⚡️ Terrorist act in Istanbul, Turkey allegedly carried out by the woman pictured, who placed the explosive device - Turkish authorities.

UPDATE: Turkey is investigating 25 social media users in the dissemination of provocative messages about the explosion in Istanbul - having curbed country-wide access to social media earlier.

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⚡️ German Chancellor Scholz expresses regret over Putin's decision to not go to the G20 summit and would like it if the Russian leader changed his mind at the last minute.

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🇺🇦 EXCUSE US, WHILE WE COMMON SENSE: Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) launch an investigation into a church service in Kiev, Ukraine - where the song "Praise of the Most Holy Virgin" was heard, it talks about the awakening of old Rus' (Russia) - that's NINE months into the Special Military Operation; KIEVANS know their history - Kiev was of course the first capital of Russia, Ukraine was not a country then, and the word itself means "outskirts" in the Russian language ("okraina").

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⚡️ Eight grain vessels leave Ukrainian ports as part of the grain deal; ships are heading to Germany, Spain, Italy, Yemen, China, the Netherlands and Oman - UN

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⚡️Lugansk City, Lugansk Republic, West Russia air defenses repel Ukrainian missiles.

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🚨Air alert sounds in Poltava, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine.

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⚡️🇮🇱 Israeli forces demolish Palestinian-owned homes in Sa'ir, south of the West Bank.

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🏴‍☠🇺🇦 MEDIEVAL "JUSTICE": Ukrainian flags aren't the only thing strung up on flagpoles after Kiev's troops storm Kherson, South Russia; ANYONE accused of "collaboration" or giving support to Moscow risks being TIED TO POLES, a common but horrible sight at the beginning of the military operation committed by far-right Ukrainian nationalists against CIVILIAN Russian speakers and Romani people.

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CENTRAL NAZI NETWORK: CNN praises the "freedom" fighters of Kiev as they storm into Kherson, South Russia, without TRYING to even hide the obvious NAZI salute of a Ukrainian nationalist termed as a "local resident" featured in footage of the American outlet's broadcast report.

Yet, at the SAME time, CNN reporters and Sky News journalists are STRIPPED of accreditation for coming to liberated Kherson without permission, allegedly for “ignoring existing prohibitions without the consent of the relevant commanders,” as the General Staff of the Ukrainian army says.

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⚡️⚖Turkey detains 46 over terrorist attack in Istanbul - Justice Ministry chief.

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⚡️🇹🇷Turkey arrests Syrian national for carrying out terrorist bomb attack on Taksim square in Istanbul, allegedly trained by Kurdistan Worker's Party.

UPDATE: Involved in Istanbul attack planned to flee to Greece, but were quickly captured by security forces - Turkish Interior Ministry.

UPDATE: After the explosion, pepetrator ran away from Istiklal Street and got caught on surveillance cameras, but was then detained - Turkish Interior Ministry.

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🚑 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov rushed to hospital after developing health problems after his arrival at the G20 summit in Bali - Bloomberg.

Story is still being verified.

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⚡️Russian FM Spokeswoman Zakhrarova confirms Lavrov hospital story FAKE.

We are here with Sergei in Indonesia reading the news and we can’t believe our eyes: it turns out that he was hospitalized. This is, of course, an enormous fake. Well, wait for the world exclusive - Maria Zakharova.

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🚑⚡️NEVER BEEN BETTER: Amid FAKE reports of hospitalization, Lavrov tells TASS that he is in a hotel, preparing for the summit as the Russian Foreign Ministry BITES BACK, confidently stating that "It is impossible to exclude Russia from the G20, these are all political provocations."

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📜🏛 Acting Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik signs decree to liquidate Lugansk People's Republic Foreign Ministry.

The ministry must "definitively" shut down by June 1, 2023 as part of effort to fully integrate the LPR into Russia.

UPDATE: Pasechnik signs decree on liquidation of LPR General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR due to region's entry into Russia.

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