NASA launches a spacecraft to study if Jupiter's moon is inhabitable — Reuters
The space agency launched robotic solar-powered Europa Clipper, taking off in a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. It will take the spacecraft about 5-1/2 years to reach it's destination and is expected to enter Jupiter's orbit in 2030.
This is the biggest NASA spacecraft ever built for a planetary mission.
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⚡️Israel’s attack on Iran will take place before the US elections on Nov. 5 — WaPo
“It will be one in a series of responses,” an official said.
#Israel #US - Boost
Israeli Government is not seeking hostage talks, per senior officials — Haaretz
IDF commanders in Gaza say the recent decision to operate in the northern part of the Strip is apparently aimed at pressuring civilians in the area to relocate. The chances of reaching a hostage deal appear slim right now.
One of the reasons cited for negotiations being suspended, there has been no discussion among international players involved in the talks.
No one is talking...
#Israel - Boost
Gen-Zer's bring their parents on job interviews — DailyMail
One in four Gen Z job seekers took their parents to their job interview, a recent survey said. Sixteen percent even had their parents submit the application.
83 percent of recently employed Gen-Zers said they attributed their success of landing a job to their parents. This survey comes as companies are axing Gen Z workers just months after hiring them fresh from college.
It's because they still live at home...
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❗️Hundreds of protesters have locked down the front entrance of the New York Stock Exchange — social media
Demanding an arms embargo on Israel to put an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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King Arthur part of ‘LGBTQ history' — British council
A Welsh council has included King Arthur in a timeline of ‘LGBTQ history’, citing a legend that the fabled ruler once wore women’s clothing, local media have reported. Explaining its reasoning for including the ruler in the timeline, Denbighshire council cited a Welsh legend that “on a subsequent occasion Arthur dressed himself in woman’s clothes in order to visit a girl at Rhuthun.”
The legendary monarch – who is said to have ascended the throne by pulling his sword, Excalibur, out of a stone and then ruling Britain with the help of knights of the round table and the wizard Merlin – was included in a local educational resource in Denbighshire that documents ‘key moments’ in LGBTQ history.
The timeline, which tells “stories of sexual orientation and gender identity,” is based on the work of LGBT-focused historian Norena Shopland, whose research is backed by Swansea University. The initiative forms part of the training in ‘LGBTQ+ Language and History’ for local libraries, museums, and archives, and was commissioned by the Welsh government.
#UK
‘Commercialize and sell’: Ukrainian military becomes cesspool of dystopian draft ads productions – WaPo
The Washington Post writes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are "selling the war" using scantily clad models and soldiers wearing sunglasses in bid to appear affable.
After a recent legal reform, Ukrainian military units have been allowed to directly involve themselves in the recruitment process, with the hope of their own campaigns attracting new recruits, as AFU numbers keep dwindling.
Speaking to the paper, marketing director Kristina Bondarenko explained that it's essential to “commercialize and sell” the idea that serving in the army is "cool."
#Ukraine - Boost
Berlusconi child prostitution case acquittals overturned by Italy's top court
After the decision from Italy's supreme court,23 people accused of taking bribes from former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to lie in an underage prostitution case now face an appeal trial over bribery charges.
Previously, magistrates accused Berlusconi of paying thousands of euros for sex with a Moroccan dancer when she was underage.
He denied this and was eventually acquitted after a court ruled he could not have known that she was under 18.
#BungaBunga #Berlusconi - Boost
Slovak MEP apologizes to Russia for Western Russophobia
Lubos Blaha is currently on a visit to Moscow and took time out to speak to RT. He said the last time there was such hatred towards one country was in the 30s and 40s.
#Russia #Slovakia - Boost
❗️Footage shared by Palestinian media shows the scale of destruction at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza
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Vatican envoy arrives in Moscow
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, the ministry confirmed, having visited both Moscow and Kiev last summer.
Zuppi’s visit comes three days after Pope Francis met Ukraine’s de facto president Vladimir Zelensky in the Vatican, and three weeks after Lavrov met the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
#Russia #Vatican - Boost
Russia's GDP up 4.2% in 8 months - Russian PM Mishustin
On top of domestic growth, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin explained that by 2028, BRICS is projected to account for 38% of global GDP, while the G7's figures will decline.
Global South markets are a strategic priority for Russia’s foreign trade, and Russian businesses need to develop them, he added.
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❗️Russia's Defense Minister, Andrey Belousov, has arrived in Beijing for talks on military cooperation with Chinese leadership and command
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❗️Iran says there are ‘no grounds’ for any sort of indirect negotiations with the US — AFP
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Where loyalties lie?: Navalny’s daughter working on Harris-Walz campaign
The daughter of late Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Daria, has been working on the Kamala Harris campaign team for three months now, according to her LinkedIn profile, apparently tasked with “voter mobilization” and managing volunteers.
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US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is so desperate for the black male vote, she’s pushing a ‘Crypto-Promise’
The VP says, she’ll “ensure” black men and others will benefit from her crypto policies when she’s in office.
Very fair and balanced already…
#Kamala
⚡️Netanyahu tells US that Israel will strike Iranian military, not nuclear or oil, targets — WaPo
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‘You think about him for science and rockets…’: Trump taps Elon for US cost-cutting chief
“Secretary of Cost Cutting”
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'Politically disgusting hatchet job': Former President Donald Trump slams a biopic about his rise to fame — The Guardian
Trump trashed the newly released biopic "The Apprentice" which is based on his life. He called it a "cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job" meant to hurt his 2024 run for president. The biopic tracks Trump's real estate days, and his relationship with Roy Cohn out of New York, a notoriously cutthroat attorney.
There is a disclaimer indicating that portions were "fictionalized for dramatic purposes", Intelligencer notes. In his rant Trump described the film as "fake and classless". Trump said he hoped it would "bomb".
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Unidentified drones circled US military bases – WSJ
An unidentified fleet of drones potentially spied on a US military airbase in Virginia after intruding into restricted airspace for 17 days last December, with the Pentagon powerless to stop them, the Wall Street Journal has revealed.
Swarms of drones were detected flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline – one of the select US bases hosting F-22 Raptor stealth fighters – the WSJ reported on Saturday, citing dozens of US officials, police reports, and court documents.
Former US Air Force General Mark Kelly, who was made aware of the incursions in December, estimated the lead unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be “roughly 20 feet long, flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of approximately 3,000 to 4,000 feet,” with other drones following. The drones flew in a pattern of one or two fixed-wing units accompanied by smaller quadcopters, roughly the size of 20-pound commercial drones, often operating at a lower altitude, the report said.
#US
❗️India expels 6 Canadian diplomats
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India withdraws High Commissioner from Canada, citing ‘lack of faith’ in Trudeau govt
New Delhi has withdrawn Sanjay Kumar Verma after Canada declared him and other Indian diplomats “persons of interest” in the case of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder last year - stating that such actions have threatened their safety.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs insists that the Trudeau government has not provided a “shred of evidence” it says exists linking Indian diplomats to separatist agents, slamming the move as a deliberate strategy to smear India for political gain.
The decision comes as the pro-Khalistan group 'Sikhs for Justice' published a video showing the mock assassination of Verma being shot multiple times and an effigy being set on fire on Monday.
#India #Canada - Boost
⚡️Moscow court sentences French foreign agent to 3 years in prison
Laurent Vinatier was convicted on Monday of breaking the law concerning foreign agents, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom on Monday.
Vinatier was arrested in June for collecting military information without registering as a foreign agent.
French President Emmanuel Macron has denied that Vinatier was working on behalf of his government.
#Russia #France - Boost
Swedish-made Archer artillery destroyed in Ukraine
Footage shared by a military blogger has shows yet more Western military hardware left in tatters in Ukraine; this time a Swedish-produced Archer 155-mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer has suffered from a pin-point Russian missile strike.
#Ukraine #Russia - Boost
❗️At least 18 killed in IDF strike on Lebanon village
An apartment building in the village of Aitou was destroyed in northern Lebanon, according to a statement from the Lebanese Red Cross Society.
Footage shows the aftermath of the deadly strike that left several more injured.
#Israel #Lebanon - Boost
⚡️ Sri Lanka to apply for BRICS & New Development Bank membership - reports citing Foreign Minister
Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath confirmed on Monday that the formal application will take place during his visit to Kazan to attend the next BRICS summit.
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🚨NIGERIA'S🇳🇬 CHIEF FEMI FANI-KAYODE WARNS OF WORLD WAR 3
'I said it about a year ago, that would happen initially is that there will be a regional war...with Iran jumping into the ring, the Americans jumping in to support Israel, then you will have a wider conflict where Russia🇷🇺 and China🇨🇳 steps in, the Arab countries will step in, the Africans, you'll have everybody coming in...in such a conflict, Israel cannot survive, and what they'll end up doing is using their nuclear weapons, just as the Americans would probably use theirs. That's why everyone is reluctant to commit to military conflict. Having said that, we're almost there.'
-Chief Femi Fani-Kayode on the Gaza genocide, regional war in the Middle East, and the threat of World War 3
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Dmitry Medvedev compares Russia-US nuclear talks to USSR negotiating with Nazis
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chair of Russia's Security Council and Russia’s ex-president, criticized Joe Biden's suggestion of nuclear weapons reduction talks with Russia as "boorish."
The official added that the US is effectively engaged in an armed conflict with Russia through Ukraine and that, at this point, Russia engaging in talks with Washington would be comparable to the USSR negotiating with Nazi Germany in 1945.
Medvedev quipped that Biden's remark was merely a ruse to politically support the "brainless" Kamala Harris in her presidential run.
#Russia - Boost
Donald Trump reportedly calls Kamala Harris ‘retarded’
A new report in The New York Times claims that Donald Trump recently referred to his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris as “retarded.”
According to the article, last month, during a pro-Israel donor banquet, Trump called Harris the notorious r-word and complained about how many Jews were backing her.
In the open, also in September, Trump had called Harris “mentally disabled” during a rally in Wisconsin.
Place your bets on what’ll be this election’s next new slur!
#Republican - Boost
296 migrants reach Italy’s Lampedusa overnight
EU border agency Frontex and coast guard agents intercepted five boats that left from Libya and Tunisia, following a total of 487 other migrants who arrived on the island on Sunday.
The vast majority of the migrants on board - who reportedly paid up to €6,000 each for passage to the EU - said they planned to reach Belgium, Norway, Germany, and the UK.
#Italy - Boost
