🔥 Crews battle vast inferno as New Jersey wildfire consumes 500 acres

Local authorities said firefighters are struggling to extinguish a wildfire in Manchester Township in the north-eastern United States, which has already covered 500 acres and is 10 percent contained.

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🇹🇷 Depleted uranium shells supplies to Ukraine threaten humanity, Muharrem Ince says

Muharrem Ince, a Turkish presidential candidate from the Homeland Party (Memleket Partisi), has said in an interview with Sputnik that deliveries of munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine are a threat to humanity as a whole.

💬 "Signals, which are being sent through deliveries of munitions containing depleted uranium, pose a threat not only to Russia and Turkiye but to all of humanity. The entire humanity should oppose it," Ince said. "I think Britons should act more carefully on the matter," he added.

Presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Turkiye on May 14. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, put forward by a six-party opposition alliance, is considered incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main opponent. The list of presidential candidates also includes Ince and Sinan Ogan of the ATA Alliance.

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'Pentagon Leak' Outlines DIA-Assessed 'Wild Card’ Scenarios in Ukraine Conflict

The document is marked “RELIDO.” This kind of dissemination marking indicates that the originator has authorized Designated Intelligence Disclosure Officials to make further sharing decisions, such as with foreign partners, for example. The paper is dated February 24 and is labeled “ONE YEAR.” This may indicate that the DIA assessment was carried out a year after the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

The ‘leaked’ classified document outlines the potential effect each one of the ‘wild card’ scenarios could have, such as resulting in an escalation in Ukraine, prompting a negotiated end to the conflict, or having no substantive impact on the developments around the conflagration.

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🇬🇧 'Chinese spies' slipping into UK using citizenship of third countries

MI5, the Security Service of the United Kingdom, has reportedly warned cabinet ministers that "Chinese spies" are slipping into the country by obtaining citizenship in third countries and using their visa-free access to the UK.

According to a report by UK media, the issue has prompted the UK Home Office to prepare new visa restrictions against several countries through which "Chinese spies" are entering the territory of the UK.

However, the UK Foreign Office has allegedly blocked the measure, resulting in some government ministers nicknaming UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly as "Mr Softy," the report said.

MI5 has also suggested that agents of Russia's special services could resort to the same measures to enter the territory of the UK.

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🇷🇺🚀 Russia test-fires ICBM from Kapustin Yar range

Russia's Strategic Missile Forces successfully test-fired an ICBM from the Kapustin Yar firing range in the Astrakhan region to test advanced payloads of these missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The ministry said that the missile's training warhead precisely hit a simulated target at the Sary-Shagan missile testing range in Kazakhstan.

Russia has also notified the US about the test-launch, Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov said.

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🌍🚀 Sixty-two years ago today, on 12 April 1961, the first successful manned space flight was conducted by the USSR. The first human being to travel to space was 27-year-old Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

▪️Now Russia is preparing to establish a new orbital station and to study the planets and depths of the Solar System through automatic stations and telescopes.

🌕 In July, Russia is expected to launch Luna 25, the first lunar mission in almost 50 years, which will land in the south polar region of the Moon. The main objectives of the mission are to study composition of the polar regolith, and the plasma and dust components of the lunar polar exosphere.

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📹 Russian forces eliminated a Ukrainian tank column with a Kornet anti-tank missile system with thermobaric ammunition in the Ugledar direction (video courtesy of RVvoenkory)

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What would Indian 🇮🇳 cities look like if they were living people? The idea seems pretty far-out.

This is where AI technology comes in handy to help visualize even the craziest of dreams.

Check out our video if you do not believe it!

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Sweden to Hold Biggest Military Drill Since Cold War

Starting on April 24, Sweden will conduct its largest military exercise in over 30 years, involving around 26,000 personnel from 14 countries, including the US, UK, and various European nations such as Finland, Poland, Norway, and Denmark.

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⚡️ US working on 'universal' genetically engineered bioweapon, Russian parliamentary investigation says

Washington is working on a "universal" genetically engineered bioweapon designed to cause severe damage to enemies equivalent to that of a "nuclear winter," a Russian parliamentary commission investigating US biolabs in Ukraine has concluded.

💬 "The US aims to develop a universal genetically engineered biological weapon capable of infecting not only people, but animals as well as agricultural crops. Its use involves, among other things, the goal of inflicting large-scale and irreparable economic damage on the enemy," the commission wrote in its final report.

According to the commission, a key difference between traditional bioweapons programs and contemporary ones being pursued by the Pentagon is the propensity to use pathogens of little-studied natural infections with a high mortality rate, a long incubation period and symptoms typical of common diseases. This complicates the adversary's ability to discover the use of such weapons, and to quickly identify the attacker, the report said.

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🇫🇷 🇳🇱 Police tackle a protester after he ran shouting toward Emmanuel Macron during his state visit to the Netherlands

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❗️(1) Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian troops, as well as a Polish Krab and US-made Paladin self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the Russian Army destroyed an ammunition depot. Ukrainian losses during the day amounted to 180 servicemen and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroyed more than 245 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armored fighting vehicles, one armored personnel carrier, as well as a D-20 and a Msta-B howitzer, and three Grad MLRS combat vehicles.

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❗️(2) Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 servicemen, one D-20 howitzer and four armored fighting vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored fighting vehicles, and an ammunition depot;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-24 aircraft in Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian air defense systems also intercepted two HIMARS missiles, a US-made GLSDB missile, as well as five Ukrainian UAVs in the LPR, DPR, and Kharkov region.

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🇨🇳🇪🇺 Borrell postpones visit to China after positive COVID-19 test

💬 “I have tested positive for COVID-19 and therefore unfortunately will need to postpone my visit to China. I am feeling well and have no symptoms,” Borrell tweeted.

Earlier, Brussels announced EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell will visit China from April 13-15.

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🔙 Historical Flashback: During his world tour, Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the First Man in Space, visited India 🇮🇳, where he received a warm welcome by then-Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru, met with 🎞Bollywood star Raj Kapoor, enjoyed a yoga show 🧘🏾‍♂️ and traversed over 5,000 km across the country.

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🇺🇸Trump compares Macron's trip to China with "kissing *ss," comments on Biden's odd fist bump greeting with Saudi crown prince

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Is Bringing Dead People Back to Life With AI Chatbots Against Our Moral & Social Values?

💭 In a series of tweets posted on Saturday, Dr Desai 🇮🇳 suggested regularly recording voices of people one loves and uploading them to an AI platform to create a computerized avatar that can live forever after people have died.

🤔 The idea, although it seems a breakthrough at first glance, raises some serious ethical questions. 👉 LEARN WHY