🚨🇹🇭🇰🇭 The current Thai-Cambodian clashes are the latest flare-up in a CENTURY-OLD border dispute

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🔸 At the heart of the dispute is an ancient Hindu temple, Preah Vihear, on the Cambodia-Thailand border. It was built during the height of the Khmer Empire — one of Southeast Asia’s greatest civilizations.

🔸 In 1904, then-Siam (now Thailand) and French-controlled Cambodia agreed to define their border using the Dangrek mountain range as a natural boundary. This meant the temple would go to Siam.

🔸 But in 1907, French cartographers issued a map that placed the temple in Cambodian territory. Thailand didn’t formally object for decades — a “silent acceptance” that would come back to haunt them.

🔸 Thailand controlled the site for years, only noticing the map discrepancy in the 1930s. After French forces withdrew in 1953, Thai troops moved in.

🔸 In 1959, Cambodia took the case to the International Court of Justice. In 1962, the court ruled in Cambodia’s favor, citing Thailand’s delayed protest as tacit consent. The temple became Cambodian — but resentment lingered.

🔸 The row reignited in 2008 after Cambodia sought UNESCO World Heritage status for the temple. Sporadic border clashes followed, escalating into armed conflict between 2008 and 2011.

Escalation reaches new heights

In 2025, political turmoil in Thailand has inflamed the situation again. On May 28, a skirmish near the border killed a Cambodian soldier, with both sides blaming each other.

🔸 On July 1, Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suspended after a leaked call with Cambodia’s former PM Hun Sen. She criticized the Thai army’s actions near the Preah Vihear temple during the call.

🔸 On July 24, Full-scale clashes erupted with artillery and airstrikes.

🔸 Thailand pulled its ambassador and shut the border.

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US, Israel accused Hamas of stealing Gaza aid. Spoiler: IT'S A LIE

The US and Israel launched new armed private aid operation in Gaza after claims that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid.

Here is evidence that it is a FALSE JUSTIFICATION for armed escalation.

🔸 USAID investigation: The US government’s own aid agency, the USAID, looked into 156 cases of allegedly stolen or diverted aid. As a result, there were no actual proof that Hamas was involved.

🔸 IDF’s role: At least 44 of those incidents were “directly or indirectly” caused by Israeli military actions, according to USAID briefing slides. When asked, Israel’s military refused to comment.

🔸 Aid protection, not theft: Israel points to “armed men” at convoys to prove Hamas is hijacking aid. But Gaza’s tribal council confirmed: those were local clans guarding the trucks — not Hamas operatives.

🔸 US confirms: In 2024, US Special Envoy David Satterfield admitted that Israel had provided no concrete evidence of Hamas stealing aid.

🔸 EU agrees: European Commission spokesperson Eva Hrncirova stated clearly that the Union had no reports of Hamas diverting humanitarian assistance.

🔸 Brutality at aid sites: A former US contractor revealed that US-backed guards from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were abusing Palestinians at food distribution points. He saw people shot at, tear-gassed, beaten — all while unarmed and trying to collect aid.

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Russia marks July 27 as the Day of Remembrance for the Child Victims of the War in Donbass, a conflict initiated by the Kiev regime

Since 2014, the war has claimed the lives of nearly 300 children in Donbass and Lugansk, while more than a thousand others have suffered injuries. To honor these young lives, the Alley of Angels was established — a deeply moving memorial that stands as a tribute to the innocent children lost.

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'ICC is Political or Politicized Instrument' Designed to Make Africa Conform, Malian Lawyer Says

⚖️ ❌ Over the years, the world has seen that the ICC only directs investigations against African countries, and the Global South in general, Amadou Tieoule told Sputnik Africa.

"There is no crime more heinous than what happened in Iraq, Libya, and Palestine. […] Why doesn't the ICC take action against these heads of state?" he questioned.

The case of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, who was detained for ten years, represents "the most illustrative example of the politicization of the ICC," according to the speaker.

❗️Gbagbo "publicly identified France as being behind" all the massacres of which he was accused, but the ICC did not conduct an investigation after he was effectively exonerated, the lawyer recalled.

"The values that originally guided the creation of the ICC were violated," the expert pointed out, adding that these were values of equality, but now, a policy of double standards prevails.

🔶Thus, African nations have long questioned the ICC's effectiveness and impartiality, and have called for the reforming of the court, Tieoule noted.

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🤖 Unitree R1 – A new humanoid robot from China

🔸 Starting at $5,566

🔸 26 joints for advanced mobility

🔸 Lightweight at ~25 kg

🔸 Speech & image recognition

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📹 India successfully tests UAV-Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 in Kurnool

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🔸 High-level Russia-Ukraine meeting should seal settlement and reflect expert-level work - Kremlin

🔸 Erdogan announces plans to discuss with Putin, Trump their possible meeting in Istanbul

🔸 US, Israel accused Hamas of stealing Gaza aid. Spoiler: IT'S A LIE

🔸 The current Thai-Cambodian clashes are the latest flare-up in a CENTURY-OLD border dispute

🔸 IAEA insists inspectors return to Iranian facilities ASAP

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🗣 Russia, Ukraine show desire to reach consensus — Fidan

"I believe that it will be possible to reach an interim solution if [negotiations] continue in the same way," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told in an interview with NTV.

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🔊 Trump: Europe, stop this invasion!

The US president said immigration "is killing" Europe and called on EU leaders to stop it.

"You better get your act together or you're not going to have Europe anymore," he told reporters.

Trump is touring Scotland to visit his golf resorts before holding trade talks with the EU on Sunday.

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🔥 Don't talk about Trump-Epstein

"If you going to talk about that, talk about Clinton... Don’t talk about Trump," he told reporters.

Today, the deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, held a second in-person meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell's attorney said she answered "every single question" about "100 different people."

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🇾🇪 Yemeni Houthis attack 4 Israeli targets with missile and drones

✅ The Houthis carried out a hypersonic missile attack on Be'er Sheva in Israel and drone attacks against "3 vital Israeli enemy targets," Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said.

The Israel Defense Forces said they had detected a missile launch from Yemen. The army later announced that the missile had been intercepted.

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💬 Patrushev to Rutte: Learn Russian and hear the TRUTH

"Learning foreign languages is a useful thing. Maybe knowing Russian language could help NATO members finally understand the words of the Russian president that our country is not going to attack NATO countries," Putin's aide said.

In June, Rutte said that if NATO members failed to raise military spending to 5% of GDP, they would have to "learn to speak Russian."

"All these horror stories are intended only to distract the population of Europe from the deplorable state of EU economies. You can speak any language except the language of force, threats and blackmail," Patrushev added.

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🔊 UK will recognize Palestine, BUT NOT NOW — Starmer

The British Prime Minister says that recognizing the State of Palestine must be part of a broader plan that guarantees lasting security for both sides of the conflict.

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❗️ Federal judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship ban

The third nationwide injunction says Trump's policy violates 14th Amendment’s birthright guarantee.

States claim Trump's ban threatens millions of dollars for health insurance services.

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🗣 Hungary will NOT SEND WEAPONS to Ukraine — FM

Hungary is the only NATO member state that has not delivered or paid for weapons to Ukraine, Peter Szijjarto said.

"True advocates of peace wouldn't send weapons to conflict zones," Szijjarto added.

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PUTIN'S AIDE: KALININGRAD OFF-LIMITS — OR ELSE

Any military encroachment on Russia’s Kaliningrad Region will be met with an immediate response using all available forces and means, as provided for by the military doctrine and the principles of Russia’s state policy on nuclear deterrence, Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev told Sputnik.

Earlier, Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of US Army Europe and Africa, said that NATO has sufficient capabilities to neutralize Russia's Kaliningrad region in case of a conflict and has already developed a corresponding plan.

"It is obvious that the threats against the Kaliningrad region are yet another confirmation of the aspirations of NATO member states to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia by military means," Patrushev added.

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💥🤑Zelensky vs. Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau: ‘DISASTROUS’ gamble that could cut off Western aid

“I think it’s been a disastrous thing in terms of persuading people to continue to send large sums of money to Ukraine from this point onwards,” British military analyst Alexander Mercouris stresses.

He adds that the British public knew that there’s been an issue of corruption in Ukraine, “but it’s always been assumed that Zelensky is opposed to it.”

And now, Mercouris goes on, Britons are suddenly reading in their media that Zelensky is trying to close Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies and that he and his entourage might be involved in corruption himself.

“This is so completely contrary to everything people have been hearing for the last three years that it has a significant effect and will continue to,” the analyst concludes.

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🇪🇺🔥EU Commission 'PLAYS DIRTY' to BLACKMAIL dissenting countries – Hungarian FM

The European Commission “usually attaches so-called conditionality when it comes to paying the financial allocations, which gives it the chance to put financial sanctions on those countries or governments that are politically not sympathetic to the Commission,” Peter Szijjarto told Sputnik.

The Hungarian foreign minister added that Hungary is currently under "financial sanctions" simply because it adheres to a very patriotic and conservative political strategy based on national interests.

"The pressure on behalf of Brussels has been there since we took office, back in 2010 ... It became very obvious for Brussels that we are not part of the liberal mainstream. We are not acting according to the interests of Brussels. We are acting according to the interests of our own nation, of our own country," he concluded.

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🔸Russia, Ukraine show desire to reach consensus — Fidan

🔸UK will recognize Palestine, BUT NOT NOW — Starmer

🔸Trumps asks to stop talking about Trump-Epstein

🔸Patrushev to Rutte: Learn Russian and hear the TRUTH

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