🇵🇰⚔️🇮🇳 ‘The Pakistan military is NOT AS PROFESSIONAL as the Indian military’ – US Army vet

💬 “Pakistan legitimately hosts terrorist organizations within its borders,” retired Major General and military analyst James Marks told CNN.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇹🇷Putin, Trump, Erdogan can steer Ukraine conflict to peace agreement - Sachs

🗣President Trump had a "far more accurate" understanding of the Ukrainian conflict than his predecessor Joe Biden did, American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told Sputnik.

➡️The conflict could have ended in April 2022, but Biden had told Ukraine to "fight on," Sachs pointed out.

➕The economist added he was "cautiously optimistic," saying that Trump wanted to stop the conflict, which would be in the best interest of the US, Europe, Russia, and Ukraine.

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❗️Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), recognized as terrorist organization in Turkiye, announced its dissolution

PKK announces its decision to end armed conflict with Turkiye, which has lasted for more than 40 years, Rudaw agency reports.

➡️Earlier, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called on the Kurdish militia to repudiate armed struggle and dissolve.

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🪖UK and EU to forge new defense POWER PACT?

Leaked documents reveal that Britain and the EU are poised to announce their closest alignment on defense and security since Brexit, The Times reported.

🤡No surprise – it’s under the all-too-familiar pretext of the “Russia threat.”

▪️UK defense giants could get access to the new ~$157.5 billion EU rearmament fund after negotiations;

▪️The UK could take part in the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy, including:
🟠So-called "peacekeeping missions";
🟠Collective European self-defense operations;

▪️“Military mobility” would involve:
🟠Streamlining cross-border movement of troops and equipment across Europe;
🟠UK participation in EU exercises;

▪️Fallback plan for UK-EU military action if the US blocks operations under NATO;

▪️Biannual meetings between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas;

▪️EU access perks as Britain could be invited to internal EU meetings, including the European Council.

Was Brexit the ultimate “leave to come back” strategy?🙄

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🟠 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announces its dissolution

🟠 Treasury Sec. Bessent announces ‘substantial progress’ in US-China trade talks

🟠 UK and EU to forge new defense POWER PACT?

🟠 Trump confirms release of US-Israeli citizen Alexander

🟠 Netanyahu announces plans to draft 10,500 ultra-Orthodox Jews

🟠 Hungary cancels minority rights talks with Ukraine

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳US, China agree to mutually suspend 24% of tariffs for 90 days – joint statement

➕from joint statement:

🟠China, US to establish mechanism to continue trade and economic talks

➕US Treasury secretary:

🟠China-US mutual tariffs to be cut to 10% after Geneva talks

🟠Neither the US nor China want a break in economic relations

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🗣"Warsaw continues to deliberately destroy relations, acting against the interests of its citizens,” Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik, commenting on the closure of the Russian Consulate in Krakow.

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🔥WATCH: Russia’s Battlegroup Sever destroys a Ukrainian Armed Forces HIMARS rocket launch system, which had previously attacked the Kursk region city of Rylsk, with an Iskander-M missile strike

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Kotlyarovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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