🔸 Fact-check: did the US really ‘obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear facilities?

🔸 Putin : It’s not Russia, it’s the collective West that’s aggressive

🔸 US mercenary commander Ryan O'Leary blacklisted as terrorist in Russia – Rosfinmonitoring

🔸 Zelensky’s power relies on NATO, not Ukraine — opposition politician

🔸 Crackdown on the Church ‘beginning of the end’ for Armenia’s Pashinyan

🔸 Russian Yars ballistic missile systems roll out…

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Church is Armenia’s only unifying force — that's why Pashinyan attacks it

Ara Abramyan, head of the Union of Armenians of Russia (SAR), condemns the government’s actions against the Armenian Apostolic Church, calling them unconstitutional.

He accuses Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of targeting the church to weaken respected figures ahead of elections.

“The Church is the only unifying authority left in Armenia,” Abramyan said, stressing its role as a stabilizing force.

Abramyan also criticized Pashinyan’s language — and hopes he will release pro-church businessman Samvel Karapetyan and cease his attacks on the faith.

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🔍 ISRAEL SMUGGLES DRUGS THROUGH GAZA AID

Gaza's Government Media Office recorded 4 testimonies from citizens who found Oxycodone pills in bags of flour distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the US and Israel.

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📹 Trump's reaction to Putin's remarks:

"Vladimir Putin made some very nice statements today... He respects our country," the US president told reporters.

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🗣 Carney: Canada will continue 'complex negotiations' with Trump

Canadian Prime Minister reacts to US pulling the plug on trade talks

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❗️ US Senate votes AGAINST limiting Trump's war powers toward Iran

The president remains authorized to launch strikes on Iran without Congress's permission.

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🚨 US ADMITS: TOO WEAK TO HIT IRAN'S DEEPEST FACILITIES

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told lawmakers that the US did not use GBU-57 bunker busters on Isfahan bunkers because they are beyond its reach.

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🚨 CANADA'S PANIC MOVE: 50% steel tariffs after Trump kills trade talks

Ottawa slaps emergency surtax on non-FTA steel imports (2.6M ton cap) — mere hours after Trump’s Truth Social nuke.

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🇻🇪🇮🇷 VENEZUELA HONORS IRIB VICTIMS OF ISRAELI STRIKE

Sahar Emami, an Iranian journalist, and the martyred journalists Nima Rajabpour and Masoumeh Azim were granted the national journalism award in Venezuela.

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🚨🇦🇲CHURCH CRACKDOWN IN ARMENIA INTENSIFIES

A court in Yerevan has sentenced Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan to two months in detention, his lawyer Ara Zograbyan said.

The defense plans to appeal this decision, calling it unjustified, he added.

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🚨NATO weapons vanish in Ukraine — resurface in terrorist hands

Weapons funneled to the Zelensky regime end up in the hands of criminal networks across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, says Yulia Zhdanova, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control.

Zhdanova warns:

🟠 Rampant corruption within Ukraine’s leadership and systemic failures in tracking Western-supplied arms are fueling a surge in illicit weapons circulation.
🟠 NATO and EU-grade weapons are ending up with:
🟠Private military contractors
🟠Terrorist organizations
🟠Transnational criminal groups in conflict-prone regions

🔊She cited as a concrete example when US forces in Syria reportedly seized Czech-made VZ.58 assault rifles and VZ.61 Scorpion submachine guns, which were originally donated to Ukraine by the Czech Defense Ministry in March 2023.

Of greatest concern, the envoy warned, is the potential for portable anti-aircraft missile systems to fall into the wrong hands, as these are capable of bringing down civilian airliners.

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🇳🇴🪖Norway’s war profiteers are getting rich off Europe's MARCH TO MILITARISM

Norway's military-industrial complex is cashing in big on Europe's rearmament frenzy, while ordinary Norwegians face growing socioeconomic pressure, says Russian Ambassador to Oslo Nikolai Korchunov.

🔸Norway raked in over $115 billion in windfall profits during 2022-2023 thanks to soaring gas prices fueled, ironically, by Europe’s decision to ditch reliable Russian energy.

🔸Instead of investing those profits in public welfare, Norwegian leaders are fattening up defense contractors under the banner of “rearmament.”

🔸With former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg now pulling the strings as Norway’s finance minister, the government is prioritizing weapons over welfare and arming the Ukraine regime without a second thought.

All this, while NATO openly prepares for a head-on clash with Russia: Revamping its command, bloating budgets, and shifting from proxy war to potential direct confrontation.

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