—🇲🇰/🇺🇸 WATCH: Far-left Levica lawmakers in North Macedonia unfurled a banner reading “NATO kills for profit” inside parliament as NATO chief Mark Rutte addressed MPs in Skopje, staging a brief anti-NATO protest during his speech.

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—🇮🇱 ✈️ 🇷🇸 NEW: The Government of Serbia and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized the evacuation of 67 passengers from Israel, including Serbian nationals and citizens of:

🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇸🇮 Slovenia

➡️ This operation was carried out on a special Air Serbia flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Belgrade.

➡️ The operation was conducted in coordination with Serbian embassies in Israel and Egypt amid ongoing security instability in the wider Middle East region.

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—🇧🇬✈️🇦🇪🇴🇲 NEW: Special repatriation flights operated by GullivAir, Bulgaria Air and the State Aviation Operator have been organized on 4–5 March to return Bulgarian citizens stranded in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman amid the Middle East security situation.

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—🇦🇱🤝🇺🇸🇸🇦 NEW: Albania’s FM has strongly condemned the Iranian attack targeting the United States Embassy in Riyadh, calling the strike unacceptable and a clear violation of international law and the fundamental principles protecting diplomatic missions and their personnel worldwide.

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—🇹🇷🤝🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 WATCH: The ultras of Turkish league club Eskişehirspor dancing to Paquito el Chocolatero as a thank-you to Spain for not allowing the U.S. to use its military bases. It’s completely surreal.

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—❗️🪖🇧🇬 NEW: Bulgaria is reassessing its position regarding the risks posed by the conflict in the Middle East.

➡️ Acting Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov announced that the Ministry of Defense will conduct an urgent analysis of threats and risks following recent developments in the region.

➡️ Also there are some rumours that the missiles intercepted over the Turkish airspace were meant for Bulgaria.

ℹ️ Information reported by our source in Bulgaria.

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🇲🇩🚨 Power stations and several industrial enterprises have shut down abruptly in Transnistria due to the sudden cessation of natural gas deliveries.

Recall that the Moldovan government declared a state of emergency after natural gas prices on the European market skyrocketed following the outbreak of the Israel-Iran War.

For now, the Transnistrian government switched to coal to keep producing electricity and heat but the supply of coal is extremely limited as the coal used to come from Ukraine and Ukraine has shut down the border in 2022 and has since lost the Donbas coal mines.

Transnistria depends on the European gas market just as much as Moldova to function.

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—🪖🇪🇸🤝🇨🇾 NEW: Spain will deploy the frigate Cristóbal Colón to Cyprus, joining a naval group led by the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and Greek Navy vessels, to reinforce air defence after a drone attack on a British base on the island linked to the Middle East conflict.

➡️ The F-105, described by Madrid as the most technologically advanced frigate in the Spanish Navy, will complement the Patriot battery already deployed in Turkey, and stand by for possible evacuations of civilians if the situation escalates.

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—🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 NEW: Spain’s government has flatly rejected opening talks with Washington on expanded use of the Rota and Morón bases amid the escalating US–Iran confrontation, contradicting White House claims that Madrid had agreed to cooperate militarily under pressure from President Donald Trump.

➡️ Spanish officials stress there is no new authorization in place and say any use of Spanish-sovereign facilities must remain within existing bilateral agreements and international law.

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—🇪🇸/🇧🇦 FACT: Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez once lived and worked in Sarajevo in 1999 as head of office to then–High Representative Carlos Westendorp, during the post-war international administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

➡️ His last official visit to Bosnia as Spanish premier was in July 2022, when he returned to Sarajevo and Mostar to back the country’s EU path and meet the tripartite presidency and local authorities.

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🇸🇦❌🇮🇷❗️ — URGENT: Saudi authorities have issued a nationwide warning to citizens ahead of possible military operations related to the escalating conflict with Iran.

▶️The government urged the public not to share photos or videos of any military activity inside the Kingdom, warning that such material could expose sensitive information like location data and timestamps that adversaries could exploit.

🇸🇦💬Official message:

“To all citizens, residents, and visitors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , we stress that in the coming hours images or videos related to military movements inside the Kingdom may circulate. It is strictly prohibited to publish, repost, share, or interact with any such content across social media or messaging platforms. Every photo or video contains hidden digital data including location coordinates, time of capture, and technical details that hostile parties could use to analyze the movements of our armed forces and harm national security. Publishing such material, even with good intentions, is irresponsible and poses a direct risk to the safety of the country and its people. The security of the homeland is everyone’s responsibility. Your commitment to not sharing such content directly supports the efforts of our leadership and armed forces in protecting the nation. We repeat: do not publish, do not forward, do not interact with, and do not spread any military-related content.”

—🇹🇷❌🇬🇷 NEW: Türkiye has lodged protests over Greece’s latest deployments in the Dodecanese and eastern Aegean, claiming violations of the demilitarized status of the islands under the Treaty of Lausanne and the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

➡️ Greek commentators note that Türkiye is not a party to the 1947 Paris Treaty by which Italy ceded the Dodecanese to Greece and therefore has no standing to invoke its clauses, while Athens insists its measures are purely defensive in response to regional tensions.

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—🇦🇱🤝🇦🇿 NEW: Albanian PM Edi Rama has condemned Iran’s drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region, calling it a grave act of aggression against a neighboring country and urging that Iran be classified as a “terrorist state” and isolated internationally.

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—🇹🇷🤝🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 WATCH: A Turkish news anchor ended a live broadcast by switching to Spanish and thanking Spain for “standing on the right side of history”, a clip that has already drawn over 1 million views on X.

🔗 Daily Turkic

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—🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Washington has requested Kyiv’s assistance in defending against Iranian-made Shahed attack drones, which both Russia and Iran have repeatedly used in recent conflicts.

➡️ The statement suggests expanding US-Ukrainian cooperation beyond the battlefield in Ukraine to counter Tehran’s drone threat globally.

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🇷🇺❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

Russia will do everything to create an atmosphere that will make US and Israel operation against Iran impossible

🔗 Sputnik (@SputnikInt)