📹Footage capturing the transfer of Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud to the Red Cross

Yehud was supposed to be among the first two groups of hostages released on January 19 and 25 during the first phase of the interim ceasefire agreement, the New York Times reports, referring to the Israeli authorities.

She is believed to be one of the last civilian women held in Gaza, the newspaper added.

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🇷🇴Romania's presidential candidate bets on Ukraine’s SPLIT after the war ends

"The world is changing. Borders will change. More than that – where do we stand? Northern Bukovina, Bugeac, North Maramures... Transcarpathia for Hungary, Lvov for Poland," Romania's leading presidential candidate Calin Georgescu said in his latest interview.

Speculations on territorial division of Ukraine have been ongoing since the start of Russia’s special military operation.

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📹Crowds have gathered to watch the ceremony of Hamas fighters and Al-Quds Brigades handing over the third group of Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.

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❗️No survivors likely after midair collision over DC

Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered from the plane and one from the helicopter following the collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, according to a US official.

The official says that authorities are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation and that no survivors are likely to be found.

American Airlines CEO says the cause of why the military aircraft came into the path of a passenger aircraft is unknown.

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💬 Here's what Edward Snowden has to tell Tulsi Gabbard ahead of her Senate confirmation as Director of National Intelligence

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🤡 Ukrainian nationalism is a subconscious form of self-hatred

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🇸🇰 Slovak police arrest Ukrainian over alleged coup d’etat threat

"One person is currently in the Foreign Border Police department, where administrative deportation is being carried out," Police Chief Jana Mashkarova said.

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🔎 How Friedrich Merz SHOOK UP the election race in Germany

Germany’s conservative contender for chancellor Friedrich Merz has upended the political landscape by securing AfD votes to pass a strict migration resolution in parliament. This move marks the FIRST TIME since WWII that a mainstream party has relied on the right-wing politicians to clinch a majority.

Breaking political traditions?

Merz’s CDU/CSU coalition is pushing for permanent border checks and faster deportations, citing concerns over recent security incidents. His decision has triggered powerful reactions, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz warning that Germany may risk tarnishing its international reputation while questioning the legal basis of this proposal.

Redefining German politics?

With the elections set for February 23, the CDU’s move raises key questions:

▪️Is this a turning point for Germany’s political landscape?
▪️Will other parties follow suit on migration policies?
▪️How will voters respond to this shift?

Germany stands at a pivotal crossroads—what’s your take on this political game-changer?

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📹 THROWBACK: Director of National Intelligence nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, who is facing a Senate confirmation hearing today, exposed politicians who become millionaires from insider trading.

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What Israel and Hamas say about the release of Palestinian prisoners

Hamas

💬Palestinian prisoners will be released on Thursday at 3 p.m. GMT, Hamas' office for POW announced.

Israel

Netanyahu's office says mediators committed to ensuring safe release of Israeli hostages from Gaza in following stages.

💬PM's office ordered a freeze on the release of Palestinian prisoners from jail until the safe exit of Israeli hostages from Gaza is guaranteed.

Earlier on Thursday, Hamas released two more Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals.

Israel was expected to release 110 Palestinian prisoners, including those sentenced to life for terrorism, as a result of today's exchange.

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❗️Coaches Vadim Naumov, Evgenia Shishkova and six figure skaters have died in the plane crash in the United States, the director of the Boston sports club said.

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🌊🇲🇾Severe flooding has hit Malaysia's largest province of Sarawak, affecting dozens of towns and hundreds of villages.

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🇮🇱 How Israel LIED to JFK and STOLE US uranium to build nuclear arms

Tel Aviv had a strong motive to eliminate President John F. Kennedy in 1963, as he opposed its efforts to develop nuclear weapons using uranium stolen from the United States, CIA veteran Larry Johnson told Sputnik.

🔍 What’s known about the plot?

Israel’s nuclear arms - JFK’s private nightmare

▪️JFK pressured the Israeli government to abandon its military nuclear program and sought to institutionalize regular inspections of Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

▪️Glenn Seaborg, then-chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, noted that nuclear proliferation was JFK’s "private nightmare."

▪️JFK met with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in the US to discuss Israel’s nuclear ambitions in May 1961. Ben-Gurion assured the US president that Israel had no intention of developing nuclear weapons.

▪️The CIA issued a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stating that Israel was on track to "produce sufficient weapons-grade plutonium for one or two crude weapons a year by 1965-66" in October 1961.

⚛️ The theft of highly enriched uranium

▪️Between 1958 and 1978, over 300 kilograms of uranium-235 (U-235) in the form of highly enriched uranium (HEU) went missing from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) plant in Pennsylvania, US.

▪️The apparent theft was first discovered in 1965 after an inventory check at NUMEC.

▪️The CIA and other federal agencies launched an investigation into the missing uranium, which lasted from 1965 to the early 1980s.

▪️In 1968, the CIA reportedly found HEU traceable to the US near Israel’s Dimona nuclear complex.

▪️Declassified CIA documents from the 1970s (released in 2015) concluded that NUMEC uranium had been diverted to Israel.

▪️Despite these findings, the US and its allies have continued to maintain a policy of opacity regarding Israel’s nuclear program.

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📹Tulsi Gabbard SLAMS FBI, intelligence agencies for abuse of power

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📹 Tulsi Gabbard CALLS OUT Neocons for supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria

“Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”

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