🇮🇹 "MAMA MIA, DISASTER!" 21 people killed, including 2 children - 40 more injured, as bus plunges off a bridge, getting tangled in power lines near Venice, Italy.

All aboard are tourists from various countries.

UPDATE: The driver may have suffered a heart attack.

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🇩🇪 WAR DRUMS sound the alarm as 30,000+ Berliners take to the streets in large-scale protests against their government and NATO sending weapons to Ukraine.

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"RUSSIANS ARE BAD, EVEN IN RUSSIA" is essentially the premise of The Guardian photo essay, using the Evenki people of Yakutia region, North-East Russia.

🗣"Somehow, the Evenki cohabit with the industrialists who exploit their lands, sacrificed on the altar of economic growth. They regret it all the more because they hoped for a better tomorrow for their children."

The Guardian projects Western colonialism onto Russians as economic merchants, plunderers and polluters. Yet indigenous populations of Russia are constitutionally protected, with a right to their language and local governance.

Which is more than what can be said for indigenous nations of the West. @IntelRepublic

"WHY IS PUTIN NOT ADVANCING?" - a question thus far into the Special Operation. He doesn't have to - right now...

00:30 🗣 "The Russians have completed 200-300 extra kilometers of rail line into Eastern Ukraine. That's for logistics. That indicates the real preparation for a massive offensive toward the West [of Ukraine] - Col. Douglas Macgregor on Russia's next potential steps in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the Ukraine doesn't know if it will have Western funding come winter, which is the worst possible position to be in.

Patience is a virtue @IntelRepublic

🗣 "The world is becoming smaller for Putin" - Chief Gynecologist Head of EU Ursula von der Liar comments Armenia's ratification of the International Clown Criminal Court Statute (ICC.)

🇦🇲🇷🇺 Russia has a military base in Armenia as it has been the key guarantor of security in the country, to date.

Officially, the ICC is needed by Armenia to help prepare legal cases against Azerbaijan - but ICC also has a warrant out for Putin's arrest. Von der Liar clearly focuses on the latter.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 THE FAILING 51ST STATE? The US actually pays for Kiev regime expenses, the salaries of 150,000 government employees and more than 500,000 teachers in Ukraine.

The economy could come crashing down, from what's left of it, as funding is expected to run out in the next MONTH - without a fresh infusion of cash from the US Congress.

Previously, Congress approved and Biden signed the US budget for 45 days, which does not include assistance to Ukraine.

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WATCHED, TACKLED, APPREHENDED - Federal Security Service (FSB) prevent terrorist attack in Central Russia.

The FSB was onto the 35-year-old Russian man who joined a pro-Ukrainian terrorist network while living in Europe in 2022. On their instruction, he recently arrived in the Altai Territory to carry out their dirty deed. Now he's headed behind bars.

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WELCOME TO THE MAD HOUSE - Disabled Ukrainian man is deemed "limitedly fit for service" in the Ukrainian military.

00:30 🗣"He has neither a right leg nor a left leg, how can he serve?" his friend points out the obvious.

Human Rights organisations are quiet on Ukraine's mobilization practices, that means the issue doesn't exist.

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🗣 "The ban on Russian cars travelling into a number of EU member states will not go unanswered" - Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Zakharova alludes to a mirrored response by Russia.

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🗣 "There has never been a visa regime between Russia and Ukraine, until Kiev imposed one. Russia maintains its visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens for humanitarian reasons" - Zakharova.

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🇦🇿 CHANGED HIS MIND - Prez of Azerbaijan Aliyev (pictured) pulls out of Spanish Granada meeting.

Azerbaijan, Armenia, EU, France and Germany were supposed to hold a party of 5 meeting - it will not proceed without Aliyev.

Earlier, the EU accused Russia of failing in its security obligations to Armenia.

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