📣 JUST IN: Group of Russian Warships Arrive in Iran for Joint Naval Drills - Interfax

China will also take part in the military exercises with Russia and Iran - which are due to begin Tuesday.

The drills will take place in the waters of the Gulf of Oman and their main goal is the security of maritime economic activity, Russia’s MoD said.

Representatives from Oman, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and South Africa will also be present at the drills, as per Iranian media.

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🔴 NOW: ‘Biden and I had many heart-to-heart conversations, but I am the one responsible for Israel, the majority of citizens support my positions’ – Netanyahu (Fox News)

Bibi is too scared to be interviewed in Israel but he thinks he has the unwavering support from citizens?

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📉JUST IN: Damning Fox News Poll for Biden

🤡 71% of Americans say Biden has "mostly failed" to improve border security

🤡 69% say Biden has "mostly failed" to unify the country

🤡 63% say Biden has "mostly failed" to make the US safer.

However, Biden has been “mostly successful” in funnelling money into Hunter’s accounts via deals in Ukraine.

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😳 How Will it End… Nuclear Winter?

NATO – celebrating 75 years of aggressive rhetoric.

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⚠️ US Dept of Defense Establishes ‘Mine to Magnet’ Supply Chain for 17 Rare Earth Materials

Since 2020, the DOD has awarded more than $439mn to establish domestic rare earth element supply chains - to manufacture the permanent magnets used in important US military weapons systems.  

Magnets produced from rare earth elements are used in systems such as F-35s, nuclear submarines, Tomahawk missiles, a variety of radar systems, Predator UAVs and the Joint Direct Attack Munition series of smart bombs.

“The US can no longer afford to rely on overseas, single-points-of-failure for critical components," a DOD spox said.

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⚠️ US Air Force Wants Fleet of 1,000 AI-Piloted Ghost Fighter Jets

The US Air Force has launched a $6bn contract for 1,000 AI-piloted fighter jets that can fly 30ft above the ground at 600mph and make moves that are too dangerous for manned planes. 

Five companies are bidding for the contract: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Anduril Industries.

The Pentagon will choose two of the companies by the summer to start building the jets and hopes to have hundreds completed within five years at an estimated cost of $10 to $20mn per plane.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Javier Milei caught red-handed increasing his own salary by 48%

The Libertarian leader has fired his labor secretary for his “mistake” in a bid to stem the fallout over his 48% salary increase.

Milei’s gross monthly salary rose from just over 4mn pesos in January ($4,700) to just over 6mn pesos in February.

Members of the opposition shared details of a decree mandating the increase that bears the president’s signature.

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⚡️NEW: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US 😮

A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards has been found dead in the US. (BBC)

John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

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🔠 Biden Thinks Executive Action Just Happens 🙃

The US president is apparently going to let the crisis play out...

"When is a border executive action coming?"

Biden: "I'm counting on the border action happening by itself."

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⚠️ 🇫🇷 Liberation Newspaper Publishes Cartoon Mocking People of Gaza

The left-wing paper is owned by French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi.

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☄️ BREAKING: Aid Ship Leaves Cyprus Bound for Gaza

The vessel belonging to Spanish NGO Open Arms will take 200 tonnes of food, sourced by the World Central Kitchen charity.

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ℹ️ Biden ‘definitely thought about’ conditioning military aid if Israel begins Rafah offensive - US Officials (Politico)

Biden and “thought” in the same sentence that doesn’t include “ice cream” - strange times…

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📣 JUST IN: Russia, China and Iran Begin Naval Drills in the Gulf of Oman – 🇷🇺 MoD

The primary purpose if the exercises is to practise safety in maritime economic activities.

During the drills, the combat ships of the three countries will jointly manoeuvre and conduct firing at surface and air targets, as well as hone elements to liberate the ship hijacked by the pirates.

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❗️FLASHBACK: Majority of Boeing Factory Employees Caught on Hidden Camera Wouldn’t Fly on Planes They Are Assembling

An Al Jazeera reporter with a hidden camera visited the Boeing plant in South Carolina in 2014, where the 787 Dreamliner aircraft is assembled.

He asked the workers if they themselves would fly on the planes they were assembling - of the 15 random respondents, 10 said “no.”

Boeing clearly haven’t learnt any lessons from the documentary – the embattled aircraft manufacturer responded to the report by accusing the piece of “pursuing its own agenda.”

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⚠️ Haitian PM Ariel Henry Resigns after Law & Order Collapses

Henry has agreed to resign following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country.

He is currently stranded in Puerto Rico after being prevented by armed gangs from returning home.

Henry, who had led the country supposedly on an interim basis since July 2021 following former President Jovenel Moïse's assassination, had repeatedly postponed elections, saying security must be restored first.

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