🩸 Israeli Airstrike Near Damascus Kills Five Syrian Soldiers – SANA

“The Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack… on one of our military positions near Kfar Yabus on the Syrian-Lebanese border,” SANA said, adding that five Syrian soldiers were killed and one was wounded.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the strike, which rarely publicly comments on attacks in Syria.

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💲Donald Trump Calls for Nancy Pelosi to be ‘Prosecuted for Insider Trading’

The former president said Thursday he believes Pelosi “should be prosecuted” after her husband dumped 2,000 shares of Visa stock worth between $500k and $1mn – just weeks ahead of a Justice Dept lawsuit against the credit card giant. 

“Nancy Pelosi has a little problem because her husband sold their Visa stock – they had a lot of Visa stock – one day before it was announced that Visa is being sued by the Department of Justice,” the GOP nominee said.

“Think of that. Nancy Pelosi sold vast amounts of Visa stock one day before the big lawsuit that we all read about a few days ago,” Trump said. “You think it was luck? I don’t.” 

“She should be prosecuted,” he declared. “Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted for that.” 

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🗣🇫🇲🤡 Until the last Ukrainian - Jens Stoltenberg emphasises

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🎯 Argentina’s Poverty Rate Soars Above 50% Under Milei – Worst in Two Decades

Argentina’s poverty rate has surged to 52.9% under Milei’s govt austerity program – with the popularity of the libertarian president faltering.

The rate is 11.2 percentage points higher than in the second half of 2023, when it stood at 41.7%, meaning 3.4mn Argentines have fallen into poverty this year.

The Argentine govt has struggled to pull the country out of a deep recession during a collapse in consumer spending, and a drop in industrial activity and construction because of inflation and austerity.

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😮 PM Barnier Plots Tax Raid on France’s Rich

The prospect of “targeted levies” on France’s wealthiest households was laid bare by Antoine Armand, Barnier’s new finance minister.

Armand claimed the deeply unpopular policy was necessary given that France faces “one of the worst deficits in our history.”

The French govt is now paying a higher rate of interest than Spain on certain bonds, having previously overtaken those of Portugal during the summer general election.

“A lot of our debt is on international markets – we must preserve France’s credibility,” Barnier said.

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⚡️BREAKING: Atlanta Issues Flash Flood Emergency amid Tropical Storm Helene

The emergency warning impacts over a million peope in the metro Atlanta areas.

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🚢 US Claims China’s Most Advanced Submarine “Sinks” in Shipyard (WSJ)

The new Zhou-class nuclear-powered submarine - which features a distinctive X-shaped stern – was spotted on satellite images alongside a pier at Wuchang Shipyard as it was being equipped for sea in late May.

It is claimed to have sunk later that month or in early June. Suspicion was allegedly raised when floating cranes were seen at the site soon afterwards.

A senior US defence official told The Wall Street Journal: “It’s not surprising that the PLA Navy would try to conceal the fact that their new first-in-class nuclear-powered attack submarine sank pierside."

China’s Foreign Ministry said it “knew nothing” about the alleged incident in a statement Friday.

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⚡️ Israeli Airstrike Kills Entire Family of 9 in Southern Lebanon

The deadly strike killed one male only – the rest women and children.

Sky News reported the man was known locally as a welder and taxi driver – with no links to Hezbollah.

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Several delegations left the UN General Assembly hall in protest at the start of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Donald Trump Meets Zelensky

Will a Western leader finally give the former comedian some sage advice?

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😒 NOW: Netanyahu denounces ‘self-described progressives’ marching in support of Iran’s ‘goons’

There is barely anyone left to listen to the war criminal.

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⚡️ Norway Issues International Warrant for Indian-Born Entrepreneur Behind Bulgarian Shell Company that Sold Exploding Pagers to Israel

Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week, has been reported missing.

He disappeared while on a work trip to the US last week. He is a founder of a Bulgarian company that was reportedly part of the pager supply chain.

Jose declined to comment on the pagers when he was contacted by Reuters on 18 September and hung up after being asked about the Bulgarian business. He then failed to respond to multiple calls and messages.

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➡️ Newly Drafted Ukrainian Troops are "Psychologically, Physically Unprepared, Not Highly Motivated - and Being Killed at Alarming Rate" – FT citing AFU Commanders on the Ground

After difficult combat stints, "many new conscripts go AWOL," the commanders added.

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⚡️ Mehdi Hasan Gives Piers Morgan a History Lesson on Israel and Lebanon

“82% of the exchange of fire between Lebanon and Israel since October 7th has been done by Israel.”

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😯 ICYMI: Netanyahu addresses UN - talks about broad Abrahamic alliance with Saudi Arabia and others

The camera then panned to the Saudi delegation - who had already walked out when Netanyahu started speaking! 😂

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