🇰🇷🇰🇵 South Korea to deploy laser weapons to intercept North Korean drones.

➡️SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday it will begin deploying laser weapons systems designed to intercept North Korean drones, which have caused security concerns in the South in recent years.

➡️South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration said that it will deploy at least one anti-air laser weapons system called “Block-I” by the end of this year and more in coming years.

An agency statement said the “Block-I” system is capable of launching precision attacks on small incoming drones and multi-copters. It said the system, developed by local company Hanwha Aerospace, costs just 2,000 won (about $1.50) per shot.

➡️The “Block-I” system is meant to hit circuit boards and other equipment in enemy drones to make them malfunction and crash on the ground. Tests of the weapons system in 2022-2023 were successful and proved its credibility, the official said.

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🇺🇸🇬🇪 The United States, following the indefinite postponement of military exercises, has frozen aid to Georgia. Additionally, its integration into the European Union has been suspended, stated Uzra Zeya, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.

The U.S. is concerned about the anti-democratic actions of the Georgian authorities, which undermine the Euro-Atlantic path of the republic.

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🇺🇸 Several major donors to the U.S. Democratic Party have put a hold on donations totaling $90 million until the party replaces President Joe Biden with another candidate for the presidential election.

This was reported by The New York Times, citing sources.

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🇺🇦 Wow, Bloomberg Finally Realizes What We've Been Saying All Along About Ukraine's F-16 Challenges!

By the end of the summer, Ukraine expects to receive 6 F-16 aircraft from Western partners, and a total of 20 by the end of the year.

According to the Bloomberg's sources, the process of sending aircraft to Ukraine is currently complicated by issues with parts and the language barrier between Ukrainian pilots and their foreign instructors.

The problems with the F-16s were so serious that they raised doubts among Western partners about the advisability of sending the aircraft to Ukraine and whether this was too costly a show of support for Former President Zelensky, the agency writes.

Overall, the F-16 delivery planners are concerned about three main issues:

- First, the aircraft need to be reconfigured depending on their missions, such as reconnaissance or combat.

- Second, Ukraine does not have many long, high-quality runways necessary for the F-16s, or shelters to protect them from Russian attacks.

- Third, the logistics of supporting the aircraft are complex, ranging from the need for spare parts to maintenance and finding engineers.

One of the agency's interlocutors noted that Ukraine is trying to achieve in a few months what usually takes three to four years.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Even Ukrainians stopped believing Biden.

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🇺🇸🇸🇾🇷🇺 An MQ-9 Reaper drone of the "coalition" dangerously approached a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 aircraft during a routine flight over the Syrian province of Homs, the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides reported.

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🇸🇰 Slovakian President "Expects" More Attempts on his Life

Fico, who has just returned to office after partially recovering from an attempted assassination on his life in May, has also stated that he expects “another shooting” to occur in Slovakia, arguing that the opposition is “spreading hatred” again.

Opposition parties and the mainstream media publicly condemned the attack on Fico and violence in general.

Fico also claimed that his shooter, 71-year-old Juraj C., was “an opposition activist” and that there were “dozens of proofs” of this.

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🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 Iran to Increase Cooperation with China and Russia

President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian:
Russia and China are countries that stood by Iran during times of great difficulty; we respect the friendship between us and these two nations and our strategic cooperation will increase.

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iranian Parliament Speaker Flies Delegation to Russia

The Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, personally flew the Iranian delegation's plane to Saint Petersburg tonight for a meeting. Dr. Qalibaf, who was a presidential candidate in the recent election, is a licensed pilot for commercial and military planes, the former chief of the IRGC Aerospace Force, and the former mayor of Tehran.

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🇵🇱 Another angle of today's Polish Air Force M-346 trainer jet that crashed.

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‘Israel in collapse’: 46,000 businesses forced to close since 7 Oct — local media reports

It is estimated by Israeli risk management firm CofaceBdi that 60,000 businesses will be closed by the end of 2024. Forty-six thousand Israeli businesses have been forced to shut as a result of the ongoing war and its devastating effect on the economy.

“About 77 percent of the businesses that have been closed since the beginning of the war, which make up about 35,000 businesses, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy,” the report says.

#Israel #EconomicCollapse

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🔥 Ukraine is at the epicenter of a temperature anomaly, according to Climatebook.

The map shows temperature deviations from the norm for the upcoming week, with darker colors indicating stronger deviations.

The worst situation is in Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria.

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🇺🇸 European leaders "froze in horror" at the NATO summit when Biden called Zelensky "President Vladimir Putin of Ukraine."

According to Politico, after this, many EU countries began seeking contacts with Donald Trump's team, considering his victory in the upcoming U.S. presidential election increasingly likely.

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🇾🇪🚀🇮🇱🇺🇸 Yemeni Armed Forces:

➡️We targeted the Chrysalis ship in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. As the company that owns it violated the decision to ban entry to the ports of occupied Palestine.

➡️The ship was targeted twice, the first in the Red Sea and the second in Bab al-Mandeb, with a number of suitable ballistic and naval missiles and drones.

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🇷🇺 Russian influencers in Dubai.

Via: @MyLordBebo

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