ADVISORY  Watch: The World This Week  — ‘Luring Russia into war,’ at 8 tonight EDT. Joe Lauria of Consortium News talks again with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter. From CN intro: “NATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Click HERE for Lauria’s analytical article and tonight at 8 to livestream discussion; video to follow after live discussion is over.

A link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll down for LEBANON, IRAN and GAZA, and for UKRAINE 5-29-26.)

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Ukraine keeps up assault on Russian oil infrastructure as Kyiv braces for more strikes. From AP. Ukrainian drone strikes caused fires at more Russian oil facilities overnight into Saturday, local Russian officials said, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish.

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