🇮🇹🚓 Italian police be like: Crack down on pacifists, defend globalists

Clashes have broken out between police and demonstrators in central Bologna during two competing rallies. Anti-war activists, protesting the increase in military spending, attempted to march towards the "Square for Europe" rally. This sparked tense confrontations with law enforcement.

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🔎 Case closed? Media learns how journo got invited to White House Signal chat group

The addition of The Atlantic editor to a secret Signal chat group where the US leadership discussed military strikes against Yemen was the result of a human error, The Guardian claims.

Apparently, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz previously saved the journalist’s phone number in his contact list under a different name by mistake, the newspaper claims, citing “three people familiar with the matter.”

While it does sound like a huge blunder on Waltz’s part (assuming that the story is true, of course), it raises more questions about the practice of holding top secret discussions via messaging apps than his professional qualities.

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💥 Strikes from Gaza hit southern Israel

The IDF reported about 10 projectiles launched from central Gaza, with only 5 intercepted. Social media footage shows one of the hits in Ashkelon.

Local media reports at least 3 wounded.

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🔎 ‘Morag axis’: What is known about Israel’s latest target in the Gaza War?

The Israeli military announced that it is conducting operations in the vicinity of the so-called “Morag axis” in the Gaza Strip after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his intent to capture this area.

So, what is this axis exactly?

▪️‘Morag axis’ is a strip of agricultural land that lies between the Rafah and the border with Egypt to the south and Khan Younis to the north.

▪️The name “Morag” appears to be a reference to an illegal Israeli settlement that was established in May 1972 and was dismantled by the Israeli government in August 2005.

▪️Controlling this “axis” may allow the IDF to bisect the Gaza Strip

▪️Several media outlets already speculate that this move is part of the Israeli plan to enact Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly evict Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

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✨ Russia celebrates Alexander Ovechkin's record

Moscow's Ostankino Tower, Europe's tallest building, now features the Washington Capitals forward celebrating his 895th goal, surpassing Wayne Gretzky's record.

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💸 Taiwan offers zero tariff regime to US

Taiwan local leader, Lai Ching-te, pledged to remove all trade barriers instead of creating new ones.

"Tariff negotiations can start with 'zero tariffs' between Taiwan and the US, referring to the US-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement," Lai said.

Donald Trump imposed a 32% tariff on products from Taiwan, with the exception of semiconductor exports.

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💬 Scott Bessent dismisses concerns about possible market crash

"Markets are organic animals. You never know what their reaction is going to be... The market consistently underestimates Trump," he told NBC.

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⚡️ South Korea tentatively schedules presidential elections for June 3 after the Constitutional Court removes Yoon Suk Yeol from power.

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🔽 Asia-Pacific markets fall after open on fears of Trump's tariffs

Hong Kong leads "losers" with 9% plunge, Japan's Nikkei follows with 5.8% loss to hit 18-month low.

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⛔️ Trump: No deal unless we fix our trade deficit

The US president said he would not accept any deal to lower tariffs unless it eliminated the US trade deficit.

"To me, a deficit is a loss. We're going to have surpluses or at worst we're going to break it even," he added.

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📉💊 Trump on potential market crash: 'Sometimes you have to take medicine'

"I don't want anything to go down," he told reporters, calling a question about a possible tariff rollback "stupid."

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