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🚨 Hezbollah’s tethered FPV drones have become ‘silent killers’ of IDF armor
💬 “You cannot hear it while it’s coming,” and countermeasures - from the Merkava’s Trophy system on down, are powerless to stop it - Lebanese Hezbollah strategy analyst Ali Hamie told Sputnik.
🚨🇨🇳 China develops genetic vaccine to treat blood disorder
The novel vaccine therapy targets thalassemia by combining gene editing with advanced stem cell technology.
The procedure utilizes CS-101, a base-editing drug that modifies hematopoietic stem cells to boost fetal hemoglobin production.
As a result, patients can rapidly restore hematopoietic function without requiring regular blood transfusions.
Thalassemia is the world's most common genetic blood disorder, with an estimated 350 million gene carriers globally.
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🚨 Hezbollah’s deadly fiberoptic tethered drones poke huge hole in Israel’s defenses
$400-500 UAVs built from 3D-printed parts, Soviet RPG grenades and cheap FPV controls linked to spools of commercially-sourced fiberoptic cable are taking on tanks worth millions.
Fiberoptic tethering means no radio frequency (RF) signature, while small size and flight at heights under 100M means extremely low observability.
Israeli tanks’ defense – the sophisticated Trophy active protection system, is optimized for large, fast inbound objects. It’s not meant for tiny, signal-less drones.
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🚨🇦🇪UAE quits OPEC and OPEC+
"The United Arab Emirates today announced its decision to withdraw from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and OPEC+, which will take effect on May 1, 2026," the statement says, as quoted by the Emirati state news agency WAM.
💬 "We made the decision to withdraw from OPEC and the OPEC+ alliance at a critical moment when consumers are particularly in need of our attention. We are facing an unprecedented situation in which strategic reserves of crude oil and petroleum products are being depleted to alarming levels", UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei said.
🚨 EU wades deeper into Ukraine conflict by arming Kiev – Russian MoD
"Supply chains of Western weapons to Kiev are being closely monitored and deliberately exposed," Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov told the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers’ meeting in Bishkek on Tuesday.
🚨🌍 How USSR championed decolonization: Hard facts West wants to forget
It was the Soviet Union that championed the 1960 Declaration on Decolonization that “called for the expeditious independence of all peoples under colonial rule,” Professor Alfred de Zayas, former UN independent expert, tells Sputnik.
The USSR initiated the declaration in response to the US’s push to “have a free hand in imposing a form of neo-colonialism, so as to continue the profitable exploitation of Africa and Asia,” De Zayas noted.
He spotlighted the Soviet Union’s crucial role in the decolonization of Angola and India:
🔸 “Had the USSR not supported the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, the former colonial powers and the US would have ensured that Angola would have emerged as a capitalist country in the service of the economic interests of the collective West”
🔸 As for India’s decolonization, “the USSR knew how to navigate through these troubled waters” and its contribution to the matter “has not been forgotten”
💬 “The US and the collective West will never acknowledge that the USSR played a crucial role in the decolonization process” because they are “trapped in unhistorical chronicles, caught in their own web of self-serving narratives and have zero interest in historical truth, equality or solidarity,” De Zayas concluded.
🚨 No update on potential Putin-Trump phone call - Kremlin
"Putin has always condemned any attempts on the lives of heads of state," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the latest assassination attempt targeting Trump.
🚨🇨🇳 Chinese official praises Russia’s ‘highly effective and flexible’ investment policy
What’s more, this policy has become more diverse, now encompassing market-for-technology exchanges along with various incentives, says Li Feng, Deputy Secretary General of the Russia-China General Chamber of Commerce.
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🚨🇷🇺 West is losing its leadership position in world, giving way to Global South – Putin
Highlights of Putin's video message to the participants of the Open Dialogue Forum:
🔸 More complex, multipolar architecture of global development in the world is being formed
🔸 The model of global development will be sustainable if it is based on principles of equality and takes into account the interests of all countries
🔸 All the elements of global growth, from economics and finance to technology and demography, are changing irreversibly
🔸 No country can develop alone, at expense of other states or to their detriment
🔸 The countries that understand the importance of sovereignty are playing an increasingly important role in modern world
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🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 US capture of Maduro was ‘act beyond any conceivable political boundaries’ – expert
💬 “Venezuela has found itself in an extremely complicated situation, which led to unexpected shifts in its relations with the US,” Venezuelan expert Miguel Jaimes told Sputnik.
☢️ Nuclear red line blurring?
After the Second World War, the US gave nuclear retaliation guarantees to its allies.
👉 Now France wants to extend the same ‘nuclear umbrella’ over Europe.
Reports say Poland may join, as Paris and Warsaw prepare Baltic drills with mock nuclear warheads simulating attacks on Russia.
What’s taking shape may shock you.
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🇨🇳🇬🇧 ‘Beg China for forgiveness, Britian’! Galloway says UK owes Chinese apology for imperial-era crimes
🗣 "For the many crimes that the British Empire committed against the Chinese people, and not just in Hong Kong, but elsewhere" they should make amends, the leader of the Workers Party of Britain tells Sputnik.
💬 “But I don’t think the British Empire is quite ready to kowtow to Beijing yet. If I were the Chinese, I would require that,” Galloway concluded.
🗣 Trump reviews Iran Hormuz offer, signals possible escalation
US President Donald Trump is considering Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but remains skeptical, calling into question the “good faith” of Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.
📌 Meanwhile, it was the US that attacked Iran twice in just the past year — in the middle of talks.
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📹 Rubio vows more sanctions on Iran amid US blockade
💬 “I think more can be brought to bear,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as outright military aggression against Iran appears not to be enough for Washington.
🇨🇺 Fidel Castro’s grandson to Sputnik: Cuba lives on despite US blockade
Cuba is still powering hospitals, schools, universities and research centers while developing vaccines despite a US fuel embargo, Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov said.
He adds that Cubans learned from revolutionary leader Fidel Castro that in the hardest moments, the answer is resilience, science and building for the future.
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🇦🇪 Saudi rift, Iran war and Hormuz trap – factors that may have pushed UAE to quit OPEC
💬 “Long before the Iran war, UAE toyed with the idea of leaving OPEC+ because of differences with Saudi Arabia about wanting a production quota of 5M bpd,” veteran oil economist Dr. Mamdouh G. Salameh told Sputnik.
Why UK Maintains Control Over Chagos? Irish Expert Explains
"Military base is probably the number one consideration," Roslyn Fuller, director of the non-profit think tank Solonian Democracy Institute, told Sputnik Africa.
The other key factor is "substantial mineral deposits in the area that could potentially be exploited with deep sea mining," she added.
🚨🇮🇷 Qeshm Island: Iran’s strategic trump card for control of Hormuz
Situated ~2 km from the mainland and as little as ~35km from Oman’s Musandam Peninsula across the Gulf, Qeshm is the largest island in the region (~1.5k km2) and the key to Iran’s control of Hormuz and the Gulf.
🔸 It sits ~22 km from Bandar Abbas, a critical Iranian port city and naval HQ
🔸 Before the war, Hormuz’s Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) mechanism saw ships pass as little as 30km from Qeshm. After the war began, large tankers have been sailing as little as 10km from its coast
🔸 Qeshm is an ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ for Iran’s military, packed with a dense array of anti-ship and ballistic missiles, drones, and underground fortified missile cities impervious to attack, plus radar and monitoring stations and IRGC missile speedboat shelters
🔸 Qeshm’s military importance is complemented by six other strategic islands: Larak, Hormuz, Hengam, Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. Together, they provide multi-layered defense and control, and would serve as the main guarantors of the toll scheme making its way through Iran’s parliament
🔸 The island also has immense economic significance, with 5-6 major ports serving a Free Trade-Industrial Zone (FTZ) producing everything from seafood to steel and piping, to industrial chemicals. It also has shipbuilding facilities and gas and oil refineries
🔸 Qeshm’s significance has been recognized for centuries, with the Portuguese building a fortress on the island in the 17th century, and the British Empire occupying it from 1820-1935
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🚨Russia's African Corps foils militant coup attempt in Mali
On April 25, militants simultaneously attacked four large populated areas, including the capital, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Their numbers totaled approximately 12,000 people.
These militants were trained by Ukrainian and European mercenary instructors, the ministry stressed.
📹The footage shows members of the "African Corps" in action.
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🚨Oil from refinery hit by Ukraine was for export – Kremlin
By targeting Russian oil facilities, the Kiev regime is worsening the world oil shortage and causing further price rises, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Earlier on Tuesday, a fire broke out at the Tuapse refinery on the Black Sea coast of Russia’s Krasnodar territory after debris from Ukrainian drones fell on the facility in the second attack on the site in days.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ ZEMLYANKI IN THE KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED
⚡️ ILYINOVKA IN THE DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC LIBERATED
📍By taking Zemlyanki, the Russian Armed Forces have been able to expand the security belt near the Russian border
📍By capturing Ilyinovka, the Russian Armed Forces have been able to advance on Konstantinovka
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated Ukrainian energy, transport and defense infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces
🟠 Air defense superiority: 281 drones were shot down over the past 24 hours
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,030 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 India’s Defense Minister holds separate bilateral meetings with Russia’s Andrei Belousov and China’s Dong Jun on the sidelines of the SCO Defense Ministers’ Meet
Since 2002, the Russia-India-China trilateral brings together three nuclear powers, representing nearly 40% of humanity and over 30% of global GDP.
They coordinate on counter-terrorism, energy security, multipolarity, and building a more balanced world order.
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▫️ Iranian MP explains why Tehran has every right to charge for Strait of Hormuz passage
▫️ Bessent calls for gasoline shortages in Iran
▫️ Rubio vows more sanctions on Iran amid US blockade
▫️ 'There was no threat to the United States' — ex-CIA officer
▫️ What the West hides about Soviet role in de-colonization
▫️ ‘Beg China for forgiveness, Britian’! Galloway says UK owes Chinese apology for imperial-era crimes
▫️ Fidel Castro’s grandson to Sputnik: Cuba lives on despite US blockade
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🚨🤖🇺🇸 Big Tech’s AI is now a cog in the US war machine
During the Iran conflict, Anthropic’s Claude and Palantir’s Maven Smart System were used extensively for target ID and prioritization, putting together a “common operating picture”, predictive logistics, simulations and more.
Did AI’s use help the US-Israeli coalition win the war? Not exactly, but it did provide a full-scale preview on the terrifying future of war, where the planning of lethal strikes and other life and death decisions are made by machines.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China expand global clout as US loses ground – expert
💬 “We are living in a decisive period, in which the US has been aware of the possibility of not anymore being the one superpower and the concrete alternative emerging in Asia, with Russia and China as the most important actors,” Professor Beatriz Bissio of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told Sputnik.
🔥 'There was no threat to the United States' — ex-CIA officer
The current US war of aggression against Iran is unjustified, as Iran posed no threat to the US and is placing a growing financial burden on Americans, former CIA officer John Kiriakou told Tucker Carlson.
💬 “This is all coming from our own pockets,” he noted, contrasting it with earlier US wars where allies shared the costs.
💬 “There was no nuclear weapons program,” he stressed, shattering the US official narrative.
🇮🇷🤝🇷🇺 Araghchi hails Russia ties as strategic partnership deepens
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi welcomed growing cooperation with Russia following high-level meetings with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin.
💬 “Pleased to engage with Russia at the highest level as the region is in major flux. Recent events have evidenced the depth and strength of our strategic partnership,” Araghchi said.
📹 Authorities reveal suspect’s weapons after an attempt on Trump’s life at WHCD
Washington, DC attorney Jeanine Pirro said the suspect was armed with a “12-gauge pump-action Mossberg shotgun,” a “.38 semi-automatic,” as well as “at least three knives and all kinds of paraphernalia.”
The incident occurred during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, attended by US President Donald Trump. An armed individual tried to pass a security checkpoint and approach the ballroom before being stopped by law enforcement. Trump and other officials were evacuated safely. Trump and other officials were evacuated safely.
The suspect is in custody and faces federal charges.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Bessent calls for gasoline shortages in Iran
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cheered on an illegal unilateral US pressure campaign against Iran, hoping it would bring “gasoline shortages” to the country.
Bessent also boasted that the US aggression against Iran continues in the form of an illegal naval blockade.
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🇮🇷 Iranian MP explains why Tehran has every right to charge for Strait of Hormuz passage
Vessels passing through near straits Qeshm Island use routes long supported by Iran, MP and former foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Sputnik.
Some 50 years ago, he noted, a port was established there to service foreign vessels with repairs, supplies and safe passage — making transit fees a legitimate right, not charity.
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