No military or other aircraft were reported on the radar

⚡US to announce on Wednesday new long-term deployment of extra troops in Europe - White House

❗NATO summit to set strategic direction of alliance for years to come, Sullivan says

💭Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "The Ukrainian side can stop everything before the end of today - we need to hear that the nationalist units are laying down their arms, and that the Ukrainian military are laying down their arms, and Russia's conditions must be met. Everything can end before the day ends."

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🛬Biden has disembarked from Air Force One in Madrid to take part in the NATO summit. Once Biden had descended the stairs outside the plane, the US President was met by King Felipe VI of Spain

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💊Instagram and Facebook have begun removing posts offering abortion pills

After the US Supreme Court decided to strip away constitutional protections for abortion, offers to obtain mifepristone and misoprostol legally on social media started to be removed. The media intelligence firm Zignal Labs counted more than 250,000 such mentions on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV broadcasts by Sunday.

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⚡The US has implemented its ban on imports of new Russian gold

🇨🇳“We don’t regard China as an adversary,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on the sidelines of the alliance summit in Madrid, adding that China would soon be the biggest economy in the world and that NATO needed to engage with Beijing on issues such as climate change.

“But we are disappointed by the fact that China has not been able to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that China is spreading many of the false narratives about NATO, the West, and also that China and Russia are closer now than they have ever been before,” he added.

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⚡Forces of Russia’s National Guard have discovered a large cache of foreign weapons, ammunition and food belonging to Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the woods of the Kharkov region. It was reportedly amassed by a sabotage group of the Ukrainian special operations forces and was meant for a surprise attack on a convoy of Russian troops.

📹The video reveals which foreign weapons were in the cache

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❌Women across the US are reacting to the overturning of the Roe v Wade precedent with a sex strike

Somewhat reminiscent of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, the hashtag #SexStrike is spreading like bushfire on Twitter as pro-abortion activists express their outrage over the US Supreme Court's decision about the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling.

The purpose of the strike is to reject all recreational sex with men - ie, only having sex if a woman is trying to get pregnant.

❗US State Dept. sanctions Russia's FSB - statement

⚡The US authorities have stopped an oil tanker carrying fuel products from Russia to the US state of Louisiana, the Wall Street Journal reported. It is at present being inspected by US Customs and Border Protection personnel, according to the report

🎥Lyudmila, a resident of Mariupol, was attacked by a knife-wielding foreign mercenary who escaped from the Azovstal plant.

But later the mercenary was caught by the Donbass People's Militia.

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🇦🇫Officials in the Biden administration are in talks with the Taliban about allowing the group access to Afghanistan's central bank reserves to prevent widespread hunger in Afghanistan, The Washington Post reports.

❗Biden: US to increase number of Navy destroyers in Spain

⚡⚡Turkey will support Finland's, Sweden's bid to join NATO during Madrid summit, Helsinki says

🎥Sweden, Finland will cooperate with Turkey on countering terrorism, agreement is reached - Erdogan's office

❗Sweden and Finland have pledged not to support the PKK, YPG and FETÖ, Erdogan's office said

🔎Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royalty, presidents, and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

The stiff sentence was the punctuation mark on a trial that explored the sordid rituals of a predator power couple who courted the rich and famous as they lured vulnerable girls as young as 14, and then exploited them.

Prosecutors said Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion, and onetime girlfriend. In December, a jury convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, and two conspiracy charges.

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