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Hungary to allow greater NATO support for Ukraine– kuwaittimes.com

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BUDAPEST: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban agreed on Wednesday that Budapest would “not block” the defense alliance from contributing more to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. The talks came hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was reported to be in Saudi Arabia, his latest visit to the Gulf kingdom which has sought to stay neutral in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Zelensky landed in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah for the unannounced trip and was greeted by Saudi officials including the national security adviser and ambassador to Kyiv, the official Saudi Press Agency said. Further details on his visit were not immediately available. Zelensky’s visit doesn’t appear to be long as the White House announced US President Joe Biden and Zelensky will sign a bilateral security deal Thursday at a G7 summit in Italy.

French President Emmanuel Macron defends decision to call elections– www.washingtonpost.com

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to call snap legislative elections after a humiliating defeat Sunday in balloting for the European Parliament, saying he hears people’s anger — and thinks they will support his political bloc anyway.

“I want there to be a government that can respond to their anger, to their urgent needs,” he said in a news conference Wednesday.

But it’s not at all clear that the next French Parliament will favor Macron and his allies. In opinion polls, his camp is lagging behind the National Rally, a far-right party guided by Marine Le Pen and her protégé, Jordan Bardella, which won about 31.4 percent of the vote in the European elections, more than double the showing for Macron’s allies.

The French president dissolved the National Assembly — the lower house of Parliament — and called elections within hours of Sunday’s defeat, apparently stunning even some of his close allies. The first round of voting is now set for June 30 and a second round for July 7, just before NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington and the start of the Paris Olympics.

Over 8,000 Children Aged Under 5 Treated For Acute Malnutrition In Gaza: WHO– www.ndtv.com

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The war broke out after Hamas’s October 7 attack. (File)

Geneva:

More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since war broke out, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s population was now facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions.

“Despite reports of increased delivery of food, there is currently no evidence that those who need it most are receiving sufficient quantity and quality of food,” he told a press conference.

Tedros said the UN health agency and its partners had attempted to scale up nutrition services in the besieged Palestinian territory.

AA captures 200 junta soldiers in Maungdaw, provides medical care– www.narinjara.com

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The Arakha Army (AA) captured over 200 junta soldiers
along with their weapons in the battles of Inn Din and Myin Hlut in south
Maungdaw and currently the AA medical
teams are providing medical care to the injured soldiers and their
family members.

“More than 200 soldiers were captured during the
gun fighting against Inn Din 6th border guard police battalion and Myin Hlut
9th border guard police battalion,” said a local resident, adding that the
number may be higher, who raised white flags and surrendered.

United League of Arakan (ULA/AA) spokesperson U Khaing
Thukha at a press conference on 9 June announced that the ill soldiers who were
captured during the conflict are being released.

UN confirms 13 staff detained by Houthis in Yemen– www.bbc.com

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The UN has said the Houthi movement in Yemen has detained two more of its employees, bringing the total number of personnel seized by the group in the past week to 13.

The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a co-ordinated crackdown.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said last week the world body was pursuing all available channels to secure their safe and unconditional release as rapidly as possible.

The armed group sees itself as part of an Iranian-led “axis of resistance” against Israel, the US and the wider West, and has declared its support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

US military unveils strategy of turning Taiwan Strait into “Hellscape” if China invades, says official– www.aninews.in

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Washington, DC [US], June 11 (ANI): To thwart President Xi Jinping’s plan of invasion of Taiwan which China‘s President has asked the People’s Liberation Army to do by 2027, the US military is ready with its strategy of turning the Taiwan Strait into an hellscape“>unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities, a Washington Post columnist said.

“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an hellscape“>unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” Adm. Samuel Paparo, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, told The Washington Post at the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Shangri-La Dialogue Summit.
The key to thwarting Xi’s assumed strategy is a U.S. strategy called “Hellscape,” Paparo told me. The idea is that as soon as China‘s invasion fleet begins moving across the 100-mile waterway that separates China and Taiwan, the U.S. military would deploy thousands of unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and aerial drones to flood the area and give Taiwanese, U.S. and partner forces time to mount a full response.

U.S. inflation eased in May, signalling that an early-year price uptick has passed– www.cbc.ca

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U.S. inflation eased last month in a hopeful sign that an uptick in prices from earlier this year may have passed. The trend, if it holds, could move the Federal Reserve closer to cutting its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year peak.

Consumer prices excluding volatile food and energy costs — the closely watched “core” index — rose 0.2 per cent from April to May, the government said Wednesday.

That was down from 0.3 per cent the previous month and was the smallest increase since October. Measured from a year earlier, core prices rose 3.4 per cent, below last month’s 3.6 per cent increase.

Fed officials are scrutinizing each month’s inflation data to assess their progress in the fight against rising prices. Even as overall inflation moderates, necessities such as groceries, rent and health-care are much pricier than they were three years ago — a continuing source of public discontent and a political threat to President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

Russian warships sail off the coast of Florida, US responds with a yawn– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING: Four Russian warships were tracked as they cruised in international waters off the coast of Florida yesterday en route to Cuba for planned exercises in the Caribbean, in what U.S. officials describe as an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to show the Russian navy can still project power despite the humiliating loss of a third of its Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian drones and missiles.

CNN showed pictures of the ships last night taken by a passenger on a Celebrity cruise line ship, about 90 miles off the coast.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, flagship of Russia’s Northern Fleet and said to be armed with Russia’s new Zircon hypersonic missiles, and the Kazan nuclear-powered submarine, capable of firing modern Kalibr cruise missiles, conducted drills in the Atlantic meant to simulate a missile strike on a group of enemy ships.

US widens sanctions on Russia to discourage countries such as China from doing business with Moscow – Boston Herald– www.bostonherald.com

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By EMMA BURROWS (Associated Press) The United States widened its sanctions against Russia Wednesday as G7 leaders prepared to gather in Italy for a summit where the top priorities will be boosting support for Ukraine and grinding down Russia’s war machine. Wednesday’s package targeted Chinese companies which help Russia pursue its war in Ukraine and […]

Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a ceasefire plan in Gaza are workable and some not– www.theglobeandmail.com

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the war in Gaza will go on after Hamas proposed “numerous” changes to a U.S.-backed ceasefire plan, some that he said were “workable” and some not.

Speaking to reporters in Qatar on Wednesday, Blinken said the U.S. and other mediators will keep trying to “close this deal.”

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza hung in the balance.

Hezbollah, an Iran-backed ally of Hamas, has traded fire with Israel nearly every day since the 8-month-long Israel-Hamas war began and says it will only stop if there is a truce in Gaza. That has raised fears of an even more devastating regional conflagration.

Riots erupt in Algeria over months of water shortages– www.tvcnews.tv

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Riots erupted in an Algerian desert city this weekend after months of water scarcity left taps dry and forced inhabitants to queue for water for their homes.

Protesters wearing balaclavas set tires on fire and set up makeshift barricades blocking roads in Tiaret, a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 people located 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Algiers, to protest water rationing.

The unrest followed demands from President bdelmajid Tebboune to rectify the suffering.

At a council of ministers meeting last week, he implored his cabinet to implement “emergency measures” in Tiaret.

Israel, Hamas disagree on US-backed ceasefire – media — RT World News– www.rt.com

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Election latest: Reform moves within point of Tories in new poll – as Labour makes pothole pledge | Politics News– news.sky.com

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Tonight’s panel is made up of Boris Johnson’s former director of communications, Guto Harri, and a contributing editor at Novara Media, Ash Sarkar.

Asked what he makes of the Tory manifesto, Mr Harri says there is “good meaty stuff” to get people talking.

“But in the end this is about values,” he adds, namely if money is available… should you spend it on welfare or working people.

But Ms Sarkar says he has set a “low bar” by saying at least people are talking about it – saying they would even if it was “just a picture of Scrooge McDuck”.

Vietnam’s South China Sea Island Building Sets Record In 2024 – Eurasia Review– www.eurasiareview.com

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Vietnam’s island building in the South China Sea has reached a record with the total new land created in the first six months of this year equaling that of 2022 and 2023 combined, a U.S. independent think tank said.

The Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) said in its latest report that since November 2023, Vietnam has created 692 new acres (280 ha) of land across a total of 10 features within the Spratly archipelago.

In comparison, it created 404 acres (163.5 ha) of land in the first 11 months of 2023 and 342 acres (138.4 ha) in 2022.

Vietnam has reclaimed a total area of about half the area that China has built up, with much of Vietnam’s work on reefs China also claims.

Taliban Clamps Down On Activities Of Rival Islamist Parties In Afghanistan– www.rferl.org

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The Taliban government has cracked down on rival Islamist parties in Afghanistan in what is seen as an effort to prevent any future opposition to its hard-line rule.

Since banning all political parties last year, the Taliban has targeted two of its major former rivals. It shut down two Kabul-based TV stations owned by the Hezb-e Islami and Jamiat-e Islami parties, respectively.

Now, the extremist group has cracked down on Harakat-e Islami Afghanistan, closing a TV station as well as a university and seminary accused of having links with the Shi’ite political party.

South African political party led by Zuma seeks to halt parliament election of country’s president– abcnews.go.com

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South Africa’s third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has filed legal papers seeking to halt the first sitting of Parliament scheduled for Friday to elect the country’s president

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has filed legal papers seeking to halt the first sitting of Parliament scheduled for Friday to elect the country’s president.

Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party has said none of its 58 newly elected lawmakers will attend the sitting. The party earlier filed objections with the Independent Electoral Commission alleging widespread irregularities in national elections last month. The party received just over 14% of the vote.

Chinese accounts pounce on Mindanao secession issue to warn of ‘civil war’ in Philippines   – www.philstar.com

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This photo shows former President Rodrigo Duterte and Davao del Norte 1st District Representative Pantaleon Alvarez.

Graphic design by Philstar.com/Anjilica Andaya

This report forms part of Philstar.com’s coverage of influence operations, which involve the spread of false information and propaganda that can mislead, cause confusion and prevent informed understanding and discourse. Read our explainer on influence operations.

The call to secede Mindanao triggered not just a flurry of controversy among Filipinos. It also fed a coordinated campaign by Chinese social media users to spread rumors of a supposed civil war in the Philippines caused by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s “provocations.”

Canada Has Traitors in Office, Report Reveals

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Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) has issued a report that claims members of Parliament are engaging in acts of treason by assisting foreign governments in interfering with national elections, including past elections in 2019 and 2021. The report was heavily redacted, not revealing the names of the members.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said, “The national security committee indicates there are members of this House that have knowingly worked for foreign hostile governments. Canadians have a right to know who and what is the information — who are they?”

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The Canadian Parliament is in the grip of dramatic allegations from a national security committee that some lawmakers assisted a foreign government in interfering in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

The bombshell report gives few details. No names have been named, no party singled out. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to fill in the blanks, leading to wild speculation that it is his party that’s involved in treason.

The heavily redacted, 92-page report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) is a separate investigation from an inquiry into election interference by foreign powers in those elections.

“The national security committee indicates there are members of this House that have knowingly worked for foreign hostile governments,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday. “Canadians have a right to know who and what is the information — who are they?”

The NSICOP said it reviewed intelligence that suggests “semi-witting or witting” members of Parliament have worked with foreign countries, “to mobilize voters during a political campaign; have taken cash ‘knowingly or through willful blindness’ from foreign missions or their proxies; and have shared privileged information with foreign diplomatic officials.”

Yeah, treason.

Politico:

One of the most damaging lines in Monday’s report points out Canada’s failure to address long-standing challenges in how national security information can be used in criminal proceedings. The report says this is one reason why criminal charges for the potentially illegal activities are unlikely.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters Tuesday that she takes the issue seriously. She deflected when asked if Canadians have the right to know the identity of the parliamentarians involved.

“We should recognize this is a new time,” she said, adding that authoritarians want to undermine democracies by sowing public distrust in government.

 

Freeland will not commit to releasing any names. Evidently, “transparency” is something reserved for members of the Conservative Party.

Justice Marie-Josée Hogue is conducting the parallel investigation into foreign interference in Canadian elections. Her commission is investigating “claims that the Chinese government helped mobilize voters against a Conservative candidate in western Canada and helped elect another as a Liberal in the Toronto area,” according to Politico.

Which members of Parliament are assisting foreign governments in interfering in elections?

“We all know that no responsible government would reveal names under these types of confidential circumstances,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc responded on the floor of the House of Commons.

Do we all know that?

“It’s important for Canadians to understand that these names are contained in intelligence reports, in some cases, it’s uncorroborated or unverified intelligence information,” he told a parliamentary committee studying foreign interference. “The idea that there’s a perfect list of names that is entirely reliable that should be released to the public is simply irresponsible.”

David McGuinty, chair of the NSICOP, which published the buzzy redacted report, said the decision to publicize the names of lawmakers is outside of his control.

McGuinty and the nine other NSICOP members with top-secret security clearance are bound by Canada’s Security of Information Act and risk prosecution if they inadvertently reveal classified information, he said.

He wouldn’t say if he’s bothered by sitting in the same party caucus with potential abettors of foreign interference.

“I’m more concerned about the fact that now the government has to move forward on this,” McGuinty said.

 

Conservative MP Michael Chong, whom China has been targeting for his advocacy on behalf of Uyghurs, is demanding that the committee release the names. China had spied on him and his family, and he wanted to know which of his colleagues was helping them.

“Certain members of this House acted in the best interest of hostile foreign regimes interfering in Canada’s democracy. This is a disgusting betrayal of Canadians who elected us,” party legislator Jasraj Singh Hallan told the House on Monday.

Indeed it is.

 

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Farage Throws Hat into UK Elections, Left Physically Assault Him

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Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage had originally decided not to run in the UK Elections but changed his mind after it became apparent the “conservative” party had virtually no support left in the country. Since announcing his decision to run, Farage has faced two attacks by leftists, with the latest attack happening in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on June 11, 2024.

Farage tweeted out after the attack, “My huge thanks to South Yorkshire Police today. I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate our country.”

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Nigel Farage has been the subject of a second attempted physical assault in a week since returning to front-line British politics, with a protester hurling objects from a building site as the campaigner went by.

Brexit pioneer and now Reform UK leader Nigel Farage campaigned in support of his local candidate in Barnsley, South Yorkshire on Tuesday and was being greeted by waving supporters, video he published showed. An object was then thrown, narrowly missing Mr Farage, by a man wearing a red shirt shouting “fascist, fascist scum”.

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Europe’s Left Buckles After EU Parliament Elections Give Right Major Victories

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The backlash against leftist policies in Europe continues as the right and the center-right make significant gains at the expense of the far-left in the latest EU Parliament election The biggest successes were in France, Germany, and Belgium. In France, Macron’s party lost so badly he immediately dissolved the parliament and called for flash elections.

In Germany, the Greens have faded to near irrelevancy, while the right’s AfD party surpassed Germany’s ruling party in votes, undermining PM Scholz’ legitimacy as the leader of the country. Belgium’s PM, Alexander De Croo, resigned after his party was crushed in the election. The Austrian Freedom Party garnered the most votes in the election with 25.7 percent of the votes going to them.

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BREAKING: Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration nationalist party has just trounced Emmanuel Macron’s party in the French EU Elections, winning 34% of the vote.

The French people are sick and tired of Open Borders! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/yn7IA5gGzZ

— Cillian (@CilComLFC) June 9, 2024

Marine Le Pen just SMASHED Macron in the EU elections pic.twitter.com/8TAuEy9U2q

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) June 9, 2024

The results may also help alleviate the suffering of European farmers and ordinary citizens who are being crushed by ludicrous Green New Deal-esque policies. The Greens were reportedly crushed across most of Europe, including in Germany where they have been aggressive in pushing ridiculous policies hobbling farming and food production.

In Germany, Greens are imploding. They are projected to be the biggest losers from last time out, losing 8.6% of their vote in the Euro election. It is a big blow because they put major effort & money into EU elections. Their voters are the most pro-EU party in Germany (91%) pic.twitter.com/2xxdrxcQVy

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) June 9, 2024

Greta Thunberg was the big loser in the EU elections.

Her ideology is being rejected across Europe. https://t.co/lK8xqyS5eJ

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 9, 2024

The AP reports:

… In France, the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen dominated the polls to such an extent that Macron immediately dissolved the national parliament and called for new elections, a massive political risk since his party could suffer more losses, hobbling the rest of his presidential term that ends in 2027.

. . . . In Germany, the most populous nation in the 27-member bloc, projections indicated that the AfD overcame a string of scandals involving its top candidate to rise to 16.5%, up from 11% in 2019. In comparison, the combined result for the three parties in the German governing coalition barely topped 30%.

Scholz suffered such an ignominious fate that his long-established Social Democratic party fell behind the extreme-right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place. “After all the prophecies of doom, after the barrage of the last few weeks, we are the second strongest force,” a jubilant AfD leader Alice Weidel said.

… Overall across the EU, two mainstream and pro-European groups, the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, remained the dominant forces. The gains of the far right came at the expense of the Greens, who were expected to lose about 20 seats and fall back to sixth position in the legislature. Macron’s pro-business Renew group also lost big.

. . . . Germany, traditionally a stronghold for environmentalists, exemplified the humbling of the Greens, who were predicted to fall from 20% to 12%. With further losses expected in France and elsewhere, the defeat of the Greens could well have an impact on the EU’s overall climate change policies, still the most progressive across the globe.

 

The Austrian “far-right” Freedom Party came out on top in the EU elections, winning 25.7% of the votes and beating their rivals. The “moderates” and the Greens lost. They hope to maintain their momentum in the upcoming general elections.

The Freedom Party is anti-immigration… pic.twitter.com/8LlRsKu98v

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 9, 2024

Powerline has more:

Exit polls from EU elections suggest, as predicted, a huge swing to the far right. Less noticed (but still connected) is the implosion of Greens. French Greens saw their worst performance in 30 yrs. In 2019 German Greens were 2nd place. In 2024 the hard-right AfD is 2nd. . . . The French Greens (Europe-écologie-Les Verts) even faced outright extinction. France has a 5% cut-off to enter the chamber. They very nearly had no seats at all. And the Greens spend A LOT on the European elections. It’s where they win their most votes.

. . . . Belgium’s prime minister has resigned. Belgium held national election concurrent with the European Parliament election, and the ruling coalition got smashed to bits, too.

Alexander De Croo, who is vocally anti-Israel, RESIGNED after his party received just 5.8% of the votes.

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 9, 2024

Peter Sweden’s the Freedom Corner provides a breakdown of other European countries and their results:

Netherlands:

Another big winner was the party of right-wing Geert Wilders in the Netherlands that supports the farmers. They saw a massive gain in exit polls, gaining many seats to become the second largest party.

Austria:

In Austria, the right-wing FPÖ party is projected to double their number of seats to become the largest party.

Spain:

Also in Spain the right-wing Vox party is making gains, becoming the third largest party with around 10% of the votes.

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BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron.

On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her seats in the EU parliament. And even if the Alternative for Germany extreme right party was hounded by scandal involving candidates, it still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Sensing a threat from the far right, the Christian Democrats of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had already shifted further to the right on migration and climate ahead of the elections — and were rewarded by remaining by far the biggest group in the 720-seat European Parliament and de-facto brokers of the ever expanding powers of the legislature.

Undoubtedly however, the star on a stunning electoral night was the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, dominated the French polls to such an extent that Macron immediately dissolved the national parliament and called for new elections. It was a massive political risk since his party could suffer more losses, hobbling the rest of his presidential term that ends in 2027.

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Belgian Prime Minister appears to be on the verge of TEARS after his liberal party suffered a staggering defeat in the EU elections.

Alexander De Croo, who is vocally anti-Israel, RESIGNED after his party received just 5.8% of the votes.

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 9, 2024

Although he will oversee a caretaker government until a new coalition is created, he will nevertheless hand in his resignation to Belgium’s King Philippe on Monday at the royal palace in Brussels.

The results in both France and Belgium indicate a growing political move in Europe toward the right as economic issues, unfettered immigration, and other concerns are turning off voters:

Zelensky Puts Trump & Vance on Enemies List › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Hundreds of prominent American organizations and individuals, including Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) have been named in a Soviet-style enemies list as not supporting sending more U.S. weapons and money to Ukraine.

This is not the first enemies list compiled by Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky, who cancelled elections in Ukraine and refused to leave office when his term ended in May.

The report, titled: “Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists. The forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it,” was released last week by a Ukrainian NGO whose founder was trained by the U.S. State Dept.

Slovak PM claims assassination attempt not by ‘a lone madman’– www.lokmattimes.com

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Bratislava, June 6 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said here that he did not believe last month’s assassination attempt against him was carried out by a lone madman.

The Prime Minister on Wednesday claimed that an activist belonging to the Slovak opposition had tried to assassinate him because of his political views, in an extract of a speech posted on social media, adding that “I have no reason to believe that it was an attack by a lone madman”.

This is Fico’s first public appearance after being attacked by a gunman on May 15 in the town of Handlova in central Slovakia. According to Fico, he has been publicly warning of the probability of an assassination attempt against a government politician in Slovakia for several months, Xinhua news agency reported.

Malawi VP Killed in Plane Crash

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The Vice President of Malawi, Saulos Chilima, has been confirmed dead after a plane carrying him and 9 others crashed 240 miles north of the nation’s capital, Lilongwe. He was scheduled to arrive at Mzuzu but was told by air traffic controllers not to land there due to bad weather. They were returning to Lilongwe when the plane crashed. They were on their way to attend the funeral of a former government minister.

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Malawi’s vice president Saulos Chilima has been confirmed dead along with nine others, after their missing military plane was located by armed forces.

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address on Tuesday that the plane had been completely destroyed and everyone onboard was killed on impact.

Former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, the ex-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi, was also on the plane, the president had said. There were seven passengers and three military crew members onboard.

The aircraft was found wrecked in a foggy forest by search teams. It disappeared during its 45-minute flight from Lilongwe, the capital, to Mzuzu, located approximately 370 kilometers to the north.

Air traffic controllers told the plane not to attempt a landing at Mzuzu’s airport because of bad weather and poor visibility and asked it to turn back to Lilongwe, Chakwera said in an address late Monday night. Air traffic control then lost contact with the aircraft and it disappeared from radar, he said.

Chakwera expressed his thanks for assistance from the US, the UK, Norway, and Israel, who provided specialised technologies to aid in the search.

The group was traveling to Mzuzu to attend the funeral of a former government minister. Chilima had just returned from an official visit to South Korea on Sunday.

Gen Z is turning away from military service in record numbers; here’s why – Australia– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Only 80% of the 69,000 personnel needed to meet future challenges have signed up. The government recently announced recruitment will be opened up to some foreign citizens to try to fill this gap.
Not only is the Australian military failing to achieve planned growth, it is actually shrinking, as defence chief general Angus Campbell told a Senate inquiry in February.
There are two fundamental reasons for the current recruitment impasse.
One is economic – low unemployment and a perception of better opportunities, work conditions and future prospects in the private sector.
The other reason is cultural: a declining willingness of Gen Z to identify with – and fight to defend – their nation.
Either way, the key to the recruitment crisis lies in understanding the motivations of this generation, the main pool of potential recruits today.

Palestinian Journalist Who Kept Three Israeli Hostages in His Home Was Killed During Rescue Operation – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Abdallah Aljamaal, a Palestinian journalist living near the Nuseirat refugee camp with his family, harbored three of the four Israeli hostages freed by the IDF on June 8. The IDF says he was killed in the rescue operation. No word on the fate of his family, although an unconfirmed report says that his father, a doctor, was also killed in the raid.