—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: President Trump is 'stepping back' from Russia-Ukraine mediation for now – The Guardian

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: The United States is considering implementing a 'no-fly zone' as part of its options to increase its air support to Ukraine – Reuters

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Trump: 'Russia is hitting Ukraine hard. They're hitting very hard. So why shouldn't Ukraine be allowed to hit them back? That's how it works, you hit and get hit, you can't complain about that.'

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NOTE: Sources state that President Trump is temporarily stepping back from mediating between Russia and Ukraine after Foreign Minister Lavrov's repeated pushback against security guarantees for Ukraine, as well as Russia's continued drone and air attacks during the negotiation process

Trump reportedly sees these repeated acts of defiance by Russia as 'disrespect', and perceives Putin as unwilling to make any real compromises. Sources also said Trump's recent meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders was 'amicable', and that it somewhat amended his ties with the Ukrainians.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Active shooter situation at University of Tennessee Chattanooga

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— Donald Trump, 2023: 'Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will take me no longer than one day.'

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— He's 100% sure guys

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Trump: 'We'll know if there will be peace between Russia and Ukraine in about two weeks. After that, we'll maybe have to take a different track.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The U.S. State Department fired its top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, Iranian-American Shahed Ghoreishi, due to writing 'we do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza' in a press statement, suggesting condolences for Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif who was assassinated by Israel, as well as using the internationally accepted name 'West Bank' instead of 'Judea and Samaria'

His dismissal came after complaints from Jewish-American lobbyist Laura Loomer and the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

Ghoreishi said his drafts were 'consistently approved at the senior level in the past; it begs the question why I was suddenly targeted without a direct explanation and whether our Israel-Palestine policy is about to get even worse, including an unwillingness to take any stand against ethnic cleansing. The future looks bleak.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧/☦️ NEW: An Israeli soldier nails a monkey doll to a cross, seemingly in an act of disrespect towards Jesus Christ and Christianity, in one of the five points the IDF occupies in southern Lebanon, and publishes the photo on his social media account

There has been a consistent trend of Israeli soldiers displaying bizarre behavior with dolls and toys, particularly those belonging to Palestinian children, including instances of hanging them from the ceiling and taking photos.

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—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran closes its Western airspace for unannounced large-scale ballistic missile and air defense exercises

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Western airspace closure remains in effect for the next four hours, until 07:00 AM local time

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Iran's Western airspace has been reopened.

— 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: Iran and Belarus have signed a bilateral agreement to start direct flights between Minsk and Tehran, and Lukashenko signed a Presidential decree allowing Iranians to enter Belarus visa-free for tourism

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Lukashenko patted Pezeshkian on the shoulder and called him 'big boss' btw.

Why is he so wholesome?

— 🇮🇷/🇪🇺/🇺🇳 NEW: Today, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will hold a phone call with the E3 (Germany, UK, France) regarding their threat to implement the 'snapback mechanism' of the JCPOA

Additionally, an Iranian delegation is traveling to Vienna today to meet with an IAEA technical delegation, to discuss possibilities for a new 'cooperation framework'.

Under what mandate the Iranian delegation is doing this is unclear, considering that the lranian parliament signed a bill into law that clearly bans any cooperation with the IAEA.

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— 🇵🇰 BREAKING: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will be released from prison on bail

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— Condolences to all Muslims on the Martyrdom Anniversary of Prophet Muhammad ‎ﷺ and Imam Hassan Al-Mujtaba (ع) 🤍

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Any licensed dentist please DM me @Hajj_Khomeini

— 🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: Two Israeli tourists were injured, one lightly and one moderately, after they were beaten up by a 15-year old boy at a holiday resort in the Netherlands

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—❗️🇺🇸 NEW: Former National Security Advisor John Bolton's residence was raided by the FBI on the suspicion of possessing classified material

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