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👨🏻‍🚒 Firefighters had to evacuate in a hurry when a wildfire started raging out of control in a national park in Paraguay.

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📹 A demonstration is taking place in Australia’s Sydney against the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill proposed by the Labor Party led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

If approved, the bill would allow the government to fine digital platforms up to 5% of their annual turnover for not censoring so-called “misinformation”.

However, critics warn that the bill would enable the government to crack down on free speech with little accountability.

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📹 Tasked with solving the migration issue, Harris visits the border for...the first time in 3 years

Incumbent US President Joe Biden at the beginning of his term tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with solving the complex situation with illegal migration. The problem during the Democratic administration has grown to record proportions, for which Trump doesn’t miss an opportunity to criticize his rival in the presidential race.

Another reason for the negative assessments is that during her tenure, this is only her second visit to the border, even though she has been responsible for dealing with the problem of illegal immigrants. The first visit took place more than three years ago, in June 2021.

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Israel-Lebanon escalation: here’s what happened overnight

▪️ Israel’s military launched a wave of attacks on southern Beirut during the night after warning residents living “near Hezbollah interests” to evacuate. Hundreds are reported to have fled the Lebanese capital’s Dahiyeh district – a densely populated civilian area.

▪️ Israeli fighter jets carried out air raids in the neighborhoods of al-Kafaat, Hadath, Laylaki, Choueifat, and Ghobeiry in Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to the news outlet Al Mayadeen.

▪️ The Israeli military has said the precision strikes targeted Hezbollah’s "central headquarters" and alleged weapons depots in underground complexes in the suburbs of the Lebanese capital. A series of seven explosions was heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

▪️ Muhammad Ali Ismail, commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, along with his deputy, Hussein Ahmad Ismail, were killed in the air strikes, the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson stated in a post on X.

▪️ Hezbollah has denied Israeli claims that weapons were stored in the bombed buildings.

▪️ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the head of the movement’s executive council, Hashem Safieddin, were not injured in the Israeli air strikes on Beirut, Tasnim News Agency reported.

▪️ As around 65 rockets were launched at Israel from Lebanon, a 68-year-old woman sustained injuries from shrapnel in the city of Safed, the IDF and local medics reported. According to the Israeli military, sirens sounded in the northern Israel’s Upper Galilee area after 10 rockets launched from southern Lebanon were detected.

▪️ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denounced Israel's air strikes as a "flagrant war crime" in a statement published by the country’s official IRNA news agency.

▪️ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged during a UN Security Council meeting that Israel had used US "bunker buster" bombs in its attacks on Beirut.

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Obligations to investigate the egregious terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines under international treaties are not being fulfilled despite Russia's repeated appeals, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

Key statements on the issue by Zakharova:

▪️ Switzerland, where Nord Stream’s operating company is registered, has not even tried to investigate the attack, she stressed.

▪️ Germany, where the pipelines’ end point is located, has not reported a single positive result of the investigation into the terrorist attack.

▪️ Russia has formally filed pre-trial claims against Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland under a number of terrorism conventions in connection with the investigation into the Nord Stream terrorist attacks, and other countries that may have been involved in the attack are next in line, the spokeswoman noted.

▪️ Russia firmly intends to look to identify and bring to justice all perpetrators of the terrorist attacks on the pipelines, and the West's attempts to “sweep the case under the rug” will not be accepted, Zakharova said.

On Wednesday, German media stated that the operation to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines cost about $300,000 and was funded by private sources. According to reports, several people, mostly civilians, took part in the operation, organized by a former Ukrainian security service agent, Roman Chervynsky.

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IDF claims to have eliminated Hamas commander in southern Syria

"Overnight, following IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Ahmad Muhammad Fahd, Head of the Hamas network in southern Syria," the Israel Defense Forces stated on social media.


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⚡️ Wave of airstrikes on Beirut: check out the latest on the Israel-Lebanon escalation

⚡️ VIDEO: Protest in Sydney against the Misinformation Bill, which critics warn would enable the government to crack down on free speech

⚡️ Kamala Harris visits the border with Mexico – for the first time in 3 years

⚡️ The Clintons and BlackRock: a long history of mutually-beneficial cooperation.

⚡️ Russia files pre-trial claims against Germany in connection with the Nord Stream blast probe

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Netherlands transferring its 70s-vintage F-16s to Ukraine to ‘fight the Russians’: defense minister

Six Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16s made one final flyover over the country on Friday in a farewell flight before their formal retirement, with 24 of the jets ultimately expected to make their way to Ukraine to take part in the NATO proxy war against Russia. Eighteen others will be transferred to a training center in Romania.

“Today, the Ministry of Defense officially said goodbye to the legendary aircraft. After 45 years of faithful service and numerous missions, the aircraft will receive a new life in Ukraine and Romania,” Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said, adding that the former will help Kiev “fight the Russians.”


Flying out of Volkel Air Base in the country’s south, the six jets proceeded at altitudes as low as 400 meters past the Leeuwarden, Woensdrecht, Gilze-Rijen and Eindhoven bases. One of the jets sported special 45h anniversary ‘Farewell Falcon’ markings on its tail.

Over the past three decades, the Netherlands actively used its F-16s in support of US wars of aggression across the globe, from Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, to Libya, Mali and Syria.

Offloading its F-16s, the Dutch Air Force is left with Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters, bought from the US in 2013. Deliveries of the plane began in 2019.

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❗️The IDF has announced that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was targeted at the group’s main headquarters located in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold referred to as Dahiyeh, the Israel Defense Forces claimed.

The IDF says the headquarters is situated underground, beneath residential buildings in Dahiyeh.

In addition to Nasrallah, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, Ali Karaki, and other commanders were killed, the IDF stated.

Hezbollah has still not confirmed whether its leader was eliminated.

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📹 ‘It’s all about control’: Australian politician explains why he opposes the proposed Law on Misinformation

A demonstration is taking place in Sydney, Australia against the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill proposed by the Labor Party led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

If approved, it would allow the Australian government to fine digital platforms up to 5% of their annual turnover for not censoring so-called “misinformation.”

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A Russian Iskander-M missile strike destroyed ammunition depots for Ukrainian missile systems on the territory of the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepropetrovsk – Russia’s Defense Ministry

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❗️The IDF has announced that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was targeted at the group’s main headquarters located in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold referred…
Contact with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has been "lost" since Friday evening, according to an unnamed source close to the movement, as reported by Israeli media.

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Ex-British PM comes clean about ‘nutty’ secret plan to invade Holland during COVID-19 pandemic

Boris Johnson has confessed he nurtured a secret plan to send the British Army on a raid into Holland at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

The former British prime minister spilled the beans in his new tell-all book Unleashed, excerpts of which are being released by UK media.
With global supplies dwindling, the EU had stowed five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a warehouse in Leiden in March 2021.

After “futile” talks with EU chiefs to secure the release of the doses, Johnson mulled sending British special forces “to launch an aquatic raid” into the Netherlands to “take that which was legally ours.”
The clandestine operation would have involved using inflatable boats to navigate Dutch canals.

The plan was “certainly feasible,” his then-deputy chief of the defense staff, Lt Gen Doug Chalmers, told Johnson. But Chalmers pointed out that if detected, the UK would have some explaining to do as to “why we are effectively invading a longstanding NATO ally.”

“Of course, I knew he was right, and I secretly agreed with what they all thought, but did not want to say aloud: that the whole thing was nuts,” Johnson concluded.


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❗️The Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike using long-range precision weapons, including a hypersonic aeroballistic Kinzhal missile and attack drones, targeting the airfield infrastructure of Ukrainian militants, the Ministry of Defense stated.

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Ukraine lost up to 400 militants in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

◻️ Units of the Russian Yug Battlegroup secured more advantageous positions, and Ukraine lost up to 725 militants.

◻️ Ukrainian losses in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone amounted to over 620 militants.

◻️ Russian air defense forces hit four HIMARS rockets and 43 Ukrainian drones.

◻️ The Russian Vostok Battlegroup improved its forward positions, and Ukraine lost up to 125 militants.

◻️ Ukraine lost over 60 militants in the Russian Sever Battlegroup's combat zone.

◻️ Ukraine's losses amounted to up to 60 militants in the Russian Dnepr Battlegroup's combat zone.

◻️ Russian forces struck concentrations of Ukrainian manpower and equipment in 131 areas within the special operation zone.

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