➡️ NEW: France will “step up support” for the Lebanese Army - 🇫🇷 Foreign Minister Barrot (France24)

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❌ JUST IN: IDF spox Hagari calls on Israelis not to publish troop movements - amid growing indications of an Israeli ground incursion into southern Lebanon

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✨ NOW: IDF flares light up sky on Lebanese border

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🤔 Israel Pretends to Be Acting in Self Defense Against Lebanon - Bloomberg Data Suggests Otherwise

Israel has consistently fired far more rockets over the border since October 7 last year.

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❌ JUST IN: Syrian Air Defenses Confront “Hostile Targets” around Damascus - Sky News Arabia citing local media

Explosions can be heard in footage from the capital - Israel appears to be also attacking Syria.

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❌ Freight Rates Rise as Crippling US Dock Strike Begins

Tens of thousands of dockworkers have gone on strike indefinitely at ports across much of the US, threatening significant trade and economic disruption ahead of the presidential election.

Members of the International Longshoremen's Association walked out Tuesday over wages at 14 major ports along the east and gulf coasts, halting container traffic from Maine to Texas.

The action marks the first such shutdown in almost 50 years.

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⚠️ IDF vehicles begin demolishing houses in village of ad-Duyuk at-Tahta, east of Jericho - in the occupied West Bank

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⚠️ NOW: IDF spox urges civilians in southern Lebanon to “avoid driving north to south of the Litani River”

The warning suggests Israel is about to target a huge area in southern Lebanon.

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➡️ JUST IN: Julian Assange speaks for the first time regarding his incarceration

"I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice - after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy.”

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❌ BREAKING: Dozens of children feared dead in Thailand school bus crash

A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital Bangkok.

Sixteen children and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 pupils and three teachers remain unaccounted for.

The bus was carrying the pupils and teachers back from a school field trip in the northern province of Uthai Thani.

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🔴IDF Invasion Aftermath: Rescuers Continue to Search for Missing People - Following Israeli Bombing of Palestinian Refugee Camp in Sidon, Lebanon

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😴 UK’s Net Zero Sprint Risks “Destabilising Power Grid” - Energy Giant

Britain’s rapid shift away from fossil fuels threatens to leave shortfalls in the National Grid, an EDF exec has warned.

The new Labour govt plans to decarbonise Britain’s power system by 2030.

By abandoning stable forms of energy generation, such as coal, gas and nuclear, the grid would be reliant on intermittent sources - such as wind and solar.

Blackouts in London to be the norm in less than a decade?

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🗣 Julian Assange spoke about his years in prison for the first time since his release at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg

I want to make it totally clear: I am free today not because the system worked. I am free today because I pleaded guilty to journalism

‘The truth now seems less discernible… I regret how much ground has been lost… how expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished’

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