💼 Lifting terrorist status from Taliban opens way to full partnership with Afghanistan – Russian Foreign Ministry

🤔Russia aims to build mutually beneficial ties with Afghanistan in all areas, including the fight against drugs and terrorism

🤔The Russian side expresses gratitude for Afghanistan's military operations on its territory against Wilayat Khorasan, a terrorist group which is banned in Russia.

🤔Afghanistan has the potential to become a key player in major energy and infrastructure projects

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💵Dollar’s dominance at risk, ‘might fade, end’ - report

😨 The world may be on the precipice of a financial shock “of similar magnitude” to Nixon’s 1971 decision to decouple the dollar from gold, with the dollar’s “nosedive” against other currencies despite its penchant for getting stronger in times of financial and economic strife a possible warning sign, the Financial Times reported.

With foreigners holding $19 trln in US equities, $7 trln in Treasuries, $5 trln in corporate bonds and $2 trln in physical banknotes, investors have been left wondering how low the dollar can go. Some “now think the scale of the Trump shock could end a near-century of dollar dominance.”

😁 Such an outcome, incidentally, would deprive the US of the ability to sabotage other countries’ financial systems using sanctions, FT noted.

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🤡 CLOWNING AROUND? Zelensky attacks Trump administration over Russia talks

🤔The self-proclaimed president slammed Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff, accusing him of “adopt[ing] the strategy of the Russian side” and “spreading Russian narratives” about the Ukrainian crisis, and claiming Witkoff has no “mandate…to speak about Ukrainian territories.”

🤔Zelensky also claimed he has “general information” from the security services that China is supplying weapons to Russia, but offered no proof, saying he would speak about it in more detail next week.

🤔Ukraine is still ready to sign a rare-earth deal with US, Zelensky said, suggesting a memorandum of intent can be signed online immediately.

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🚨Florida State University shooting update:

🤔5 dead, 4 injured per WFTV

🤔2 shooters; 1 dead, 1 in custody, per WFTV

🤔Pres. Trump briefed

🤔Awaiting press conference

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🚨IDF claims to have eliminated Ali Ibar al-Nabi Khadi, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Mhaibib military outpost in southern Lebanon.

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💥 US targets Yemen's top bank after attacking Houthis nearly 1,000 times in a month

🏦 The Treasury has slapped sanctions on the International Bank of Yemen and three of its top financial officers, as “part of a broader US government effort” to stop Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping.

🏦 The bank, accused of sanctions evasion and helping the Houthis mobilize resources and engage in trade, faces confiscation of all assets in the US and a ban on transactions with US nationals. The Treasury threatens secondary sanctions against foreigners doing business with the institution.

🔈Earlier in the day, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the US has launched 990 raids on Yemen over the past month, including 220 in the last week, and vowed Washington would “never succeed” in stopping the Houthis’ Red Sea campaign.

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❗️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

🔸 The Secretary of State informed the Minister about his contacts with Ukraine, France, and several other European countries, which he had with Witkoff.

🔸 It was emphasized that these contacts were part of consultations between Washington and Moscow, including the recent conversation between President Putin and Witkoff in St. Petersburg.

🔸 Lavrov confirmed Moscow's readiness to continue joint work with American colleagues to reliably eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.

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🔸 RUSSIA & QATAR SIGN €2B INVESTMENT DEAL

🔸 Qatar is Russia's key partner in the Middle East, Putin said during talks with Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

🔸 Moldova’s political WITCH HUNT: the persecution of Gagauzia’s Gutsul

🔸 Exposed: real agenda behind $2m media grant in Moldova

🔸 Rare and rare-earth metals: what they are, where they're mined, and their uses

🔸 Five dead, four injured as a result of shooting at Florida State University - report

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⚡️ Florida State University shooter neutralized, says university's official X account.

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❗️ US army partially withdraws from Syria — NYT

The military is closing 3 of its 8 small operating bases, reducing the contingent from 2,000 to about 1,400.

The need for further reductions will be assessed after 60 days.

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⚡️ The US and Ukraine have signed a "memorandum of intent" on a mineral deal, Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko said.

📹 While the final document is not yet ready, Trump said the deal will be signed next Thursday.

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🚨 Trump slams Powell: 'If I ask him to, he'll be out of there'

The US president has repeatedly criticized the chairman of the Federal Reserve and even threatened to launch a legal battle against the central bank's political independence.

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💥 US strikes Yemen's Ras Isa port

Houthi media reports that a US bombing of a fuel terminal in Ras Isa, western Yemen, killed 17 workers and injured dozens.

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❗️ US-China deal is coming in 3-4 weeks — Trump

He compared the US to a "big, beautiful department store," adding that without it, Mexico and Canada "wouldn't have a country."

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Ukrainian tennis player sues WTA for allowing women from Russia and Belarus to play

Lesia Tsurenko's lawsuit against WTO ex-CEO Steve Simon says such an act caused her "negligent infliction of emotional distress."

She lost 6-0, 6-0 to Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus at the 2024 Australian Open.

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FSU shooter identified as son of Leon County Sheriff's deputy

Phoenix Ikner, 20, used his mother's service weapon to kill 2 and injure 6 before being shot and detained by police.

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❗️ The death toll from the US bombing of the Ras Isa oil facility has risen to 33 killed and 80 wounded, according to local media.

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