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UK PM Sunak Risks Trade War With Brussels by Abolition of 2,400 EU Laws, Reports Say

At the same time EU leaders are reportedly preparing their own โ€œunilateral rebalancing measuresโ€ in secret meetings in Brussels. Sources suggest that these measures could include the option of imposing tariffs on UK goods entering the EU single market, according to media reports.

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A total of 43% of US citizens believe the classified documents that were found in President Joe Bidenโ€™s home and former office were "probably deliberately kept" by him and/or his staff, according to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll commissioned by US weekly.

Meanwhile, 34% of those sampled think that the classified documents were kept there "probably mistakenly," with another 23% undecided.

The poll also found that 42% of the respondents believe "the story has been overblown." A further 65% of those polled are in favor of searches of all Biden's properties by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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โ—๏ธRussian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

โ–ช๏ธThe Russian military has destroyed more than 4,000 Ukrainian field artillery systems and mortars since the start of the special operation;

โ–ช๏ธRussian troops eliminated over 120 Ukrainian servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction;

โ–ช๏ธRussian forces assumed more advantageous positions in the Donetsk direction, eliminating over 115 Ukrainian servicemen;

โ–ช๏ธThe Russian Army eliminated up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

โ–ช๏ธRussian forces thwarted six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kupyansk direction;

โ–ช๏ธRussian air defenses shot down two UAVs and 11 Uragan and HIMARS rockets;

โ–ช๏ธThe total losses of Ukrainian troops in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted to 130 servicemen.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ US officials confirmed that an F-22 Raptor fighter jet took down the wayward Chinese balloon with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile on Saturday.

โ–ช๏ธThe price of one AIM-9X Sidewinder missile: over $380,000.

โ–ช๏ธOne hour of Raptor Flight Time to shoot down a โ€œChinese Spy Balloonโ€: $85,325.

๐Ÿ’ŽFinding out the spy craft was really just an errant weather balloon? Priceless.

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Armie Hammer broke his silence more than two years after finding himself in the epicenter of a scandal involving allegations of rape, sexual abuse, and cannibalistic fantasies.

In a wide-ranging interview with a US weekly, Hammer denied any criminal wrongdoing, arguing that all the sexual encounters with women accusing him of sexual abuse were consensual.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "Every single thing was discussed beforehand. I have never thrust this on someone unexpectedly. Never. Thatโ€™s a very important part of the BDSM world. The consent. Because youโ€™re doing things that are pushing envelopes. Youโ€™re doing things that are beyond the [realm of] โ€˜Letโ€™s have missionary sex with the lights off.โ€™ You have to have that trust. You have to have that vulnerability with someone. You have to have that aspect of โ€˜I am willingly giving my control over to this person,'" he continued

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Colin Powell's Career-Ruining UN Testimony

๐Ÿ’ฌ "In my experience, Colin Powell had always represented the personification of a man of character who would always do the right thing. But as I watched him spout lie after lie, I immediately saw him for what he truly wasโ€”an inadequate man who proved unworthy of the responsibilities given him," Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, writes.

โ—๏ธโ€œColin Powell had once said that his experience in Vietnam taught him that those in positions of power and authority could never again allow lies to shape policy when the lives of American servicemembers was on the line. On that day, February 5, 2003, Colin Powell put the lie to that statement. He failed the American people. He failed the world. He failed himself.โ€

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โšก๏ธKiev plotting large-scale provocation in Kramatorsk to accuse Moscow of 'war crimes,' Russian MoD says

The Kiev regime plans a controlled explosion at medical institutions in Kramatorsk in order to accuse Russia of a deliberate strike on civilian facilities. Accompanied by Ukrainian forces, Western journalists have arrived in Kramatorsk in order to cover the planned provocation, the ministry added.
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called on law enforcement to act against threats to murder him that were disseminated online.

According to Israeli media, the remarks came late Saturday in response to a social media post by a former air force pilot and an anti-government protest figure Ze'ev Raz.

"If a sitting prime minister assumes dictatorial powers, this prime minister is bound to die, simply like that, along with his ministers and his followers," allegedly said Raz. On Saturday night, the Israeli police launched a probe into the matter, the report said.

Raz reportedly backtracked on his comments, saying that he did not identify with that post and noting that it was "a quote from a person who retracted it."

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โ—๏ธRocket sirens sounded across the Israeli city of Sderot and other towns near the Gaza border on Sunday evening, according to the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson's unit. Local residents reported no explosions on the ground.

According to media reports, sirens were sounded in the areas of Sapir College, Gevim, Ivim, Nir Am and Or Haner. The IDF is looking into the cause.

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Republicans Call for Probe, Biden's Resignation Amid 'Chinese Spy Balloon' Blunder

โ€œThe catastrophic Chinese Spy Balloon Spectacle clearly threatened American families from Alaska to my home community in South Carolina and confirms President Biden and Vice President Harris should resign,โ€ House Armed Services Committee member Joe Wilson of South Carolina wrote in a multi-part Twitter thread Saturday night.

A few pro-Biden media personalities rushed to defend the White House, with infamous Russiagater Keith Olbermann calling Wilson an โ€œa**clownโ€ and suggesting the lawmaker should โ€œstop, resign,โ€ and โ€œleave the country.โ€

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Ex-Israeli PM Reveals 'Big Concessions' Putin, Zelensky Were Ready to Make Before West Killed Talks

What role did former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett play in the first weeks of the Ukrainian crisis? What concessions were Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky apparently ready to make to stop the bloodshed? How did the West intervene to sabotage the peace negotiations?

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Turkish Experts Interpret Photo of US Envoy Aboard Warship as 'Threat to Turkey'

Aside from the presence of the US ambassador, Turkish experts pointed out that the Turkish flag hoisted on the mast of the destroyer was much smaller than the American banner, calling it a "show of strength" by the United States.

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๐Ÿ“น A group of Ukrainian nationalists attempted to disrupt a rally held in Paris on Saturday by French communists in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad.

The nationalists tried to drown out the speeches of the participants of the memorial action, but police intervened. After the incident, the rally continued as planned.

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Making the Case for War: 20 Years Ago, Colin Powell Lied to the UN

How was the Bush administration able to sell a war based on dubious intelligence not only to the American people, but also to much of the international community? Perhaps even more importantly, did the US political and military leadership learn any lessons from its disastrous invasion?

Sputnik spoke to former Pentagon and State Department officials who witnessed firsthand the Bush administrationโ€™s drift to war and spoke out against it.

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Spycraft or Not, Shootdown of Chinese Weather Balloon Using 5th-Gen Jet Looks โ€˜Sillyโ€™, Observer Says

The incident has certainly given Washington the pretext it needs to feed anti-China hysteria amid tectonic shifts being seen in the global geopolitical and economic order, former Department of Defense analyst-turned anti-war whistleblower and activist Karen Kwiatkowski has told Sputnik.

"The Chinese response may have been to chuckle, or it helped inform the Chinese government as to the air defense capabilities of the US, or both. Obviously, the US if it is determined that it belatedly shot down a weather balloon with a 5th generation fighter jet with a standoff air-to-air Sidewinder missile, it feeds into the global narrative of the US military as an offensively oriented warmonger, and kind of silly," Kwiatkowski stressed.

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๐ŸŽญ Venice Carnival kicks off in full force first time since pandemic

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๐Ÿ‹ Beluga whales arrived in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok for snacks

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๐Ÿฆ Three-month-old lion cubs abandoned by mother being cared for in Mariupol Zoo

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Iraqi Ex-Intelligence Officer Breaks Down US 2003 Invasion Preparations

โ€œIf you look at the slogans of the US Secretary of State at that time (e.g. the "New Middle East"), this is exactly what they wanted to demonstrate. The invasion of Iraq was the first step to demonstrate the unrestrained and unpunished US policy. The next step was to divide Syria and then other countries in the region,โ€ says Khaled Al-Douri, a key official of the US section of Iraqi intelligence before the 2003 invasion, in an interview with Sputnik discussing Powellโ€™s lies at the UN and their consequences.

โ€œThe US got money from the resale of Iraqi oil and is still getting it. They are not happy with the growing influence of Iran in the country, because they look at us as a colony. But they are not welcome here; the Iraqis are saying on every possible platform that America has done a reckless act and destroyed the sovereignty of Iraq.โ€

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