🔴Hamas likely to remain a force in Gaza when Israel’s war is over - NYT citing US officials

Despite heavy Palestinian losses, much of the top Hamas leadership in Gaza remains in place, ensconced in a vast underground network of tunnels and operations centers.

The underground network will allow Hamas to survive and reconstitute once the fighting stops, current and former US officials said to the NYT.

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⚡️ Israeli army targets residential building in al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza - heavily damaging surrounding area during its "precision" strike

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🍏Apple’s Q1 Sales in China Slump 19.1%, Huawei’s Surges by 70%

Apple's China smartphone market share fell to 15.7% in the first three months of the year from 19.7% in the first quarter of 2023, according to Counterpoint Research.

Huawei's share rose to 15.5% from 9.3%.

Is the US giant's dominance in the high-end segment of the world's largest smartphone market under threat?

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💲Military Spending Rose Almost 7% to Record $2.4TN Globally Last Year - Steepest Annual Increase in 15 Years

Escalating geopolitical tensions in Asia and the Middle East helped drive the increase in global defence spending to 2.3% of global economic output, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its latest annual survey.

The US taxpayer is being taken to the cleaners by politicians looking to maximise their stock portfolios.

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⚠️ Israeli Massacre in Numbers - after 200 Days of War on Gaza

The world watches on while Israel - in cahoots with its Western allies - commits genocide on an industrial scale.

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🆕 IDF Continues Relentless Bombardment of Gaza – Strikes Deir al-Balah

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⚡️ Czech counter-intelligence services have arrested a Ukrainian suspected of plotting to assassinate Slovakia's president-elect, Peter Pellegrini.

The Ukrainian turned out to be a 24-year-old from Vinnytsia, "mentally unstable and a Nazi Marunich V", Czech news agency ČTK reported.

It is known that the Ukrainian was arrested in the city of Brno while taking weapons from a cache.

🔘 President Pellegrini, who won Slovakia's elections on April 7, is a critic of Western military support for Kiev regime.

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➡️ If Israel attacks Iranian territory, there is unlikely to be “anything left” of the Jewish state - Iran President Ebrahim Raisi (IRNA)

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🤔 Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Inside Israel

Hezbollah has launched a series of drone strikes against Israeli military bases, in its deepest attack inside Israel since the start of the war on Gaza.

The “combined air attack using decoy and explosive drones” targeted two Israeli bases north of the city of Acre, which sits on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, 12 miles from the Lebanese border, the militant group said in a statement.

The strikes came “in response” to the killing of one of the group’s senior operatives, Hussein Azqul, earlier Tuesday.

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⚡️ China Issues Highest-Level Red Rainstorm Warning amid Deadly Floods

Heavy rainstorms that swept across southern China have killed at least four people - as floods swamped cities in the densely populated Pearl River Delta, local media reported.

A search was under way for 10 others missing after record-breaking rains sparked concerns about the region’s defenses against bigger deluges induced by extreme weather events.

About 110k people had been evacuated across the province, while 25,800 people were in emergency shelters, according to Xinhua.

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