Palestinian artists in Gaza painted a mural of Macklemore wrapped in a Palestinian flag after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over "Free Palestine" remarks.

Macklemore pledged $1M from tour earnings to Gaza aid.

Pentagon probe found that the Feb. 28 US missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab — killing 123 children — resulted from a cascade of failures.

Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility, compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1,000+ strikes in 24 hours, overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system (which personnel wrongly expected to flag stale data), and Hegseth's 90% cuts to civilian-harm-mitigation teams.

The site had visibly operated as a school for nearly a decade, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.

UN report this week said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.

The Pentagon investigation has been effectively complete for months but remains unreleased.

The administration still hasn't publicly accepted responsibility.

Source: Bloomberg

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Somalia's 22nd Gorgor commando brigade started advanced training in Isparta, Türkiye.

Gorgor is Somalia's elite force, established under a 2017 Türkiye-Somalia agreement.

Somalian troops recite the Turkish Commando Oath, traditionally exclusive to Turkish commandos, including the line "Yuva yaptık dağlara!" ("We made our nest in the mountains!").

Sudan's Army and allied forces claim to have taken 11 areas west of El Obeid in North Kordofan after heavy fighting with RSF, pushing remnants toward the Darfur border.

Follow-on reports claim advances toward Sodari with 20+ RSF vehicles destroyed.

NEW: Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa was hit by Saudi SKYWASP kamikaze drones yesterday, modeled after Iran's Shahed-136.

SKYWASP is Saudi Arabia's first domestically produced long-range kamikaze drone, a Shahed-136-style delta-wing UAV built by SR2Vector (Saudi-US joint venture) at ~$35K per unit with ~1,500 km range.

Billionaire Ineos founder and Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in the UK, arguing that the country is “on the slide” because of high taxes, immigration and energy policy.

Source: BBC

Polish PM Donald Tusk:

We are in the anti-ballistic coalition with Ukraine. As of today, Poland is part of this great project.

During talks with President Zelensky, we established the framework for this cooperation.

This will mean much safer European skies, and therefore a safer Polish sky as well.

Boris Johnson on Russia:

Russia’s problem is that it cannot let go of its empire. The British had the biggest empire the world had ever seen. At one point it was roughly seven times the size of the Roman Empire — and we gave it up.

The Russians need to let Ukraine go. It is like that old piece of relationship advice: if you love someone, let them go. If they come back, they’re yours. If they don’t, they never were.

They have to let Ukraine go. The age of empires is over.

Boris Johnson:

The British and the Russians are two great peoples, two great countries. We fought side by side in the Second World War, and we understand that we can have common interests.

But present-day Russia is behaving terribly. Many years ago, I tried to improve relations between Britain and Russia. And where did that get us? Nowhere.

They used Novichok in Britain. An innocent British citizen died. It is disgusting and revolting.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

However it’s characterized, 2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world.

Boris Johnson:

We constantly think that if Putin stops, he will immediately be removed.

But he can simply write another one of his stupid historical essays and say, "I have found some new old documents from Russian history about which lands are actually the historical lands of Russia."

And it turns out, my friends, that they are exactly the territories we currently control. Then he can say, "That’s it. We have accomplished the mission. There are no more Nazis," and so on.

That is what he needs to do — and then leave.

Boris Johnson:

I think the whole logic that Russia somehow lost something because of Ukrainian independence is completely wrong. What is bad for Russia about having a free and prosperous neighbor?

But there is an answer as to why it matters specifically to Putin. Putin wants to preserve a particular political model. He does not want democracy, and Ukraine presents an alternative future for Russia: a free country, a free press, a pluralistic society, free media.

He hates that. That is the problem. The threat to his ideology is not Ukraine as such, but a free Ukraine.

If Russia wanted to live with Ukraine in peace and harmony, both countries would prosper.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus:

Ukrainian forces are now killing or wounding more Russian soldiers each month than Russia is mobilizing each month, which should be something that worries those in the Kremlin considerably.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus:

There are some countries in the Middle East, for example, that have bought interceptors for years. Yes, they’re under pressure from Iran.

Yes, they need to keep a substantial number, but some of those, perhaps in return for help from Ukraine to deal with some of the issues again with Iran or the Houthis in Yemen, could in fact loan them.

Zara Larsson said "I will not be going to Abu Dhabi" in an Instagram comment after fans pressured her over the UAE's role in arming Sudan's RSF terror group.

The date was a Dec. 3 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix concert.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus:

There are reports — I talked to specific corps commanders who said they have cases in which they’ve actually captured a Russian soldier who was in the military less than two weeks.

That includes taking the oath, drawing your equipment, being transported to the front. There’s not much training in there. There’s certainly no integration into the unit.

Damon Albarn held up a Palestinian flag at Gorillaz's Orlando tour opener, telling the crowd:

Don't forget this. Ever. Stand your position. Don't ever be neutral.

BREAKING: Flames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising near Riyadh airport, according to an eyewitness.

Source: Reuters

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

Conditions for people in Gaza aren’t good. I want to send them out of Gaza. I’m humanitarian, okay?

I’m doing them a favor. I’m getting them out of there.

Russia is building ~42,000 m² of underground production facilities at the Alabuga special economic zone for Geran (Shahed-type) kamikaze drones.

The site has also added dozens of anti-drone net towers.