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[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Seems Ukraine has…. The cards

[Bloomberg @business]

The Pentagon has named major pharmaceutical contractor WuXi AppTec to a list of firms associated with the Chinese military, a move that could threaten its business and complicate research being done by American drugmakers https://t.co/C5c76oKDZK

[Prof. Dr. Cristina Vanberghen @VanberghenEU]

China, in Xi’an, at a railway station so ordinary that nobody would ever think to write about it, a ticket clerk paused for a moment and told me: “Be careful, the water is hot.”

I showed my passport many times. And honestly, I preferred that inconvenience to the alternative of never showing a passport but constantly looking over my shoulder in the street. Grand speeches about freedom mean little if people do not feel safe in their daily lives.

I love Europe far too much to pretend that everything is fine. We spend endless hours debating the future, drafting strategies, and discussing values, while too often neglecting the simple things that make a society work: attention, responsibility, order, and basic civic trust.

Europe needs to regain its sense of direction.

It really does.

[Axios @axios]

Not Tesla? "No one" better with robots than Hyundai, Nvidia CEO says https://t.co/5bpJuctt4v

[CNN @CNN]

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, setting it up for what may be the most highly anticipated market debut in recent history and a massive payday for early investors. https://t.co/NF6QlNVHLm

[Axios @axios]

Trump calls on Israel and Iran to "immediately stop shooting" as ceasefire frays https://t.co/OrMvoqp7Yu

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines toppled a building in General Santos city, about 8 miles from the epicenter of the quake.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, and it was not clear if people were trapped or injured in the collapse of a small building in General Santos city.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Avi Bluth, head of the IDF Central Command (overseeing the West Bank), says Israeli troops can shoot Palestinian stone-throwers if they’re a threat, but not applied the same to "settlers" due to “severe sociological consequences.”

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

China is doing so much to preserve uygur culture, it is the religious extremists and the west who are trying to destroy the beautiful uygur culture and replace it with colorless stereotypes

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[PolarBear @chenontario]

RT @CBSNews: Pope Leo responded to President Trump's latest comments on a flight to Algeria to begin a 10-day trip to Africa after the pres…

[Gabriella Colarusso @gabriella_roux]

It’s 1.57 in Islamabad. Talks are still ongoing. It’s now almost 10 hours that Americans and Iranians share the same rooms at Serena Hotel, with some breaks (and dinner). There is a strong determination from both sides to get the result 1/

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

A Moroccan student rescued a drowning woman from a lake in Hangzhou—then left quietly.

Kindness without borders.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Partial government shutdown now Day 43 with no end in sight after House GOP rejected Senate plan to reopen DHS. New version needs to go back to the Senate but Senators have already left town for 2 weeks w/ no plans to return
Plus, Schumer says House bill is dead on arrival @GMA

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

Free Yoon! Save Korea! 🇰🇷🇺🇸 @CPAC

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Houthis Are Back: How an Improvised Force Humiliated Regional and Global Powers

On March 27, 2026, the Houthis announced their entry into the ongoing war alongside Iran by launching ballistic missiles toward Israel, the first such direct involvement in the current conflict.

This move raises a deeper question:
what does it truly signify?

These Yemeni rebels have not only survived one of the largest Arab military coalitions in modern history but defeated it in humiliating fashion. They forced Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to retreat in panic once their vital infrastructure came under direct attack.

What began as an internal civil war in 2015 evolved into a global masterclass in asymmetric warfare, oriented by Iranian strategists.
Neither overwhelming air superiority, a total naval blockade, nor a Western-led fleet of nearly 30 warships with air support could silence Houthi launches.

Instead, the rebels absorbed years of intense bombing, preserved, and even expanded, their offensive capabilities, and fielded an Iranian-adapted arsenal sophisticated enough to threaten F-35 stealth fighters.

A growing portion of their weaponry is now assembled or manufactured locally in Yemen.
This resilience traces back to 2015 and the Saudi-led Operation Decisive Storm, which intervened in Yemen’s civil war.

The coalition initially included ten countries led by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. It deployed more than 185 combat aircraft (including F-15s, F-16s, Eurofighters, and Mirages), mobilized around 150,000 ground troops (with significant Sudanese contingents), enforced a complete naval blockade, and received logistical and intelligence support from the United States, United Kingdom, and France.

On paper, it was one of the most formidable Arab military forces assembled in decades.
Yet the coalition failed. The rugged, mountainous terrain of northern Yemen favored Houthi guerrilla tactics and ambushes, while low-cost Iranian-supplied drones and missiles turned billion-dollar targets into easy prey.

The Houthis did not need to win conventional battles, they simply needed to strike where it hurt most. And they did.

Read the full article joining my Substack:

https://t.co/rwWszR54gl

[NiKITa🇺🇦 @NiKiTa_32156]

由於伊朗戰爭，全球正面臨飢荒危機——《經濟學人》和《紐約時報》表示

全球30%的化肥（包括氨、尿素等氮肥）經由霍爾木茲海峽運輸，而目前該地區的化肥供應量急劇下降。

價格已然飛漲：尿素價格暴漲40%，天然氣價格攀升，工廠紛紛停產。農民們減少化肥使用量，導致：
◾作物產量下降；
◾全球食品價格攀升；
◾若這種情況持續下去，將引發自2022年以來最嚴重的糧食危機。

[NiKITa🇺🇦 @NiKiTa_32156]

古巴已做好與美國開戰的準備
—— 古巴總統米格爾·迪亞斯-卡內爾

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Two U.S. Navy minesweeping ships — USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara — were spotted in Malaysia, despite previously being deployed to Bahrain for Strait of Hormuz mine-clearing missions.

Their absence means 2 of the 3 U.S. mine countermeasure ships assigned to the Middle East are now thousands of miles away during the Iran conflict.

The move comes as Iran is suspected of laying naval mines in the Strait.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Turkish journalist Yahya Bostan:

Netanyahu convinced Trump by saying “Kill the leader and the rest will be easy, the people will overthrow the regime.”

Three weeks later, regime change is no longer even discussed.

The war has narrowed to the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump is now seeking international support to reopen the shipping route.

He’s probably deeply regretting it now.