Iran announces first joint military exercises with Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea
In a historic first, Iran has announced joint military drills with Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea.
During an interview with a local TV channel, the Iranian navy commander stated that Riyadh opened the door to the possibility of these exercises.
RT’s Yusef Jalali has the details.
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🤩🤩🤩 Video: George Galloway’s shuts down Sky News’ gotcha attempts at BRICS 2024
“I’m here because half the world is here. You don’t care about that.”
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Musk-Putin contact claims 'completely false' - Kremlin spox
Dmitry Peskov has rubbished a report published by the Wall Street Journal claiming that since 2022 Elon Musk has been discussing personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions with President Putin and the head of the presidential administration Sergey Kiriyenko.
They held one conversation - before the special military operation began - and have not been in touch since, Peskov clarified.
That didn't stop the WSJ claiming the non-existent contact - which the White House is apparently not comfortable with - shows Trump possibly wants to negotiate with Russia, including on Ukraine.
Musk has not directly commented on the report.
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Türkiye brought Ukrainian proposal to BRICS Summit - Putin
Ankara has repeatedly approached Russia with proposals for initiatives from Kiev, President Putin said in an interview for the 60 Minutes program on Rossiya 1 TV channel.
He explained he’d not yet had time to familiarize himself with the materials on Ukraine that the Turkish delegation had given him in Kazan, but would study them.
The West's rhetoric on the situation in Ukraine has changed, Putin added. They have begun to really assess the situation, and they can be praised for this, although the degree of confrontation with Russia is still the same as weapons continue to be sent to Ukraine.
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Biden not ready to vote yet - White House
"The president will vote. I don't want to get ahead of myself, we don't know yet. As soon as we receive the information, we will share it with you. But he's definitely waiting for the opportunity to cast his vote," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre promised.
Early voting has begun in many states. Even the oldest living former US president Jimmy Carter has already voted, as has Harris's running mate Tim Waltz.
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Missouri probes Google censorship claims
The Attorney General of Missouri announced an investigation has been launched against Google for alleged election censorship.
Andrew Bailey said that the social network has manipulated search results and restricted the display of conservative speeches before the US presidential election.
He accused the platform of "waging a war against democratic processes," Fox Business reports.
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🤩🤩🤩 NATO may manipulate Türkiye to stop BRICS integration – Turkish political scientist
RT spoke with Turkish political scientist Onur Sinan Guzaltan, who suspects that NATO will try to stop Türkiye integrating further into BRICS after it was officially confirmed as a partner country, citing criticism leveled at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for attending the summit.
“The Western camp didn’t bring anything to Türkiye… Once you join NATO, the Western mentality infiltrates the ‘brain’ of your country,” he explained.
As the BRICS Summit concluded in Kazan, another 12 countries - Indonesia, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Uganda - were accepted as partner countries alongside Türkiye.
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$100mn settlement reached for Baltimore Bridge cargo ship owner
The US Department of Justice announced the settlement Thursday after suing the Singaporean owner and operator of the MV Dali cargo ship that collided with the Baltimore bridge in March.
Grace Ocean Private Ltd and Synergy Marine Private Ltd will now foot the bill for the massive cleanup operation after six road workers were killed and the Port of Baltimore was paralyzed for almost three months.
The $101.1 million settlement doesn’t cover the cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge - which will be addressed in a separate claim from the state of Maryland.
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Europe to ask Musk’s help cleaning up space
The European Space Agency already has 110 countries signed up to a pledge to prevent any additional space debris by 2030, but has turned to the SpaceX chief to join the drive.
Elon Musk’s aerospace firm has almost two-thirds (about 6,300) of all satellites currently in low orbit around earth (10,300), but there are currently 18,897 trackable objects of space junk according to Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell.
Around 70% of the entire junk pile cause by a destroyed Chinese spacecraft, and an accidental collision between a Russian and US spacecraft.
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Onion ban: After McDonald's E. coli outbreak the vegetable was removed — Reuters
US fast-food chains pull fresh onions off the menu on Thursday until an investigation is completed. Onions were named the likely source of the outbreak. Roughly 5% of all US Burger King locations pulled onions, according to Reuters.
Taylor Farms was the supplier of the sliced onions that have been removed. The fact that McDonald's Quarter Pounder is served with raw, slivered onions could be the cause, an investigation continues.
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‘Go get these N-words in line’: Voter goes off on Kamala using Obama to race-bait
Voter: “You N-words better get in line and do what we say… And the general tone of it was disgusting, Him [Obama] as the Czar of the Democratic Party.”
"And Kamala is like… We love our black men and then she rolled out policy,” voter continued.
Little too late...
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'Is Russia really that isolated?': Let's revisit the West's claims
The sheer number of guests at the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan recently showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has more friends than some would care to admit.
By the way, the US wasn’t invited. Who's isolated now...
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🤩🤩🤩That’s a wrap: We came, we saw, we showed out
Big thanks to all the countries who participated.
Here’s some final highlights from Kazan…
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E. coli outbreak causes McDonald’s US head to issue safety changes — Reuters
The burger chain scrambled on Wednesday to contain the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers. The outbreak has killed at least one and sickened nearly 50 others, as it pulled the burger from restaurants across a dozen states, according to Reuters.
10 people have been hospitalized due to serious complications, according to the US-CDC. McDonald’s spokesperson said the outbreak is limited to the US. McDonald’s head said, ‘it will never happen again’.
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Netanyahu claims IDF thwarted Hezbollah plot more dangerous than October 7
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed a Hezbollah plot to attack Israel using tunnels, jeeps, missiles, and rockets. He stated that the plan, had it succeeded, would have been more devastating than the October 7 Hamas attack.
"A hundred meters, two hundred meters from the border we found tunnels, tunnels that were preparing an invasion of Israel, an attack even greater than on October 7," Netanyahu told French broadcasters CNews and Europe 1.
Netanyahu also mentioned that Israeli forces discovered tunnels near the border prepared for an invasion.
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Rheinmetall delivers another 20 Marder IFVs to Ukraine
The total number of combat vehicles sent to Ukraine under the agreement will reach about 200 units. Of these, more than a hundred are Marder 1A3 models.
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🤩🤩🤩 BRICS puzzles Western media, exposes isolation claims - Brazilian journalist
The scale & significance of the summit means commentators are no longer able to say Putin is 'isolated', Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar told RT
BRICS doesn’t have to satisfy Western prejudice & assumptions, he explained.
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Western Pharma exploits lives of global majority - Vision Digital India CEO
Corporations from the US & EU are playing with the lives of people in developing nations, refusing to conduct clinical trials on their own people, Hari Krishna Maram told RT on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.
#BRICS2024 #BigPharma - Boost
Türkiye brought multiple Ukrainian proposals to Moscow - Putin
Ankara has repeatedly approached Russia with proposals for initiatives, as they said, from the Ukrainian side, President Putin said in an interview for the 60 Minutes program on Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Putin noted that when Russia agrees to consider initiatives on Ukraine, Kiev refuses them, it happened twice.
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$33.5 BILLION in one day: Musk fortune rockets up
The main reason was a sharp rise in Tesla shares; according to results from Thursday trading, the company's securities rose by almost 22% (to $260.48) on the back of positive financial statements.
As a result, Musk's fortune increased by 14% in one day to 270 billion, according to data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Not a bad day's work.
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⚡️Erdogan 'saw Putin's desire for Ukraine ceasefire' during negotiations in Kazan
The Turkish President added that an exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev was discussed, and Ankara will continue its diplomatic efforts.
#BRICS #Türkiye #Russia #Ukriane - Boost
❗️Indonesian Foreign Ministry says country intends to join the BRICS
Indonesia became one of 13 countries named as official partner nations to BRICS at the summit in Kazan on Thursday.
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India delivers 11 tons of aid to Lebanon
The first tranche of supplies including “a wide range of pharma products, cardiovascular medications, NSAIDs, antibiotics & anesthetics” arrived on Thursday, handed over by Ambassador Sheikh.
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Almost 90% of Ukrainians believe corruption in Ukraine has increased since the start of the conflict - poll
Only 2.4% of respondents to the Ukrainian Sociological Platform survey believe that corruption has actually decreased.
Ukrainians consider shopping malls - where many recruitment offices are set up - courts, law enforcement agencies, the Verkhovna Rada, customs, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Defense to be the most corrupt spheres.
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ICYMI: Putin hits back at BBC question over security
The Russian president explained the West wanted Russia to go "back to its place" & become "a second-tier nation." Vladimir Putin explains sovereignty is security; self-reliance is security - and BRICS shows respect.
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Mother says ‘Game of Thrones chatbot’ lead to her son shooting himself — NYPost
A 14 year-old boy who fell in love with a ‘Game of Thrones’ chatbot shot himself after the AI app told him ‘come home’, according to New York Post.
The bot asked if “he had a plan” to take his own life, according to screenshots of their conversations. The boy said he was “considering something”, NYPost reported.
Then his final words: “I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Dany.[Game of Thrones character],” his mother’s lawsuit says.
#GoT #US - Boost
‘I think Donald Trump is gonna win’: Tucker calls it
Tucker: Attack him… defame him, indict him, arrest him… LET HIM GET SHOT IN THE FACE!
And he’s gonna win any way…
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'When she [Kamala Harris] doesn't want to answer a question her habit is to go to WORD SALAD CITY' — David Axelrod
Former Obama admin Axelrod even points out Kamala's question dodging on CNN's townhall.
The honeymoon is definitely over...
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⚡️US: Menendez brothers to get resentenced ‘immediately’
Los Angeles District Attorney Gascon recommends to the court a change of sentencing.
They have been in jail for more than 30 years, serving a life sentence with no parole for brutally murdering their parents.
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❗️One of the people detained for the protests in Russia shared a video from jail
Several people were detained after the protests. This was sparked by a female taxi driver’s death.
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