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Misstänkt terrordåd i Trappes, strax väster om Paris: https://t.co/Oh9FaqG3Pc

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Profonde émotion suite à l’attaque à l’arme à feu survenue à Trappes et La Verrière.

Une personne est décédée. Plusieurs autres sont grièvement blessées.

Nos pensées vont aux victimes, à leurs familles, ainsi qu’à tous les habitants des Yvelines. Dans cette terrible épreuve, la Nation se tient à leurs côtés.

Reconnaissance à nos forces de l’ordre qui ont déjà procédé à l’interpellation de l’auteur. Le parquet national antiterroriste s’est saisi.

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[Loreine 🇫🇷🇰🇷 Les Asiatiques à Droite @Loreine_LAD]

La détresse de cette femme...
Les profils...
Deux Frances qui se regardent face à face, notre impuissance.

[Nicolas Milovanovic @MilovanCavor]

Hôtel de Ville de Limoges. Architecte: Charles-Alfred Leclerc (1843-1915) grand prix de Rome. Inauguré en 1883. Inscrit Monument historique en 1975.

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[Roman Anin @RomanAnin]

I spent 15+ years investigating Russian secret services and organized crime. I know people who served with Putin in the KGB and sat in on his deals with St. Petersburg crime bosses. So let me explain the "diesel deal" the way they would — in gangster slang. Because that's the language Putin actually thinks in.

First, the facts.

Putin just raised Russia's 2027 military budget by 27% to a record 17.1 trillion rubles — about $203 billion. Who budgets that kind of money for a war they're about to end?

The FT reported yesterday that Western intelligence has warned the heads of European defense companies that Russia is plotting to assassinate them.

Since September, Tusk, Macron and the intelligence services of Poland, Czechia, Latvia, Belgium, France and Denmark have all warned that Russian hybrid attacks — including drone and missile strikes — will intensify in the coming months.

None of this looks like a country preparing for peace.

Who actually benefits?

🇺🇸 What the US gets: Every serious analysis I've read says the announced volumes won't move American diesel prices. This is a PR move for Trump before the midterms — a story about prices that will "very, very soon" come down once his friend Vladimir's tankers reach US shores, plus the chance to claim he ended another war (I've lost count). The only US "benefit" is Trump's rating.

🇷🇺 What Russia gets: billions of dollars to keep funding its genocidal war against Ukrainians. Sanctions relief. A demonstration of power to the rest of the world. A deeper rift between the US and its European allies. And a real chance to disrupt US weapons and intelligence flowing to Ukraine.

So what is Putin's actual goal?

Trump's disapproval is at record highs and polls show his party will most likely loose midterm elections. In less than a month his power will be badly weakened. Why would Putin sign a long-term peace deal with a lame duck whose signature will soon be scrutinized at best and annulled at worst?

He wouldn't. And here's where the slang comes in.

In the eyes of Putin and his siloviki, Trump is a baryga — a greedy, unscrupulous businessman who puts profit above law and principle. Gangsters despise barygas, but they love using them. The goal is always to turn a baryga into a lokh — a mark, an outsider who doesn't understand the rules of the underworld and gets played to serve the gang's interests.

By signing the diesel deal, Putin plays two scenarios at once:

A) The deal miraculously helps his lokh keep power — great.

B) The deal changes nothing, the baryga loses the midterms — but by then it has already done its job: inflamed US political tensions and acted as arson inside the American system.

Putin knows that the majority of Americans support Ukraine. He knows that by signing, Trump draws unprecedented criticism, including from his own party. And he knows a baryga won't give up power easily, because he will have to answer for everything he did in office — this deal included. That's classic gangster/secret-service method: tie a man to your organization, make him a partner in your crimes, so he can't walk away.

Pouring more oil — diesel, in this case — onto the most explosive fault lines of American politics, raising the stakes for Trump and pushing him past the point of no return serves Putin far better than a peace deal that could be voided within months.

Remember: Putin's goal in the West is chaos, not peace.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

La France soutient sans réserve l'appel à une vraie trêve énergétique, à laquelle l’Ukraine est disposée. À ce stade la Russie continue de la refuser en intensifiant ces dernières heures encore ses frappes contre les infrastructures ukrainiennes. La France continuera de se tenir aux côtés de l'Ukraine et du Président Zelensky.

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[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[FRANCE 24 Français @France24_fr]

Notre journaliste Pauline Godart s'est rendue en #Israël peu de temps après l'attaque du #7Octobre pour documenter ce qu'il s'y passait. Elle fait partie des premiers journalistes à avoir atteint le site de #Nova.

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

These days remain a time of remembrance of the horrific tragedy of Babyn Yar for many people around the world. Today, government delegations from Israel and Germany came to Kyiv to honor the memory of nearly 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma, and people of different nationalities, professions, and faiths whom the Nazis murdered simply because they were different. Together with Israeli Minister Zeev Elkin, German Federal Minister Karin Prien, Chairman of the Directorate of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center Dani Dayan, government officials, rabbis, and ambassadors, we lit memorial candles beside the menorah at Babyn Yar. It is important that, despite Russia’s brutal war, our partners are able to come to Kyiv on the 85th anniversary of this tragedy to pay tribute to all the innocent victims of this terrible crime. And it is our shared duty to stand united against evil so that such tragedies never happen again.

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Attackers douse teacher in petrol as student protests rage across France - https://t.co/2f08FYXtXe

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Möjlig 9/11-liknande terrorattack:

[FRANCE 24 Français @France24_fr]

🇮🇱✈️ Le Premier ministre israélien affirme que l'un des pilotes du #vol reliant Dubaï à #TelAviv, finalement dérouté en #ArabieSaoudite, a tenté de faire s'écraser l'avion.

🔍 Le ministre israélien de la Défense évoque lui une "tentative d'attaque djihadiste"

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[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A pilot on an Israeli-bound flight stabbed another pilot and tried to crash the plane, but others subdued the attack, Netanyahu said. https://t.co/4l2ZGkbqsH