⚠️ JUST IN: US Defense Sec Loyd Austin Spent Four Days in Intensive Care amid “Middle East Tensions” - NBC

Austin "resumed his full duties" on Friday evening but remained hospitalized on Saturday, a Pentagon spox told NBC.

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⚠️ UPDATE: Six Palestinians Have Been Killed in Jenin by Israeli Forces after Roadside Bomb Neutralized One IDF Soldier and injured Others

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⚫️ ICYMI: Huge Tornado Rips Through Fort Lauderdale Causing Mass Power Flashes as it Barrels Through Florida City

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⚠️ North Korea's Kim Yo Jong Vows Immediate “Baptism of Fire” Response to Provocation – KCNA

The remarks on Sunday from the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un came one day after Seoul said the North fired more than 60 artillery rounds near their disputed maritime border.

"Let me be clear once again that our army has its trigger already unlocked," Kim Yo Jong said. "Our army will immediate launch a baptism of fire in case of even a small provocation."

Kim also denied the Saturday firing and said the North detonated explosives instead as a deception.

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☀️ JUST IN: North Korea firing shots again near border with South – Yonhap

Pyongyang is reportedly firing shots into the sea north of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, as per Yonhap, citing Seoul’s military.

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💀 Biden wasn’t aware “for days” that US SecDef Lloyd Austin was hospitalized - CNN citing sources

Austin went in on Monday and only on Thursday did Jake Sullivan find out and tell Biden, as per CNN.

Did Obama get a call first? 😳

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❗️ US Defense Intelligence Agency Secret Assessment Casts Doubts About Israel’s Prospects for Success if it Escalates Against Hezbollah - WaPo

US officials fear that a full-scale conflict would surpass the bloodshed of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war on account of Hezbollah’s substantially larger arsenal of long-range and precision weaponry.

Hezbollah also has the potential to strike sensitive targets like petrochemical plants and nuclear reactors, WaPo reports citing sources.

Washington remains concerned that Netanyahu may see an expanded fight in Lebanon as key to his political survival amid domestic criticism of his leadership and govt.

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⚠️ NEW: Footage Shows Israeli Troop Carrier Being Destroyed by Qassam Brigades Fighter in Al-Maghazi Camp, Central Gaza

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🤔 Italian Foreign Minister Calls for EU Army

The bloc should form its own combined army that could play a role in 'peacekeeping and preventing conflict,' Forza Italia leader Antonio Tajani has said. (Italian newspaper La Stampa)

"If we want to be peacekeepers in the world, we need a European military. And this is a fundamental precondition to be able to have an effective European foreign policy," he noted in an interview published Sunday.

Tajani also believes the 27-nation EU should streamline its leadership and have a single presidency, rather than the current structure of a European Council and a European Commission president.

Peacekeepers or warmongers?

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❌ NOW: Israeli Aircraft Appears to Carry Out Mock Attacks Over Beirut, Lebanon

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🔴 Robert F Kennedy Jr Drops Some Truth Bombs on Why the West Wanted War in Ukraine – “with American Companies Like Blackrock at the Front of the Line”

Now do Israel…

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ℹ️ Some 95% of container ships that would’ve transited Red Sea are now going around Southern Tip of Africa

The vessels diverting from their ordinary course are marked orange on the map above.

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