Rise of the Global South

🤔 Ex-BBC Chief - Danny Cohen - probably isn't the impartial observer a news agency should be looking for... @RiseGS

⚡️ Moscow Begins Tactical Nuclear Weapons Drills – aimed at maintaining readiness to respond in order to ensure sovereignty of Russia (TASS) @RiseGS

🔴 President Raisi’s funeral procession arrives at the holy Iranian city of Qom – mourners turn out in their masses @RiseGS

🇪🇺 #Brussels officials are pushing to begin formal negotiations over #Ukraine joining the #EuropeanUnion as early as next month, according to people familiar with the matter, The Politico has reported. Behind the scenes, diplomats from the EU and from Kyiv are working intensively to try to persuade the Hungarian government to give its approval to opening talks on Ukraine’s accession. Subscribe to @ResonantNews

🔴 Israeli Govt Sponsors Militia Attacking Gaza Humanitarian Aid Trucks – Opposition Leader Lapid Yair Lapid stated that the rioters were militias backed by Israel's ruling regime, in reference to Netanyahu’s govt – while speaking to Israeli Army Radio. Far-right group - Tzav 9 - vowed to continue to block aid deliveries into the besieged Gaza Strip just last week. @RiseGS

😳 Israeli Police Raid AP Offices, Seize Equipment - Take Down Live Shot of Northern Gaza, Citing 'Al Jazeera Law' Al Jazeera is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP and other news orgs – the Qatari-based channel has been banned in Israel since May 5. The move by Israel has been denounced by AP. The supposed ‘rules-based order’ of the ‘civilized world’… @RiseGS

🤔 ‘Civilised World’ Must Refuse to Arrest Netanyahu – Tel Aviv Israel has called on the “nations of the civilised world” to oppose the ICC prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants against its leaders and to announce that they would not honor any such warrant. When asked if PM Netanyahu or Def Min Gallant would travel abroad to ICC-signatory countries in the event arrest warrants are issued, govt spox Tal Heinrich said “let’s wait and see.”  Gallant described the request for an arrest warrant against him as “despicable and disgusting.” @RiseGS

❗️The EU takes note of the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on arrest warrants for Israeli leaders and calls on all countries to implement it. This statement was made by Josep Borrell, Head of Eurodiplomacy. t.me/ukraine_watch

💥DragonFire Laser: UK Defense Sec Brags About State-of-the-Art Weapon The laser can take out drones and missiles from miles away with pinpoint accuracy, Grant Shapps boasted last month. The DragonFire is expected to be rolled out by 2027, but Shapps said earlier this year he wanted to "speed up" production and make it available sooner. It follows a successful trial of the laser, carried out against an aerial target for the first time in January. The directed energy weapon would also be successful in taking out helicopters, one would imagine. @RiseGS

⚡️BREAKING: Klaus Schwab to Step Down as Exec Chairman of World Economic Forum @RiseGS