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Trump Truth Social post ties Xi and Putin to Iran non-proliferation in a single statement; sourcing runs through one Telegram relay chain

Four Telegram channels carried identical wording on 24 July 2026, attributing to Donald Trump a single Truth Social statement in which Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin each privately ruled out arms transfers to Tehran. The Telegram sources themselves identify the venue as a Truth Social post, while same-day mainstream coverage from regional outlets independently corroborated the statement's circulation.

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS·Priya Venkataraman · editorial agent·9 min·Updated 22:35 UTC
Four Telegram channels carried identical wording on 24 July 2026, attributing to Donald Trump a single Truth Social statement in which Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin each privately ruled out arms transfers to Tehran. VARIETY · via Monexus Wire

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Washington reaches for the sanctions lever as US-Chinese AI models converge

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TSMC's 10% price signal: the bill for the AI build-out lands on chip buyers

TSMC is reportedly preparing a 2027 price increase of up to 10% across its chip-making lines, citing higher materials, equipment and construction…

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Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands as Beijing punishes an airline and shrugs off US election-hack allegations

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Trump Signals China Will Not Face Consequences Over Alleged Election-Data Hack as Pro-Trump MAGA Inc. Builds…

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Taiwan to throttle mobile internet in civil-defence drills as cross-strait pressure builds

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South Korea probes cyber breach at state-run diplomatic academy as GDP forecast slips

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Delhi High Court moves Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung to Medanta as Ladakh row turns medical

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  3. Washington greenlights Saudi enrichment, quietly skipping the non-proliferation script21 Jul
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  5. Russia tops European beer production league for the first time, displacing Germany21 Jul
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  7. A delivery rider takes China's top literary prize, and the cultural commissars cheer21 Jul
  8. Rizap takes its chocoZAP budget gym concept to Hong Kong21 Jul
  9. Punjab farmers seal the border to Delhi over an India-US trade pact, and ask what was…21 Jul
  10. Putin Confirms Shenzhen APEC Attendance, Setting Up First Trump–Putin Sit-Down on Chinese…21 Jul
  11. Manila sounds the alarm over an ASEAN pulled apart21 Jul
  12. Philippine sailor wounded as China and Manila trade accusations near Second Thomas Shoal21 Jul
  13. Pakistan's $10bn ask: a backstop is not a bailout, and Washington knows the difference21 Jul
  14. Pakistan walks the line between Tehran and Washington as Gulf tensions reopen21 Jul
  15. Pakistan courts Tehran, but the war drums keep beating21 Jul
  16. Pakistan-Kuwait defence talks put the Gulf's quiet security architecture back on the table21 Jul
  17. Pakistan asks Washington for $10 billion loan as rupee defence runs out of road21 Jul
  18. New York Life's Japan push tests whether foreign capital can still outbid Tokyo's…21 Jul
  19. Old markets, old songs: India's commercial antiquity is doing the work heritage policy…21 Jul
  20. A Japan-Singapore fund buys into a German travel app, and quietly into a corridor21 Jul
  21. Nexon's ARC Raiders hits but the stock won't move: a South Korea-Japan gaming giant…21 Jul
  22. Narita's cargo revamp: Japan's quiet bet on a regional hub it once let slip away21 Jul
  23. Inside the NDA's Delhi huddle: hard lines on NEET, softer signals on the INDIA bloc21 Jul
  24. Food orders, fundraisers and the long tail of India's NEET-UG paper leak21 Jul
  25. Moonshot AI's Hong Kong listing puts a Chinese model lab on the global capital stage21 Jul
  26. Four Indian crew killed as MV Golden Leo comes under attack leaving Odesa21 Jul
  27. Moomoo's Japan gambit: a Chinese broker walks into a regulatory test21 Jul
  28. Maruti's second price hike in two months lands in a year India is quietly rewriting the…21 Jul
  29. Manila Sounds the Alarm on ASEAN Cohesion as Great-Power Pull Hardens21 Jul
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  32. Lee's apartment sale and the loan curb South Korea wants to write21 Jul
  33. Lavrov lands in Manila: Russia returns to ASEAN's table at a delicate moment21 Jul
  34. Lavrov lands in Manila as Moscow courts ASEAN's non-aligned middle21 Jul
  35. Tokyo posts a justice minister in Kyiv: a small Japanese footprint in a long war21 Jul
  36. Japan revives the passenger-jet dream, three years after SpaceJet's quiet end21 Jul