— 🇪🇬/🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Egypt has released a statement strongly opposing the US-Israeli plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza

Egypt went as far as saying that this would be considered a threat to national security, & that it could put the Camp David Accords (Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty) at risk.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: A reservist in the IDF has been given a 7 month jail sentence for abusing Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman detention facility

As part of a plea deal, Staff Sgt. (res.) Yisrael Zakaria Hajbi, admitted guilt to the charges against him and will be demoted to the rank of private.

It was the arrest of Hajbi and 9 other detention center guards back in July of 2024 that led to protesters, as well as politicians to storm the Sde Teiman detention facility to prevent the arrests by the Israeli Military Police.

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I hope Trump and Netanyahu actually try displacing Palestinians from Gaza, for two reasons:

1. It won't work. Palestinians will remain there and will never leave.

2. It might, for the first time since the 1970s, cause the formation of an Arab coalition against Israel.

For some of these countries, especially Egypt and Jordan, it could even be a casus belli.

— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Footage of various IRIAF fighter jets, including the MiG-29, MiG-23, Su-24, F-4 'Phantom,' F-5F, F-5E, and its domestic clone the HESA 'Saeqeh,' among others. Tomorrow marks Air Force Day in Iran.

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce a bill banning DeepSeek's AI chatbot on government devices due to security concerns that it may share user information with the Chinese government.

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— 🇩🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has been barred from partaking in the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) meeting next week.

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— 🇦🇫/🇺🇿/🇺🇸 NEW: Uzbekistan has begun transferring American military aircraft back to the United States, that were flown to the country by pilots under the previous Afghan government in 2021 as they fled the country during the Taliban takeover.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 The Lebanese state is completely failing in its obligation to force the Israelis to abide by the ceasefire agreement.

The ceasefire has been violated for weeks, in almost every sense of the word, and in any other situation, Hezbollah would have responded by now. But the reality is, they are exhausted after more than a year of war, and in the new political environment in Lebanon their position is even more fragile.

Hezbollah needs to preserve the majority of its capabilities in case of a larger regional war, it needs to focus on rebuilding, it cannot afford to restart the war at this moment, especially with their supply lines uncertain and a threat from Syria simultaneously.

Besides, the entire reason for entering the war against Israel was to be a support front for Gaza, which doesn't apply anymore. But it looks like the Israelis are perhaps looking to continue the war, both in Gaza and in Lebanon, emboldened by Trump.

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'Some have told us, leave this battle (for Palestine) and we will give you safety.

You want to give us safety while the oppressed and persecuted have no safety?

Curses be upon you, and upon your safety!'

– Shaheed Hassan Nasrallah

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The United States has seized a Dassault Falcon 200 jet belonging to Venezuela, marking the second such plane taken from the country in recent months.

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— ❗️🇺🇸 NEW: A Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan plane with 10 people on board has gone missing while en route from Unalakleet to Nome, Alaska.

*Photo for illustrative purposes.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: President Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for its arrest warrants against Israeli war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

The order imposes financial and visa restrictions on individuals who assist ICC investigations of American citizens or allies.

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— 🇵🇱 NEW: The head of the Constitutional Court of Poland has accused the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, of treason and has opened a formal investigation

The court has accused Tusk, various government officials, parliament speakers, judges and prosecutors of forming an 'organized criminal group' to take control of the nations media, judiciary and the National Prosecutors Office.

Those leading the investigation are affiliated with the former ruling party, Law and Justice, which lost power after the 2023 elections.

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: Republican members of Congress have filed a resolution to encourage President Donald Trump to abandon the 'One China Policy' and recognize the island of Taiwan, as autonomous

Diplomatic relations between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China were established in 1979 on the condition that the U.S. recognizes there is only one China, and that Taiwan is a province, a policy which Beijing has with any country that wishes to have diplomatic and economic ties.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇳 NEW: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has resigned after the Wall Street Journal uncovered 'tweets promoting racism and eugenics,' including one that wrote 'normalize Indian hate' and suggested Indian H1B workers would be replaced by 'slightly smarter LLMs.'

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