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Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says voters are watching after the GOP
“lead Senate rejected the latest Democratic effort to halt the war any raw.”
Republicans are going to be held accountable now and in November for their unquestioning support for a war of impulse and illusion. It is costing Americans literally billions of dollars. And Blumenthal told MS now that he plans to bring up the war powers resolution again, perhaps as soon as next week.
The resolution the Senate turned aside Wednesday would require the U.S. to withdraw military forces until Congress authorizes further action. Pakistan's Army chief arrived in Tehran Wednesday to meet with Iranian officials. It's the latest diplomatic move to East tensions and a range of second round of negotiations
after talks on Sunday ended without a breakthrough.
The United House press Secretary Caroline Levitt calls the conversations mediated by Pakistan, productive and ongoing. But she denied reports that the U.S. had formally requested an extension of the two weeks cease fire.
“The Lebanese health ministry says he is Rayleigh military directly targeted three ambulance”
teams in consecutive attacks Wednesday. Three paramedics were killed. The ministry says at least 87 health workers have been killed and Israeli attacks during this current invasion. He appears your address call of reports from bay route.
While the camp footage shows paramedics and uniform in clearly marked ambulances and with no visible weapons and captures the last strike. The ministry says an ambulance team was hit while risking people from an earlier strike. A subsequent ambulance that responded was also targeted.
In a third attempt, two ambulances from different services were dispatched and also got
hit. The Israeli military did not respond to our request for comment. Hamid Sleiman, the head of operations of the last ambulance service hit, says they were operating in a civilian area, not in an area he called the red zone. He says he survived in Israeli double tap in 2024, but this is the first time he's heard
of a quadruple tap. Juarez Challa and Birnyuz, bay route. Germany and Ukraine have signed an agreement jointly, produced advanced combat drones and other defense systems. Here says me Nicholson reporting.
Speaking in a joint news conference in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Mert said we will not waver in our efforts to defend Ukraine.
In a defense package valued at $4.7 billion, Germany has pledged to finance weapons contracts
for Kiev, including the procurement of Patriot missiles. Speaking alongside his German counterpart, Ukraine president Vladimir Zelensky said he'd proposed a joint drone venture that will grant German weapons manufacturers access to Ukrainian combat data. Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is hosting the Ukraine Contact Group for further
talks in Berlin, which includes his Ukrainian counterpart, as well as NATO chief Mark Hutter. For MPI News, I'm Asmine Galsen in Berlin. This is in P.R. lawmakers in Maine have approved a bill that would make the state the first to put a moratorium
on new data centers. The bill would freeze approvals for data centers that require more than 20 megawatts of power until October 2027. It would also create a state appointed council to analyze their impact on electricity rates and the environment, Maine's governor has not said whether she will sign the measure.
South Africa has appointed a new ambassador to the U.S. more than a year after its last envoy was expelled for accusing the Maca movement of white supremacy. Okay, Bartlett and Johannesburg reports that President Cyril Romaposa has chosen a former apartheid era politician as his own boy. Ramaposa's appointment of the new ambassador comes after months of tensions with the Trump
administration, which is falsely accused the South African government of allowing the persecution of the white offricana minority. Ramaposa likely hopes his appointment of Rolf Meyer, who is himself an africana, will help smooth relations with an important trade partner. Meyer served in the apartheid government, but was later instrumental in the transition
to democracy, Trump's new envoy to South Africa, Ambassador Al-Bren Bosel III is a former right-wing media-pundit who once publicly supported apartheid. The South African government last month lodged a protest against him just weeks into his role after he criticized the country's judicial system, Kate Bartlett, in per news, Johannesburg.
There's an Asia largely advancing in Thursday trading after Wall Street hit a record the S&P 500 rose eight tens of a percent on Wednesday, besting the all-time high set in January. This is in PR news. We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twist ending of a movie or they tell you who dies at the end, in other words, you've run into a spoiler.
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