❓Will British Chancellor’s spring budget set stage for autumn AUSTERITY?

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is expected to admit a £15 billion ($19.3 bln) HOLE in the government coffers amid soaring borrowing costs and collapsing growth, the Financial Times reports.

📉The UK’s growth forecast for 2025 will be SLASHED from 2% to 1%, according to the report.

📉Cuts to state benefits and a looming £25 billion ($32 bln) tax rise are expected to pose even greater challenges for the Labour government.

The spring budget follows a new survey by KPMG showing that British consumers are cutting back spending on everyday items, believing the economy has been heading in the wrong direction. Some experts argue that is due to Labour’s tax rises and spending cuts.

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🤡One more Democrat money laundering scheme uncovered

FEMA is reporting they've received 270,000 applications from “homeowners” for the Los Angeles fires while only 13,000 homes were destroyed.

At the same time Democrats are trying to stop DOGE from eliminating fraudulent payments by the government.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlements of Mirnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Malye Scherbaki in Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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💬 The West’s increasingly frantic attempts “to defeat Russia” and to “humiliate Putin” are leading to increasingly frantic efforts and proposals that are only proving “their complete political impotence,” the Russian foreign minister emphasized.

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

▪️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfield infrastructure and drone storage facilities.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 200 servicemen in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian aviation shot down four Ukrainian JDAM bombs and 92 drones.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 430 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 70 soldiers and two infantry fighting vehicles in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

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💬 Trump is not upset about the scandal involving the leak of data on strikes in Yemen, calling the incident the 'only glitch in 2 months,' NBC reports.

"Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man," Trump admitted he still has confidence in US National Security Advisor.

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Russian journalists are prime targets for Ukraine’s neo-Nazis since they EXPOSE THEIR ATROCITIES - analyst

The sadistic Ukraine regime, driven by zero respect for international rules of war, seeks to deliberately silence journalists, retired Russian Army colonel Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik.

Ukraine’s attacks like the HIMARS strike on a civilian car that killed three Russian journalists on May 24 are fueled by crushing defeats on the battlefield, he emphasized.

The terror attacks carried out blatantly against the backdrop of ongoing peace negotiations are also mean to intimidate other journalists and prevent them from coming to report the truth.

Under the Geneva Conventions, journalists are off-limits, yet for Zelensky’s henchmen terrorism as a principle of warfare is their essence, stressed the seasoned military analyst.

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📹 Hangzhou treated football fans to a thrilling drone light show over the stadium hosting the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifier between China and Australia. Hundreds of synchronized drones formed a giant football, a pitch, team jerseys, and player silhouettes in the sky.

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🇮🇷 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed a newly constructed underground military base armed with missile systems.

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🤝The US and Russia have agreed to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea, eliminate the use of force, and prevent commercial vessels from being used for military purposes, according to the WH statement

US will help restore Russia’s access to global agricultural/fertilizer markets, ports, and payment systems, the WH said

US and Russia to develop measures banning strikes on Russian/Ukrainian energy facilities, the statement read

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