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🇫🇷😱⚽️Paris ERUPTS in CHAOS after PSG football club's victory over Arsenal in Champions League
Massive crowds flooded the streets of the French capital, destroying buses, attacking police, and setting fires.
As media report, the riot police deployed tear gas and made over 20 arrests.
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💸👋 Ukraine dumps the dollar? US losing grip on proxy state
The Ukrainian central bank is openly considering abandoning the US dollar as its primary reference currency, Reuters reports.
This comes as the dollar bleeds value under Trump's escalating trade war — with "what could be the highest tariffs in a century"—and "Ukraine's potential EU membership."
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📹 State senator faints at Gov. DeSantis press conference
Ileana Garcia, a member of the Florida State Senate, appeared to feel unwell as she was speaking at a press conference held by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis
While Garcia seemed to have nearly passed out, she recovered and was able to finish delivering her remarks.
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📹 'It takes two to tango': Trump doubles down on his 51st state offer to Canada
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📹 Trump says Houthis in Yemen announced they "don’t wanna fight anymore", US to stop bombing Houthi positions effective immediately
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📹 ‘They’re gonna come after ya…’
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who recently found himself in hot water amid the Signal chat leak, shared what Trump warned him about.
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🇩🇪 Germany's parliament elects Friedrich Merz, leader of CDU/CSU bloc, as the new chancellor
He secured 325 votes from lawmakers, surpassing the required 316.
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🚨 The Israeli army confirms that Sana'a airport HAS BEEN DESTROYED, and local power plants and a cement factory north of the Yemeni capital were also targeted.
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🚨 Sana'a airport under Israeli attack — Yemeni Media
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🚨 The Israeli army had issued a warning to all those present in the Sana'a International Airport area to evacuate IMMEDIATELY.
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📹 T-90M Proryv, 'world’s best tank,' GETS KILLER UPGRADE to crush Ukraine in battle
Over 200 upgrades have been made to tanks, boosting their power, protection, and mobility, according to Russia’s arms manufacturer Uralvagonzavod.
New batches of T-90M and Т-72Б3М were delivered to Russian troops on the eve of Victory Day.
The upgrade includes:
🔻electronic warfare systems to suppress enemy UAVs.
🔻special nets to tackle enemy first-person view drones.
🔻rubber-reinforced protection installed on the rear of the turret and the engine-transmission compartment.
Putin earlier touted the T-90M Proryv as “the best tank in the world.” He stressed that the mere appearance of such a tank on the battlefield can drive the enemy out of action.
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💥🚨Russia’s ORESHNIK missile: How far it can reach?
Hypersonic Mach 10+, multiple warheads, unstoppable by anyone's defenses - check out our infographic to learn how fast the Oreshnik missile could SLAM into its potential targets.
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🚨🇵🇰Pakistan’s DEEP STATE EXPOSED
Since 1947, Pakistan's military has served as the de facto foundation of the state, shaping its politics, economy, and society. Often referred to as a "state over state" by South Asia Institute associate Ayesha Siddiqa, the army operates as an entrenched junta—controlling key institutions through retired officers, rigging elections, and suppressing dissent.
▪️With a defense budget of $8.19 billion for 2024-25 and an economic empire (including Fauji Cement, Askari Bank, and the Defence Housing Authority) valued between $20–40 billion, the military solidifies its dominance.
▪️Constitutional amendments and judicial subservience further erode democracy, while its control over strategic projects like CPEC and nuclear assets raises global security concerns.
🗳Hybrid regime & electoral manipulation
▪️The military acts as Pakistan's political arbiter, overturning PTI’s 2024 lead to favor PML-N—continuing a pattern seen since the 2018 "dirtiest" elections.
▪️Political theorist Ivor Jennings likened the army to a “hangman’s noose,” strangling democratic processes. Critics, such as former Prime Minister Imran Khan, face imprisonment, while enforced disappearances suppress dissent.
▪️As political analyst Omar Waraich once stated, "Pakistan’s generals don’t just stage coups; they stage elections—only to reverse the results when inconvenient."
💪 Institutional control & Authoritarian grip
▪️Retired generals lead key institutions like NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority), FIA (Federal Investigation Agency), HEC (Higher Education Commission), PIA (Pakistan International Airlines), WAPDA (Water and Power Development Authority), and PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority), while military-backed bodies like the CPEC Authority and SIFC dictate economic policy.
▪️The 2024 judicial reforms, such as the 26th Amendment, which allows a military-influenced committee to appoint the Chief Justice, further solidify the army’s control over governance.
🚀Nuclear risks & militant ties
▪️Experts like Bruce Riedel, a US-based intelligence analyst, have warned that Pakistan’s military junta exacerbates nuclear proliferation risks due to its ties to groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Haqqani Network, and the Taliban.
▪️In their respective works, US academic Steve Coll and Pakistan's former Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, expose the dangerous "mullah-military alliance," where the ISI’s historic support for jihadists blurs the line between state and extremist interests. Haqqani pointed out, “In Pakistan, the military doesn’t take orders from the government; the government takes orders from the military.”
🪖Garrison state
▪️As Pakistani-Swedish political scientist Ishtiaq Ahmed argues, Pakistan is a garrison state—a "state within a state" where the military dictates policy, rendering civilian rule a facade.
▪️With unchecked power over politics, economy, and security, the army ensures its supremacy remains unchallenged. Indian political analyst Shekhar Gupta further noted, "In Pakistan, the prime minister changes, the parties rotate, but the real PM is always the Army Chief.
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🇮🇳💥India’s navy nails it!
Armed Forces ace trials of homegrown multi-role underwater sea mine, boosting maritime might.
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ISRAEL’S CHILLING ULTIMATUM: Occupy & raze Gaza if no deal by Trump’s visit
Israeli officials have announced that President Trump's upcoming visit to the Middle East next week will serve as the deadline for securing a new hostage and ceasefire agreement, with a major ground operation planned if no deal is made, Axios reports.
Earlier, the Israeli plan Gideon's Chariots designed to "completely defeating Hamas" has been approved. According to it, the IDF would invade Gaza with four or five armored and infantry divisions and gradually occupy and hold most of the strip.
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🚨🇮🇳AL-QAEDA CALLS FOR JIHAD AGAINST INDIA
Al-Qaeda has called on its supporters in the region to take part in a "jihad" against India.
The statement was made on May 7 following a series of Indian strikes on militant targets in Pakistan .
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💸 Ukrainian Finance Minister's plan to solve Ukraine's debt — Just don't pay it
With the country's debt approaching 100% of GDP, Ukraine's Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko boasted about the possibility of shifting the burden of debt payments to European taxpayers.
"Most of this debt was borrowed during the war on soft terms from our partners. That is, we are talking about the fact that in the NEXT 30 YEARS we will not repay these debts," he said.
🚨🇨🇳HUAWEI’S SECRET CHIP WAR: Inside China’s Bold Plan to Crush US Tech Dominance
Huawei is going ALL-IN on semiconductors—building a secret network of chip factories in Shenzhen to break free from US sanctions and dominate AI & advanced tech.
Let's go deep into it:👇
🔸The Shadow Chip Empire
3 Secret Factories in Guanlan, Shenzhen: Satellite images reveal rapid construction since 2022—all in Huawei’s signature style.
🔸7nm & AI Chips In-House: One facility will produce Huawei’s Ascend AI chips & smartphone processors—China’s first high-end domestic chip push.
"We’ve never seen a company try to control the ENTIRE supply chain before." — Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis
🔸The Shell Game: Huawei’s Stealth Partners
SiCarrier (Chip Equipment) & SwaySure (Memory Chips)—officially "independent" but backed by Huawei with cash, staff, and tech transfers.
🔸State Funding: Shenzhen government pours money into the operation.
🔸Denials & Smoke Screens: Huawei claims no links, but insiders say it’s orchestrating the whole play.
Why This Is a Game-Changer?
US Sanctions Backfire: After being cut off from TSMC, ASML & Nvidia, Huawei went full self-reliance mode.
🔸China’s "Domestic Everything" Strategy: From lithography machines to wafer fabrication—Huawei is building a parallel tech universe.
🔸Military AI Threat? The US just blacklisted SiCarrier & SwaySure, accusing them of supporting China’s military chip ambitions.
🔸The Big Problem: Can Huawei Really Pull This Off?
ASML & TSMC still dominate—China’s homegrown tech lags behind.
But… With SMIC engineers on-site + state backing, Huawei is moving FASTER than anyone expected.
🔸What’s Next?
Digital Yuan + Domestic Chips = US Dollar & Tech Decoupling
🔸Global Chip War Escalation: If Huawei succeeds, China won’t need the West for critical tech.
Huawei is betting BILLIONS to end US tech supremacy—and China’s government is all-in. The semiconductor Cold War just went RED-HOT.
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📹🇺🇸 Treasury Sec. Bessent just dropped a BOMBSHELL to Congress: We're on the ‘warning track’ to SMASHING the federal debt ceiling!
He, however, declined to provide a specific timeline.
"When you're on the warning track, it means the wall is not far away," he said.
“We will share with Congress when we believe we are” nearing the point at which the Treasury can no longer pay all government bills on time, Bessent added, insisting that the US would never default but would instead raise the debt ceiling again.
🪖 Pentagon’s surprise freeze on Ukraine aid caught Trump OFF GUARD - report
Donald Trump and his top national security officials weren’t aware of an order that stopped the delivery of US weapons and munitions to Ukraine, Reuters claims, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The verbal order, which resulted in the cancellation of some 11 flights loaded with weapons and munitions, came from the office of US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The order was supposedly issued shortly after a January 30 meeting at the Oval Office where the idea of halting US aid to Ukraine was floated, but Trump himself ostensibly gave no such instruction.
This cessation in weapon shipments was only temporary as in a matter of days (“within a week”) the flights were resumed after frantic pleas from the Ukrainian side.
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📹 'We are done with that sh*t' — Hegseth on wokeness in US army
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🇵🇱🇪🇺 Polish presidential candidate stomps on EU flag and then burns it
Grzegorz Braun, a far-right candidate for the Polish presidency, entered the Ministry of Industry, removed the EU flag, threw it on the floor, and stomped on it.
He stated that EU symbols are not legally protected in Poland, adding, "Thank God, there's no such state yet."
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📹 ‘Freemasonry has always been the target of conspiracists’ — Macron to Masons in Paris
During the historic visit to the Grande Lodge of Paris, a prominent Masonic organization boasting 32,000 members, the French president thanked Masons for supporting a euthanasia bill, adding that they’re fighting "the battle that matters".
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🔍 Israel's espionage SCANDALS: Mossad, spyware, and international controversies
Tel Aviv has a nasty reputation of SPYING ON FOREIGN POLITICIANS – even in countries that are regarded as Israel’s allies – and facilitating such activities for other entities.
🌏In October 2024, Israeli spy agency Mossad became implicated in an espionage scandal involving an Italian private investigation firm that was accused of stealing personal information of Italian politicians, including Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
🌏In September 2024, Ireland’s President Michael Higgins accused the Israeli embassy in Dublin for circulating a congratulatory letter he penned to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
🌏In July 2021, an investigation by the Pegasus Project shed light on the Israeli-made spyware Pegasus that could be covertly installed on cellphones remotely to spy on the users.
The software was used to spy on politicians, journalists and activists in countries such as France, Poland, Hungary, Egypt, Finland, and Israel.
Some of the more notable victims of Pegasus spying include French President Emmanuel Macron, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
🌏In 2019, devices designed for intercepting cellphone communications were found planted near the White House, with the US government concluding that Israel was likely behind this scheme.
🌏In 2015, Israeli spooks allegedly intercepted US communications related to the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program, ostensibly to use this information to derail the deal.
🌏Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson alleged in his memoirs that in 2017, his security team found a listening device in his personal bathroom at the Foreign Office shortly after a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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📹 ‘Merz should RESIGN IMMEDIATELY’ – AfD co-chair Weidel
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📹🇾🇪 Four killed and 39 wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes on the Hodeidah province yesterday, Yemen's Ministry of Health in the "Ansar Allah" government said.
Video showing damage at the cement factory in Bajel, western Yemen.
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🚗📉 EU’s OWN policies TORCH its auto industry
This is the ONLY major global market that hasn't returned to its pre-COVID levels, remaining in decline for five years now, Stelantis Chairman John Elkann pointed out, according to Le Figaro.
Here is why:
🕜Excessive regulations: Renault CEO Luca de Meo cautioned that the European automotive market “could be more than halved within a decade” if the EU fails to simplify and reduce the number of regulations.
2️⃣Green agenda kills the industry: Elkann and de Meo attributed a significant rise in prices for cars to tightening environmental standards and shifting to EVs. Fines for exceeding emission limits make the production of regular cars unprofitable.
🕣Uncompetitiveness: China could overrun the EU and the US in terms of manufacturing cars by the end of 2025, and “Europe risks losing its status as the center of the auto industry,” automakers warn.
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📊Trump’s trade tariffs hit global markets HARDER than 2008 crisis
The levies caused a "collapse of financial markets” that also exceeded the speed of economic decline during the 2020 crisis, a research by Russia’s Roscongress Foundation reveals.
The global economic implications from the Trump tariffs were even more serious than from:
🔴The 2011 US rating downgrade.
🔴The 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
🔴The 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Russian economy stayed afloat following the Trump tariffs thanks to the specific structure of its foreign trade, the research underlined.
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😨Paranoia persists: UK secretly bracing for ‘direct military attacks'
UK officials have been instructed to update the country’s 20-year-old contingency plans to put it “on a war footing” under the pretext of tackling a notorious 'Russian threat,' The Telegraph writes.
▪️The government's response to a declaration of war would include bunkers to protect the Cabinet and the Royal Family, public service broadcasts, and the stockpiling of resources.
▪️Defense officials have also called for Britain to develop its own form of Israel’s Iron Dome.
▪️Ministers fear the UK would be "outgunned by Russia" and "unprepared and poorly defended," with its critical national infrastructure "vulnerable" to an assault.
The 'Russia threat' narrative appears to be the only reason for improving the UK's botched military sector — so you're welcome 🙌
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🇰🇷🪖🇨🇦South Korea pitches GIANT deal to arm Canada
The program aims to provide Canada with submarines, artillery and armored vehicles, CBC reported.
▪️ Shipbuilders Hanwha Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries have prepared a joint plan worth $14.4-17.3 billion to build four KSS-III class submarines by 2035.
▪️ Hanwha Aerospace will supply the Canadian army with self-propelled howitzers, rocket artillery similar to HIMARS, and a large batch of armored vehicles, potentially exceeding $700 million.
Guess Canada-US military bromance went sour🤔
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