🤔 Over 83% of all cross-border missile attacks conducted between Israel and Lebanon since October 7 - have been made by Israel (BBC)

But it’s all about self-defense, right?

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⚠️ China & Japan Resume Strategic Dialogue after Four Years

Vice foreign ministers from the countries held talks Monday for the first time in four and a half years, as the countries focus on shared interests amid a host of diplomatic challenges. 

Masataka Okano and Chinese counterpart Ma Zhaoxu discussed developments in the East and South China seas as well as Ukraine during their meeting in Tokyo.

Other topics included Japan's release of treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the detention of Japanese nationals in China.

Did Japan wake up to the fact that the US is a paper tiger?

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➡️ Hungary Blocks EU Peace Fund for Ukraine

Brussels has failed to agree on the funding which finances the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.

Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto stated that Budapest will not change their stance until Kiev resolves the issue of oil transit.

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✈️ Paris Airport Workers File Strike Motion for Olympics Opening Ceremony

A union representing workers at Paris’ two major airports has filed a strike motion for July 26, the date of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The Force Ouvrière (FO) union – which represents 11.5% of workers at Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airports – filed the motion, which will last from 05:00 on July 26 to 07:00 on July 27.

FO wants a €300 flat bonus offered to all workers to be increased to €1,000, and for other selective bonuses to increase both in terms of payout and number of staff eligible.

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🇷🇺💥🏁 Around 50 foreign instructors were killed as a result of an Iskander strike on a mercenary deployment point in Derhachi, Kharkov region, the Ministry of Defense reported.

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😒 JUST IN: US Secret Service director quits over Trump shooting

Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had been facing growing calls to step down amid questions over lax security arrangements at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. 

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🔴 NOW: Biden set to address the nation on Wednesday at 8 PM EST

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🎯 China Unveils World’s First Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have successfully demonstrated a meltdown-proof nuclear fission reactor - the twin reactor design can generate 105 MW of power each and has been in the works since 2016.

Conventional nuclear reactors use fuel rods that are energy-dense, containing large amounts of uranium with smaller amounts of graphite. In the HTR-PM reactor design, the fuel rod is inverted, and a large amount of graphite is used within which uranium is encased.

The nuclear fission reaction occurs much slower than a conventional reactor and can withstand a higher temperature for much longer. Additionally, the excess heat generated through the process is dispersed over a larger fuel area and can be cooled using passive or non-energy-consuming methods.

The reactor began commercial operation in December 2023. 

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❗️Around 14,000 People Need to be Medically Evacuated from Gaza - WHO

The BBC presenter describes the slaughter, starvation, displacement and destruction in Gaza as "ongoing difficulties on the ground."

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⚡️ UK Accused Israel of Not Acting Like ‘Civilised Nation’ - Archives Reveal

Newly released documents show heated exchanges between Israel’s defense minister and Britain’s ambassador regarding IDF activity during a West Bank incursion in 2002.

UK officials on the ground compiled a report on the character of the IDF, which claimed Israeli troops were ‘out of control’ – adding: ‘They look down on the Arabs and despise them. It needs to be said that the average Israeli does not value an Arab life as equal to a Jewish one.”

Cabinet Office papers show that US President George Bush also complained to then-UK PM Tony Blair about how this action would turn Arafat into a “martyr.”

Plus ça change?

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📣 NEW: US House Speaker Mike Johnson reiterates warning to lawmakers that there will be “zero-tolerance policy for disturbances” during Netanyahu’s address to Congress

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