🇵🇰 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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🗣Gesture of Nazi-style solidarity: Zakharova slams EU’s Lvov ministerial meeting

While Moscow celebrated Victory Day, Western leaders held an "informal meeting" of EU foreign ministers in Ukraine’s Lvov, "a hotbed of aggressive Ukrainian nationalism that has morphed into neo-Nazism," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

💬 "The goal is to make the right impression on European Russophobes and encourage them to take further steps in support of the Zelensky regime," she stressed.

Still, the main objective of the event, according to Zakharova, is to try to overshadow the celebratory atmosphere in Russia marking the 80th anniversary of victory.

💬 "Even the participants of the Lvov 'gathering' themselves understand how absurd these plans are," she added.

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🤡Ukraine’s ‘European future’?: Macron posts morbid clip with Zelensky in front of makeshift war memorial

📹The short video shows Macron and Zelensky, backs turned and patting each other’s backs as Mrs. Zelensky, Chancellor Merz, and Polish and British prime ministers Tusk and Starmer look on.

In front of them is a sea of Ukrainian flags, mixed with a few foreign ones, and portraits of lost troops. A banner featuring a neo-Nazi Azov* Regiment Wolfsangel can be seen fluttering among them (oops).

* Designated a terrorist group by Russia.

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🚨'Extremely successful': 🇸🇰Robert Fico hails his visit to Russia

💬 "I think it was worth coming here. This is a manifestation of sovereign Slovak foreign policy, where no one can tell us what we can or cannot do," Fico added.

He emphasized that Europe needs Russia, and Russia needs Europe.

💬 "We must pursue a policy of cooperation, not a policy of hatred and iron curtains," Fico concluded.

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❗️9,318 violations of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian side have been recorded – Russian Ministry of Defense

Despite the declaration of a ceasefire, Ukrainian forces have continued combat operations against Russian troops.

They made four attempts to break through the Russian state border in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as carried out 22 attacks and one reconnaissance-in-force operation.

Additionally, 6,562 strikes and bombings were carried out using drones.

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🎙Sputnik correspondent reports from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, after Pakistani drone attack shakes the region.

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🇰🇵🇷🇺 North Korea’s Kim vows to back Russia in event of another attack by ‘America’s lackeys’

💬 “I will gladly, without hesitation and in accordance with the articles and spirit of the Korean-Russia Treaty, give the order to use the armed forces of the DPRK to repel an armed attack by enemies,” Kim Jong Un said.

New details on Kursk op:

◻️ Addressing “comrades and friends” at a Victory Day event at the Russian Embassy, Kim said he “gave the combat units of the armed forces of the Republic an order: in cooperation with the Russian armed forces, to defeat and destroy the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate the Kursk districts.”

◻️ “The best sons of the Korean people” were involved in the operation, fighting “in the fire and at the cost of blood routing the common enemy.”

◻️ If the “Ukrainian puppets” had not invaded Russia, they “would not have become ownerless corpses before our sword and spear.” The same fate will await the “biggest henchmen of the United States” in Seoul if they ever chose to follow Ukraine’s example, Kim warned.

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🤡 UKRAINE’S LATEST MASTERSTROKE: Taxing Russian PoWs to fund the war (Because why not?)

🔸 New law: Russian prisoners must pay income tax plus a 5% "war fee"

🔸 Logic: "Geneva Conventions say we can’t execute them… but we CAN audit them!"

🔸 Bonus: Ukrainian soldiers exempt from war taxes (priorities!)

🤡 Meanwhile in reality:

➡️PoWs in five camps contribute labor — while Ukrainian troops get tax breaks

➡️Latest prisoner swap: 205 for 205 (thanks, UAE!)

➡️Zelensky: "This isn’t war crimes—it’s creative compliance"

🤔 Next up: Charging PoWs for the bullets shot at them?

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⚡️Trump announces US-mediated India-Pakistan ceasefire

"After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE," he wrote on Truth Social.

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⚒Tune-triggered: FREAKED OUT von der Leyen flees sound of Russian Victory Day song

EU war hawk 🗣 Ursula von der Leyen must have felt like she was accidentally attending her personal horror movie on May 9.

The European Commission president found herself slap in the middle of an event hosted by the 🇱🇺Mir d'Vollek party, where people were cheerfully singing the iconic Russian song “Victory Day” (“Den Pobedy”).

Apparently, that and the sight of 🇷🇺Russian flags were too toxic for von der Leyen to bear.

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