Authorities found drone, related equipment in Crooks' vehicle, according to senior law enforcement source | The man who shot former US President Donald Trump in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania flew a drone over the rally site just hours before Trump appeared on stage, according to NBC news. The drone, reportedly a DJI model, provided the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Crooks, an aerial perspective that may have aided in planning the attack. [...] Initial reports on the use of the drone were first made public by The Wall Street Journal.

■ US Secret Service Says Rejected Requests to Strengthen Trump's Security (Sputnik News)
■ RUMOR: Secret Service Boss to RESIGN Monday (Hal Turner Show)

The Saudi Ministry of Defense has reacted to the reports released by Israeli media sources regarding the country's alleged involvement in the Zionist regime's attack on Yemen last night. | Reacting to the claims, Defense Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki said on Sunday that his country did not participate in the Israeli raids targeting the Yemeni city of Hodeidah on Saturday. He further stressed that Saudi Arabia would not allow any party to violate its airspace. ● Israeli war jets launched a series of airstrikes on Saturday targeting Yemen's province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast. The aggression targeted an oil refinery, leading to a massive fire that can be seen kilometers away. ● After the Israeli attack on Yemeni soil, the spokesperson of the Arab country's Army Yahya Saree said that Yemeni armed forces would not hesitate to retaliate the Israeli strikes on Hudaydah Port.

■ UN warns of escalation risk after Israeli attacks on Yemen (TRT World)
■ Cairo Says Concerned About Israeli Airstrikes on Yemen’s Hudaydah (Sputnik News)
■ Israeli attack against Yemen signals ‘dangerous’ new phase: Hezbollah (Anadolu)
■ Yemen successfully hits occupied Eilat, US ship in Red Sea (Mehr News Agency) | Local sources reported a massive explosion in the Israeli-occupied Eilat early on Sunday. Zionist media sources reported that alarm sirens sounded after a loud explosion was heard in Eilat. The incident occurred just hours after the Israeli regime attacked Yemen's Al-Hudaydah Port.

Washington and London have launched dozens of airstrikes inside Yemen without congressional or parliamentary approval | The commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Erik Kurilla, has urged authorities in Washington to take a more forceful approach against Yemen, saying current efforts to deter the nation’s pro-Palestine operations are “failing.” ● In a private letter addressed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Kurilla calls for a “stepped-up ‘whole of government’ effort against the Houthis, employing economic, diplomatic, and potentially military pressure to discourage attacks on ships in the Red Sea,” according to officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The antivirus platform has acknowledged that a bug in an update was to blame for Friday’s global Windows 10 outage | SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that his companies have stopped using web/cloud-based antivirus platform CrowdStrike, following Friday’s global Windows 10 outage. ● The controversial cyber-security firm has admitted that the massive failures were caused by a recent update it instigated that conflicted with Microsoft systems. ● The IT meltdown affected Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks, and broadcasters. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, at least 4,295 flights were grounded globally due to the outage. The worldwide glitch also hit a number of media outlets, including the UK-based Sky News – which went off the air for a while – as well as the Australian-based ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Channel 9, and News Corp Australia. ● Responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Musk wrote: “We just deleted Crowdstrike from all our systems.”

■ Microsoft IT outage latest: Security firm Crowdstrike finds cause of global IT 'disaster' - as cyber attack ruled out (07/19/24)

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Seyed Miad Salehi announced that Russia's coal was exported to India through Iran's railway for the first time. | The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) wrote on his social media account on Saturday that 7 freight wagons containing 9,500 tons of Russia's coal were exported to India through Iran's railway track in the last 40 days for the first time in the history of the railway. He also expressed hope that according to the president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian's recent note and according to his emphasis on cooperation with neighbors, China, and Russia, the country's transit would increase continuously. ● Russia has for the first time sent two trains laden with coal to India via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which connects Russia to India via Iran, according to a statement by Russia’s national railway company. A multimodal route that includes a railway, roadway network, and seaports, the INSTC spans 7,200km (4,500 miles) from St. Petersburg to the port of Mumbai in India.

■ US warns India against deepening Russia ties (RT.com) []

For most of us, the night typically means dinner with family, a movie, and preparing for bed. For those living—or more accurately, trying to live—in Gaza, the night signifies something entirely different: terror. “The night is long. The night is terrifying. The night means fear. The night means remembering Hind,” says the mother of Hind Rajab, a young girl who was shot dozens of times by the IDF in Gaza. This documentary echoes the sentiments of many who endure the relentless bombing campaign in one of the most densely populated areas worldwide. ● “My mother, my brother, my sister, and my two children—they’re my only children and they’re gone...” This heart-wrenching account is just one of the many that highlight the horrors Gazans face under Israel’s brutal siege and bombing. Emily Tripp, Director of Airwars, emphasizes the severity, stating, “This is the conflict where we have counted more children killed in a single strike than we have in any other conflict… multiple times.” (Odysee here + BitChute here)

“Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law,” said the president of the court. | The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. ● The advisory opinion by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), known as the World Court, was not binding but carries weight under international law and is likely to fuel more criticism of Israel’s settlement expansion policies. The court ruling will impact any future Palestinian-Israeli settlement negotiations. ● “Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law,” President Nawaf Salam said, reading the findings of a 15-judge panel. The court said Israel’s obligations include paying restitution for harm and “the evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements”. ● The ICJ opinion also found that the UN Security Council, the General Assembly, and all states have an obligation not to recognize the occupation as legal nor “render aid or assistance” toward maintaining Israel’s presence in the occupied territories.

■ Landmark ICJ ruling says world must act to end Israel’s illegal occupation (Maureen Clare Murphy)
👉 Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem | The Court gives its Advisory Opinion and responds to the questions posed by the General Assembly (ICJ)(.pdf)

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a recent telephone call with Volodymyr Zelensky told him that he would be able to resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine if he's elected to be the next US president in November.

💬 "President Zelensky of Ukraine and I had a very good phone call earlier today...I appreciate President Zelensky for reaching out because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families," Trump said in a statement on Truth Social on Friday.

Trump further said that he believes both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal. Zelensky said in a separate statement that both sides agreed to eventually meet in person for further talks on what steps can be taken to facilitate a negotiated settlement. ● Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he takes seriously Trump's statements on being ready to help resolve the conflict in Ukraine. The Kremlin noted that Putin at present has no plans to conduct talks with Trump on achieving peace in Ukraine.

■ Trump has ‘very good’ phone call with Zelensky (RT.com)

Israel's settlement policy in occupied Palestinian territories is in breach of international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled. | The "transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as Israel's maintenance of their presence" is "contrary to article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention", a panel of 15 judges from around the world said. The court said Israel must end the construction of settlements immediately - acts which render "Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful". Israel's continued presence is "illegal" and should be ended as "rapidly as possible", the ICJ added. It also found that Israel's use of natural resources was "inconsistent" with its obligations under international law as an occupying power. ● Israel did not send a legal team to the hearings. In written comments, however, it said questions put to the court were prejudiced and failed to address its security concerns.

■ ICJ says Israel violates international law in West Bank and must end the occupation (Ynet News)
■ Top UN court declares Israeli settlements illegal (RT.com)
👉 Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem | The Court gives its Advisory Opinion and responds to the questions posed by the General Assembly (ICJ)(.pdf)

Planes have been grounded as several airports are hit by a global IT outage, with Windows PCs shutting down and broadcasters and businesses also taken offline. | Issues in booking NHS appointments at some GP surgeries. Users are experiencing difficulties booking NHS appointments at some GP surgeries in the UK. Error messages such as the ones shown in the images below are appearing when patients attempt to book. One, in Putney, reports a "national internet issue" which is "impacting our core medical management system". We haven't got a official statement from the NHS yet.

■ Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media (Reuters)
■ LIVE | Extraordinary IT outage hits business around the globe (News24)
■ What to know about CrowdStrike, the firm behind the global IT outage (RT.com)

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, has added her voice to a call for Israel to be unseated from the United Nations. | Albanese said it was “time” to remove Israel from the world body, as she reposted an earlier call on social media for the “unseating” of Israel by the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. ● On Tuesday, the UN rapporteur on housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said that it was “high time” to take action as Israel continued its “criminal attacks” on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza “without any consequences”. Israel should be unseated “from the UN, as was done with apartheid South Africa”, Rajagopal said in a post on social media.

Mike Whtney | Clearly, the Biden administration has no interest in Finland other than using it as a forward-operating base in the West’s war on Russia. | Washington’s so-called “enhanced US military presence” in Finland does not serve any national interest or provide any material benefit for the American people. It is a clear provocation designed to intimidate Russia and expand the war beyond Ukraine. Not surprisingly, it replicates the same conditions that triggered the conflict in February 2022, that is, it installs NATO’s military infrastructure in locations that pose an existential threat to Russia’s survival. Russia cannot be expected to live with hostile military bases and missiles on its doorstep any more than an ordinary man can live with a gun pointed to his head. Putin must respond in order to defend his country’s national security.

■ NATO reconnaissance aircraft are active along the southern and northern borders of Russia (Reporter)

The Houthis used a novel UAV dubbed Jaffo which, according to the rebels, is capable of bypassing air defense systems [...] According to a statement published on his Telegram channel, the Houthis carried out a "military operation which involved delivering strikes on one of important targets" in Tel Aviv. The Houthis used a novel UAV dubbed Jaffo which, according to the rebels, is capable of bypassing air defense systems. ● The Houthis noted that Tel Aviv is "no longer safe and will become the main target" of the rebels within the range of their weapons. The rebel movement has determined a number of targets in Israel, "including important military facilities," and will continue to deliver strikes on them in response to Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip, the statement noted.

■ Yemen's Houthis claim deadly drone attack on Tel Aviv (MEE)
■ ‘Suicide drone’ explodes near US consulate in Tel Aviv – reports (RT.com)

Matt Kennard 1 The US military has been flying covert planes to Israel from RAF Akrotiri since the bombing of Gaza began, Declassified has discovered.

 ■ Unmarked planes are being used by US forces to fly from Cyprus to Israel, including as recently as June 26
 ■ The aircraft are believed to be used by highly secretive 427th Special Operations Squadron and the CIA
 ■ Declassified also finds 26 huge US military transport planes have landed at UK base on Cyprus, believed to be carrying weapons for Israel
 ■ Revelations could further implicate British ministers in war crimes

The former [former?] president has reportedly grown “deeply concerned” that the incumbent will lose to Donald Trump | US President Barack Obama is privately telling Democrats that President Joe Biden’s path to reelection has “greatly diminished,” and that the 81-year-old should “seriously consider” ending his campaign, the Washington Post has reported. ● Amid a party-wide effort to convince Biden to drop out of the race, Obama had largely stayed on the sidelines. Other than posting a message of support when the president flubbed his debate with Donald Trump last month, Obama has not weighed in on Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, even though he reportedly chose not to stop his friend, actor George Clooney, from penning an op-ed calling on Biden to quit earlier this month.

■ Biden Wants Voters To Focus on His Record, But It’s Worse Than His Debate Performance (Sputnik)
■ US Senator Rubio Suggests Biden Resign as President if He Drops Out of Race - Reports (Sputnik)
■ Why George Clooney, Peter Welch, And The New York Times, Are Dangerous (Eric Zuesse)

After 9 months of being in israeli custody, a once perfectly healthy & fit young Palestinian man is released hardly able to stand or walk unaided pic.twitter.com/QLKrePtV4m

— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) July 9, 2024

■ 'I have the prison inside me': The emaciated Palestinian bodybuilder broken by Israel (MEE)

Oman’s Maritime Security Center announced, on Wednesday, the rescue of nine out of 16 crew members from an oil tanker that capsized off the coast of the Sultanate earlier this week. | Oman’s Maritime Security Center announced, on Wednesday, the rescue of nine out of 16 crew members from an oil tanker that capsized off the coast of the Sultanate earlier this week. [...] A warship from the Indian Navy rescued the nine survivors after an all-night search around the tanker’s last known location off the coast of Duqm, a coastal province in Oman.

■ “All rules of war have been broken in Gaza”, with at least eight schools housing displaced Palestinians attacked by Israel in last 10 days, says UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
■ Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports at least 81 killed in day of attacks targeting homes and UN facilities in Gaza.
■ Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s envoy to the UN, tells the UN Security Council that Israel’s war on Gaza is the “most documented genocide in history”.
■ Washington’s envoy to the UNSC says there is progress in talks to adopt an immediate ceasefire in Gaza nearly four months after the council demanded one.
■ At least 38,794 people have been killed and 89,364 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

Washington's belief that the United States will not suffer from a new global war and that the main actions will unfold on the European continent is a misconception, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. | Americans [...] have no idea at all that the US Government has taken actions so grave, that the American heartland is now being openly discussed as a future war zone. ● How [Lavrov's remark] arose in the UN, was after White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, said that "Washington does not want a war with Russia as it would affect the European continent." ● Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov mentioned this remark and then said (verbatim)

💬 "In Washington, they are convinced that a new global war will affect not the US, but their European allies. If this analysis forms the basis of the Biden administration's strategy, it is a very dangerous misconception, and Europeans should realize what a suicidal role has been assigned to them."

Any resolution of the European crisis must include concrete steps to eliminate the threats to Russia that emanate from the West, the diplomat went on to say. He recalled that Moscow's conditions for establishing lasting peace in Ukraine have already been outlined by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin also noted that Zelensky's term has expired and his legitimacy cannot be restored by any means. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clarified that Putin does not rule out negotiations with Ukraine, as there are other legitimate authorities there.

Joe Biden is ‘more receptive to standing down’ after a series of senior Democrats called on him to pull out of the presidential race. | The US President’s tone has closed behind closed doors and he is more ‘willing to listen’ to those who are calling for his resignation, the New York Times reports. Those who have called on Mr Biden to pull out of the race include the former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, as well as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. ● New polling suggests Donald Trump may have experience a slight boost in the polls after he survived an assassination attempt over the weekend. Mr Biden is now trailing the former US President in a number of the key swing states, which may impact his decision to stand down.

■ President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 during Las Vegas visit (Shafaq News)

According to the emerging plan, some 9,600 young Haredim will be recruited within two years – far fewer than the 63,000 ultra-Orthodox men of draft age. The General Staff will continue to rely on reservists as long as the Gaza war continues – and also during the tense period expected on the borders in coming years | There is a big gap between the army's immediate needs, as presented to political leaders amid the severe erosion in manpower due to the prolonged war in Gaza and with Hezbollah, and the pace at which the IDF plans to recruit young ultra-Orthodox men. The General Staff described the need to create additional brigades of conscript soldiers, given the losses sustained since the October 7 massacre. This includes 681 fatalities and over 4,100 hospitalized wounded men, with a few thousand additional soldiers suffering from post-traumatic responses to the war. The drafting of Haredi men, following the collapse of the law enabling their exemption and demands by the High Court of Justice to finally resolve this crisis, is expected to proceed at a slower pace.

■ Jewish Mercenaries Commit Majority of War Crimes in Gaza (VIDEO)
■ “Israel” Army Admits: Suffering Shortage of Tanks, Ammunition (Alahed News)

Rasha Reslan | In its latest reports, the HRW perpetuates a longstanding Western narrative that serves to whitewash the current Israeli atrocities being committed in Gaza by the Israeli occupation. | Over the past nine months, a well-documented genocidal carnage in Gaza has been unfolding daily, live and unabated in front of the world's eyes. ■ Today, the Human Rights Watch published a comprehensive 280-page report. And no, it's not about the Gaza genocide. The report does not focus on the unbearable civilian death toll, the numerous massacres committed within a few hours of each other daily, the decayed bodies scattered in the streets, the children dying from man-made famine, the beheaded children due to the use of heavy bombs, the bodies cut into pieces, the more than 9,000 abductees, or the disturbing reports of torture and rape from Sde Teiman and other Israeli prisons. ■ Unsurprisingly, the HRW report perpetuates a longstanding Western narrative that serves to whitewash the current Israeli atrocities being committed in Gaza by the Israeli occupation. Nothing new as the report turns a blind eye to the fact that these actions have been ongoing since 1948.

Peace talks to resolve the conflict in Ukraine will likely begin this year if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wins the 2024 US presidential election, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.

💬 "I think that the US presidential elections will definitely be a game changer in this regard [peace talks on Ukraine]," Szijjarto said on Wednesday. "I think if President Trump wins, there will be a good chance for peace talks to be started already this year."

The position of the United States on the conflict will change under Trump, Szijjarto said. Trump is the only potential leader who could be elected in the foreseeable future who could make a "successful mission" to create peace in Europe, Szijjarto added. During a recent meeting with former US President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shared with him the results of his trips to Russia and China as part of peace efforts to end the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Peter Szijjarto said.

■ Hungary ready to host Russia-Ukraine talks – FM (RT.com)
■ Von der Leyen vows to turn EU into "defense union" (TASS)
■ EU’s rebuke of Orban’s peace mission speaks for itself – Kremlin (RT.com)
■ Hungarian foreign minister slams EU attempts to prevent his country’s contacts with Russia (07/17/24)

Horror-story-after-horror-story in Shifa hospital: this tiny Palestinian baby injured by shrapnel burns by the israeli bombing of Gaza, shivers pic.twitter.com/aixJB49dxO

— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) November 15, 2023

With at least 44 Palestinians killed in Gaza within an hour of Israeli strikes, the US has criticised it ally for the high death toll. | Authorities in Gaza said dozens of Palestinians were killed Tuesday in three separate strikes, as Israel pounded the territory despite renewed US criticism of the high civilian toll. ● Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-torn Palestinian territory. ● The health ministry said a strike on a fuel station in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza killed 17 people, and the Palestinian Red Crescent said a separate strike at almost simultaneously hit the UN-run Al-Razi School in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five people.

■ Gaza live: Israeli strikes across Gaza leave dozens dead and wounded (MEE)

Dmitry Medvedev noted that Ukraine will never join NATO | Ukraine may cease to exist by 2034, the year when its admission to NATO is allegedly scheduled, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told aif.ru in an interview. ● "It’s no coincidence that NATO Secretary General [Jens] Stoltenberg said openly that it would be a positive scenario if Ukraine joins the alliance in 2034. Which means that it never will," the Russian security official said.

■ «Порядок Запада – это “кидалово”». Медведев дал эксклюзивное интервью «АиФ» (aif.ru)

"Not only is this unacceptable, but It’s also a scandal when, in the 21st century, a country is stigmatized only for favoring a negotiated solution and using its communication channels with the parties, who disagree on key issues," Peter Szijjarto said | Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto criticized European Union’s attempts to prohibit his country from engaging in contacts with Moscow in order to settle the conflict in Ukraine, and said his country rejects such policies. [...] During his 10-day peacemaking mission, the Hungarian premier held talks with Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev on July 2, and three days later met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then he visited Beijing for a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and went to Washington where he talked with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a NATO summit. Later, he traveled to Florida for a meeting with ex-US President Donald Trump with whom he also discussed the ways of settling the Ukrainian crisis.

■ China With Hungary Ready to Contribute to Political Settlement in Ukraine - Wang Yi (Sputnik)
■ Views In The West On The Prospects For Resolving The Ukrainian Crisis (Imran Salim)

■ «Αυτό θα κάνει ο Τραμπ μόλις εκλεγεί»: Η επιστολή-τελεσίγραφο που «πάγωσε» τους 26 ηγέτες της Ε.Ε. | "This is what Trump will do once elected": the ultimatum letter that froze the 26 EU leaders (Evangelos L.) | Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump is ready to act "immediately" as a peace mediator in the war between Russia and Ukraine if elected in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a letter to EU leaders. The letter is addressed to European Council President Charles Michel and the 26 EU leaders and was drafted after Orban had talks with Trump in the US, as well as with the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and China.

💬 "I can (...) state with certainty that after his victory in the elections, he will not wait until his inauguration. (Trump) will be ready to act as a mediator for peace immediately. He has detailed plans with the right foundations for this," the Hungarian prime minister noted in his letter.

Trump, moreover, has often stated that he could, if he were US president, end the war in the East Asian region. Europe in 24 hours! ● Nationalist leader Orban, a longtime Trump supporter, paid a surprise visit to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing last week on a "peace mission" after his country took over the rotating EU presidency, sparking the ire of internationalists in Brussels and Washington. In the letter, Orban assessed that US President Joe Biden was making "enormous efforts" to stay in the presidential race and suggested that he is "incapable of changing the current pro-war US policy". ● Moreover, Orban estimated that Trump's eventual election would change the balance between the US and the EU in terms of financial support for Ukraine, with the Europeans expected to be at a disadvantage.

💬 "Our European strategy in the name of transatlantic unity has copied the pro-war policy of the US. We have so far had no sovereign and independent European strategy or political action plan," he said. "I propose to discuss whether the continuation of this policy makes sense for the future," he added.

Orban also proposed "reopening direct diplomatic channels of communication with Russia" while maintaining high-level contacts with Kyiv, as well as holding talks with China "on how to conduct the next peace conference". (DeepL + Grammarly)

Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion* has posted a graphic video of a cold-blooded murder of an unarmed Russian soldier who appeared to raise his arms in a surrendering gesture. | "Fascists are fascists," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov commented on the video of a cold-blooded murder of a surrendering Russian soldier by Azov. ● What's known about the killing and torture of Russian prisoners of war (PoWs) by Ukrainians and allied forces in violation of the Geneva Convention?

■ ‘No mercy’ for Ukrainian neo-Nazi POW murderers, ex-Russian president urges (RT.com)
■ Столько раз его и убей! (Дмитрий Медведев/Telegram)

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders. | Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament, Declassified can reveal. ● The list of recipients includes prime minister Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, foreign secretary David Lammy and home secretary Yvette Cooper. Jonathan Reynolds, who will oversee arms exports to Israel as UK trade secretary, is another beneficiary, alongside Labour’s election mastermind Pat McFadden, whose responsibilities now include national security. ● Some of the donations were provided by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), a lobby group which takes MPs on “fact-finding” missions to the region. Reeves, McFadden, Reynolds and technology secretary Peter Kyle were recently listed as vice-chairs of LFI. Other major funders include pro-Israel businessmen Trevor Chinn and Stuart Roden. The total value of the donations amounts to over £300,000.

Mike Whitney | NATO’s three-day summit in Washington DC achieved the objective for which it was designed, to create a public forum in which all 32 members of the Alliance could express their unanimous support for upcoming attacks on the Russian Federation. | The summit was followed by the release of a formal Declaration which strongly suggests that the decision to go war has already been made. As many people know, NATO has green-lighted a policy that allows the firing of missiles at targets inside Russian territory. This policy will also apply to the numerous NATO F-16s that will be deployed to Ukraine sometime in the near future. (F-16s can carry nuclear missiles) Despite overwhelming support for these policies among the members, we must not forget that these are blatant acts of aggression that are forbidden under international law. No amount of public relations hoopla can conceal the fact that NATO is on-track to commit the “supreme crime”. ■ It’s worth noting, that NATO intends to take a more active role in the conduct of the war. According to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the Alliance plans to formally establish a NATO office inside Ukraine that will be used to oversee military operations. In short, the managers of the conflict no longer have any interest in concealing their involvement. This is now a NATO operation.