— ❗️🇺🇸/🇸🇾 WATCH: Retired U.S. Army General and former CIA Director David Howell Petraeus, who was the U.S. CENTCOM commander from 2008 to 2010 and oversaw American operations and the occupation of Iraq, tells Ahmad Al-Sharaa (Al-Jolani) he is 'one of his fans' and asks if he’s 'getting enough sleep.'

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— 🇵🇸/🇺🇳 NEW: With the addition of Monaco and Andorra, 157 UN member states officially recognize the State of Palestine

San Marino, Liechtenstein, and New Zealand are expected to join the list soon, bringing the total number to 160.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: 'Antifa' (Antifascist Action) is now officially designated as a domestic terrorist organization in the United States.

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 NEW: The Iranian and Egyptian Foreign Ministers met at the sidelines of the UN in New York

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— 🇺🇸 WATCH: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released a Pokémon-themed recruitment ad for ICE, featuring a compilation of footage catching illegal immigrants, with the caption 'gotta catch 'em all!'

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And yes, it's 100% real.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇳 NEW: The Trump administration, after retracting many of its promises regarding the $100,000 fees for H-1B visas, now reports that doctors may be entirely exempt from this fee, according to Reuters

The White House previously clarified that the $100,000 fee is not an annual charge, does not apply to current visa holders but only to new applicants, and that H-1B visa holders can travel outside the U.S. and return without incurring the fee.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The IDF has announced the death of Major Shahar Netanel Bozaglo, 27, a company commander in the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, who was killed by RPG fire in Gaza City.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: The Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court in retaliation for the court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sanctioned several ICC prosecutors and judges, but the court itself has not yet been sanctioned.

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— ❗️🇾🇪 BREAKING: The UKMTO reports an incident 120 nautical miles east of Aden, Yemen, where an explosion was heard near a vessel.

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 WATCH: Israeli-American spy Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for spying for Israel against the U.S. and pardoned by Donald Trump in 2021, says starving Palestinians and using nuclear weapons against Israel's enemies is aligned with 'Jewish morality'

He claims Israel should not have accepted the ceasefire in Lebanon and should have used nukes if any American administration placed them under an arms embargo.

He recalls Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir using the same strategy, threatening to use nuclear weapons, to force Richard Nixon to resume arms shipments during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

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— NOTE: Despite being considered as 'one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history,' Pollard received a hero's welcome in Israel and was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who personally presented him with an Israeli ID card

He landed via Sheldon Adelson's private jet; Sheldon's wife, Miriam, is one of President Trump's current top donors.

He called the Biden administration 'Amalek', a tribe in the Torah that was utterly destroyed by God, and he advocated for the forced displacement of Palestinians to Ireland, stating 'The Irish deserve it.'

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: A speech by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, on the occasion of Holy Defense Week, broadcast live at 8pm Tehran time.

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—❗️🇩🇰/🇷🇺 BREAKING: Denmark's Prime Minister Frederiksen has officially categorized the drone incursions near Copenhagen as an attack, calling it 'the largest attack on our country's infrastructure so far'

She did not exclude the possibility of Russia being responsible, and referenced other incursions of NATO airspace in recent weeks.

The European Commission has stated that it will wait for the results of an official investigation, but indirectly suggested that Russia could be behind the incident.

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