⚡️🇹🇼 MAN LOOKS ON HELPLESSLY AT COLLAPSING BUILDING - a 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Taiwan.

Initial reports are that people are trapped under buildings & thousands of homes are without power.

The earthquake is the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years - in 1999, a 7.7 magnitude quake hit south of Taipei, killing 2,400 people.

UPDATE: 7 killed, 711 injured.

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⚡️🇺🇦 NOTHING LEFT BUT RUBBLE as Ukrainian energy giant DTEK shows 1 of their thermal power plants destroyed by Russian strikes.

DTEK report 5 of the company’s 6 thermal power plants as seriously damaged, and 80% of the generating capacity lost.

It is not specified which power plant is shown in the video.

So uh, how is Ukraine gonna win on 20% capacity? Rhetorical question.

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⚡️🇦🇲 ARMENIA UNDER NATO THUMB - Russia's Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Zakharova slams Nagorno-Karabakh fiasco (area recently claimed by Azerbaijan.)

Armenia made its decisions under the influence of NATO, saying that Moscow and the CSTO allegedly did not help Armenia during this period, this is a lie... - she says.

PM Pashinyan blamed Russia for lack of action, and has not attended collective security training for 2 years with the CSTO (Russia + some former Soviet states.)

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⚡️🇮🇱 ISRAEL AGAIN FORCED TO APOLOGIZE for deaths of 7 Western aid workers - not something the MSM engages in often.

Clearly something catastrophic has happened - David Mencer, Israeli government spokesperson says.

Mercer seems unsure whether this catastrophe warrants an official apology.

Yea, you killed them! - Channel 4 host knocks some sense into the sheepish official.

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⚡️🇫🇷 MACRON WANTS TO "KEEP KREMLIN GUESSING" ON WHAT WEST WILL DO NEXT - you and what army, Mac?

Prez Macron holds confidential calls with Biden & Scholz to lay the groundwork for a Paris summit that will shake up the West’s strategy in Ukraine.

Macron recommends adopting a position of "strategic ambiguity" toward Russia that would leave all military options on the table.

He wants to stop broadcasting the limits of Western engagement - what are called the West’s “red lines” - and instead keep the Kremlin guessing.

Not sure the Kremlin ever STOPPED guessing, where such idiots come from?

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⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸 IN WAITING, FOR ULTIMATE FAILURE - According to Zelensky, unless the stalled multibillion-dollar package is approved soon, his cities will begin to fall (just begin now?🥴)

But the sad truth is that even if the package is approved by the U.S. Congress, a massive resupply may not be enough to prevent a major battlefield upset.

Western analysts all but conclude - it's over for Zelensky.

Everything now depends on where Russia will decide to target its strength in an offensive that’s expected to launch this summer.

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⚡️🇮🇱 RELATIVES OF HOSTAGES UNLEASH FURY ON KNESSET, Israeli Parliament.

Earlier, thousands of Israelis protested Netanyahu's government, demanding early elections & release of hostages from Hamas. It is not known whether all 130 are still alive.

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🚨As Ukraine burns, over half a million dead, a bombshell drops: Zelensky allegedly snaps up King Charles' Highgrove House.

If true, it's a staggering 'Plan B' luxury as his nation bleeds and Western pockets bleed dry. A new zenith of war-time theft? 👇

https://londoncrier.co.uk/2024/04/zelenskyy-acquires-highgrove-house-former-residence-of-king-charles-for-20million/

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