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—🗳🇷🇴 BREAKING: Georgescu-backed candidate George Simion sweeps first round of Romanian presidential elections with +40% of votes.

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—🗳🇷🇴 UPDATE: George Simion and Nicușor Dan: profiles of the two candidates advancing to the second round of Romania’s presidential election.

George Simion, leader of the nationalist, eurosceptic, and ultraconservative AUR party, leads the race; followed by Nicușor Dan, a mathematician, current mayor of Bucharest, liberal and politically independent. Both stand firmly against Romania’s traditional political elite.

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ Crin Antonescu refuses to endorse either George Simion or Nicușor Dan, says he leaves his voters to decide for themselves!

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ Broken down by map at 98.6% counted.

Crin Antonescu managed to flip Bihor (BH) from George Simion largely thanks to the Hungarian minority and Nicușor Dan flipped Cluj (CJ) thanks to the city of Cluj-Napoca who has a reputation for being the most liberal-progressive urban area in Romania.

Nicușor Dan also won Bucharest.

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—❗️ URGENT: Romanian Prime Minister Ciolacu resigns as AUR leader Simion signals presidential bid.

Romania’s governing coalition collapses after far-right AUR’s George Simion wins presidential first round; PM Marcel Ciolacu (PSD) resigns and social democrats withdraw, citing loss of legitimacy. Liberal PNL blames PSD for not backing their candidate Antonescu, who finished third.

📰 Source: DW.

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—🇬🇷/🇺🇦 NEW: Greece will not provide additional Patriot systems to Ukraine.

Despite prior Bloomberg reports suggesting Western allies considered transferring more Patriots from Greek and US arsenals, Athens has declined participation.

📰 Source: Reuters.

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—🇷🇴 UPDATE: Presidential candidate George Simion outlines multiple pathways to bring Georgescu into leadership.

Simion stated options include forming a parliamentary majority to appoint Georgescu as Prime Minister, triggering snap elections, or initiating a national referendum.

📰 Source: Daily Romania.

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🇻🇦 Cardinals have wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings in the Vatican, trying to identify a possible new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

The 133 cardinal electors from 70 countries are interested that the new pope can be both a pastor and a teacher and someone who can unite the church and preach peace.


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—🇭🇷 NEW: Polls show Croats strongly oppose integration of Indian and Filipino workers.

Only 2% of Croatian respondents would accept Indians or Filipinos as family members, while over 90% reject them as neighbors—youth and students lead opposition to foreign workers. Meanwhile, just 5% support Russia’s war on Ukraine; majority back Palestine over Israel.

📰 Source: Tomas Sablić.

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🇹🇷🇪🇺 - European Parliament believes Turkey's EU accession process cannot resume, citing "democratic backsliding".
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—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Serbian President Vučić lands in Moscow on the eve of Victory Day.

A bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled for Friday, according to the Kremlin.

📰 Source: Based Serbia and The National Independent.

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—🇷🇸/🇬🇷 NEW: Serbian Chief of General Staff visits Athens for DEFEA 2025 and bilateral military talks.

General Milan Mojsilović leads high-level Serbian delegation to Greece at the invitation of General Dimitris Houpis, with discussions focused on expanding defense cooperation amid rising regional tensions with Turkey, including its support for Greater Albania, military ties with Sarajevo, and threats toward Cyprus.

📰 Source: Social Impact channel.

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—🇬🇷/🇪🇬 NEW: Greece and Egypt sign strategic partnership declaration during Al Sisi's 5th official visit to Athens.

Greek PM Mitsotakis and President Tasoulas met with Egypt's Abdel Fatah Al Sisi to deepen cooperation in security, energy, education, and culture; both sides stressed regional stability, especially regarding Gaza and migration, and agreed to expand bilateral ties through regular consultations and new agreements.

📰 Source: PoliticsGR channel.

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🇻🇦 Cardinals have wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings in the Vatican, trying to identify a possible new pontiff to follow Pope Francis. The 133 cardinal electors from 70 countries are interested that the new pope can be both a pastor and a teacher and…
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—❗️🇻🇦 UPDATE: Sistine Chapel door sealed as Cardinals begin Conclave in Vatican.

Traditional closure signals the start of the papal election; the door will reopen only once a new Pope has been chosen.
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🇻🇦📊📹 — Source in Vatican tells Bellum Acta that around 30,000 faithful pilgrims are gathered at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican State right now
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🇻🇦🗳📹 — Black smoke rises from the Vatican indicating that no new pope has been selected.

The cardinals will reconvene tomorrow to see if candidates for the position can achieve the required majority of 89 votes.
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—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Serbian President Vucic dismisses foreign concerns over his visit to Moscow.

Vucic stated he is in Russia to defend Serbian interests, declaring he doesn't care "what anyone else in the world thinks or says."

📰 Source: Intel Slava channel.

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🇹🇷⚓☢️ — Türkiye's top naval commander announced an intention to build and field nuclear-powered submarines in the future
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