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Lukashenko: ‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’
willing to join Russia and Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’ll give nuclear weapons to states willing to join with Russia and Belarus, according to reports.

“It’s very simple. You have to join the union between Belarus and Russia, and that’s it: There will be nuclear weapons for everyone,” Lukashenko said on Russian state TV, as reported by NBC News.

“I think it’s possible,” Lukashenko said, per NBC, noting that he was expressing his personal view. “We need to strategically understand that we have a unique chance to unite.” 

The comments come after the Belarusian leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week went ahead with a deal to deploy Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.

The move of the weapons, which Putin announced earlier this year, has been interpreted by some as a warning to NATO. The Russian president has repeatedly threatened nuclear weapon use amid its ongoing war.

Japan on high alert for North Korean 'satellite' launch

Authorities in Japan are on high alert as Wednesday is the first day of the period during which North Korea says it will launch what it calls a "satellite." Japanese officials say they believe North Korea will use ballistic missile technology for the launch, and it is possible the projectile would pass above Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa.

Pyongyang notified the Japan Coast Guard on Monday of its plan to launch a satellite between Wednesday and June 11.

A senior official of the ruling Workers' Party said on Tuesday that the launch of its first military spy satellite will happen in early June.

Japan's government says North Korea has not issued any notice of a change in the launch window and that the firing could happen on Wednesday.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu said that a satellite launch involves the use of technology that is almost the same as, and is compatible with, the technology used to fire ballistic missiles.

He said the government believes North Korea will use its ballistic missile technology, regardless of how it describes the launch, and any launch by Pyongyang violates UN Security Council resolutions.

 Surely the North Koreans now deserve to be granted a medal or any other award for being the best neighbors of the year.

Japan police report on PM Kishida bomb attack
slams ineffective safety measures

Kishida was about to give an election campaign speech at a fishing port in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, when a man threw the explosive device. The prime minister was unharmed as police guards quickly shoved the bomb away and evacuated him. Police arrested 24-year-old Kimura Ryuji on the spot.

The agency's report released on Thursday says the organizer of the event told the Wakayama prefectural police in advance that only people who had links with the local fisheries association would be allowed to enter the venue.

The report says that was deemed an important precondition for making Kishida's security arrangements.

Employees of the fisheries association were supposed to check visitors at the venue's entrance. But the report says their checking was inadequate as none of them noticed the suspect when he entered the designated area for the audience.

The report says the local police failed to include effective safety measures in their security plan due to a lack of thorough discussions with the organizer. The report says this failure allowed the attack to happen.

The National Police Agency found that local police had requested metal detector checks of visitors' belongings, but these were not carried out.

Germany to shut down 4 Russian consulates

The German government has told Moscow to shut down four Russian consulates in the country after Berlin was forced to restrict its own diplomatic missions in Russia.

A German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday that it will close three of its four consulates in Russia because Moscow has imposed limits on the number of German officials who are allowed to work in the country.

The spokesperson said Germany in turn is revoking the licenses of four of the five Russian consulates, which will be expected to cease operations by the end of the year.

The spokesperson said the measure is intended to achieve a balance in terms of personnel and structures between the two countries.
Berlin has condemned Moscow's moves, saying they are unjustified. Revoking the licenses of the Russian consulates is viewed as a retaliatory measure.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Germany's actions were "unfriendly" and were further destroying the multifaceted, mutually-beneficial relations that had spanned decades.

It said Berlin's "ill-conceived" and "provocative" actions would not go unanswered.

NATO Pressures Turkey to Drop Objections to Sweden Joining Alliance

Fearing that they might be targeted after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Sweden and Finland abandoned their traditional positions of military nonalignment to seek protection under NATO´s security umbrella. Finland became NATO´s 31st member country in April.

NATO must agree unanimously for countries to join. Turkey´s government accuses Sweden of being too lenient on terrorist organizations and security threats, including militant Kurdish groups and people associated with a 2016 coup attempt.

Hungary has also delayed its approval, but the reasons why have not been made publicly clear.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that he would travel to Ankara “in the near future to continue to address how we can ensure the fastest possible accession of Sweden.” He was unable to provide a precise date for his trip.
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that “it is essential that we can finally welcome Sweden as the 32nd member.” She stressed that the Swedish government has Berlin´s “full support.”

Maduro Offers Electric Services to Brazil
as Venezuela Suffers Daily Blackouts

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro offered on Monday to once again provide the Brazilian state of Roraima with electricity — despite most Venezuelans facing lengthy daily blackouts as a result of the nation’s decaying power grid.

Maduro made the offer in a joint press conference between Maduro and Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held after their official meeting in the presidential Planalto Palace in Brasilia. Between 2001 to 2019, Brazil paid the Venezuelan socialist regime to provide power to the the border state of Roraima.

“Venezuela is prepared to rebuild electric cooperation with the state of Roraima, Boa Vista, and the entire border population,” Maduro said on Monday. “We have an offer of 120 megawatts ready, what it merits is a basic investment of about four or five million dollars in function of rebuilding the transmission lines.”

Maduro requested that private enterprises in Brazil aid the collaboration so that the socialist regime could reconnect Roraima to Venezuela’s power grid “very soon.”

Roraima is a state located in northern Brazil that, due to its geography, is logistically isolated from the rest of the country.

Cartel Gunmen Leave Three Human Heads
near Mexican Army Base in Cancun

The gruesome crime scene comes as rival cartels fight for control of the lucrative local drug distribution, trafficking, and money laundering businesses in the region.

The case took place this week outside of a Mexican Army base in Cancun, the local news outlet NotiCaribe reported. Military forces first went outside the base after getting a call of a banner hanging outside the fence. When the soldiers went to remove the banner, they found three severed heads next to it and called state authorities to document the crime scene.

Authorities took the banner, which showed a series of threats from one criminal organization to the other. While the cartel responsible is not named, the violence in Cancun and other parts of the state of Quintana Roo is tied to a fierce turf war where factions of the Sinaloa Cartel clash with factions of Cartel Jalisco New Generation for control of various illegal enterprises including the local distribution of drugs, drug trafficking routes, local sex trade, and others.

As Breitbart Texas has reported, some of the violence has taken place in tourist areas with shootouts and murders happening inside or right by luxurious hotels.

MS-13 Gang Members, Released into U.S. by Feds
Among Illegal Aliens Charged with 15-Year-Old Boy’s Murder

MS-13 gang members, released into the United States by federal officials, are among five illegal aliens charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy in Frederick County, Maryland.

As Breitbart News reported this week, 21-year-old illegal alien Alexis Alfredo Ayala Lopez, 23-year-old illegal alien Jose Roberto Ramos Lopez, 29-year-old illegal alien Ismael Lopez Lopez, 27-year-old illegal alien Elmer Bladimir Reyes Reyes, and 20-year-old illegal alien Ismael Ivan Rivera Canales have been arrested and charged with murdering Limber Lopez Funez, who went missing in February before his remains were found in Gambrill State Park in April.

According to Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, which works closely with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency through its 287(g) agreement, Ramos Lopez and Lopez Lopez are both validated members of the violent MS-13 gang, which often funnels its recruits through the federal government’s Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) pipeline.

Thanks to Frederick County’s 287(g) agreement with ICE, the agency has placed detainers on all five illegal aliens so that they will be turned over to their custody if they are released from local police custody at any time.
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The sheriff’s office also announced that a sixth suspect, MS-13 gang member Josue Mauricio Arrue-Paniagua has also been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection to Funez’s death.

Jon Feere, Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former ICE official in the Trump administration, reports that three of the illegal aliens charged with Funez’s murder arrived at the United States-Mexico border as UACs.

Together, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the illegal aliens — two of which are MS-13 gang members — into the U.S. interior as a result.