BREAKING | 13 killed and 20 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a family home in Jabaliya refugee camp, Northern Gaza.

The death toll is expected to rise. pic.twitter.com/1jTsejbVmw

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) May 26, 2024

6 killed, of which 2 are children, in an Israeli airstrike Eastern Rafah pic.twitter.com/8pA8S5Q2pv

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) May 26, 2024

Dozens of Palestinians killed across the besieged territory as Israeli forces hit multiple targets from north to south. | Israel has continued its relentless attacks on Rafah despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering it to put an end to the military operation there, and multiple deaths were reported from central and northern Gaza, which have been subjected to renewed attacks. ● The Shaboura camp and areas close to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah on Saturday were targeted, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said. Several people who have been injured in the bombardment have been transferred to the hospital, he said.

■ IOF continues aggression against Gaza for 233rd day (Al Mayadeen)
■ EU pressures Israel to obey ICJ's order to halt Rafah offensive (aNews)
■ Spanish defense minister calls war on Gaza 'real genocide' (Al Mayadeen)
■ "Our future doesn’t depend on what gentiles say" (Jerusalem Post)

Jonathan Cook | ‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile | On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building not marked on any map. Even the original road sign identifying the site as Facility 1391 had been removed after a local Haaretz newspaper investigation revealed it housed a secret prison. ■ I was the first foreign journalist to track down Facility 1391, most of it hidden within a heavily fortified complex built in the 1930s to suppress resistance to British rule in Palestine. ■ For decades, Israel had secretly held mostly Arab foreign nationals captive at the site, unknown to the Israeli courts, the Red Cross and human rights groups. Many were Lebanese citizens kidnapped during Israel’s 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. But there were also Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Iranians.

■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Ilana Mercer The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) continues to martyr the Palestinians, as it marches them up and down and across the Via Dolorosa that is the Gaza Strip. | By the time you read this—and as I write—the number of Palestinians murdered, maimed and displaced by The Devil’s agents will be, already is, out of date. Jump a level of abstraction, from the torrid reality engulfing Palestinians, to meditate upon the meaning of what I just said. 💬 The incessant, industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza, north, center and south, exists on one craven continuum of evil. There is no qualitative difference between the IDFs actions in Gaza before the invasion of Rafah and after. Like the numbers of Palestinians murdered and maimed, the debate over Rafah—to invade or not to invade—is already out-of-date or obsolete. Rafah was nothing but a fleeting and artificial demarcation, concocted reflexively by partners to genocide, Israel and America.

■ Poll Confirms -Israelis Love To Kill (Gilad Atzmon) (07/30/14)
■ On Israeli Genocidal Inclinations and The Jewish Problem (Gilad Atzmon)(08/08/14)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat)

Israel has been ordered by the top UN court on Friday to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah and allow uninterrupted aid supplies. | Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: "Those who demand that the State of Israel stop the war, demand that it decree itself to cease to exist. We will not agree to that." ● Opposition leader Yair Lapid: "The ICC arrest warrants are a complete moral failure, we cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and (Hamas leader) Sinwar, between the leaders of Israel and the leaders of Hamas.

■ "Our future doesn’t depend on what gentiles say" (Jerusalem Post)

■ Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) (24 May 2024) (.pdf)
■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)

American leader called russian president "a brutal tyrant" | US President Joe Biden again gave himself permission to offensive speech against Russian leader Vladimir Putin. ● Washington continues supplying arms to Kiev and train the Ukrainian military, Biden noted when speaking in front of graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point.

💬 "There are no American soldiers in the war in Ukraine. I'm determined to keep it that way," he said. ● "But we are standing strong with Ukraine and we will stand with them. We're standing against a man whom I've known well for many years, a brutal tyrant. We may not, we will not walk away," the US President continued.

■ Biden dishonors all Russians by insinuations against Putin — Russian Ambassador (TASS)

Algeria and France signed an agreement concerning the memory and retrieval of Algerian archives from the period of French colonization (1830 - 1962), according to media reports | The Algerian History and Memory Committee, represented by its chairman, historian Lahcen Zeghidi, signed the agreement and joint memorandum with the French Truth and Memory Commission, represented by historian Benjamin Stora, Algeria International Radio reported.

💬 "The signing ceremony, which took place in the capital, Algiers, followed the conclusion of the fifth meeting of the Algeria-France Joint Commission on History and Memory," it said.​​​​​​​ ● The agreement aims to "retrieve the Algerian archives from the colonial era and possessions of immeasurable historical value to the hearts of the Algerian people."

The fifth meeting of the joint Commission began last Monday in Algiers, which Zeghidi previously described as "procedural and practical" without revealing details. No additional information was provided about the content of the agreement.

■ Those invited to allegedly peace summit should be aware of Stoltenberg urge — Russian MFA (TASS)
■ Ukraine peace summit is another US-invented scam – Moscow (RT.com)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has made a statement that Ukraine should be able to strike military targets located on the internationally recognized Russian territory. 💬 "The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine," Stoltenberg said in an interview with the Economist. "Especially now when a lot of the fighting is going on in Kharkov, close to the border [with Russia], to deny Ukraine the possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory makes it very hard for them to defend themselves." ● "We don’t have any intention to send NATO ground troops into Ukraine," he said. "We will not be party to the conflict."

■ US Announces $275Mln Weapons Package for Ukraine, Including HIMARS Ammunition - Blinken (Sputnik News)
■ Ukraine attacked key element of Russia’s nuclear umbrella (RT.com)
■ NATO ‘preparing for war’ with Russia – Orban (RT.com)
■ Let Ukraine freely strike Russia with Western arms – NATO chief (RT.com)

■ Member of British Parliament: "We are already at war with Russia" (05/24/24) VIDEO
■ Inside the White House, a Debate Over Letting Ukraine Shoot U.S. Weapons Into Russia (05/23/24)
■ Ukraine seeks to spark direct NATO-Russia clash – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Give Ukraine long-range missiles to hit Russian targets, German minister says (05/22/24)
■ So calculate well the range of what you allocate to the Nazis, gentlemen (Dmitry Medvedev)(05/19/24)

Tributes are pouring in for the journalist who was killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, along with his wife and children. | Israeli forces in Gaza have killed Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Juhjouh along with his wife and children, local Palestinian media reported on Thursday. Juhjouh was killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, when a bomb struck his family home. ● The journalist worked for the Palestine Post Network. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that at least 103 journalists have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza since 7 October, but Palestinian sources have given a higher figure of 145. [...] According to reports, Jahjouh had been forcibly displaced several times due to Israeli bombardment and had finally returned to his home after Israeli forces withdrew from areas in north Gaza.

Gaza death toll rises to 35,800 as Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza’s southern Rafah and northern Jabalia, leaving thousands of civilians with nowhere to go | Al-Aqsa Hospital patients will die without fuel, electricity: Report A hospital spokesperson, Khalil al-Deqran, told Al Jazeera that doctors are unable to use many of the facilities at Al-Aqsa Hospital because of power outages, which have forced the shutdown of the generators.

💬 “This will lead to the death of so many sick and wounded people,” said Deqran, who said that some of the patients are being treated on the floor. ● “We appeal to the international community and all international and UN organisations to supply 50,000 litres of fuel to the hospital within the coming hours to prevent a health catastrophe affecting hundreds of patients and injured individuals. Any delay in supplying the fuel would effectively be a death sentence for these patients and injured individuals," said a statement from the hospital reported by the Quds News Network.

■ BREAKING: ICJ orders Israel to end Rafah offensive (RT.com)
■ World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Rafah, cites ‘disastrous’ situation (The Arab Weekly)
■ ICJ orders 'Israel' to immediately halt offensive on Rafah (Al Mayadeen)
■ Live blog: Deadly Israeli strikes hit Gaza amid world court ruling due (TRT World)
■ World Court Orders Israel To Halt Military Operations in Rafah (Kyle Anzalone)

Andrew Bridgen MP just dropped this bombshell on a stunned Doc Malik:

‘Rishi wants out..um…we are actually at war with Russia now …they just haven’t told you.’

Russia knows it as confirmed to Bridgen by the Russian Ambassador.

Rishi has told the globalists he doesn’t want to… pic.twitter.com/ON04FPX2Tt

— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) May 12, 2024

Member of British Parliament: "We are already at war with Russia; They won't tell the people until July or August" | VIDEO BELOW shows British MP Andrew Bridgen confirming on a radio show today: "We are actually at war with Russia now... They're not going to tell the people probably until July or August; maybe later."

💬 ‘Rishi wants out..um…we are actually at war with Russia now …they just haven’t told you.’ ● "The whole thing's a pantomime in Parliament... It's not a race between the blue and the red team to see who crosses the finish line. This is a baton handover on all the big issues: Net Zero, Covid response, the WHO, the trans agenda."

We have a natural right to defend ourselves from the people doing these things, that are going to get us bombed, our families killed or injured, our way of life, destroyed.. It is our right, it is our DUTY to take action.

The funeral procession of late Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has kicked off in Tehran. | Besides the staff of the ministry, people from all walks of life have attended the event. Amirabdollahian’s body will be laid to rest at Shah Abdul Az in Shayr-e-Rey in southern Tehran later in the day. He passed away in an air crash on Sunday in northwestern Iran while accompanying President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage who all died in the tragic incident.

The suspected shooter, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula, has been accused of premeditated attempted murder and was detained pending trial following a hearing on Saturday. | The individual accused of shooting and causing serious injuries to Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico stated that he carried out the act in opposition to the government's policy towards Ukraine, as per a court document obtained by AFP on Thursday. ● Slovakia was shocked last week when Fico was shot four times while greeting supporters in the central town of Handlova. ● After being swiftly taken to the hospital, he underwent two extensive surgeries at a nearby facility in Banska Bystrica. The hospital reported on Thursday that he is still in a "serious but stable" condition. ● The suspected shooter, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula, has been accused of premeditated attempted murder and was detained pending trial following a hearing on Saturday.

■ Slovak Media Explores Ukrainian Link to Fico Assassination Attempt (05/22/24)

The European Union will feel the "full measure" of Russian retaliation over its plan to use income from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday slammed the EU decision to use revenues from Russian frozen assets as "an attempt to legitimize theft." ● The 27-member bloc has formally agreed to use windfall profits from roughly $300 billion frozen Russian assets to buy arms for Kyiv. The assets were frozen soon after Moscow launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine in 2022. ● Zakharova, in response to a question by Anadolu during a news conference in Moscow, said such actions of European politicians demonstrate that the continent cannot be considered as "reliable entity" for foreign investors anymore.

💬 "Is this the first time the collective West has done this? Of course not, but this once again confirms that the European Union can no longer be considered as a reliable legal entity for foreign investors, whose investments can be confiscated or looted at any moment under one pretext or another," she stressed, and rejected claims that revenues from assets are not their part. ● She said many investors have started withdrawing their assets from Western jurisdictions, and after the EU's "unprecedented lawless decision" on Russia this process will accelerate significantly."

■ Putin signs decree allowing use of U.S. property in Russia as compensation (aNews)

Pierre Simon | At the Roots of Political Judaism

[...] It is [the] ideas from the Torah, the Talmud, and the Cabala that animate the Likud party, the Tsahal army, as well as the Jewish media, academics, banks, financiers, corporations, and the tens of thousands of synagogues, Jewish associations, foundations, and think tanks spread out in a spider web fashion all over the world. These ideas are the blueprints or protocols that the Jewish race follows to impose its will on the world and to enslave humanity. As stated by the greatly beloved Sephardic rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, who passed away in 2013.

[...] Should we be concerned about the hegemonic, revolutionary, even tyrannical, and genocidal character of globalism and its off-shoot Zionism? To watch the “most moral army in the world,” of the “only democracy in the Middle East,” unabashedly torture, rape, and exterminate the Palestinian children, women, and the elderly of Gaza, without a shred of human remorse, in front of the entire planet, and with the consent of the Jewish-controlled Western governments, it’s high time to ask some serious questions.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 230th day, has killed 35,800 Palestinians —predominantly babies, children, and women — and wounded over 80,200, with an estimated 10,000+ residents said to be buried under debris of bombed homes. | 1356 GMT — The Palestinian death toll has mounted to 35,800 amid relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave has said. ● At least 80,200 people have also been injured in the Israeli offensive, the ministry added in a statement. ● "The Israeli army killed 91 people and injured 210 others in nine ‘massacres’ against families in the last 24 hours," the ministry said. "Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them," it added.

After a sobering trip to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is urging the president to lift some restrictions on how Ukraine can use American arms. | Since the first American shipments of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has never wavered on one prohibition: President Volodymyr Zelensky had to agree to never fire them into Russian territory, insisting that would violate Mr. Biden’s mandate to “avoid World War III.” ● But the consensus around that policy is fraying. Propelled by the State Department, there is now a vigorous debate inside the administration over relaxing the ban to allow the Ukrainians to hit missile and artillery launch sites just over the border in Russia — targets that Mr. Zelensky says have enabled Moscow’s recent territorial gains.

■ Ukraine seeks to spark direct NATO-Russia clash – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Give Ukraine long-range missiles to hit Russian targets, German minister says (05/22/24)
■ So calculate well the range of what you allocate to the Nazis, gentlemen (Dmitry Medvedev)(05/19/24)

Kit Klarenberg | Academics Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University and Benjamin Z. Kedar of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have produced an extraordinary paper based on a welter of archival material, exposing in disturbing detail the hitherto obfuscated dimensions of an operation by Zionist forces to use chemical and biological weapons against both invading Arab armies and local civilians during the 1948 war. | That brutal conflict created the state of Israel, and led to permanent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, known as the “Nakba” – Arabic for disaster, catastrophe, or cataclysm. ■ Morris and Kedar offer a highly granular timeline of events, starting in the initial months of that year, as Britain prepared to evacuate Mandatory Palestine on May 15. In the lead up to that date, Zionist settlers were very much on the defensive, with militias “continuously” attacking their enclaves and convoys, with the support of neighboring armies, due to their joint rejection of UN Resolution 181, passed in November 1947, which proposed partitioning Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.

Abbas Juma | Disbelief enveloped the nation when the news broke | Throughout the night of May 19-20, Iranian rescue teams searched through dense fog for the wreckage of the helicopter carrying the president and the foreign minister. The search was hindered by the weather conditions and terrain, with the rain-soaked ground impeding both personnel and equipment. Meanwhile, Iranians across the country prayed, wept, and anxiously awaited news. ■ During the night, prominent and reputable regional and global media outlets, in a frenzy for sensational updates, disseminated inaccurate information about the search efforts. Some later hurriedly removed these reports. Social media was flooded with hastily fabricated falsehoods, fueled by opponents of the Iranian government. According to one widely spread rumor, mass celebrations erupted in Tehran, with claims that people were rejoicing over the president’s death and launching fireworks. ■ Refuting these blatant lies was not difficult, as I spent the night on Valiasr Street, one of Tehran’s main thoroughfares. Loudspeakers broadcasting prayers were promptly set up in the square, and journalists actively gathered the views of residents who had come out to support the president. ■ There is no panic in Iran, only pain. On the morning of May 20, the Islamic Republic donned black for five days of mourning. People, especially women, went to work with faces swollen from the night’s tears. The religious Iranians in the holy city of Qom, whom I spoke with, believe that everything is in the hands of the Almighty. They prepare themselves for death daily, thus experiencing neither panic nor surprise.

■ Pictures speak louder: Raisi funeral turnout debunks Western claims (Al Mayadeen)
■ Ebrahim Raisi: The president's death leaves Iran at a crossroads (Seyed Hossein Mousavian)

Western officials claim that Georgia’s crackdown on foreign influence “undermines democracy” | The US is looking into how it could punish Georgia over a ‘foreign agents’ bill which was recently passed in the country's parliament, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. ● Georgia’s Transparency of Foreign Influence Act would require non-profit organizations, media outlets, and individuals which derive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as entities “promoting the interests of a foreign power” and disclose their income and sponsors or face fines of up to $9,500. ● The legislation ignited weeks of violent protests and clashes across the country, which is an applicant to both the EU and NATO. ● Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili vetoed the bill on Friday, but the gesture is considered to be largely symbolic, as the Georgian Dream party has a majority in parliament and is expected to overrule it.

■ Еврокомиссар назвал упоминание инцидента с Фицо вырванным из контекста (TACC.ru)
■ “You see what happened to Fico, and you should be very careful.” (RT.com - Telegram)
■ Georgian PM accuses EU of ‘blackmailing’ him with assassination threat (RT.com)
■ The Shameless Hypocrisy of Clown World (Theodore Beale)

Egor Shapovalov | In a historic diplomatic move, Norway, Ireland, and Spain have officially recognized the Palestinian state, a decision that has sparked fierce condemnation from Israel. This symbolic but significant gesture marks a shift in international relations and suggests a changing narrative in the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | Veteran war journalist Elijah Magnier provided insights into the implications of this recognition in a recent interview to the Sputnik's Critical Hour.

💬 "The Israelis have lost the war, they've lost the diplomatic war, and they're losing the political war with the West," said Magnier.

The coordinated announcements by the European nations indicate a growing international consensus that peace in the Middle East requires acknowledging Palestinian rights. Magnier emphasized that this recognition is the minimum the global community can offer to the Palestinians, fulfilling promises made in the Oslo Accords of the 1990s.

■ Israel's First Reaction - Here's What We Know (One India)

Oslo said it would grant exceptions "in certain cases," including for those visiting their close family residing in Norway 💬 "Russian citizens whose purpose is tourism and other non-essential travel will be rejected upon entry across the external border. The restriction applies both to those who have visas issued by Norway before visa practices were restricted in the spring of 2022 and to visas issued by other Schengen countries," the Norwegian government said in a press release on its website, adding that the move will come into effect on May 29. Oslo said it would grant exceptions "in certain cases," including for those visiting their close family residing in Norway or for Russian citizens working or studying in Norway or other Schengen countries.

[Editor's comment: Many Norwegians are tired of this nonsense, and find the Norwegian government's complete submission to its vassal lord, the USA, embarrassing. It is to be hoped that the Russians realize that not everyone in Norway agrees with the shameful policy of the government in Oslo.]

Dr. David Martin spoke at European Parliament, Strasbourg France Reveals Evidence of WHO Criminal Racketeering and Global Genocide. Sep 2023. Dr. Martin: "WHO is a Criminal Cartel Involved in Criminal Conspiracy Resulting in Global Terrorism For The Purpose of Profiteering and Global Genocide." Dr. Martin reveals COVID-19 and the COVID Vaccines to be bioweapons created for the sole purpose of profit and mass murder. Vaccines are a Eugenics Global Depopulation Mechanism. The World Health Organization is a front organization for Bill Gates who funds it by 86% and is attempting to take over sovereign nations' health for sinister and dark purposes. If Nations cede their sovereignty to Bill Gates through the WHO then expect another pandemic to be declared immediately most like H5N1 Avian Influenza Bird Flu with a Bill Gates sanctioned new vaccine being pushed possibly by forced mandates.

Amid heavy Russian attacks on Kharkiv, the West must send long-distance missiles, said Annalena Baerbock. | Ukraine’s armed forces need more long-range weapons to be able to hit targets deep behind the frontline, Germany’s foreign minister has said, as Russia makes gains on the battlefield. ● Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Strasbourg, Annalena Baerbock described the military situation in north-east Ukraine as “highly dramatic” amid reports that Vladimir Putin’s forces are making significant advances of up to 10 kilometers in one place. [...] Germany is now Ukraine's second-biggest arms supplier, after the Americans, but Scholz has balked at giving Ukraine Taurus missiles, fearing that to do so would draw Germany deeper into the war. The U.S. has also placed restrictions on weapons it supplies, telling Kyiv they must not be used to strike inside Russia.

■ Let Ukraine use US weapons to strike inside Russia – Nuland (05/21/24)
■ War in Ukraine: Washington no longer rules out its weapons being used to strike Russian soil (Le Monde - 05/16/24)
■ Kyiv can use British weapons inside Russia - Cameron (BBC - 3 May 2024)
■ Ukraine using British weapons for terror attacks – Moscow (05/11/24)
■ Dissecting [sic] Russia into smaller nations not a bad thing — Estonian PM (05/21/24)
■ NATO state’s PM calls for breakup of Russia (05/21/24)
■ So calculate well the range of what you allocate to the Nazis, gentlemen (Dmitry Medvedev)(05/19/24)

Klaus Schwab, the founder of World Economic Forum, will reportedly transition to role of non-executive chairman | World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab has announced he will step back from his role, after more than 50 years at the head of the event, according to the Semafor news platform. ● The article cites a letter from Schwab to staff on Tuesday in which he outlines his intention to transition to a non-executive-chairman role before the next meeting of the annual gathering at the Alpine resort town of Davos, Switzerland, in 2025. The change is pending approval by the Swiss government. ● Semafor also cited a statement by a forum’s spokesperson, who said that the organization is “transforming from a convening platform to the leading global institution for public-private cooperation.” ● Schwab, 86, did not reportedly name his successor, but said that over the last year the group’s executive board “under the leadership of President Borge Brende, has taken full executive responsibility.” A former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Brende, 58, has been WEF president since 2017.

■ Warning: Don't Celebrate Klaus Stepping Down, Tony Blair Is Front Runner to Take Over WEF (Politico)

Last week, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot four times after a gunman fired five shots in his direction. He was rushed to the hospital where he remains in stable but critical condition. He is expected to survive. | Writing in SIA News, columnist Lucas Leiroz called for an investigation into outside involvement. 💬 “It is necessary to investigate whether there was international involvement and whether foreign agents financed the attack or influenced it in any way. Knowing that there are groups interested in removing Fico, it is possible that there is a large conspiracy behind the cause,” Leiroz wrote (translated from Slovak), noting the terrorist attacks suspected of being linked to Ukraine, like the Crocus City Hall massacre and the bombing of Russia’s embassy in Brazil. Leiroz also notes that world leaders who have opposed funding Ukraine have found themselves on the notorious “Mirotvorets” Ukrainian kill list, including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

■ CIA/MI6/Mossad/Mirotvorets Kill List: "West Left Its Own People to Mercy of Ukraine's Gestapo" (Sputnik News)