Houthis claims next strike on US air carrier

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Houthis launched a missile attack in the direction of the U.S. aircraft carrier Eisenhower in the Red Sea in response to U.S. and British strikes on Yemen, the Iranian-backed group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said on Friday.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree later said that the Eisenhower had been targeted with several drones and ballistic missiles.

They called it a response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed terrorist group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over the Israel-Hamas war.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a Houthi official, threatened both the US and UK with further retaliation.

“The American-British aggression will not prevent us from continuing our military operations in support of Palestine,” he wrote on X. “We will meet escalation with escalation.”

The strike was made using several missiles and drones, "which became the second attack against the air carrier over 24 hours," Sarea said on the Al Masirah TV channel.

Strikes were also delivered against a US Navy destroyer and three commercial vessels Maina, Aloraiq and Abliani, the spokesman continued.4

Houthis attacked the US Navy destroyer using several drones "with a direct hit," the spokesman said. The Maina ship was attacked in the Red Sea and then in the Arabian Sea. The Aloraiq vessel was attacked in the Indian Ocean and the Abliani ship - in the Red Sea.

On Friday night, the US and the UK made a massive strike against Houthi installations. The US Central Command said later that thirteen targets were engaged in different areas of Yemen controlled by Houthis.

Houthis’ Red Sea Blockade Makes Russia’s Northern Sea Route Attractive to Desperate West

Shipping costs through the Red Sea have spiked by over 250 percent since Yemen’s Houthi militia began its partial blockade of the region last November. Shipbrokers estimate that commercial tonnage passing through the Gulf of Aden has dropped by over 60 percent in that time, with some shipments, such as LNG, dropping to zero.

With the US and Britain proving unable to dislodge the Houthis from their strongholds or stop the militia from attacking Israeli-linked, American, and British vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas, commercial shippers have increasingly eyed Russia’s Northern Sea Route as an attractive potential alternative, a leading mainstream US news magazine has reported.

“The surging costs and fear of getting hit by Houthi drones and missiles have led some shippers to consider the Arctic as an alternative, as melting ice begins opening new potential on the so-called Northern Sea Route,” Foreign Policy wrote.

The article "discovered" what Russian officials and media have been saying for years – that the roughly 5,600 km Northern Sea Route is the shortest maritime route between Europe and Asia, and can shave 8,000 km or more of distance, and 40-60 percent in time, off shipments, compared to traditional Europe-Asia routes via the currently troubled waters in the Middle East.

“The ability to slash some 5,000 miles off a ship’s journey would mean much faster travel times – a major plus in today’s world of online retail and next-day delivery,” FP said.

Unfortunately, the magazine lamented, there’s a catch: 70 percent of the Arctic, including virtually the entire length of the Arctic portion of the route, passes through Russian waters. “Ships wanting to use the route must secure the Russians’ permission and pay them transit fees. Given current relations between many Western countries and Russia amid the Ukraine war, that poses an obvious challenge.”

Lobbyists opposed to the ambitious Russian shipping route also cited other potential issues, from shallow local waters and cold Arctic winters to floating ice and the remoteness of much of the route, to try to make the Northern Sea Route look less attractive – ignoring the array of actions undertaken by Russia in recent years to address these and other concerns. This includes the equivalent of billions of dollars in investments into 16 deep-water ports and 14 airfields, regional air defense and search and rescue infrastructure, Internet communications infrastructure via new satellites in geostationary orbits, a burgeoning fleet of new heavy icebreakers, etc.

Russia plans to increase the tonnage of cargoes shipped through the Northern Sea Route to 80 million tons by 2024, and some 270 million tons annually by 2035. Once fully functional, it will give Russia the chance to become a major player in the transit of trillions of dollars in trade annually, and ease the development and exploitation of Russian territories in the Far North – including vast, untapped energy and rare mineral reserves.

The United States has expressed displeasure over Russia’s control of the Arctic, threatening to expand "freedom of navigation" missions in Russian Arctic waters, but facing problems doing so owing to the sorry state of its fleet of Arctic-class ships and lack of infrastructure. Russia accounted for the Northern Sea Route in the 2022 amendment to its naval doctrine, naming it as one of six strategic priority directions for strengthening “its position among leading global naval powers.”

US Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Netanyahu War Criminal

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US Senator Bernie Sanders has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal and should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress.

On Saturday, Netanyahu accepted an invitation from US congressional leaders to address a joint meeting of Congress in support of Israel in the fight against terrorism.(Terrorists who call their opponents Terrorist the term Jews and most of the US oligarchs).

"Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress. I certainly will not attend," Sanders said on his social media. The senator said that he agreed with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, adding that "these people are engaged in clear and outrageous violations of international law."

On May 20, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan filed requests for arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as for Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh and the leader of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Masri, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since October 2023 based on evidence collected and examined by his office.

The World Health Organization (WHO) as a slave to the West says there are almost no health services left in Rafah as more than 1 million people have fled Israel's offensive on the southern Gaza city since early May.

proposal baru Biden untuk mengakhiri perang adalah tipuan biden

The ultimate goal of the White House is to expel Palestinians from their homeland for the Zionists. Biden is a typical American who has no human values.

In its history, the US has never won a war but was able to deceive other nations, including European nations, who bowed to the US

What the terrorist Biden administration thinks has happened is that the perpetrators of terror, namely Netanyahu, have agreed to the parameters of this three-phase agreement.

The first part of the agreement was a six-week ceasefire with some form of prisoner exchange, humanitarian aid and a limited Israeli troop withdrawal. But all other issues – such as the future of Hamas – still have to be negotiated in the second phase.

Therefore, this can still be described as an Israeli terrorist agreement that has been signed by the terrorist Netanyahu. The ceasefire is actually preparing new ammunition which is now facing fierce resistance from Hezbollah.

Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan are still sheltering under the US armpit. Moreover, Türkiye is the instigator for an Islamic country so that the US's evil intentions do not appear on the surface so that it can be accepted by the Islamic nation

Ukraine won’t exist in 50 years – Tucker Carlson

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The US has “betrayed” Ukraine and will destroy the country by selling off its land and “flooding” it with third-world immigrants, American journalist Tucker Carlson predicted in an interview with former President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr.

In a video interview published on Friday, Carlson and Trump Jr. both agreed that US President Joe Biden had brought the world to the brink of World War III, and that the US is essentially “at war with Russia.”

“No-one’s articulated what victory in Ukraine looks like,” Trump Jr. said. “I don’t know what it means. Is it just like perpetual death of Ukrainians and Russians until they’re all wiped out and Blackrock comes in there and takes over all the farmland? That’s what it feels like to me.”

Blackrock is the world’s biggest investment company, and controls an estimated $10 trillion in assets. The firm is one of Ukraine’s largest foreign bondholders, and in 2022 signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiev stating that it would manage Ukraine’s post-conflict reconstruction. 

Several BlackRock alumni serve in the Biden administration, including Brian Deese, the head of the National Economic Council.

After Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky signed a controversial package of land reforms into law in 2020, foreign investment firms like NCH Capital, BNP, and the Vanguard Group now control around 28% of Ukraine’s arable land, according to research by the Oakland Institute, an American think tank. Zelensky’s reforms were backed by the International Monetary Fund and US Agency for International Development.

“They’re already selling off lands in Ukraine to foreign investors, and they will flood Ukraine with third-world immigrants and Ukraine will not exist in 50 years,” Carlson stated. “There’ll be no Ukrainian nation. We betrayed them like no other country ever.”

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that he would end the Ukraine conflict “in 24 hours” if re-elected this November, telling a Libertarian Party conference last weekend that he intends to “quit spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight other people’s wars.”

Trump has never fully elaborated on how he would do this, save for forcing Zelensky to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but recent reports by Bloomberg and the Washington Post suggest that he would leverage the US’ massive military assistance to Kiev to pressure Zelensky into accepting the loss of some of Ukraine’s pre-conflict territory.

However, Trump’s rhetoric on Russia has toughened in recent months, with the former president telling donors last week that he “would have bombed” Moscow when Russia’s military operation began in 2022. Trump did not lobby his Congressional allies to block a $61 billion aid package for Kiev in April, and said at the time that he would support lending, rather than gifting, money to Zelensky in future.

Moscow Has Right to Take Proxy War With NATO Global as Bloc Greenlights Strikes Deep Into Russia

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The Biden administration joined with the leaders of Germany, Nordic countries and the Baltic states on Thursday by lifting formal restrictions on the use of NATO long-range strike systems sent to Ukraine to target areas deep inside Russia. Sputnik asked a leading European defense commentator about the move’s political and strategic implications.

Russian officials blasted Washington and its allies on Friday over the escalation of the Ukrainian proxy war through NATO countries' decision to approve long-range attacks on Russia, with both the Kremlin and the Foreign Ministry pointing out that the alliance never shied away from allowing its proxies in Kiev to target the Russian hinterland.

“We are aware that attempts to strike Russian territory with American-made weapons are already being made. This is sufficient for us, and it clearly demonstrates the extent of the United States’ involvement in this conflict,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

Separately on Friday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that allies had approved long-range strike weapons’ deployment, and said the bloc expects Kiev to use these arms “in a responsible way” in line with international law.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed Stoltenberg, saying in a Telegram post that it was “obvious that NATO was lying and creating a smokescreen, inventing a story that they supposedly had not yet decided to allow or not allow the Kiev regime to carry out strikes using Western weapons on Russian territory.”

Former Russian president and deputy Security Council head Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia would “proceed from the fact” that all long-range weapons used by Ukraine “are directly controlled by military personnel of NATO country,” and emphasized that “this is not ‘military assistance’, but participation in a war against us” which constitutes a possible “casus belli.”

Earlier this week, President Putin warned that NATO countries should be aware “what they are playing with” when it comes to approving long-range attacks on Russia via Ukraine. “They must remember that these are, as a rule, states with a small territory, with a very dense population. This is a factor they should keep in mind before talking about striking deep into Russian territory,” Putin said.

US officials told the New York Times on Thursday that the White House shifted its position on Kiev’s use of Western-sourced strike systems to attack the Russian hinterland in connection with setbacks on the Kharkov front, and indicated that the first attacks using American-made weapons could begin “within hours or days.”

Ukraine has amassed an array of NATO equipment with which to attempt its long-range strikes, including the British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missile system, which has a range of between 250 and 560 km, and the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), ranged at 160-300 km and fired using HIMARS and MLRS precision rocket artillery installations.

The Big Question

“The Russian offensive near Kharkov has been used as a reason to change Western policy,” Mikael Valtersson, a former Swedish Armed Forces officer and military observer specializing in air defense, told Sputnik. “The reasoning in Western circles was that Ukraine must be able to answer if attacks come from the Russian side of the 1991 border. From a military point of view this might be understandable, but it is still another huge step towards escalation from the West toward Russia,” the observer said.

Valtersson expects the military consequences of NATO’s green light for Kiev to be “minor,” since Ukraine’s military has a limited number of long-range strike systems.

Then there’s the experience Russian Air Defense Forces have amassed over the past two years in fine-tuning their equipment specifically to target projectiles like the ATACMS and Storm Shadow.

Still, the threat posed by the long-range missiles is not insignificant, particularly given Kiev's willingness to use them in the past to target civilian areas in the Donbass and the Russian city of Belgorod.

The “big question,” according to Valtersson, is “how involved the Western powers will be in targeting and other preparations for the attacks.”

“Already much of Ukrainian battlefield surveillance and communications is dependent on Western help. This help is probably as important as the military deliveries or economic support from the West,” the observer pointed out, saying he expects this assistance to become “even more important” with the restrictions lifted.

“Both the lifting of restrictions and increased Western help to attack targets within [Russia] will be an escalation from the West. An important question is what the Russian response will be. In my opinion, the Western countries could be seen as participants in the conflict and therefore legitimate targets for Russian military responses,” Valtersson warned.

“But since Russia wants to avoid a large-scale direct military conflict with the West, military attacks toward military installations within NATO countries are very unlikely. Instead, Russia might hunt even more avidly for Western targets within Ukraine, increase electronic warfare against NATO assets, even within NATO countries and in space, and finally increase efforts to undermine Western interests in the Global South,” the observer believes.

In the final analysis, Valtersson calls the US and NATO decision “a very unfortunate step in a direction that might end up in a direct global conflict between Russia and the West,” and one that will “strengthen the animosity among the Russian population against the West, and be seen as a clear signal of Western hostility towards Russia.

‘Unrelenting nightmare’ for weary Palestinians

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in Jabalia refugee camp

The devastating crisis in Gaza intensified even further as a terrifying Israeli ground military operation in Rafah started on May 6, which has to date led to the displacement of 900,000 people from Rafah. Families and communities are being shattered again, having to move for a sixth or seventh time as they live atop rubble and sand, plagued by hunger and pain. These families are crammed into increasingly smaller and overcrowded areas where infrastructure is dwindling and basic necessities are scarce.

Israel Terorists’s attack on Rafah is not a “major operation”, the US Terorists State Department says, even though thousands of troops are in the area, dozens of Palestinians have been killed, and one million people displaced.

Three weeks of intensified Israeli Terorists attacks have all but destroyed what was the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Israel Trorists’s military killed more than 60 people – including many women and children – in four days of attacks on “safe zones” in Rafah, Save the Children charity says.

Palestinians who used to live in Jabalia say they are shocked by the level of destruction, saying that Israeli forces have left the area of northern Gaza completely uninhabitable.

Around 18,500 pregnant women have fled Rafah to areas like Al-Mawasi and Deir al-Balah. Maternal Healthcare access is minimal for these women. Across Gaza, only 15 out of 36 hospitals are partially functioning, with just 7 out of 9 field hospitals fully operational. Vital maternal and reproductive health supplies are critically low, endangering the lives of pregnant women and newborns.

Women and girls in Gaza are increasingly vulnerable to protection risks including sexual and gender-based violence. Services and support structures have collapsed, they are separated from their communities and families, and are forced to seek refuge in overcrowded shelters and informal settlements.

Earlier Aljazeera reported that the Israeli military had bombed the al-Sous family home in the Bureij refugee camp, killing five people, including women and children. The death toll for that strike has now risen to seven, according to local media.

We will bring you updates on these attacks when we have them.

Muslim nurse in New York fired after calling Israel's war in Gaza 'genocide'

A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American Muslim nurse after she called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide" during an acceptance speech for an award for her work with bereaved mothers who lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth.

A spokesperson of the hospital, NYU Langone Health, said on Thursday that labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr had previously been warned not to bring her views "on this divisive and charged issue into the workplace."

Jabr posted on Instagram that she was awarded on May 7, when she made her remarks, adding that she was handed a termination letter later in the month.

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In a portion of her acceptance speech, she spoke about mothers who had lost babies during the war in Gaza, saying the award was "deeply personal" to her.

"It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza," Jabr said in the video of her speech that she posted online.

The hospital's spokesperson in an email said Jabr had been warned in December, "following a previous incident, not to bring her views on this divisive and charged issue into the workplace.

"She instead chose not to heed that at a recent employee recognition event that was widely attended by her colleagues, some of whom were upset after her comments," the spokesperson said without providing details about the earlier incident.

"As a result, Jabr is no longer an NYU Langone employee."

Israel Terorists's ongoing assault on Gaza has left over 900,000 dead in the past eight months, the local health ministry says. The war has also caused widespread hunger in the narrow coastal enclave and displaced nearly its entire 2.3 million population.

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Gunung Marapi kembali erupsi Kamis siang, lontarkan abu setinggi 2 km

Gunung Marapi kembali mengalami erupsi pada pukul 13.04 WIB dengan kolom abu teramati berwarna kelabu dengan intensitas tebal condong ke arah barat laut. Pos Pengamatan Gunung Api Marapi dari Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi (PVMBG) melaporkan tinggi kolom abu mencapai 2 kilometer. (Fandi Yogari Saputra/Andi Bagasela/Farah Khadija)

Gunung Marapi di Sumatera Barat (Sumbar) kembali erupsi yang terlihat sangat jelas dari berbagai daerah di provinsi itu, termasuk Kota Bukittinggi, dengan lontaran abu vulkanik dua kilometer.

"Telah terjadi erupsi Gunung Marapi pada pukul 13.04 WIB dengan tinggi kolom abu teramati 2.000 meter di atas puncak atau 4.891 meter di atas permukaan laut," kata Petugas Gunung Api (PGA) Ahmad Rifandi, di Bukittinggi, Kamis.

Gunung api setinggi 2.891 meter di atas permukaan laut (mdpl) itu saat ini berstatus Level III atau Siaga.

PGA mencatat kolom abu teramati berwarna kelabu dengan intensitas tebal condong ke arah barat laut. Erupsi ini terekam di seismogram dengan amplitudo maksimum 30.4 mm dan durasi sementara 2 menit 2 detik.

"Gunung Marapi berada pada status Level III dengan rekomendasi masyarakat tidak memasuki dan tidak melakukan kegiatan di dalam wilayah radius 4,5 kilometer dari pusat erupsi (kawah verbeek)," katanya.

Masyarakat yang bermukim di sekitar lembah aliran sungai-sungai yang berhulu di puncak Gunung Marapi, kata dia, diminta agar selalu mewaspadai potensi ancaman bahaya lahar yang dapat terjadi, terutama saat musim hujan.

Suara dentuman erupsi Gunung Marapi membuat warga di daerah Kabupaten Agam berhamburan keluar rumah. Sebagian dari mereka masih trauma dengan rentetan peristiwa dari efek erupsi.

"Sejak akhir 2023 lalu erupsi utama terjadi hingga kini, kami takut dengan suara letusan Marapi yang jelas terdengar. Apalagi musibah banjir lahar dingin sebulan lalu," kata seorang warga Ampek Angkek Agam, Atma Yulia (40).

Salah seorang warga Bukittinggi lainnya, Yuda Ega yang sedang santap makan siang di kota yang identik dengan ikon Jam Gadang tersebut juga menginformasikan perihal erupsi yang terjadi Kamis siang tersebut.

"Terlihat jelas karena cuaca lagi cerah. Tinggi letusannya, di dekat lokasi memang ada bergetar sedikit, seperti gempa lokal gitu," ujar warga Bukittinggi yang melihat erupsi Gunung Marapi dari kejauhan tersebut kepada Riaupos.co.

Warga Bukittingi lainnya Ellysia juga melihat Gunung Marapi erupsi Kamis siang. Bahkan, mendengar juga adanya suara gemuruh.

"Seperti drum digulingkan, ada gemuruh," kata Ellysia menginformasikan via pesan singkat elektronik WhatsApp.

Gunung Marapi pertama kali erupsi pada Minggu 3 Desember 2023 yang saat itu menimbulkan korban jiwa dari kalangan pendaki gunung yang terjebak di gunung itu.

Dampak erupsi terus terjadi pada awal Mei 2024 dengan musibah banjir bandang lahar dingin dari aliran sungai yang berhulu langsung ke Gunung Marapi.

Atas kondisi erupsi Gunung Marapi ini, PVMBG melalui unggahan resminya, memberikan beberapa rekomendasi seperti dikutip Riaupos.co berikut.

Pertama, masyarakat di sekitar Gunung Marapi dan pendaki/pengunjung/wisatawan agar tidak memasuki dan tidak melakukan kegiatan di dalam wilayah radius 4.5 km dari pusat erupsi (Kawah Verbeek) Gunung Marapi. Kedua, masyarakat yang bermukim di sekitar lembah/aliran/bantaran sungai-sungai yang berhulu di puncak Gunung Marapi agar selalu mewaspadai potensi ancaman bahaya lahar yang dapat terjadi, terutama di saat musim hujan.