😳 Alaska Airlines plane forced to make emergency landing in Portland, Oregon after window blows out mid-air

Several items were sucked out of the plane when it suddenly depressurized.

All passengers and crew are reportedly safe.

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💥JUST IN: Hezbollah Fires More Than 60 Rockets at Israeli Military Base

The barrage on Mount Meron was an “initial response” to Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, the militia said.

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⚠️ NOW: Israeli Strike Targets Khiyam in South Lebanon with What Appears to be White Phosphorus

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😳 Second-Largest US Pension Fund Could Borrow More Than $30 Billion to Help Maintain Liquidity - Bloomberg

The cash injection will prevent CalSTRS from having to sell assets at fire-sale prices, Bloomberg added.

Board members will review a first draft of the policy at its Jan. 11 meeting. A representative for the pension declined to comment.

Everything is fine…

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⚠️ JUST IN: Israeli forces firing heavily at people in vicinity of Red Crescent in Khan Yunis - Palestinian media

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🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇳 A journalist for the British newspaper The Telegraph openly calls for the United States to launch a preliminary attack against the Chinese Navy.

NATO seems to REALLY want World War III...

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🤔 German Law Does Not Permit Extradition of Ukrainian Draft Dodgers - 🇩🇪 Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (Welt am Sonntag)

Over 220k men aged between 18 and 60 have arrived in Germany from Ukraine since February 2022, as per Berlin.

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⚠️ Famine in Gaza ‘Around the Corner’ – UN Relief Chief

The people in Gaza face the “highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded,” according to UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths.

Citing a death toll in the tens of thousands, attacks on medical facilities and a lack of functioning hospitals, Griffiths said in a statement that Gaza had become “a place of death and despair.”

“Hope has never been more elusive,” he added.

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⚠️NEW: North Korea Launches Further 60 Artillery Shells into Waters Off its Western Coast – Yonhap

Pyongyang is conducting live-fire drills near the heavily guarded western border for the second consecutive day.

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🤔 ICYMI: A Very Confused Joe Biden Lands in Delaware for Weekend Break after 32-Minute Speech Following Two Weeks of Vacation

Remember folks, the 'Big Guy' has the nuclear codes... 🤡

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❌Former US VP Mike Pence Daubs ‘For Israel’ on Bomb Destined for Gaza

The self-proclaimed born-again evangelical Catholic can be seen happily posing with troops among the US taxpayer-funded shells.

Israeli bombs have killed at least 22,600 Gazans and wounded 57,910, according to the latest Palestinian Health Ministry figures.

Some 70% of the victims are women and children.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Erdogan Meets US Sec of State Blinken in Istanbul

Washington’s top diplomat hopes to receive reassurances from Ankara that Sweden’s NATO bid will be approved shortly.

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❗️ IDF releases new footage of Egoz commando unit operating in southern Gaza - where it claims troops raided home of east Khan Younis Hamas battalion commander

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📣 Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, Becomes First Leader in Europe to Condemn Israel’s “Ethnic Cleansing” in Gaza

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🇩🇰⚠️➡️🇺🇦 Delivery of the first F-16s to Kiev by Denmark has been postponed for at least six months - Ukrainian pilots are not yet ready to be allowed at the controls of the fighter jets.

Initially, delivery was planned around the New Year, but has now been postponed to the second quarter.

“Among other things, we are talking about completing the training of Ukrainian personnel who will operate the aircraft after their transfer. The preparation schedule depends simultaneously on a number of factors, such as technical and weather conditions,” the Berlingske newspaper quotes a message from the Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense.

Six Ukrainian pilots are currently undergoing training to fly the F-16 in Denmark.

At the end of August, the Netherlands announced its readiness to transfer 42 American F-16 fighters to Ukraine, Denmark promised Kiev 19 such aircraft. US authorities approved this step. Kiev expressed hope that Ukraine would receive fighter jets in the first half of 2024. In turn, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated that this would happen no earlier than the spring.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Israeli Airstrike Hits Residential Area in Southern Lebanon

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❗️Patriots No More: Washington to Stop Sending Interceptor Missiles to Kiev – NYT

White House and Pentagon officials have warned that the US will soon be unable to keep Ukraine’s Patriot batteries supplied with interceptor missiles - which can cost between $2mn to $4mn apiece, as per the NYT.

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