🎸 WHY? Blinken shows off some guitar licks in Kiev bar while Russian troops advance towards Kharkov

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❗️ Biden admin notifies Congress of planned $1bn new weapons deals for Israel - WSJ

The move comes less than a week after White House paused a shipment of bombs over the planned Israeli assault on Rafah.

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📢 May 15 marks the day when Palestinians were violently expelled from their historic homeland in 1948

This year, it comes as millions in Gaza are experiencing a second Nakba.

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🔴 Russia Destroys 10 ATACMS Missiles Over Crimea – Moscow

The Russian defence ministry has revealed its air forces downed 10 long-range missiles - known as ATACMS - that Ukraine’s military launched overnight at Crimea.

The governor of the Crimean port of Sevastopol said on Telegram that missile debris fell onto a residential area but according to preliminary data, no one was injured.

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📉 Boeing Could Face Criminal Prosecution over 737 MAX Crashes – US State Dept

Boeing violated a deferred prosecution agreement that allowed the aerospace company to evade criminal charges after two crashes of its 737 MAX jet that killed everyone on board, the US State Dept has determined.

Prosecutors delivered the news to a federal judge after hosting a closed-door meeting with the families of the victims of the 2018 and 2019 crashes.

The Justice Dept could prosecute the company “for any federal criminal violation of which the US has knowledge,” including a fraud charge that Boeing hoped to sidestep with its $2.5bn settlement with the US govt.

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⚠️ Putin Backs China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

Beijing had a full understanding of the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis and its global geopolitical meaning, Putin said in an interview published Wednesday by Xinhua News Agency.

Russia remained open to dialogue and talks to solve the more than two-year-old conflict, Putin added.

Principles set down by Xi in talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, were "realistic and constructive steps" that "develop the idea of the necessity to overcome the cold war mentality,” the Russian president noted.

Will the West be willing to end the Kiev laundering machine?

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⚠️ NEW: US is 'encouraging Arab states to participate in peacekeeping force that would deploy in Gaza once war ends' - FT

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🔴 Hamas Releases Rafah Warfare Footage – Daring Tank Raid Caught on Camera

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⚠️ ‘Hitler Was Not Alone in Committing the Holocaust, He Was Supported by Many Countries in Europe' - President Erdogan

‘What happened? He put a bullet in his head. His burnt body was found in his bunker, which, like Germany, was in ruins […]

Sooner or later, the same fate awaits Netanyahu, the butcher of Gaza, and his accomplices in the genocide.’

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💲 US warns Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank that access to the dollar system could be restricted due to operations in Russia - Reuters

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➡️ Palestinian Shows How US-Made Bombs are Utilized by Israeli Forces to Directly Perpetrate Genocide in Gaza

“We will never forget; we will never forgive.”

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⚡️ Kim Jong Un calls for “epochal change” in war preparations

The North Korean leader called for the change during his inspection of a tactical missile system, state media reported Wednesday.

Kim expressed “great satisfaction over the production results registered by the defense industrial enterprises this year, KCNA said.

Missile launchers produced so far this year are intended for military units in the country’s west, KCNA said.

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⚡️ NEW: Blinken announces $2 billion arms package for Ukraine in Kiev

Most of the money comes from the $60bn allotted to Kiev in the supplemental foreign assistance legislation passed by Congress last month.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Look at Blinken lying trough his teeth.

Negotiations are not Ukraine's decision Tony, it's your decision.

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❎ JUST IN: Israeli Forces Bomb House in Gaza’s Rafah

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