rulings for Europe

➡️ Orbán accused the ICC of “interfering in an ongoing conflict for political purposes”

➡️ Orban, whose country holds the European Union's rotating six-month presidency, told the Hungarian state radio that the ICC's arrest warrant was "wrong" and said the Israeli leader would be able to conduct negotiations in Hungary "in adequate safety".

"Today I will invite Israel's prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu, for a visit to Hungary and in that invite I will guarantee him that if he comes, the ICC ruling will have no effect in Hungary, and we will not follow its contents," Orban said.

➡️ Since Orban and his nationalist Fidesz party swept to power in 2010, he and Netanyahu have forged close political relations. Netanyahu visited Budapest in 2017.

➡️ Such action, so to speak, could serve as a explicit precent for major future defiances of ICC orders, including related to the ones that involve Vladimir Putin and other ICC-sanctioned individuals visiting countries belonging to the Western sphere of influence

⚖❌🇮🇱🇮🇱🔫 — 🌟 Sky News | Arrest warrants issued for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence secretary Gallant over alleged war crimes | An arrest warrant was also issued for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, whom Israel claims to have killed earlier this year | November 21, 2024:

"Arrest warrants have been issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The warrants are for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the war in Gaza that Israel launched following the 7 October attacks by Hamas.

Another warrant was issued for the arrest of Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al Masri for war crimes and crimes against humanity."

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🇨🇳🚫🇺🇸 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Xi's "Four Red Lines" For China Set To Clash With Trump's 'America First' Trade Measures | November 19, 2024:

"President-elect Trump is set to steamroll Chinese leader Xi Jinping's 'red lines' communicated to President Biden this weekend, likely to be on display from day one after he enters the Oval Office for the second time on Jan. 20. This is especially given his campaign promises impose a blanket 60% tariff on Chinese goods, touted as key to a package of "America First" trade measures.

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Again, these are the four red lines, which the Chinese leader urged Washington to avoid crossing, no matter the administration:

1) Supporting Taiwan independence.

2) Interfering in China’s democracy and human rights

3) Stifling China’s development path, e.g. by sanctions and trade restrictions.

4) Restricting China’s rights to advancement and development."

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🇨🇳📊🌏 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | China's Economy Is Larger Than 30 Asian Economies Combined | November 19, 2024:

"The world’s second-largest economy sometimes suffers from its own success: it’s hard to comprehend how big it really is.

To help put things in perspective, this map, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, compares China’s economy with East, Southeast, South, and Central Asia: a combined entity of 30 other countries labeled as “Rest of Asia”

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🇳🇮— The Nicaraguan Parliament, controlled by the Sandinista Front, has approved a constitutional reform that expands the absolute power of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

💥 Key changes include:

➡️ Extending the presidential term to six years.

➡️ Establishing the positions of "co-president" and "co-presidentess" with powers assigned without popular vote.

➡️ Total control of the media and restrictions on its independence.

➡️ Elimination of the separation of powers, placing the Executive at the head of all state institutions.

⚠️ The opposition and international organizations have condemned this reform as a blatant attempt to perpetuate Ortega and Murillo in power, erasing any remnants of democracy in the country.

🇩🇪📞🇮🇱🇺🇳 — 📰 Reuters: Berlin to study ICC warrants, no more steps until Israeli visit planned

➡️ The German government will carefully examine the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, but will not take further steps until a visit to Germany is planned, a spokesperson said.

"I find it hard to imagine that we would make arrests on this basis," said German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit on Friday, pointing out that legal questions had to be clarified regarding the warrant.

➡️ He did not specify what those questions entailed and did not answer when asked whether Netanyahu would be welcome in Germany.

➡️ The German government's position on weapons deliveries to Israel has not changed following the arrest warrants and are still subject to a case-by-case assessment, he added.

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