🇺🇸 JUST IN: Biden will address the nation with an unannounced statement in a few minutes, the White House reported.

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😵‍💫 NOW: Biden claims his “memory is fine” - blames mishandling of highly classified documents on staffers

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😳 Hands up who had ol’ Joe referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the "president of Mexico" - in his “World Leader Balls Up Bingo Tour, 2024”?

Don’t worry though, folks - because his “memory is fine…” 🙃

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❌ NOW: Israeli Protesters Block the Nitzana Crossing - Denying Vital Humanitarian Aid Access to Gaza

Maybe they want the Israeli hostages to die from starvation? 😳

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🤔 Western Officials Lament Ukraine's War Capabilities in Coming Months as Aid Runs Dry: “This is really as grave as we have been portraying it..." (FT)

'This is a very grim scenario,' the defence official said, adding that the Pentagon was particularly concerned about maintaining Ukrainians’ air defence systems and ammunition supplies."

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⚠️ Displaced Gazans in Rafah Fear IDF Invasion in the City Will “End in Massacres”

Teeming with displaced Gazans huddled in makeshift camps, Rafah has swelled to about five times its size pre-October 7.

The city is one of the few areas spared an Israeli ground offensive thus far, but Netanyahu said this week he had ordered troops to “prepare to operate” there.

The IDF has said it will launch “pinpoint raids” in Rafah – but we have heard these claims before and it could not have been further from the truth as they carpet bombed the rest of Gaza instead.

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❗️NEW: Police Gun Down Man Near Melbourne’s Flinders St Station after Reports of Stabbing Attack

The man was shot by police on Princes Bridge in the CBD just after 7pm local time – online reports suggest three people have been stabbed at the scene.

Sections of the Melbourne CBD have been cordoned off.

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🔴 Violent Protests in Indian City Kills Two, More Than 80 Injured

Mass demonstrations erupted in India's northern city of Haldwani after a govt demolition drive against what it calls illegal encroachments.

An already tense situation flared when Uttarakhand state officials moved to demolish a property that an official said was neither registered as a madrasa nor as a place to offer Islamic prayers, though some locals considered it a religious site.

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🌈 Donald Tusk's Govt has Been in Power Less than Two Months and Poland Finds Itself in No Man’s Land…

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📣 Putin was Ready to End the War March '22 but Former UK PM Boris Johnson Instructed Western-Owned Zelensky to Back Out of Peace Deal

Johnson dismissed the claims as “Russian propaganda.”

Great to wake up to the British establishment scrambling.

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⚠️ Hostage Families Demand Meeting with Israeli War Cabinet after Reports Tel Aviv Refused to Send Representative to Cairo Talks

The decision not to send representatives to Cairo follows reports of “coordinated government attacks on the deal’s outline, which could torpedo it and sentence the hostages to death,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a letter.

As a result of these reports and several other similar items, the Forum added that “difficult questions arise regarding the cabinet’s commitment to the release of the hostages.”

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⚠️ Polish Farmers Join EU Partners in Mass Protest Against Preferential Trade with Ukraine

The nationwide "protection of healthy Polish products" protest includes a border blockade.

The Minister of Agriculture of Poland said that the EU needs to respond to the fact that European farmers' products are becoming uncompetitive and that Polish farmers have suffered the most from imports of agricultural products from Ukraine.

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⚠️ Pyongyang Would Not Hesitate to “Put an End” to South Korea if Attacked – Kim Jong Un

The nuclear-armed North declared Seoul its “principal enemy” this year, closed agencies dedicated to reunification and outreach, and threatened war over “even 0.001 millimeters” of territorial infringement.

“If the enemy dared to use force against our country, we will make a bold decision that will change history and will not hesitate to mobilize all the superpowers to put an end to them,” Kim said. (KCNA)

“Peace is not something to beg for or exchange through negotiations,” he added during a defense ministry event marking the anniversary of the founding of the country’s military.

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📣 Jordanian Security Forces Block Roads Leading to King Hussein Bridge - as Scores of Citizens Rally Towards the Border Crossing to Prevent Delivery of Jordanian Products to Israel

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🔴JUST IN: Syria's Air Defense Responds to “Hostile Targets” in Vicinity of Damascus – SANA

Syrian state media reports that air defenses are engaging an apparent Israeli airstrike over the capital.

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