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Pompeo confirms .1bn arms sales to Arab nations without Congress approval to 'deter Iran' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that the administration has invoked a rarely-used statute of the arms control law to “immediately” clear $8.1 billion in arms sales to its Arab allies to “deter Iranian aggression.” Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison In a handwritten letter from Belmarsh prison, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange says he is being denied a chance to defend himself and that elements in the US that “hate truth, liberty and justice” want him extradited and dead. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

WATCH French police swarm streets after bomb filled with BOLTS goes off in Lyon Police and emergency services have been dispatched en masse to the center of Lyon, where a homemade bomb, filled with screws, nuts and bolts, went off, injuring eight people, footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

You REALLY want to know? US Army asks members how serving ‘impacted’ them, gets schooled in replies The US Army probably expected an influx of patriotic replies when it asked for testimonies about people’s service. Instead, Twitter offered disturbing stories of debilitating injuries, mental health problems and suicide. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

Tower of London: Baby Ravens are Back! The four chicks eat at least once every two hours, feasting on a diet of quail, mice and rats Source: VTT

West-backed think tanks threaten new Ukrainian president with disturbing list of ‘RED LINES’ When President Volodymyr Zelensky won a landslide victory in the free and undisputed April elections, most accepted that he was given a fairly strong mandate to lead Ukraine. But it seems not everyone is so democratically-minded. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

Raqqa is in ruins like a modern Dresden. This is NOT ‘precision bombing’ From Kosovo to Iraq and Syria, the US and its military allies have for years told a tale of “precision bombing” and “surgical strikes”. It was a lie then and it’s a lie now. When huge numbers of bombs and missiles are unleashed on densely populated cities like Mosul or Raqqa, civilians are killed in their hundreds – […] Source: VTT

The Geography of War: No Iraq….? No Iran! BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY • MAY 23, 2019   No other country in the Middle East is as important in countering America’s rush to provide Israel with another war than Iraq. Fortunately for Iran, the winds of change in Iraq and the many other local countries under similar threat, thus, make up an unbroken chain of border to border […] Source: VTT

‘Toyota Cow-rolla’: Indian woman plasters her car with bovine DUNG to cool it down (PHOTOS) An Indian woman has come up with quite unconventional tactics to keep her car and herself cool while driving in hot weather, plastering her vehicle with cow manure – invoking a storm of online jokes. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF

‘Not even White Helmets confirm it’: Russian MoD rubbishes Washington’s Syria chemical attack claims Moscow has blasted the US State Department’s claims about an alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province, saying the allegations totally lack proof and haven’t even been confirmed by Western-backed groups on the ground. Read Full Article at RT.com Source: RT_NF