—🇹🇷/🇬🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Turkish analysts and media are increasingly portraying Greece’s new €3 billion “Achilles Shield” agreement with Israel as part of a broader Greece-Cyprus-Israel security alignment directed at Turkey.

➡️ Signed in Tel Aviv on Monday, the deal will provide Athens with a multi-layered air and missile defence network based on Israeli systems.

➡️ Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis added to Ankara’s concerns by saying in parliament that Greece’s strategic alliance with Israel safeguards the country against the “Turkish threat” and other threats.

➡️ The deal comes amid Athens’ wider military modernisation programme and longstanding Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

🔗 Mario Nawfal

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—🇲🇩❌🇷🇺🇲🇩 NEW: Moldova has accused Russia of violating its sovereignty by planning 16 polling stations in Transnistria for Russia’s Duma elections.

➡️ Chisinau says it only authorized one polling station at the Russian Embassy, not additional sites in the breakaway region.

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—🇷🇸❌🇺🇳 WATCH: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic revealed today that former KLA terrorist organization leader Hashim Thaçi will receive “some kind of guilty verdict, just to cover time in pretrial detention,” but will be found not guilty of the most serious crimes against Serbs.

🔗 The National Independent

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—🇪🇸 Today, massive demonstrations in support of Ceuta are expected to take place across cities and towns throughout Spain.

➡️ Since what’s happening in Ceuta has generated so much interest among our audience, we will be covering them.

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🇧🇦 🏳️ Raif Dizdarević, former President of the Presidency of the SFRY, has died at the age of 99.

Dizdarević was a prominent Bosnian and Yugoslav diplomat and politician who also took part in the National Liberation War.

He served as President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1988 to 1989, during the final years before the country’s breakup.

—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: Footage shared from Madrid shows a large gathering around Cibeles, with demonstrators chanting “Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta is defended” and calling for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to resign.

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—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: Footage from Zaragoza shows Plaza del Pilar filled with demonstrators during protests over Ceuta, as rallies spread to several Spanish cities.

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—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: Demonstrators in Seville were heard chanting “Marlaska resign,” targeting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska amid protests linked to Ceuta.

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—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: A gathering in Valencia over Ceuta concluded with the anthems of Ceuta, the Valencian Community and Spain.

➡️ According to El Debate, only the 17 councillors from the PP and Vox attended, while representatives from the PSPV-PSOE and Compromís were absent.

🔗 El Debate

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—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: Plaza Mayor in Salamanca was packed with demonstrators chanting “We are all Ceuta” during a rally in support of the Spanish enclave.

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—❗️🇪🇸 WATCH: Aerial footage circulating online shows large crowds marching during demonstrations in Ceuta.

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—👑 🇪🇸 NEW: Spain’s former king Juan Carlos I has expressed frustration to people close to him over the government’s handling of the Ceuta crisis, according to The Objective.

➡️ He reportedly criticises both Moncloa’s initial response and the lack of high-level dialogue with Morocco.

🔗 Teresa Gómez

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