🇮🇶Al-Asad airbase that houses US and other international forces in western Iraq came under rocket fire - reports citing military sources

Biden's $106 bln war chest will pass because ‘no one's going to vote against aid to Israel'

The White House has asked Congress for $106 billion in funding to allow Washington to continue supporting its allies in three separate global flashpoints: Ukraine, Israel and Asia. Sputnik reached out to retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and international geopolitics and military affairs consultant Earl Rasmussen for his take on the situation.

Congress will almost certainly pass President Biden’s massive $106 billion supplemental funding request bundling new assistance for Tel Aviv together with other security spending, because “no one is going to vote against aid to Israel,” Rasmussen told Sputnik.

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🇹🇷Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and discussed the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and the possibility of providing medical assistance to the injured, the Turkish presidential administration said.

"President Erdogan stated that Turkiye is working to ensure that humanitarian aid reach Gaza, the injured be treated in Turkiye when necessary and for a ceasefire to be achieved in the region as soon as possible," the office said on X.

The Turkish president reiterated that a "lasting solution in Israel-Palestine issue cannot be achieved without establishing an independent State of Palestine within the 1967 borders with East Al-Quds as its capital," the statement read, adding that Ankara would continue its efforts to establish a lasting peace.

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Seems like cancel culture doesn't work🤷‍♂️

The Morgan State University Choir was treated to thunderous applause after it performed the first part of Sergei Rachmaninov's "All-Night Vigil" in Russian at Carnegie Hall in New York.

The concert was held to mark the 150th anniversary of the Russian composer's birth.

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🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirms to Sputnik that Lavrov's talks are scheduled for Monday in Tehran.

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🇮🇱 The IDF said that the number of prisoners held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has increased to 212.

▪️The Israel Defense Forces announced the arrest of 450 Hamas members in the West Bank since the escalation began.

▪️The IDF has published 307 names of killed soldiers since the start of the escalation.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Aftermath of the Israeli strike on the surrounding area of the UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, where hundreds of displaced families live at the moment.

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