🔴NEW: Putin to Visit China in May (Reuters)

Putin will travel for talks with Xi Jinping, in what could be the Russian president’s first overseas trip of his new term, as per five Reuters sources .

The trip is expected to take place in the latter half of May with Putin's formal presidential inauguration is due to take place around May 7.

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❎Gaza Famine: More Than 1 Million Face “Catastrophic” Levels of Hunger, New Report Warns

All 2.2mn people in Gaza do not have enough food to eat, with half of the population on the brink of starvation and famine projected to arrive in the north “anytime between mid-March and May 2024,” according to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report.

Acute hunger and malnutrition have already “far exceeded” the threshold for famine in northern Gaza and the IPC warns of a “major acceleration of death and malnutrition.”

At least 25 people, including children and babies, have died from starvation and dehydration in the north, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

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⚫️Tropical Cyclone Megan Strikes Australia Causing Mega Rain Bomb – Leaves 700 Stranded

Hundreds of isolated Aussies in the Northern Territory have woken up to a trail of destruction after Tropical Cyclone Megan wreaked havoc overnight.

The town of Borroloola was meant to be evacuated Monday night but residents were ordered to bunker down at the local police station, the town's health facility or one of dozens of dwellings capable of withstanding a cat 3 system.

Megan is forecast to continue to move inland to the south-west on Tuesday before weakening to a tropical low in the morning, when it's likely to head westward.

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💸 The EU will impose tariffs on grain from Russia and Belarus to "placate" farmers and some member states, Financial Times reports, citing sources.

This will be the first restriction on foodstuffs since the conflict in Ukraine. Brussels has long resisted pressure from Poland and the Baltic states, arguing that such restrictions could undermine global food markets and hurt developing countries.

According to the FT, the EC will impose a €95 per tonne tariff on cereals from Russia and Belarus in the coming days. This will raise prices by at least 50% and destroy demand.

EU imports from Russia reached a record 4 million tonnes in 2023, equivalent to 1% of total EU consumption.

Earlier, the National Security and Defence Council said that by blocking Ukrainian grain, Poland is letting through large quantities of Russian grain.

The FT notes that Polish farmers are now increasingly protesting against Russian products as well.

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🤥State of Disinformation? BBC Reporter “Live” from Islamabad as Green Screen Footage Loops Every 5 Seconds Behind Her

What qualifies as an authentic BBC report these days?

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💯 "Israel has the most extremist religious nationalist government in its history... there's no end game here politically other than complete domination or ethnic cleansing or slaughter" - Prof. Jeffrey Sachs to Piers Morgan

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⚠️ Lesser Spotted Charlie Seen Leaving Windsor Castle Tuesday

Cancer-stricken King Charles appears to be alive despite online rumours of his death on Sunday.

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⚠️ Israeli air strikes pummel area around Al Shifa hospital - reports indicate that many Gazans suffocated while trying to escape from a fire

Israel has killed over 50 Palestinians during their attack on the hospital and detained 180 people, the IDF said.

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❗️ Google Has Interfered with US Presidential Elections 41 Times Since 2008

“In every case, Google harmed the conditions – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice.”

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🇺🇦In Kharkov, Ukraine, military recruiters have gone underground looking for men to send to the battlefield. Take a look at the people coming out of the train: there are only women, teenagers or elderly men.

How long do you think it will take for Ukraine to bounce back form this demographic crisis?

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❌JUST IN: Chinese Ambassador Wang Kejian meets Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar

The two “exchanged views on the Gaza conflict and other issues,” a statement from Beijing read.

It marks the first known meeting between the two sides since Oct 7.

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🔴 Britain Jails First Convicted ‘Cyber-Flasher’ for 66 Weeks

Registered sex offender Nicholas Hawkes, 39, sent unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman.

The woman took screenshots of the WhatsApp image sent on February 9 and reported it to police the same day.

The offence was brought in under the Online Safety Act and came into effect on January 31 this year in the UK.

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🔴Israeli “Comedian” Hen Mizrahi Mocks Starving Gazans who Lost Their Lives in Faulty Parachute Aid Airdrop

The popular stand-up comic uploaded a video titled, 'The Dumbest People in the World' to over 500k followers on his Instagram.

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🤔Trump Ally Peter Navarro to Begin Prison Sentence Tuesday for Contempt of Congress

Navarro, who has been sentenced to four months in a minimum-security federal facility in Miami, has been convicted of refusing to cooperate with the January 6 committee.

The former trade adviser to Donald Trump appealed the ruling, unsuccessfully arguing he was covered by executive privilege.

Although common practice, including Obama officials refusing to comply with subpoenas, the DOJ under Joe Biden is the first one to prosecute a former White House official.

Don’t expect Hunter Biden to receive the same treatment...

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⚠️ Netanyahu Makes it Clear to Biden: ‘No Way to Get to Hamas Without Destroying Rafah’

The IDF will go into Rafah in a ground op, Netanyahu said to a powerful Knesset committee - and that he told Biden as much in their phone call Monday. (TOI)

“We have a disagreement with the Americans about the need to enter Rafah,” Netanyahu said at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

“Not about the need to eliminate Hamas - the need to enter Rafah. We do not see a way to eliminate Hamas militarily without destroying these remaining battalions. We are determined to do it.”

Will the world continue to just watch on as Israel aims to complete its ethnic cleansing?

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➡️ FLASHBACK: When Killary Said the Quiet Bit Out Loud in 2006

“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake.

And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."

The rules-based West…

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❗️JUST IN: France Preparing Contingent of 2k Troops to Be Sent to Ukraine – Russia’s Intel Chief (TASS)

Any French military sent to Ukraine to fight would be a priority target for Russian troops, Sergei Naryshkin added.

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