Hundreds of people spent the night trapped on rooftops, in vehicles as emergency services failed to reach them | Catastrophic flooding in Spain’s Valencia region has left 51 people dead, according to provisional data reported by the Interior Ministry’s Center for Integrated Operational Coordination. ● The latest death toll comes after an excruciating night of devastating floods, caused by the worst storm of the century, which is comparable only to two others in the 1980s, according to Spain’s meteorology agency. ● The storm began on Tuesday, dropping a year’s worth of rain in hours, causing rivers to quickly burst their banks and even spawning tornadoes. Roads and towns began to flood, prompting authorities to cut off rail service around Valencia, cancel flights, and eventually ask residents to stay inside by Tuesday night. However, by the time the government sent emergency alerts asking people to stay indoors or seek high ground, much of the damage had already been done.

■ Dozens killed as Spain hit by worst floods in decades (VIDEOS) (RT.com)
■ Inundaciones por la DANA, en directo: al menos 51 muertos 73 95 muertos en la provincia de Valencia (RTVE)
■ Imágenes de la DANA en Valencia: Cientos de personas están refugiadas en polideportivos (RTVE)
■ Al menos 51 95 fallecidos y servicios de emergencia al límite en Valencia con el paso de la DANA (CanalSur)

Eight more Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medical sources and witnesses. | An airstrike targeted a refugee tent west of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing three people and injuring several others, the source said. Most of the injured in the Israeli attack were children, he added. Four more people, including a child and two women, were killed in another strike targeting a home east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the source added. Several people were also injured in Israeli artillery shelling targeting their home in Rafah in southern Gaza. A child also lost her life in Israeli artillery shelling in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia, according to witnesses.

■ South Africa files war crimes ‘evidence’ against Israel (RT.com)

Israel will have until July 2025 to submit a response to allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza | South Africa on Monday filed a detailed submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) outlining evidence of Israel’s alleged violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention in its ongoing war on Gaza. ● According to the South African presidency, the submission, also called a memorial, includes 750 pages of evidence of acts of genocide and genocidal intent.

💬 "The evidence will show that undergirding Israel’s genocidal acts is the special intent to commit genocide, a failure by Israel to prevent incitement to genocide, to prevent genocide itself and its failure to punish those inciting and committing acts of genocide," a statement by the presidency said.

It added that the evidence is presented in more than 750 pages of text, in addition to over 4,000 pages of annexes. ● "South Africa’s Memorial is a reminder to the global community to remember the people of Palestine, to stand in solidarity with them and to stop the catastrophe. The devastation and suffering has been possible only because despite the ICJ and numerous UN bodies’ actions and interventions, Israel has failed to comply with its international obligations,” it said.

U.S. Marine from Pennsylvania and a US Army Ranger, Killed Fighting for Ukraine | Corey John Nawrocki was born on December 3, 1982 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA. He joined the Marine Corps in 2001 and served as a gunnery sergeant in the Guard Company at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. In 2021, Corey left the United States Marine Corps. Later he decided to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces, military unit A3449. It was a fatal mistake for Nawrocki to go to war with Russia. Russian FSB Special Forces killed Nawrocki at the border of Bryansk, Russia. He was trying to enter Russia along with other NATO Mercenaries from the US, CANADA, POLAND, and elsewhere, heavily armed with guns, grenades, anti-tank weapons, and SEMTEX plastic explosives, to perpetrate acts of war and sabotage against Russia, Nawrocki and his fellow Mercenaries, are pictured - Dead - below: (WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO)

■ Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military (RT.com)
■ Over 100,000 Ukrainian Servicemen Deserted From Armed Forces - Lawmaker (Sputnik)

Without any warning, Russian President Vladimir Putin activated a "snap" strategic nuclear deterrence exercise. The drill - happening right now on Tuesday -- involves ballistic and cruise missile launches. | Russia's nuclear triad (land-based, air-launched, sea-launched) remains a reliable guarantor of Russia’s security and sovereignty, Putin stressed, adding that it also helps maintain “nuclear parity and the balance of power in the world.”

💬 “Given the growth of geopolitical tensions as well as the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is important to have modern strategic forces that are constantly ready for combat use,” the president said. Moscow plans to further improve all the “components” of its nuclear triad, he noted. (Russia seeks to maintain its nuclear forces at the) “necessarily sufficient” level, (but it does not intend to be dragged into a new arms race, Putin said.) “Russia reaffirms its principled stance that the use of nuclear weapons is an extreme, exceptional measure to ensure state security,” the president stated.

Moscow’s strategic forces are outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment by 94%, according to Putin. Troops will also receive new stationary and mobile missile systems that have higher precision and shorter launch preparation time compared to previous generations, he added.

■ Russian MOD reveals details of nuclear drills (VIDEO) (RT.com)
■ Putin Oversees Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Drill From Kremlin Situation Room (Sputnik)

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■ If a Devil Exists, His Residence Is the Evil State of Israel (Gary D. Barnett)
✅ Why Israel Has No ‘Right to Exist’ (Jeremy R. Hammond)
✅ Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist (Sharmine Narwani)

💬 “Eleven thousand soldiers were injured and 890 others killed,” Lapid told Israel’s Channel 12, adding that more will be killed if the far-right administration of Benjamin Netanyahu "doesn’t do anything.” “It cannot be said that this didn’t happen. It cannot be ignored that 11,000 soldiers are injured and 890 others killed.” “There are limits to how much we accept the alternative facts,” he said, emphasizing that the figures that he provided are “correct.” “If you have any doubt about these data, you should go to the hospitals: Tel HaShomer, Ichilov, Rambam,” he added.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 42,924 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 100,000 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

■ 12,000 Israeli soldiers in rehab, almost half suffer from PTSD (Al Mayadeen)

Pro-Western parties are demanding a new poll, promising mass street protests and a boycott of parliament | Georgian election officials intend to recount ballots at five randomly selected polling stations in each voting district on Tuesday. Opposition forces in the post-Soviet country have denounced the outcome of last weekend’s parliamentary election as “fraudulent” after the ruling party secured a fresh majority in parliament. ● In the capital Tbilisi, the repeat tally will begin in the evening, with similar procedures in Georgian regions, according to an announcement made by the central election commission on Monday. Authorized observers will be present, it added. ● Georgian Dream, the conservative populist party currently in charge of the country, received just under 54% of the votes, with over 99.9% ballots counted. The four opposition parties that crossed the 5% threshold to enter parliament are threatening to reject the mandates won by their candidates. ● The pro-Western opposition has accused the government of rigging the poll. During a protest in Tbilisi on Monday, they declared they would accept nothing short of a new internationally-supervised election.

■ Orban blasts West’s ‘useless lecturing’ of Georgia (RT.com)