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—🪖🇮🇱🤝🇬🇷 Israel's Channel 14: Israel advances major deal with Greece worth tens of millions of euros for four Israeli defense systems, most focused on air defense.
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—❗️🇷🇸 URGENT: Telekom Serbia allegedly suffered a data breach exposing 160,000 customer records, including names, addresses, dates of birth, and ID numbers leaked from an internal scheduling portal.
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—🇮🇹/🇷🇴 IDV seals third batch of 860 trucks for Romanian army
➡️ Italian firm IDV has signed for 860 additional high-mobility tactical trucks to Romania's armed forces, the third tranche under a 2019 deal totaling over 2,900 vehicles across 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 configs.
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—🇺🇸❌🇺🇸 NEW: President Donald Trump declared that the United States “no longer needs or desires” assistance from NATO allies and partners, including Japan, South Korea and Australia.
➡️ He accused them of failing to support US operations against Iran and efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after several governments, like Greece, declined to send warships or remained non-committal on his appeals.
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—❗️🇸🇮 Black Cube spy scandal rocks Slovenia’s election campaign
➡️ Investigative outlet Mladina reports that senior executives from Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube, including CEO Dan Zorella and retired Major General Giora Eiland, flew into Ljubljana on a private jet on 22 December 2025 and met opposition SDS leader and ex-PM Janez Janša at party headquarters.
➡️ In the months after the visit, covertly recorded videos of government officials and allies began appearing on an anonymous English-language “anti-corruption” website, as further reports allege Black Cube operatives posed as representatives of a fake British fund to secretly record Slovenian political figures ahead of the 22 March election.
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—🇩🇪❌🇺🇸 NEW: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has ruled out sending German warships to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the war with Iran.
➡️ He said that “this is not our war, we have not started it,” and questioned what “a handful or two handfuls of European frigates” could do that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot.
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🇮🇷❌🇷🇴🇺🇸🪖 Iran warns Romania after US troops deployment!
Iran has told Romania that it could react “politically and legally” if the United States uses military bases on Romanian territory for operations against Tehran. The statement was made by the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baghaei.
The warning comes after the Romanian Parliament approved the decision of the Supreme National Defense Council regarding the temporary deployment of US troops and equipment in Romania, in the context of tensions in the Middle East.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that Romania is not a party to the conflict and that the military systems hosted on the country’s territory are strictly defensive in nature, in accordance with the United Nations. The institution recalled that the bilateral agreement signed in 2006 allows the US to use military bases in Romania.
For his part, Defense Minister Radu Miruță stated that Iran’s statements refer to possible legal and political consequences, not to direct military threats. He stressed that the presence of the US military contributes to strengthening Romania's deterrence capacity.
According to the authorities, approximately 400-500 US military personnel and military equipment, including Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft, are to be temporarily deployed for a maximum of 90 days. They will operate from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base and Câmpia Turzii Air Base. The first three aircraft have already landed at Air Transport Base 90.
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🚨🇵🇰⛴️🇮🇷 - Pakistan owned tanker becomes the first non-Iranian cargo to transit through Strait of Hormuz with AIS on.
The Aframax tanker Karachi, carrying Abu Dhabi’s Das crude, has become the first non-Iranian cargo to transit the chokepoint while broadcasting its AIS signal, suggesting that select shipments may be receiving negotiated safe passage.
- MarineTraffic
—🇲🇰/🇦🇱 NEW: Former North Macedonia president Stevo Pendarovski warned that overturning the Albanian language law would create a “major problem”, noting that Albanian is an official language as it is spoken by over 20% of the population, yet its implementation in state institutions and courts remains incomplete.
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—🇷🇸💰🇭🇷/🇧🇦/🇲🇪 NEW: Serbia is ready to buy energy companies in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro even at the highest market price, with the aim of creating a larger, integrated regional energy company that would boost energy security and efficiency across the region, President Aleksandar Vučić said.
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—☦️ 🇷🇸 UPDATE: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said the Patriarch’s letter on Kosovo and Metohija is “very important” and expressed confidence that President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump, who “often emphasize protecting Christian values,” will understand the needs of the Serbian people there.
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—🇦🇱❌🇮🇷 NEW: Albania will reportedly move next week to:
- Designate Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism
- List Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization
- Classify Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
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—🇭🇷❌🇷🇸 WATCH: Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic has rejected Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s narrative that defense cooperation between Croatia, Kosovo and Albania poses a “threat” to Serbia, calling it a completely invented, fabricated thesis for domestic political purposes.
➡️ Plenkovic said neither Croatia nor Kosovo or Albania intend to endanger anyone’s territorial integrity, stressing that the trilateral cooperation is not directed against Serbia.
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🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇱🇬🇪 — Greek authorities arrested a Polish national in Hania, Crete, suspected of photographing military facilities near the U.S. Navy's Souda Bay Naval Base.
Earlier this month, a 36-year-old Georgian national was also arrested on suspicion of spying on the base.
— Greek outlet Kathimerini | @thewarreporterr
—🪖🇧🇬🤝🇹🇷 NEW: Bulgaria and Turkiye eye closer defence ties amid regional wars.
➡️ Bulgaria and Turkiye are exploring ways to deepen defence cooperation against the backdrop of the wars in Ukraine and Iran, following talks between Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister and Turkiye’s Ambassador in Sofia.
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—❗️🇷🇸 UPDATE: Telekom Srbija has confirmed that a limited portion of customer data from its m:SAT TV service was stolen.
➡️ The incident has been reported to Serbia’s cybercrime unit in the Interior Ministry.
➡️ The company says telecom services remain fully operational.
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—🇷🇸🤝🇮🇱 WATCH: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said Israel is engaged in a “justified struggle for its existence” and warned of a “great danger” that Iran’s “militant regime” could develop a nuclear bomb and use it against Israel.
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—🇪🇸 NEW: 3 Serbian nationals attempted to violently abduct a Canadian crypto millionaire in Madrid.
➡️ On Monday night outside a trendy restaurant at the busy Claudio Coello–Jorge Juan intersection, the thiefs forced him into a Ford Transit van after beating and pepper-spraying him.
➡️ Witnesses immediately alerted police, who intercepted the vehicle at Ronda de Toledo, arrested two suspects while a third escaped.
➡️ Officers later found firearms and restraints, and believe the group planned to take the victim to Petrer (Alicante) to torture him for his crypto wallet keys and steal both his digital assets and a €100,000 watch.
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—🇬🇷❌🇺🇸 NEW: Greece will not participate in any military operations in the Strait of Hormuz, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said on Monday.
➡️ He stressed that Athens will limit its involvement to the EU naval mission Aspides in the Red Sea and has no intention of being drawn into war.
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—🇽🇰 NEW: Political analysts say tensions between PM Albin Kurti and President Vjosa Osmani have further escalated, as their once-allied camps now openly clash over the dissolution of parliament, the stalled election of a new head of state, and Kosovo’s positioning with key international partners, including the United States.
➡️ The deepening rift comes after Osmani’s controversial move to dissolve the Assembly and Kurti’s challenge at the Constitutional Court, turning their personal split into a full-blown institutional standoff ahead of new snap elections.
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—🇷🇸🤝🇮🇱 NEW: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has confirmed that Belgrade and Israel have “excellent cooperation” in the defense sector, stating that “they sell weapons to us, we sell weapons to them, and that will continue.”
➡️ Media and flight-tracking reports note multiple recent Israeli cargo flights to Belgrade after Serbia lifted an eight-month embargo on arms exports, with Serbian state arms factories confirming that exports restarted in February.
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—🪖🇽🇰 NEW: Kosovo’s Defence Minister Ejup Maqedonci says Pristina plans to invest more than €1 billion in its army over the next four years, targeting modernization of combat capabilities, new infrastructure and the development of domestic defence industry in line with a changing European security environment.
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—❗️🇲🇩 UPDATE: Moldova has declared a 15-day environmental state of alert along the Nistru (Dniester) River basin after a wave of oil pollution, triggered by a Russian attack on a Ukrainian hydropower plant, pushed contaminant levels above legal limits in several northern sectors and forced the shutdown of water intakes for multiple districts between Rezina and Dubăsari.
➡️ Authorities have installed floating barriers and other containment systems, requested assistance via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism and from Romania, and warn that the pollution wave is moving downstream in fluctuating concentrations, posing an ongoing risk to drinking water supplies and river ecosystems.
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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️🛢💵 — Senator Lindsey Graham said President Trump’s decision to expand the war to Kharg Island, a key hub of Iran’s oil and gas sector, was necessary, bold, and highly effective in his view.
He argued that striking such a strategic location could significantly shorten the conflict because targets of that importance are rarely exposed in warfare.Читать полностью…
Graham added that if Iran loses control of the oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, the country’s economy would suffer severe damage.
He concluded that whoever controls Kharg Island could ultimately shape the course and outcome of the war.
—❗️🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 NEW: Security expert Adrian Shtuni warns that the US–Iran conflict could destabilize Kosovo and other Western Balkan states through economic shocks, hybrid warfare, terrorism, and diversion of Western attention away from the region.
➡️ He notes that Russia or Iran-linked groups could exploit the situation by backing Serbian paramilitaries to stage provocations or sabotage, while radicalized individuals might target US assets in Kosovo under the narrative of defending a Muslim country.
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—☦️ 🇷🇸 ✉️ 🇻🇦/🇷🇺/🇺🇸/🇪🇺 NEW: Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije has sent letters to Pope Leo XIV, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and other key European and international leaders, urging them to use their influence to stop Pristina’s new “extremely discriminatory” law on foreigners, which he warns could lead to the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija and threaten their religious sites, schools and healthcare institutions.
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⚡️🇹🇷🏳️ Turkey has deployed ASELSAN Şahin anti-drone systems in Northern Cyprus.
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🏦📉Kiyosaki Returns: Absolute Doom Comes in 2026 - BlackRock Triggers the End, It's the New Lehman Brothers!
Author Robert Kiyosaki warns that the global economy may face a severe financial crisis in 2026, driven by excessive global debt and what he describes as a “Ponzi‑like” private credit system led by major institutions such as BlackRock. He argues that unresolved structural problems from the 2008 financial crisis leave markets—and especially baby boomer pension funds—highly vulnerable to a rapid and devastating collapse.
Kiyosaki urges investors to protect themselves by shifting toward tangible assets such as gold, silver, oil, and cryptocurrencies, emphasizing the importance of real financial education over what he calls “WOKE” financial narratives. Drawing on his Vietnam War experience, he also highlights the profitability of war and the influence of the military‑industrial complex, noting that modern weapons consume significant amounts of precious metals. Through these reflections, he advocates for financial preparedness, skepticism toward institutional narratives, and investment strategies grounded in real, enduring assets.
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—❗️🇲🇩 URGENT: Moldova declares emergency after Russian strike contaminates Nistru River.
➡️ Moldova has declared a state of emergency after a Russian strike on Ukraine’s Novodnistrovsk Hydropower Plant caused major oil pollution in the Nistru River, forcing yellow alert status in the Naslavcea region and leaving residents in the northern city of Bălți temporarily without potable water as authorities warn of possible further cuts to supply in northern towns.
➡️ The Environment Ministry says petroleum substances are still flowing downstream, with Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Romanian teams deploying filters, straw barriers, and mobile labs testing water every six hours, while Chisinau has mobilized the army and requested EU Civil Protection Mechanism support in what officials describe as one of Moldova’s most serious environmental emergencies in decades.
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