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🚨🚫DOGE pulls the plug on HUNDREDS of equity, diversity grants

More than 400 DEI programs worth over $230 million have been cancelled in the US, DOGE stated.

"Great work by NSF [US National Science Foundation] canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for ‘Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation,’" the Department said.


Earlier in the day, the NSF announced the termination of awards "not aligned with agency priorities."

DOGE emphasized that grant awards would now be based on "merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence."

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🇮🇷Iranian Foreign Minister heads to Rome for the second round of indirect talks with the US

The second round of talks will be held indirectly in Rome, chosen based on a proposal by the Omani Foreign Minister and agreed upon by both Iran and the US.

The American side should refrain from presenting unrealistic and unreasonable demands, the Iranian side warned.

"We have heard many contradictory statements from various US officials in recent days," the ministry said.


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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. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🪖US to slash its troops in Syria BELOW 1,000

The reduction, which is due “in the coming months”, was announced by Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.

The Pentagon disclosed late last year that there were about 2,000 troops in Syria, far more than the widely known 900.

The move comes as the US is closing three of its eight small operating bases in Syria’s northeast.

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❗️The Russian army has LIBERATED 64 SETTLEMENTS in the Kursk region after the Ukrainian incursion, with more than half of them liberated in March and April, according to calculations based on reports of Russia's defense ministry.

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🚨↘️Dems' congressional confidence HITS HISTORIC LOW

Confidence in Democratic congressional leaders has dropped to 25%, nine points below the previous low of 34% recorded in 2023, according to a new Gallup poll.

The rating of Democratic leaders among their own party members has plummeted 41 points since last year, reaching its lowest point ever, Gallup noted.

Confidence in Republican congressional leadership, meanwhile, stands at 39%.

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🔸Scott Ritter: Rubio’s threats to scrap peace talks look like sabotage

🔸ORTHODOX UNDER FIRE: Moldova regime blocks archbishop TWICE

🔸US to slash its troops in Syria BELOW 1,000

🔸US CENTCOM flexes bombs that fail to crush Houthis

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Israel may attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in coming months

Israel may carry out attacks even despite Donald Trump’s warning to Netanyahu that Washington is not ready to support such a move now, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed Israeli official and two other sources familiar with the matter.

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‘EUROPEAN UNION OF THIRD REICH ADVOCATES’: Russia warns not to distort the USSR’s role in WWII victory

On April 19, Russia marks the Day of Unified Action in memory of the genocide of the Soviet people by Nazis and their accomplices during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned "Russophobes’ attempts to distort the past and denigrate the Soviet soldiers’ liberation mission."

She denounced vandalism against Soviet monuments and burials in Europe, slamming the EU, of which Ukraine seeks to be a member, as a bloc “with brown undertones.”

This is the EU of “[…] revanchists and revisionists of World War II history as well as collaborators and advocates of the Third Reich, glorifying the bloody executioners who destroyed millions of European civilians,” Zakharova stressed.


The diplomat also urged the international community to recognize crimes committed by the Nazis on the territory of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War as genocide against the people of the USSR.

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Political crackdown on Archbishop Markell EXPOSES Moldovan gov't's DISRESPECT for own people and faith

Archbishop Markell is “a patriot, a Moldovan citizen who stands not only for the preservation of the Orthodox faith, but also for Moldovan statehood,” explains political scientist and historian Boris Shapovalov.


Moldovan authorities, including President Maia Sandu, are promoting the Romanian Orthodox Church's Metropolitanate of Bessarabia in an “act of artificially splitting the church.”

Markell, “being one of the brightest representatives of the Moldovan Orthodox Church of the Russian Patriarchate, was deliberately subjected to these repressions," adds Shapovalov.


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🚨 EU gives Ukraine 'blank cheque for ENDLESS WAR' — Hungary's PM

According to Orban, Brussels wants to admit a country with:

no clear borders
no functioning economy
no sovereignty

"Ukraine CANNOT SUSTAIN ITSELF. Alongside the Americans, we are the ones keeping it afloat, not only its army but also the functioning of its ENTIRE state administration," Viktor Orban said.


💬"And they expect EU taxpayers to fund a million-strong army for decades. This is NOT peace," the prime minister added.

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❗️Russian troops have liberated the village of Oleshnya in the Kursk region, Russia's Defense Ministry announced

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🧨😱ROBOTS RUN WILD IN HALF-MARATHON: 20 humanoid robots joined humans in the world’s first joint half-marathon.

The robot "Tiangong Ultra" took the lead, completing 21.1 km in 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds – nearly an hour ahead of the nearest competitor.

As for the human runners, Ethiopia dominated with the fastest times: 1 hour, 2 minutes, 36 seconds for men, and 1 hour, 11 minutes, 7 seconds for women.

Is there a point to human marathons any longer? 🥴

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🇨🇳😯China unveils cutting-edge AI-POWERED attack drone

This high-tech drone is versatile enough for all combat personnel in an infantry squad to use, and it can even launch projectiles with a 35mm grenade

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's top political aide, Ali Shamkhani has revealed key issues in Iran-US negotiations, highlighting the removal of sanctions and addressing "troublemakers" such as Israel.

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❗️Russian troops have liberated the village of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russia's Defense Ministry announced

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🗣 Latest statements by Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov:

▪️The anti-Russian background created in the West in recent years prevents the advancement of reasonable ideas that are agreed upon, including in Washington.

▪️Donald Trump and the current US administration understand the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine.

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❗️Russian troops hit ammunition depots and military equipment of the Ukrainian forces in 142 districts — Russia's Defense Ministry 

🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation:

▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup amounted to 350 militants; 

▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Zapad combat group amounted to 265 fighters;

▪️Russian Vostok Battlegroup destroyed over 130 soldiers;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Dnepr group amounted to 80 militants;  

▪️Ukrainian militants continue to attack Russian energy infrastructure; ten air attacks on facilities have been recorded in the last 24 hours;

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down six JDAM bombs, three HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 151 drones.

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Freedom of religion restricted: ‘No democracy in Moldova, nor in the ENTIRE Europe’

EU democracy is “a big HOAX, a monument to disinformation that European citizens believe in," Juan Antonio Aguilar, the director of the Spanish Institute of Geopolitics, tells Sputnik, commenting on the crackdown on the archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Moldova.

The pressure on the archbishop is a clear example of political repression and part of broader campaign of arbitrary arrests and assaults on Moldovan sovereignty, argues the political expert.

NATO and the EU, that control Moldova via NGOs, are responsible for the collapse of democracy in the country, says Aguilar, who previously acted as an international observer during Moldova’s 2019 parliamentary elections.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's top political aide, Ali Shamkhani has revealed key issues in Iran-US negotiations, highlighting the removal of sanctions and addressing "troublemakers" such as Israel. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🗣 Russia welcomes talks between Iran and the US on the nuclear program, the issue should be resolved only through diplomatic means, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

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📹EU globalists VIOLATE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM by blocking Archbishop Markell's trip to Jerusalem – AfD MP

“By interfering with religious and societal relations, they’re sidelining a minority group that represents hope for unity beyond geopolitical divides. Religious leaders like Archbishop Markell are crucial for building bridges across borders, shaking hands across ideological divides, and preserving cultural and religious roots”, Dr Rainer Rothfuss, German geopolitical analyst and consultant and AfD MP, told Sputnik.


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