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❗️French National Rally faction leader Marine Le Pen on Monday called the court ruling against her a POLITICAL DECISION to prevent her from running in the 2027 presidential election in France.

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🔍 What rare earths does Russia have and where are these riches located?

Russian officials have already kicked off discussions with the US on cooperation in rare earths projects, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has revealed.

🔸 Endowed with 658 mln tons of rare metals, including up to 28.7 mln tons of rare earths crucial to modern high-tech, renewables and defense, Russia’s mineral riches account for 20% or more of the world’s rare earths stockpile, and thought to be second in size only to China (44 mln tons).

🔸 Russia’s rare earths are largely untapped and underdeveloped, and scattered at major deposits across the country, from the Arctic and Siberia to new regions like the Donbass.

Here’s a selection:

🔹 Yttrium: found in the Kola Peninsula, Transbaikalia, and the Ilmensky Mountains in the Southern Urals, this rare earth is used in phosphors, superconductors and as an additive for strengthening alloys.

🔹 Lanthanum: found mainly in the Kola Peninsula and the Ilmensky Mountains, this material is used in hybrid car batteries, camera lenses, radiation-absorbing glasses.

🔹 Neodymium: found in the Kola Peninsula and Yakutia at the Tomtor Deposit, this rare earth is used to make powerful permanent magnets for electric motors and wind turbines, electroacoustic equipment and lasers.

🔹 Dysprosium: located in the Kola Peninsula, Yakutia and Transbaikal, this rare earth is also used for EV magnets, plus applications like control rods for nuclear reactors.

🔹 Cerium: Found in the same regions and the Southern Urals, this rare earth is used for specialized magnets for defense and aerospace use, and as a dopant for phosphors in electronic screens and lamps.

🔹 Lithium: While not strictly a rare earth, it is a critical mineral that’s essential for the West’s much-touted green transition. Russia’s lithium stocks are situated in Transbaikal and the Urals, Donetsk and Zaporozhye. Donetsk in particular is known to possess one of Europe’s largest hard-rock lithium reserves at its recently liberated Shevchenko deposit.

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⚔️Houthis say they targeted USS Harry Truman THREE times in 24 hours This and other ships in the Red Sea were attacked using missile and naval forces, as well as cruise missiles and drones, Yemen's Ansar Allah movement said. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
⚔️‘The REAL PAIN IS YET TO COME, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran’ – Trump

💬 “The Iran-backed Houthi Terrorists have been decimated by the relentless strikes over the past two weeks,” US President Donald Trump boasted.


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🙄EU to expand police powers for 'hybrid attacks' – more surveillance, anyone?

The European Commission is planning to give police forces in the bloc more power to tackle "threats from foreign powers" and "hybrid attacks," according to a draft of the new EU internal security strategy, set to drop on April 1, the Financial Times reported.

The goal? To beef up the EU's ability to fight terrorism and organized crime, enforce sanctions and get access to your banking data.

The document claims Russia is waging a "hybrid campaign" against the EU and warns that foreign powers are trying to infiltrate infrastructure and steal sensitive data.

The plan also proposes giving police even more access to banking transactions to track criminal activity and terrorist financing, while expanding Brussels' sanctions to cover criminal networks.

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🇷🇺❤️🇷🇸 'Russia has our support' — Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik arrives in Moscow, pays tribute at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

💬 “Every time I come here, I begin by visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to honor the 28 million Russians who died in World War II,” Dodik said in a video address from Moscow posted on X.


💬 “He’s been recognized as a historic leader of the Russian people — a man who not only has championed their freedom, but was the first to take on the globalist elite that tried to tear Russia apart — and failed,” Dodik said about Russian President Vladimir Putin.


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❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi reveals China’s attitude to Russia-US attempts to normalize relations

💬 Steps toward a return to normalcy in Russia-US ties are “good for stabilizing the balance of power between the major powers, and instills optimism in a distressing international environment,” China’s top diplomat told Sputnik.


💬 “The modern world is facing a growing deficit of certainty,” Wang Yi said. “In these conditions, major countries must, by fulfilling their obligations, act as a stabilizing factor in an unpredictable world.”


💬 “Russia and the United States, as leading world powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council, bear a significant share of responsibility for peace and tranquility on the planet, especially when it comes to global strategic stability,” China's foreign minister said.


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❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi reveals China’s attitude to Russia-US attempts to normalize relations 💬 Steps toward a return to normalcy in Russia-US ties are “good for stabilizing the balance of power between the major powers, and instills optimism in a distressing international…
❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi to Sputnik: China seeks a Ukraine peace deal that accounts for root causes of the crisis

💬China is ready…to play a constructive role in a settlement together with the international community, especially the countries of the Global South,” China’s Foreign Minister told Sputnik.


💬 “We advocate for the eradication of the causes of the crisis through dialog and negotiations, and ultimately, for achieving a fair, long-term, binding peace agreement acceptable to all parties, which would make it possible to achieve truly lasting peace and stability in Eurasia and throughout the world,” Wang Yi said.


China has been advocating for a political settlement in Ukraine “from the very first day” of the crisis, Wang said, emphasizing that China’s position “corresponds to the aspirations of the majority of countries in the world community.”

Commenting on President Trump’s peace push, Wang took note of the fact that Russia and President Putin have always been open to dialogue, and said that even small steps toward peace are “constructive” and “worth taking.”

💬 “You cannot achieve peace lying down. You need to work and achieve it through hard work,” China’s top diplomat said.


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🗣 ‘I want to see him make a deal’ – Trump on Putin

💬 “I don't want to go secondary tariffs on his oil. But I think, you know, it's something I would do if I thought he wasn't doing the job. I did it with Venezuela,” US President Donald Trump said, commenting on possible additional sanctions against Russia.


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📹 Ukraine's NATO OBSESSION led to the crisis – Trump

💬 "Long before Putin, they said, ‘You're not going into NATO.’ And that's probably the reason the war started," Trump TORCHED Zelensky’s delusions.


Ukraine’s NATO membership was NEVER on the table in the rare earth deal, Trump added.

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⚔️ Houthis shot down another US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over northeast Yemen

💬 "Our air defenses successfully shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Ma'rib Governorate, using a suitable, locally made missile," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Telegram.


According to official sources, the average unit cost of a Reaper drone is approximately $56.5 million.

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❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi: Russia & China SMASHED FASCISM together 80 years ago, now face a new challenge

💬 "Serving as the main theaters of war in Asia and Europe in the brutal war between good and evil" during the Second World War, "China and Russia were the main forces in the joint struggle against fascism and militarism," China’s foreign minister told Sputnik.


In 2025, the year marking the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of hostilities, the two nations must “preserve the historical truth about the war’s innumerable victims, and oppose any attempts and actions to deny, distort or falsify its history,” Wang emphasized.

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📹 Israel launches MASSIVE STRIKE on southern suburbs of Beirut, allegedly targeting a Hezbollah leader – statement

💬 “A short while ago, with the direction of the ISA, the IAF conducted a strike in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold. The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians,” the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Telegram.


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❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi: Russia & China SMASHED FASCISM together 80 years ago, now face a new challenge 💬 "Serving as the main theaters of war in Asia and Europe in the brutal war between good and evil" during the Second World War, "China and Russia were the main…
❗️❗️❗️ Wang Yi outlines THREE PILLARS on which Russia-China relations are built

China’s foreign minister highlighted three characteristic features of the special relationship between the Eurasian neighbors in an interview with Sputnik.

1️⃣ “Forever friends and never enemies” (the central principle from the 2001 Russia-China Treaty on Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation).

2️⃣ “Equality and mutually beneficial cooperation.”

3️⃣ “Non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-directionality against third parties.”

💬Chinese-Russian relations do not pose any threat to others, much less are they subject to outside interference, and are not only a modern example of a new type of relationship between major powers, but an important stabilizing factor in a turbulent world,” Wang said.


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❗️Trump says he’s ‘NOT JOKING’ about possibility of a third term, says ‘there are methods’ for doing it. “A lot of people want me to do it. But I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration,” Trump…
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📹 Trump says HE’D LOVE to run against Obama for a third term

💬 “I never looked into it. They do say there’s a way you can do it, but I don’t know about that. But I have not looked into it,” Trump said when asked if he had considered running for a third term.


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