🔸 Bolivian President Luis Arce addressed the nation, calling the event happening in La Paz an attempted coup d'état

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📹Footage of Bolivian President Luis Arce having conversation and rebel General Zuñiga

The meeting took place at the palace in the capital before Arce addressed the nation and appointed a new military leadership. Soon after, Zuñiga was arrested.

In the footage, the Bolivian president orders the military to return to the barracks, but they refuse.

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Bolivia’s coup attempt: Three hours that failed to rock the nation

President Luis Arce has thanked Bolivians for support after his country went through an attempted coup, which left at least nine people suffered gunshot wounds.

How did the events unfold?

🔹 On June 26, troops led by General Juan Jose Zuniga, former commander-in-chief of the Bolivian army, stormed the Casa Grande presidential palace and took up positions in the square outside, amid reports that a tank had rammed the palace doors.

🔹 The general was fired on June 25 for his political attacks on former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who plans to seek another term in 2025.

🔹 Zuniga did not explicitly say he was leading a coup, but at the palace he argued that the army was trying to "restore democracy and free our [Bolivian] political prisoners."

🔹 Shortly thereafter, state television showed President Arce confronting Zuniga in the palace hallway, saying, "I am your captain and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination.

🔹 Arce thanked Bolivia's police and regional allies for standing by him and then named a new army commander, Jose Wilson Sanchez, who immediately ordered the troops to stand down.

🔹 Shortly thereafter, the armored vehicles left the plaza, followed by scores of soldiers, as Zuniga was taken into custody along with former Navy Vice Admiral Juan Arnez Salvador. In all, the coup attempt lasted about three hours.

🔹 Hours later, Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo told reporters that "everything is now under control" and that Bolivia had experienced a "failed coup.

🔹 The Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal investigation, and Morales has condemned the coup attempt and demanded that Zuniga and his "accomplices" be prosecuted.

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❗️Russia strongly condemns the coup attempt in Bolivia and expresses its full support to President Luis Arce, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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Russian ambassador recommends Russians to refrain from traveling to Lebanon

Earlier, the authorities of several Western countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, advised their citizens to leave Lebanon because of the danger of escalation on the border with Israel.

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Joe unable to perform regular duties — US journalist Sean Hannity

"At least 16 aides are helping Biden prepare with mocked debates and strategy sessions. Also, according to reports, Biden's intensive week-long debate prep at Camp David also includes exercises where Biden practices standing up for a whole 90 minutes straight," Hannity said on air on Fox News.

According to Hannity, most Americans believe that Biden could be taking some drugs in order to "help his ailing memory and his poor stamina."

"A vast majority of our viewers believe that it's going to be a jacked-up, hyper-caffeinated Joe that's going to show up at Thursday's debate, like the State of the Union," the journalist added.

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General Zuniga, who led the coup attempt in Bolivia, faces up to 20 years in prison, republic’s Minister of Justice announced.

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❗️The terrorist attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Russian city of Sevastopol will not remain unanswered by Russia, the West should feel the risks associated with such things, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

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🎥🎥 Putin meets with President of Congo

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Australian PM tries to sanctimoniously take advantage of Assange's liberation - Aussie Cossack

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At the same time, it was Australia, the UK, and the US that held Assange captive and suddenly released him when it was "convenient," he stressed.

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❗️ The Russian military struck Ukrainian airfields where Western jets plan to be stationed, the strike's goal has been achieved — the Russian Defense Ministry

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❗️Court in Donetsk in absentia sentenced American mercenary Mark Ellerbook to 14 years in penal colony. He fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian criminal court announced.

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