⚠️ NEW: Heavy Rocket Barrage Over Israel’s Haifa

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🇦🇱 Unrest in Albania: Protests Turn Violent

Supporters of the Democratic Party hurled Molotov cocktails at government buildings, the capital’s municipality, the ruling Socialist Party office, and security forces during protests yesterday and last night.

The police reported ten officers injured in the attacks as tensions escalate. Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.

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🤡 ICYMI: Quite possibly the worst television interview by a US presidential candidate in history

Bill Whitaker (CBS): ‘You’ve changed your positions so much that no one truly knows what you believe or stand for?’

Kamala Harris: ‘Well, I’m the vice president and I travel a lot...’

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💰 US Military Aid to Israel Hits Annual Record of $17.9 Billion Since Gaza Conflict Began

In addition, the US has invested $4.86bn in enhanced military operations in the region since October 7, 2023.

This funding includes a Navy-led initiative aimed at countering strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthi army.

Israel has received a whopping $251.2bn in military aid from the US, adjusted for inflation, since 1959.

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🤔 Israel Accuses ICC Prosecutor of Seeking Warrants Without “Giving Time” to Probe Genocidal Acts

Tel Aviv has lamented in a submission to the ICC that the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan failed to give Israel the opportunity to investigate itself before seeking arrest warrants against its leaders, a fundamental principle of the ICC’s founding charter.

Israel, of course, has such a great record of investigating itself objectively… 🤡

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🇨🇺 Cuba officially applies for BRICS partner status

The Cuban government has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc as a partner country in a letter to President Putin, since Russia currently chairs the association, Carlos Pereira, the director general of bilateral affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said.

"Cuba has officially requested to be included in BRICS as a 'partner country' in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the interim chairman of the association, which is strengthening its position as a key player in global geopolitics and the hope of the Global South," Pereira said on X.

Earlier, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel received an invitation to the BRICS summit in Kazan.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Russia’s response measures will be in effect as soon as West authorizes Ukraine to use long-range missiles – 🇷🇺FM Sergey Lavrov

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😮 France Boots Out Osama bin Laden’s Son

Omar Binladin - son of the former top al Qaeda terrorist - must find a new permanent home after French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced Tuesday he was banned from entering the country.

Binladin, who left France last year, was slapped with the restriction due to posts in 2023 which were “hosted on his social media pages” allegedly containing messages “glorifying terrorism.”

An X account with the handle omarbinladin1 reportedly posted on May 2, 2023, the 12th anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, a message paying tribute to the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center in NYC. (Le Publicateur Libre)

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🤔 MI5 Chief Claims UK Security Services Have “Disrupted 20 Iran-Backed, Potentially Lethal Plots" on British Soil in Less Than 3 years

Some 13% of MI5’s terrorist investigations in the same period are against children, Ken McCallum revealed.

Extreme Right-wing terrorism “skews heavily towards young people”, he said, “driven by propaganda that shows a canny understanding of online culture.”

He also asserted that Russian spies are “on a sustained mission to generate mayhem in British streets.”

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⚡️ Israel Further Expands Ground Invasion of Lebanon

A fourth Israeli army division was deployed overnight to conduct ground operations against Hezbollah, the IDF said – with over 15k troops now involved in the “limited” operation.

The thousands of troops currently entering Lebanon’s southwest will be accompanied by Israel’s navy when they begin raids, the IDF spox said.

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🇨🇦 In Ottawa (Canada), a memorial for the victims of communism was built, only to discover that 330 out of 553 names are those of Nazi war criminals. The rest are collaborators of the Nazis from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Latvian SS soldiers.

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🩸 Road Safety Campaigners Want Tesla’s Cybertruck ‘Banned from Europe’

The EV’s angular design poses “unacceptably high risks” to other road users and its “sharp edges” will lead to “increased rates of injury and death.”

Campaigners, including the European Transport Safety Council and European Cyclists’ Federation, urged officials to “suspend the Cybertruck’s access to public streets” in the EU.

The Cybertruck, which weighs more than 4 tonnes and has been hailed as “apocalypse-proof” by Elon Musk, has been spotted in Europe despite strict laws around vehicle design and weight.

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💵 About 45% of Americans Will Run Out of Money in Retirement

The model showed that the risk is higher for single women, who had a 55% chance of running out of money versus 40% for single men and 41% for couples retiring at the age of 65. (Morningstar's Center for Retirement and Policy Studies)

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