🇮🇹🇳🇱❌🇮🇱 — 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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🇮🇱🇱🇧🗳❗️— Saudi Media Al-Hadath News Agency reports that the U.S-Negotiated ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, includes a Clause which requires the election of a New Lebanese President, which by the Lebanese constitution has to be a Maronite Christian, for the first time since 2022.

➡️ Lebanese Officials expect the Ceasefire to begin within the next 36 Hours

🇮🇱🇱🇧🕊❗️ — 📰 Israeli Broadcasting Authority: Biden and Macron will announce a ceasefire in Lebanon tomorrow morning for about two months.