Future of missile defense lies in lasers, beams, not in warheads - Israeli official

"The future will be based on directed energy," Patel told a meeting at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Directed energy is the direction that [we] all need to invest in," Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) Director Moshe Patel said on Tuesday.

Patel explained that such development will be dictated by considerations of volume capabilities of energy as opposed to the much more limited and costly kinetically-delivered defense systems.

"We need to go into new technologies elsewhere," Patel said.

Israel was also preparing development systems to protect its population centers against attack by hypersonic weapon-delivered warheads, Patel also said.

Whatever the threat, Israel’s missile defense systems would be ready, Patel added.

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Brazilian president calls for creation of common currency for South American trade

"[I propose] creating a common credit in trade, thus reducing dependence on extra-regional currencies," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the South American summit in Brasilia.

On Monday, Lula commented on efforts to reduce reliance on the US dollar during his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The Brazilian president said that South America functioning as a single economic block is the only way to effectively deal with problems and take a stronger stance at negotiations.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 US accuses Chinese J-16 jet of “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” in front of RC-135 reconnaissance plane

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Shelling of poultry farm in LPR kills 5, injures 19 people

Five people have been killed and another 19 have been injured in a shelling of a poultry farm in the village of Karpaty in the Lugansk People's Republic, the LPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukraine's war crimes said.

The Ukrainian forces fired 4 rockets from HIMARS multiple rocket launchers toward the village, the JCCC added.

Earlier, the Ukrainian armed forces targeted a temporary accommodation center for residents of the Shebekinsky district in Russia’s Belgorod region.

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🇷🇸 Rallies in support of Kosovar Serbs took place in front of Western embassies in Belgrade

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🇪🇺 Chomsky: Europe may face decline, deindustrialization by staying in 'US-dominated system'

💬 "Europe has a major decision to make: Will it stay within the US-dominated system, facing likely decline and even, some predict, deindustrialization?" renowned US academic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told Sputnik. "Or will it accommodate in some fashion to its natural economic partner to the East, rich in mineral resources that Europe needs and a gateway to the lucrative China market?"

He explained the basic alternatives are a multipolar UN-based system or a unipolar "rules-based" system, where the US sets the rules and as the record reveals, disregards them when it chooses to.

💬 "The former is largely supported by most of the world. The latter is adopted by the Anglosphere, Europe, Japan and a few others," Chomsky added, noting that Russia' special military operation "provided the United States with a most welcome gift, driving Europe into Washington's pocket and thus strengthening its demand for a unipolar ‘rules-based’ order."

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🇷🇺🇬🇧 Dmitry Medvedev laces into UK Foreign Secretary's comments about Ukraine having right to “project force” beyond its borders

"The goofy officials of the UK, our eternal enemy, should remember that within the framework of the universally accepted international law which regulates modern warfare, including the Hague and Geneva Conventions with their additional protocols, their state can also be qualified as being at war.

"Today, the UK acts as Ukraine’s ally providing it with military aid in the form of equipment and specialists, i.e., de facto is leading an undeclared war against Russia. That being the case, any of its public officials (either military, or civil, who facilitate the war) can be considered as a legitimate military target."

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China ‘already’ world leader, signaling erosion of US-run Middle East system, says Chomsky

Noam Chomsky explained that the programs based on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization extend throughout Eurasia and considerably beyond:

💬 “In the past few months, Saudi Arabia joined the SCO, followed by the second regional heavyweight, the United Arab Emirates, which had already become a hub of China's Maritime Silk Road, reaching from Kolkata in Eastern India to the Red Sea and on to Europe."

Chomsky pointed out that China is now entering the Middle East arms market.

💬 “All of this signals a significant erosion of the Middle East system that the United States has pretty much been running for 80 years, taking over from Britain," he added.

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📹 Russia’s TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower systems crush Ukrainian militants in the direction of Avdeevka

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🇺🇸 Probe launched after pack of teens attack US Marines during holiday weekend

The brawl is said to have unfolded after one of the Marines asked the group of teens to stop lighting fireworks after he'd been struck with debris.

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🇷🇺📹 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov meeting with Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi in Maputo this morning.

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❗️Russian forces destroyed last warship of Ukrainian navy in Odessa port on May 29, Defense Ministry says

❗️Forces from the Akhmat Assault Detachment of the 5th Motorized Rifle Brigade are conducting successful offensive operations in the Maryinka direction, the Russian Defense Ministry said

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UAE successfully tests artificial rain technology in 50-degree desert heat using drones

The United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 has recently tested a groundbreaking method to combat the scorching 50°C desert heat, by using drones to make it rain.

🌧 This technology, also known as "cloud seeding," involves using electrically charged drones to strike clouds and provoke precipitation through collision. The successful test was reported by regional media on 30 May , marking a significant advance in weather modification technology.

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