— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions on Iran’s Minister of Petroleum, Mohsen Paknejad, as well as several 'Iran-linked' shipping companies in China, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, India, Seychelles, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, Singapore, and 13 specific vessels.

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— 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: 'On a scale of zero to ten, the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia were probably a three; on the way out the door, they took them to a six. And I can tell you, we wouldn't hesitate to take them up to a ten.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 NEW: The United States is set to resume shipments of long-range Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) to Ukraine, purchased under President Biden's administration through the 'Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.'

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— 🇺🇦 NEW: One of the participants in the Odessa Trade Union House Massacre, Demyan Gaul, a prominent member of Ukraines 'Right Sector', was murdered in Odessa

On May 2, 2014, Russian-speaking Ukrainians who were protesting against the ousting of former President Viktor Yanakovich were barricaded into the Trade Union House where supporters of the 'Right Sector' lit the building on fire and shot those who tried escaping.

Just yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Ukraine guilty of the massacre.

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Winning very bigly and very strongly!

#MAGA 🇺🇸

— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union is set to extend sanctions on over 2,400 individuals and entities associated with Russia for an additional six months.

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— 🇻🇪/🇷🇺 NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Nicholas Maduro, President of Venezuela, to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th.

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— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺/🇨🇳 NEW: The Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, and the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran, Sergey Ryabkov and Kazem Gharibabadi, met in Beijing today to discuss Iran's nuclear program

The three sides released a joint statement that called for the ending of unilateral sanctions and the need for negotiations based on the principles of 'mutual respect.'

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— 🇵🇸/🇸🇩/🇸🇴/🇺🇸 NEW: Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland have all rejected US propositions to settle displaced Palestinians in their respective countries.

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— 🇺🇦/🇺🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has stated that all of the objectives of the Kursk operation were achieved

Earlier today, U.S. President Donald Trump asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to spare the Ukrainian soldiers who were surrounded in Kursk region.

President Putin would address this at a meeting of Russia's Security Council by saying Ukrainian soldiers would need an order from their President to lay down their arms and surrender to spare their lives.

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— 🇪🇺/🇨🇦 NEW: More Canadians (47%) approve of joining the European Union than those who disapprove (29%)

Support for joining the EU in Canada is significantly higher than support for becoming America's 51st State.

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All jokes aside, I respect Europe and Europeans quite a lot, but you guys have been at the service of America for too long.

Europe must unite, Europe must rise together, independent from East or West – one strong united continent; prosperous, free, and ambitious. You don't need the US, you don't need Russia, you don't need China.

You just need to wake up.

— This is basically my ideology, not only for Europe, but any region. The time of a unipolar or bipolar world is over.

Nations must focus on fostering ties with their neighbours, with regional nations with whom they share cultural, historic and geographical ties, for mutual benefit.

This is also why I don't see Europe and Russia as 'enemies'. There is no good reason, neither historically, culturally, geographically, for the two to be at odds with each other.

Europe, of course, has many faults. It is far from perfect. But the European project has been a remarkable example of harmonious cooperation between nations for the 'common good', something many nations can learn from.

If they wanted to, Europe's 'big three' could have easily imposed their will upon the entire continent and play a hegemon (like the US), but rather they focused on a long-term partnership built on good faith. Even small European nations are somewhat treated as equals.

In the Middle East, Africa, and South America, power and prosperity is mostly seen as a zero-sum game: for one country to gain something, another country must first lose something. This is fundamentally flawed, and it leads to continous conflict at the expense of one another.

Each nation has certain pre-disposed advantages and disadvantages. In the end, everyone needs eachother, and I generally advocate for a mutually beneficial cooperation with any nation, barring a few exceptions, such as Israel (fake nation) and the United States (gay nation).

Worthy to note that I don't believe in man-made laws. I believe only in God's divine system of governance, the Sharia.

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Btw, by 'uniting Europe' I don't mean a federalized EU. That's cringe and dumb.

I mean strong, sovereign states that work together based on mutual interest.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: President Trump’s administration has withdrawn the nomination of Adam Boehler as its top Envoy for Hostages after he stated that 'the United States is not an agent of Israel.'

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Russia has given all Ukrainian forces still inside Kursk region until 0800 Monday to surrender.

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