📹 Turkish police use water cannons on protesters in Ankara – reports

Turkish authorities detained 343 people overnight during protests across multiple cities against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry announced, according to Reuters.

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📹 WATCH: Trump attends NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia

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❗️ Hamas political bureau member Salah Al-Bardawil & his wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza – Al-Aqsa reports

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⚔️ Trump CALLS OUT judge Boasberg over CONFLICT OF INTEREST

US President Donald Trump posted a photo of Boasberg—who has repeatedly challenged his policies—alongside Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff.

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❗️ Turkish prosecutors ask court to jail Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on TERRORISM and CORRUPTION charges – reports

Imamoglu has denied the charges, calling them "unimaginable accusations and slanders." The court is expected to rule on his detention early Sunday, according to Reuters.

Wednesday’s detention of Istanbul's mayor has sparked mass protests, despite authorities tightening security and banning rallies and demonstrations in the city through Sunday.

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🚨 TENSIONS ERUPT as lawyers CLASH with police inside Istanbul courthouse

Lawyers for held opposition leaders took "THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE" literally—charging at law enforcement inside the courthouse, local media reported.

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⚔️ Ukrainian forces lost 3,700 TERRORISTS in the last two weeks in Kursk region – Russian Defense Ministry

Russian troops have been liberating border areas from Ukrainian militants and inflicting heavy losses on them, according to reports from the Russian Defense Ministry.

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📹 Iran’s IRGC unveils NEW AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS in the Persian Gulf – reports

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has showcased new air defense missile systems stationed on the Iranian islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa, which can reportedly target naval threats up to 600 km away. The unveiling took place during an inspection by IRGC Navy Commander Ali-Reza Tangsiri, Tasnim state news agency reported.

This comes as Iran prepares to respond to a letter from US President Trump, who urged a resumption of nuclear talks and warned of possible military action if Iran refuses.

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🌋 Lewotobi volcano erupts in Indonesia

Lewotobi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, has erupted with its most powerful explosion in years. The massive blast was heard over 100 km away, and the ash column reached 16 km high.

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📃 Israel presents Hamas with two-stage plan to free hostages from Gaza – report

The plan assumes that in the first stage, Hamas will free 11 hostages and hand over the bodies of 16 of the dead, after which a 40-day truce will follow, Xinhua reported, citing unnamed informed Egyptian sources.

In the second phase, Hamas will have to release all the remaining hostages at the same time. The US supports Israel's proposal, the sources told the agency.

Last week, Israel resumed bombing Gaza, violating the previously agreed ceasefire, claiming that Hamas had been rearming and planning a new attack, and that it was in order to press the Palestinian movement to release the captives held in Gaza.

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🇭🇺❌ Hungary to continue to BLOCK Ukraine's EU accession

Kiev continues to blatantly violate the rights of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto noted in a social media post.

▪️The Ukrainian government, despite continuous promises, has not yet reinstated the minority rights the Hungarian community was stripped of in 2015, he underscored.

▪️A new education law in 2017 forced minority languages to take a back seat, making Ukrainian the sole official language, which Budapest saw as a direct blow to the rights of Transcarpathian Hungarians.

▪️Furthermore, Hungarians in Transcarpathia (western Ukraine) have often held Hungarian passports, but Ukraine does not officially recognize dual citizenship.

Kiev has also resorted to political pressure, raiding Hungarian organizations in Transcarpathia in moves decried by Budapest as persecution.

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🇰🇷👩‍🚒 South Korea has declared a state of emergency amid multiple forest fires

Around 1,500 people have been evacuated due to intense wildfires. Tragically, four people have died and six others have been injured.

The fire in the southeastern province of Sancheon is spreading rapidly due to strong winds, according to Yonhap News Agency.

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❗️Moscow considers the life sentence for Russian citizen Torden in Finland to be BIASED and POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

The sentence reflects the participation of all branches of government in Finland in the hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia, the ministry added.

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