⚡️ BREAKING: Hamas turns down Biden’s hostage and ceasfire proposal - Axios

The White House is reportedly evaluating a response by Hamas to the proposal.

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⚠️ UN-backed investigation finds Israel has committed 'war crimes, crimes against humanity' in Gaza since Oct 7

Israel has been responsible for “war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare, murder or wilful killing, intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, forcible transfer, sexual violence, torture and inhuman or cruel treatment, arbitrary detention and outrages upon personal dignity,” the independent inquiry concluded.

The commission found that "the crimes against humanity of extermination, gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys, murder, forcible transfer, and torture and inhuman and cruel treatment" were also committed.

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🔥 Huge Fire Kills at Least 35 in Kuwaiti Residential Building

Firefighters are tackling a blaze in a large apartment complex in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait.

The cause of the fire is unclear at present. (Reuters)

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💸US to Send Another $1.1BN Patriot Defense System to Ukraine

The critical systems are considered incredibly rare, Pentagon officials refuse to disclose how many are in its arsenal, but one senior military person said that the Army has deployed only 14 of them, in the US and around the world.  

It is by far the most expensive single weapon supplied by the US to Kiev, $400mn for the system and $690mn for the missiles.

The new Patriot system would be at least the second that the US has sent to Ukraine.

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🚗JUST IN: EU to Impose 38% Tariffs on Chinese EV’s

Brussels is pushing ahead with Chinese electric vehicle tariffs, brushing aside warnings from Berlin that the move risks starting a costly trade war with Beijing.

The European Commission notified carmakers on Wednesday that it will provisionally apply 38% of additional duties for Chinese electric cars from July 4 – on top of 10% tariffs on the EV’s.

Brussels said that an investigation into the EV value chain revealed that it was “heavily subsidised in China, and that imports of Chinese [electric vehicles] presented a threat of clearly foreseeable and imminent injury to EU industry.”

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⚡️ British Spy Squad Assists Israel's Bombing of Gaza (reports)

Intelligence collection and analysis teams from the US and UK have been in Israel “throughout the war,” a senior Israeli official has revealed. (NYT)

British personnel were “assisting Israeli intelligence in collecting and analysing information related to the hostages, some of them citizens of both countries.”

The Israeli official added that Britain had also “been able to provide intelligence from the air and cyberspace that Israel cannot collect on its own.”

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👁Former US State Dept Official Mike Benz Gives Brief History on Internet Surveillance and Censorship

“When the hearts and minds of the people of Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation – that was the last straw for the concept of free speech on the internet in the eyes of NATO.”

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🤔 Tel Aviv Accuses UN Inquiry of “Anti-Israel Discrimination”

The Commission of Inquiry "has once again proven that its actions are all in the service of a narrow-led political agenda against Israel,” Meirav Eilon Shahar said, Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva.

The UN report had concluded that Israel was guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

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🇩🇪📢⛔️ Meanwhile in Germany...

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🍆Pope Francis Repeats Homophobic Slur Just Weeks After Apology

Pope Francis said there is “an air of faggotry” inside the Vatican, according to leaks from the Holy See.

The pontiff used the offensive term during a closed door meeting with priests in Rome on Tuesday, sources told Ansa, Italy’s national news agency.

Francis caused offence last month when he first referred to “faggotry”, saying too many young seminarians were gay - the Vatican forced to issue an apology, saying the Pope “never intended to offend.”

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🔴FLASHBACK: “We microwaved Catholics in Northern Ireland to make them sick” - Barrie Trower, British Royal Navy weapons “expert”

“People don’t realise they are being targeted. […] You can cause neurological damage and cancers. […] it’s the perfect government weapon.”

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