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Left-wing radicals are trying to storm a Tesla factory near Berlin to protest against the company's expansion.

Police fear sabotage, as the protesters are supported by the Vulkan group, which earlier claimed responsibility for setting fire to a transformer box.

The radicals are dissatisfied with the fact that the planned expansion of Tesla's production facility involves the clearing of more than 100 hectares of forest.

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🇺🇳 The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is temporarily closing its headquarters in East Jerusalem due to arson attacks by Israeli residents, UNRWA commissioner-general says

"This is an outrageous development. Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk," Philippe Lazzarini said, adding that none of the UNRWA staff were injured, but the fire significantly damaged the outdoor areas.


Earlier in the day, Israelis set fire twice to the perimeter of the building, while a crowd accompanied by armed men and chanting "Burn down the United Nations" was spotted outside, Lazzarini wrote on social networks.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Israel has enough power to fight alone in the event of a possible cutoff of military aid from the United States, Israeli prime minister says

"If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. We will fight with our fingernails if we have to," Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address to the nation released on Thursday.


On Monday, Israel started a military operation in the eastern parts of Rafah and took control of the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

This came despite the Palestinian movement Hamas agreeing to the terms of a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu called the deal unacceptable. Over a million people are believed to be sheltering in Rafah.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the US had paused one shipment of "high payload munitions" to Israel and was "reviewing near-term" shipments amid Israel’s heightened offensive in Rafah.

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These are the signs of the beginning of the end for Zelensky and his bloody regime that destroyed Ukraine, and the best part about it is that Russia really has nothing to do with it. Zelensky alive is more in the interests of Russia than him being dead right now. Predictable.

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“The liberal international order is slowly falling apart,” - cover of the British magazine The Economist.

▪️ "The order that governed the world economy for many years after World War II has been undermined. Today it is close to collapse. An alarming number of triggers could provoke a slide into anarchy, where might is right and war again becomes the refuge of the great powers."
▪️The collapse of the old order is visible everywhere. One of its signs is sanctions, which are applied 4 times more often than in the 1990s. There is also a “war of subsidies”, when countries around the world, led by China and the United States, are making injections into their economies.
▪️“Global capital flows are beginning to fragment,” although the dollar’s position is still stable. And international institutions are in a great fever.
▪️"The institutions that protected the old system have either ceased to exist or are rapidly losing credibility. The World Trade Organization will turn 30 next year, but will spend more than 5 years in stasis (an artificial pause) due to US neglect. The IMF is gripped by an identity crisis, caught between a green agenda and ensuring financial stability. The UN Security Council is paralyzed, and supranational courts such as the International Court of Justice are increasingly being weaponized by warring parties.
▪️Now problems in the world will be solved by clubs of like-minded countries, not by globalized institutions. This increases the risks of increased wars and environmental disasters. It is also fraught with a decline in social standards, which peaked in the 90s - 2000s, when the liberal world order was at the height of its power.

In other words, these "rules based order" ghouls are scared shitless of the multipolarity that is inevitably looming over the world. Seethe you warmongering hacks, it's good for your souls, if you still got any left.

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About 25-30,000 protesters have gathered in the center of Warsaw, Polish media reports.

The protesters are marching in a column towards the Sejm and carry a four-meter-tall figure of death with a scythe on a car trailer, symbolizing the death of Polish agriculture.

They are demanding a national referendum on Poland's accession to the Green Deal and are collecting signatures to demand it. They also distribute apples to everyone, assuring them that they are grown in environmentally friendly conditions.

“Harvest or partition, you still have a choice”, “You got developed Poland, and you left it destroyed. Another partition of Poland”, “Let Brussels eat the worms, but we want chops and potatoes”, “Destroy the European commune" are some of the slogans on the posters.

Traffic in the city center is blocked.

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Israel may face one of its largest budget deficits as the Gaza War bites

Israel's 12-month trailing budget deficit has increased to 132.2 billion shekels ($35.4 billion), or 7% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), as of the end of April, the Israeli Finance Ministry has revealed.

The ministry’s data published on Thursday showed that the current fiscal shortfall is higher than the government’s target of 6.6% for the full calendar year of 2024.

The increase is mainly attributed to the Jewish state’s heightened military expenditures on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict that escalated in October 2023.

With the Gaza War’s financial toll on the rise, Israel reportedly is on track to run one of its widest budget deficits this century. The state’s central bank previously estimated the total cost of the conflict would stand at a whopping 255 billion shekels ($68.5 billion) during 2023-2025.

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🇺🇦🇱🇹 Why Are Diplomats Calling For TERRORIST ATTACKS?

Recently, Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, and Linas Linkevičius, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Sweden and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence, made some irresponsible tweets suggesting attacks on the Crimean Bridge.

@Willy_OAM_REAL recently uploaded a video to his YouTube channel in which he asked an international lawyer about the legitimacy of an attack on the bridge. The answer, considering that the SBU stated that Russia DOES NOT use the bridge for military purposes, will not surprise you.

🔊 The audio is from Willy's video.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: May 10-11 (Recap)

1️⃣ Fierce combat is under way in eastern Rafah with Hamas fighters ambushing tanks and troops with improvised explosive devices, rockets and sniper fire as Israeli forces push deeper into the city sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians..

2️⃣ A State Department report says Israel’s use of US-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, but Washington will continue to supply arms to Israel for now.

3️⃣ Israeli tanks seal off Rafah from the south and complete the encirclement of the “red zone”, where Israel’s military has ordered 100,000 displaced Palestinian residents to evacuate as the Israeli war cabinet authorises an expansion of operations in the southern city.

4️⃣ UN Security Council members have called for an independent and comprehensive investigation into mass graves in Gaza where hundreds of bodies – including women, children and the elderly – have been discovered around the Nasser and al-Shifa Hospitals.

5️⃣ The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution expanding the state of Palestine’s “rights and privileges” and supporting its bid for UN recognition. Israel’s ambassador to the UN shredded a copy of the UN Charter during his speech at the UNGA in which he denounced the resolution.

6️⃣ UN’s World Food Programme says the southern crossings to Gaza, where the main flow of aid goes into the enclave, have seen nothing enter for three days.

7️⃣ Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose government he described as “genocidal”.

At least 34,943 people including more than 15,000 children, have been killed and over 78,572 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️Military Expert Boris Rozhin about the #Avdeyevka Direction on 10 May 2024 at 22:32⚡️

🔻1. #Netaylovo:
🟡Fighting continues in the western part of the village.
🟡The enemy moved reinforcements to #Karlovka to prevent its rapid loss if the #Netaylovo defence collapses.
🟡The RFAF have made some progress towards #Yasnobrodovka.

🔻2. #Umanskoye:
🟡Fighting is taking place in the central and western part of the village.
🟡The enemy is striving to hold at least part of the village, because the loss of it will lead to the forced abandonment of a number of positions north of the village and will cause additional problems with the front stabilisation west of #Avdeyevka.

🔻3. #Novopokrovskoye:
🟡The village is still under the enemy.
🟡Fighting is taking place to the north and northeast of the village's outskirts.
🟡The RFAF occupied several more landings south of #Solovyevo and #Novobakhmutovka.
🟡We can expect that next week the fighting will shift to the village itself.

🔻4. #Ocheretino:
🟡West of #Ocheretino, fighting is ongoing in the direction of #Sokol.
🟡So far, it has not been possible to advance to the outskirts of the village.
🟡To the northwest, fighting is taking place at the outskirts of #Novoaleksandrovka.
🟡North of #Ocheretino, the fighting continues to shift towards #Kalinovo. #Novokalinovka was officially liberated today.
🟡#Keramik and #Arkhangelskoye are next on turn.
🟡The enemy continues to transfer reinforcements near #Ocheretino in order to somehow stall the advance of the RFAF.

📌 In general, the RFAF continue to maintain the initiative here, the enemy is still far from solving the problem of stabilising the front.
🟡The problems of the AFU in other areas (primarily at #ChasovYar) also play in favor of the RFAF Federation, which makes it difficult for the AFU to maneuver reserves.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸⚔️ Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Zone until the End of 10 May 2024⚡️

🔹In the north of the #Gaza Strip, units of the Israel Defense Forces carried out an operation in the Az-Zeitoun area in the south of the capital of the Palestinian enclave. During the raid, there were periodic clashes between the two sides, and mutual attacks were also noted.

🔹In the south of the Enclave, the IDF operation continues in the east of Rafah, where the Israelis managed to advance along the Salah al-Din Motorway. Hamas militants fired at the Kerem Shalom Checkpoint, the Isnad Sufa Base, and for the first time in six months, Beer Sheva.

🔹Along the border with #Lebanon, there was a routine exchange of strikes. Hezbollah fighters fired at several Israeli targets, including Kiryat Shmona, in the direction of which 55 rockets were launched. In response, the IDF bombed southern #Lebanon.

🔹In the Red Sea Region, east of Aden, fighters from the Yemeni Ansarallah movement carried out an unsuccessful attempt to seize a merchant ship.

🔹In #Iraq, pro-Iranian groups announced several launches of kamikaze drones against #Israel.

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📜 RYBAR; 10 May 2024, 22:24

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 10 May 2024⚡️

🔹Russian Troops attacked enemy targets in the #Nikolayev and #Zaporozhye regions. The AFU attacked Russian fuel and energy infrastructure facilities in the #Kaluga region with drones.

🔹In the #Slobozhanskoye direction (#NorthUkraine direction in #Kharkov section), Russian troops went on the offensive and liberated a number of settlements in the zone bordering the #Belgorod region.

🔹In the #Bakhmut direction, clashes continue in the area of #​​ChasovYar, as well as in the area of ​​the Stupki-Golubovskiye-2 Nature Reserve and in #Kleshcheyevka.

🔹In the #Avdeyevka direction, there are battles in the areas of #Arkhangelskoye, #Umanskoye and #Ocheretino. The exact configuration of the front is currently unknown due to the “fog of war.”

🔹In #Ugledar direction, on the #Vremyevka ledge, Russian troops continue to advance in #Staromayorskoye and #Urozhaynoye, slightly expanding the zone of control in the settlements.

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📜 RYBAR: 11 May 2024, 00:00

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