❗️ Pakistan launches MLRS strikes on Indian positions as part of operation Bunyaan-un-Marsoos – reports

Geo News has shared footage reportedly showing the Pakistani Army launching strikes against Indian positions using multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).

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🖥 Pakistan cyberattack allegedly disrupts 70% of India’s power grid – reports

The cyberattack has significantly impacted the country’s power supply infrastructure, according to Geo News, citing security sources.

Times of India reports that two districts in Jammu and Kashmir have experienced total power outages amid rising tensions with Pakistan. A similar blackout has been imposed in Jalandhar following the detection of an unidentified drone in the area.

Widespread blackouts have also been reported in Akhnoor, according to ANI.

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🗣 Ukraine avoids peace talks while Putin seeks resolution – Peskov

Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing everything possible to end the conflict in Ukraine through peaceful and diplomatic means, but the Ukrainian government is actively avoiding negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with ABC News.

💬 “President Putin is making every effort to resolve the situation,” Peskov stated, adding that Ukraine is “not ready for immediate negotiations” and is “trying to escape” the peace process.

Peskov also criticized continued Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, warning that they provide Kiev with a battlefield resources and undermine prospects for a ceasefire. He expressed hope that US mediation under President Donald Trump could help prompt Ukrainian leadership to show "a little more flexibility, political will, and wisdom."

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🤡 From 145% to 80% to 34% – Lutnick suggests Trump might settle on a ‘human level’ tariff on Chinese goods

💬 “Let's bring it down to a level that he studied and he knows, right? Where did we come out on Liberation Day? 34% is where it came out on Liberation Day,” said Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce.

Is this the Art of the Deal?

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🇵🇰 Pakistan convenes top Security Council following military operation against India – reports

Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) following the launch of Pakistan’s military operation Bunyan-ul-Marsoos against India, The Times of India reported.

The NCA is Pakistan’s highest-level security decision-making body, comprising senior civilian and military leaders. It oversees key national defense matters, including nuclear weapons policy.

This escalation follows Indian strikes on key Pakistani posts and military bases near Jammu, which were allegedly being used to launch tube-launched drones, according to ANI, citing security sources.

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🗣‘No parade, no victory’: Backing Ukraine is a losing game – US veteran

Continuing to support Ukraine militarily is futile, as Russia is demonstrating power while Ukraine lacks meaningful victories, says retired Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis.

💬 Watching the “powerful images” from Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9, he noted that “when you juxtapose them from the Ukraine side… they have no parade, they have no victory, and no evidences of strength.”

🗣 President Donald Trump needs to fully withdraw support for Ukraine and no longer “put the American prestige and name and reputation on the line for something that is going to lose,” the veteran said.

💬 History will show that is the right course of action, he added.

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🚨US top diplomat urges India-Pakistan to STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK 🇮🇳⚔️🇵🇰

Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged immediate de-escalation between Pakistan and India in a call with Pakistan’s Army chief, General Asim Munir, according to the US State Department.

🤝 Rubio also offered US assistance in “starting constructive talks” between the nuclear-armed sides to avoid future conflict.

The call comes after Pakistan launched a military strike on Indian targets, including a missile storage site in northern India, on Saturday.

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🚨☢️🗣 Trump wants to jump-start US nuclear industry playing CATCH-UP with China and Russia

🇺🇸 The Trump administration is in a hurry to revive the US nuclear industry – weighing executive orders to speed up plant construction, The New York Times reports.

Draft orders call for slashing federal safety red tape and giving the Pentagon a bigger role, including installing reactors on military bases.

One draft notes with alarm that 87% of all new nuclear reactors globally since 2017 were built using Russian or Chinese tech.

🇨🇳 China is racing ahead, with over 20 reactors under construction and plans to more than double capacity by 2035.

🇷🇺 Russia, through its state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom, is building nuclear plants across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

➡️Meanwhile, the US has built just three reactors since 1996. One of them – Vogtle – was a $35 billion headache that arrived seven years late.

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🇸🇰'Fico is right: that's economic suicide' - 🇭🇺Orban on EU anti-Russian sanction policy

💬 "The equation is simple: if there’s peace, sanctions can go. If sanctions go, energy gets cheaper. If energy gets cheaper, Europe can recover. Yet Brussels wants war and fast-tracked EU accession for Ukraine," Hungarian PM posted on 📱

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😱 Trump's WORST NIGHTMARE: Ukraine is his top foreign-policy headache

🗣 Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with US efforts to end the Ukraine conflict, according to The Wall Street Journal.

It’s the one foreign policy issue that’s keeping him up at night, he reportedly confided to top donors at his Florida club.

✔️When campaigning, Donald Trump vowed to end the conflict in Ukraine on “on day one,” but has since claimed he was being hyperbolic. He is now pushing for a 30-day truce.

➡️Ukraine is "not ready for immediate negotiations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told ABC News on Saturday. He noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “doing everything possible” to end the war diplomatically, but Ukraine is “trying to escape” negotiations.

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🟠 India reportedly strikes THREE Pakistani air bases – Geo News

🟠 Pakistan launches MLRS strikes on Indian positions as part of operation Bunyaan-un-Marsoos

🟠 Pakistan convenes top Security Council following military operation against India – reports

🟠 Fico’s defiant visit to Moscow shows Slovakia is ready to show EU the truth about WWII

🟠 Putin thanks Fico for coming to Moscow despite 'logistical obstacles'

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🤣 Lost in London? Prince Harry's WRONG DOOR saga

The Duke of Sussex was recently spotted on a Ring camera in London's Fulham district, appearing lost.

📞Holding a phone to his ear and looking confused, Prince Harry wandered the streets, knocking on random doors, The Sun writes. After trying three houses, he finally found his friend’s digs.

A bit odd, considering he recently argued he needs 24-hour armed police protection in the UK for safety. The court disagreed, by the way.

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🗣‘Corrupt, aggressive regime’: Ukraine accused of spitefully targeting Hungary

Ukraine has launched a "special operation" against Hungary following its vote blocking fast-tracked EU accession for the “corrupt, aggressive regime,” Zoltan Koskovics wrote on 📱

💬 “You did this to distract from your failure to disrupt the parade in Moscow,” the analyst at the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights added.

➡️His post was in response to the expulsion of two Hungarian diplomats over spying allegations announced by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.

🇭🇺Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto fired back, calling the claims “anti-Hungarian propaganda” and retaliation for Hungary not towing the West’s pro-Ukraine line.

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☢️Nuclear silence FOR NOW: Pakistan warns of wider fallout amid India tensions

A nuclear option is “not on the cards right now” amid sky-high military tensions with India, 🇵🇰Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told Geo News.

He also insisted that no meeting of the National Command Authority overseeing the country's nuclear arsenal has been called, despite the military claiming one was convened.

💬 “Our options are being reduced considering the situation India is creating,” he said, adding:

💬 “I am telling the world that this is not going to be confined to the region only; it could be much wider […] destruction.”

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