🇲🇩 AN ACT OF WAR: Moldovan winery hides Putin's wine bottles in underground cellar.

The Cricova winery near Chisinau takes matters into own hands by banishing wine bottles intended for Vladimir Putin into its intricate system of tunnels.

So, the bottles aren't destroyed - but presevered for better days?

This sends a blunt divorce message in a long-strained relationship - the winery asserts.

We guess Putin just won't drink wine now. 🤷‍♀

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🇷🇺🇩🇿 FROM RUSSIA WITH...FIGHTER JETS? Special flight arrives today from Moscow to Algeria.

Reportedly, there is a high-ranking Russian delegation on board, which will discuss military-technical cooperation with Algerian counterparts.

It is worth noting that Algeria has repeatedly expressed interest in purchasing Russia's fifth-generation Su-57E fighters - the rest of the agenda is behind closed doors.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 NO OFFICIAL INVITE RECEIVED - Netanyahu's aide confirms in regard to Trump's inauguration.

Among confirmed invited guests are Xi Jinping, Xavier Milei, Georgia Meloni, Brazil's Bolsonaro and others.

The aide says Netanyahu had not received an official invitation, though it is unclear if he had been informally asked to attend.

Beyond the premier’s medical troubles (prostate removal), the trip, is made slightly more fraught by an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in November for war crimes in Gaza - Times of Israel.


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🇺🇸 NEXT BOX OFFICE BANGER: Jude Law to star as Vladimir Putin in "The Wizard of the Kremlin" movie.

The film is about a 'fictional 1990s political strategist.' How much will Hollywood distort this fictional character? Or, will the elites' secret admiration for the character smash all box office records? Let us know below.

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MAIMED FOR LIFE: Young victim of Israel's pager attack speaks out on his ordeal on Iraqi TV.

I was playing on my phone at home, I heard the pager ring, barely had time to press OK before it exploded - he says.

Last September, Israel carried out a ruthless pager attack in Lebanon. The gadgets, allegedly targeting Hezbollah, were fixed to explode - but in many instances ended up in the hands of ordinary people.

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🇺🇸 "THE POINT WAS NEVER TO CONTROL OPINION" - The Zuck plays innocent, revealing how much Meta users despised his fact-checking crew.

It got to a point where it was like 1984. It really is a slippery slope. It was destroying so much trust, to have this programme - Zuckerberg.

Fact-checkers have been done away with. This has nothing to do with a change in leadership in the US, move right along people...

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🇺🇦🇵🇱 UPA CRIMES TO BE EXHUMED: Ukraine agrees to search for the remains of WWII Polish victims of Ukrainian Nazis (UPA) - Polish PM Tusk.

The UPA carried out the Volyn massacre, amongst others, where at least 50,000 Poles were viciously murdered.

Poland previously accused the Ukrainian authorities of delaying the search for victims.

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🇺🇸 SHE FLIPS THE SCRIPT: Trump's Attorney-General nominee Pam Bondi torpedoes Senator Whitehouse (Democrat.)

Whitehouse insinuates Bondi will "weaponize" the Department of Justice (DOJ).

WHITEHOUSE: The DOJ cannot just start with a name, and then look for a crime. You must start with a crime and look for a name.

BONDI: That's exactly what the DOJ did to Trump, from 2016... I will not target people based on political affiliation!

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🇺🇸 "ULTIMATE MERITOCRACY" - the CIA: John Ratcliffe, Trump's CIA Director nominee, vows to restore proper leadership, never allowing political or personal biases in their covert work.

He calls on CIA officers "all over the globe" to be ready to make a difference based on his envisaged "high" ideals.

If this isn't for you, it's time to find a new line of work - he says.

We're not sure if in the context of the CIA, "high ideals" means even more pervasive activity than already takes place...

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🇺🇸 DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ON A SOUR NOTE: President-elect Trump's team is critical to ceasefire deal - State Department admits.

The US, Egypt & Qatar are guarantors of this ceasefire ...We're grateful to the Trump team for being at the negotiating table - Spox Miller speaks on cooperation during a change in power.

Earlier, Biden took credit for the whole thing! That's after 15 months of non-action and 5 days before Trump's inaguration...

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🇺🇸 "ÇLIMATE CHANGE" - No laughing matter: "That was the fossil fuel industry calling"- Bernie Sanders cracks a joke at Trump's pick for Environmental Protection Agency Chief, Lee Zeldin.

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🇺🇸 PETTY THIEF BEARS STALIN'S NAME: Diego Stalin Tavarez Fleury brutally robs an 83-year-old woman of her lottery winnings, footage caught on a Florida security camera.

The culprit is still at large.

How not to wear the name of a historical figure proudly; albeit a controversial one.

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🇳🇱🇺🇦 "NOT CLEAR HOW TO END THE WAR" - Dutch FM Veldkamp arrives in Kiev to a worse-for-wear Zelensky.

Unfortunately, he brought no good news from "Borrell's garden" - EU, the beacon of democracy and freedom!

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🇺🇸 BIDEN BACKTRACKS ON TIKTOK BAN - the law banning the social media app was to come into force 1 day before Trump's inaguration.

The Biden Administration now says it won't force TikTok to go dark for 170 MILLION US users this Sunday, preferring to "leave the ban to Trump."

What was all that about?

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