❗️Ukraine, with West's tacit approval, supports terrorists in the Sahel region — Lavrov

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📹 Russia is willing to contribute to the forming of the ARMED FORCES of the Alliance of Sahel states — Lavrov

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❗️Mali considers Ukraine terrorist state as Sahel militants supported by Kiev — Malian Foreign Minister

"Some states are helping these terrorists [in the Sahel region], organizing the rear for them. For example, Ukraine. For us, Ukraine is a terrorist state," Abdoulaye Diop said.

Ukraine is a sponsor of terrorism and must be stopped, the minister added.

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Hungary ‘opting out’ of GLOBALIST institutions – expert

By choosing to withdraw from International Criminal Court, Hungary shows its policy is “in line with the thinking of the Trump administration," Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at The Global Policy Institute, told Sputnik.

“It's obviously a major development because this is the first NATO and EU country that had signed on to the ICC, had signed onto the Rome Statute and is now withdrawing… Hungary breaking ranks is significant," he stressed.

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🇭🇺 Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court (ICC) because it believes that the organization turned from independent to political in recent years — Orban

Hungary's foreign minister is to submit a bill to parliament on Thursday to withdraw from the ICC Rome statute, PM Viktor Orban said.

"The reason [for Hungary's withdrawal from ICC] is that we are convinced that the court is turning into a political one. In other words, in recent years it is no longer an impartial court based on the rule of law, but a political court. And this is most clearly seen in his decision regarding Israel," Orban told a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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📹 Vance confirms Musk will STAY ON as a White House adviser once he steps away from DOGE

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🔎 How could Trump tackle the trap set up by the EU?

The US’ European allies want Trump to contain his “drastic” foreign policy shift, Alexander Yakovenko, deputy head of Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group, told Sputnik.

▪️Trump could get out of this EU trap if he “masters enough political will” and doesn’t “put up with the US foreign policy strategy of the Cold War era”, Yakovenko stresses.

▪️The US’ Cold War era-based foreign policy perfectly suits European elites, the Rossiya Segodnya deputy head, who is also the head of the Russian Security Council's Expert Advisory Committee on global problems and international security, points out.

▪️These elites are unwilling to change “their mentality and their world view, they’d rather live in the world of their own, which I think doesn’t exist any longer,” the expert concludes.

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🤬 Angry Western liberals: set Tesla cars on fire

💪 Meanwhile India: launches Uber Sleep

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🗣 Trump's first comment in the aftermath of the introduction of import duties

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🇭🇺 Hungary's foreign ministry submits a bill to parliament to withdraw from the ICC. The vote could take place at the end of May with the decision to come into force in a year, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

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🗣 Highlights of Lavrov’s statements on the results of the ‘Sahel Trio’ meeting

▪️Four-way meetings of the foreign ministers of Russia and the Alliance of Sahel States (Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali) are going to be held on an annual basis

▪️Russia would be willing to facilitate the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States’ joint armed forces

▪️A considerable number of Russian advisers operate in the Alliance of Sahel States’ territory

▪️Russia regards the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States as a drive to establish new security architecture in the region

▪️Moscow is ready to provide comprehensive defense, security and economic assistance to the Alliance of Sahel States

▪️Ukraine supports terrorists in Sahel, and the West condones it

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💸 Trump no dump: Why impose tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands?

The US president recently hit the world’s most remote islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, with a 10% tariff, The Guardian reports.

While the world's community was laughing at Trump's decision, here's what was hidden behind the curtains:

▪️Despite no buildings or human habitation, the US imported $1.4m (A$2.23m) worth of goods from these islands in 2022, mainly “machinery and electrical” imports

▪️Over the past five years, US imports from the Heard Island and McDonald Islands ranged from $15,000 to $325,000 per year

▪️The United States also imported consumer goods and vegetables from the islands.

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