Paris under siege: farmers block all highways to the city, security forces on high alert, Minister vows "no tractor will enter the capital

The widespread farmers' protests happening all over Europe are having in France one of its most dramatic chapters, as tractors and cars are set to block all highways around Paris, and the security forces are on alert.

In a very typical move, President Emmanuel Macron and his government have "caved" to some farmers demands, but this time around the agricultural workers seem ready to go the extra mile in their protest over low produce prices, high fixed costs, growing red tape and the crippling "green" regulations that expose them to exports from foreign countries.

"Too little, too late", responded the farmers. So France's interior ministry Darmanin ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris.

The farmers have been throwing manure at government buildings for about a week now.

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The DPRK successfully tested the Pulhwasal-3-31 cruise missiles by launching them from a submarine, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports.

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China has permanently stationed four warships in the waters around the island of Taiwan. This was reported by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

According to the newspaper, in this way Beijing hopes to put pressure on the Taipei administration in peacetime.

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Congressional leaders on Sunday mourned three American service members killed in a drone strike in Jordan and called for retaliation against the Iran-backed militants whom the U.S. says is responsible.

-Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently told ABC News' Martha Raddatz in an interview that he believes Iran, a regional power with major rivalries in the Middle East, does not want a war with the U.S.

But Republican lawmakers on Sunday spoke out to criticize President Joe Biden's approach to Iran and some called for direct action against the country.

-Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the Pentagon should respond by targeting Iran -- a major move that could trigger further consequences and involve the U.S. more deeply in the region.

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Pro Iranian Telegram:

⚡️ Clearing the skies in areas of Syria, Iraq and Jordan

It is possible that an attack will occur.

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‼️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 Ukraine will prepare any number of personnel - 500,000, if it determines the law on mobilization, we are ready , - Major General Nikolyuk
▪️The commander of the training of the Ground Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that he noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in combat experience are already “several years ahead of those who teach them.”
▪️Nikolyuk clarified that as of this time, 20% of the military was trained abroad, the rest in Ukraine.
▪️He added that what the army needs most is infantry.
“This is the infantry that goes forward, that storms, that is fixed in the trench, holds positions, that infantry enters enemy positions, repels the enemy. The most widespread training in the ground forces is the training of the infantryman. Without belittling the role, drones are also very important, tankers, artillerymen, mortarmen, anyone. But most of all we need infantry."

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Eight American troops have been evacuated from Jordan for medical treatment following an attack on a US base in the Middle East. This was reported by CNN.

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🔴 Secretary General of the Sayyed al-Shuhada Brigades, Abu Alaa al-Wala’i, tweeted

America's heart is heavy from the killing of 3 of its soldiers in the Middle East, but it is not heavy from the killing and wounding of 100,000 Palestinians with American weapons and Zionist hands in Gaza.

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Teleconference "St. Petersburg - Antarctica": Putin and Lukashenko via video link commissioned the new wintering complex of Vostok station

Note: everyone remember that Russia and Belarus are actually one country - the Union State?

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Putin - at the commissioning ceremony of the wintering complex of Vostok station in Antarctica: I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the creation of the wintering complex of Vostok station. I wish everyone great success in all your endeavors. I know that for 2025-2027 several billions are required to continue this work. The government has not made a decision yet, but it will be made. I assure you that everything will be normal and timely.

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Lukashenko - asked polar explorers about the future of the planet: It would be interesting to know in what period and at what point we are, when this cooling or warming will come to us. So that not during our lives and our children, because it is very desirable that not only we, but also the planet to exist.

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The talks in Konstantinovsky Palace took place on the eve of the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, where it is planned to summarize the results of the implementation of the basic document - "The main directions for the implementation of the provisions of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State for 2021-2023", as well as to approve a similar document for the next three-year period

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Vladimir Putin noted that in the first 10 months of last year the trade turnover between our countries, according to Russian data, amounted to 42.5 billion dollars.

- If we talk in dollar terms, it is growing constantly. Russia is the largest investor: our investors have invested $4 billion in the Belarusian economy. And this work is going on in a bilateral mode: our enterprises, our business is working in Belarus, and our Belarusian friends are more and more actively and actively mastering the Russian market, more and more actively working here," said the Russian President.

Relations, according to him, are developing in all directions:

- I mean not only industrial cooperation, I am talking about agriculture, science, education, cultural sphere - everything is growing at a fast, good pace.

Speaking about cooperation in the scientific sphere, Vladimir Putin said that it will be continued. "It would seem that where we are - where is Antarctica. No, it turns out that there are joint interests there as well, there is something to work on together. And we will certainly do it," he emphasized.

President of Belarus admitted that there were two tense days, when important events for the peoples of both countries were held. Including those timed to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade. A memorial complex was opened near St. Petersburg in memory of Soviet civilians who were victims of Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War, and then a requiem concert was held in Russia's northern capital.

- It is a monumental and at the same time very telling monument. It is very decent and solid. And the crown of this event - a rally-requiem in such a solid stadium, this is our tribute to the defenders, blockade survivors. Thank God they are still alive. We owe them a debt of gratitude. That's why I am grateful to you for inviting us," said Alexander Lukashenko.

He also emphasized that it would be nice to have someone from Ukraine standing next to him:

- After all, three Slavic peoples have suffered. But it's their choice. What to do, they have a different course... but I think they'll come back to us. There is nowhere to go.

Earlier in the day, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko took part in the ceremony of putting into trial operation the new wintering complex of the Vostok station in Antarctica via videoconference, and also visited the multifunctional sports and concert complex SKA Arena in St. Petersburg.

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Initially, the USSR included only four union republics. They were the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.


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