✅ Uber Fined $178MN in Australia Taxi Class Action Settlement

The lawsuit was filed in 2019 in the Supreme Court of Victoria state on behalf more than 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and drivers, accusing Uber of breaking laws requiring taxis and hire cars to be licenced.

Uber's 2012 arrival in the market took revenue from licenced taxi drivers while destroying the value of the licences they had paid for, according to the lawsuit.

Uber had said it never knowingly broke the law but has agreed to pay $178mn to settle the class action suit.

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ℹ️ Putin holds elections during war and wins almost 88% of the vote… the West calls it “dictatorship”

Zelensky cancels elections and blames the war… the West calls it “democracy.”

The West only classes “democracies” as nations willing to live under the boot.

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⚠️ UPDATE: Israeli Army Shoots ‘Anything That Moves’ in Raid on Gaza City Hospital – WAFA

Israeli forces have besieged the Al-Shifa hospital and cut off all communications in the area.

“Occupation forces stormed the Specialized Surgery Building and the Emergency Reception Building in Building 8, and opened fire directly at anyone who moved,” sources told WAFA.

The sources added that medical teams were unable to treat the wounded and that Israeli forces fired at anyone who approached the windows of the hospital. Dozens were also detained inside the hospital. 

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❗️Massive NATO Base Construction Begins in Romania

The development will expand the existing Romanian Air Force 57th Air Base Mihail Kogălniceanu – with it poised to become Europe’s largest NATO base at a reported construction cost of €2.5bn. (Euronews)

The mega-facility is poised to sprawl across nearly three thousand hectares, resembling a small city in scale and infrastructure. 

The ambitious project aims to provide comprehensive amenities, catering to the needs of up to 10,000 NATO soldiers and their families permanently.

The “defensive” alliance encroaches further and further east.

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🤔 JUST IN: "Britain’s Growth is Higher than Anyone Expected" – PM Rishi Sunak

REMINDER: The UK is currently in a recession.

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😳 Germany’s Foreign Intel Service BND Starts Looking for Agents by Putting up Advertising Billboards

"We are looking for terrorists. Find them with us."

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🔴Israeli Army Issues Evacuation Order Following Attack on Al-Shifa Hospital – Forcing Sheltering Civilians Towards Southern Gaza

More displaced Palestinians will head to Rafah - just as Israel plans to decimate the border region.

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⚠️ More companies have defaulted on debt in 2024 since global financial crisis – S&P Global Ratings

This year’s global tally of corporate defaults stands at 29, the highest year-to-date count since the 36 recorded during the same period in 2009, according to the rating agency.

Subdued consumer demand, rising wages and high interest rates, which hurt more indebted companies, had all contributed to the increase in the number of companies struggling to repay their debt, S&P said.

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💥 FLASHBACK: In 2001 Nazi Netanyahu - unaware filming had started - unwittingly unveiled his blueprint for Israeli genocide against Palestine

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❌ ICYMI: French Patriot party leader Florian Philippot tears up NATO flag in Paris - during protest over Macron's announcement that France could send troops to Ukraine

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⚠️ NOW: Israel forces raid Birzeit, north of Ramallah, West Bank

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⚠️ Oxfam reveals how Israel is deliberately blocking humanitarian operations in Gaza

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 JUST IN: The USA wishes to engage in bilateral arms control discussions with Russia and China immediately and without preconditions, stated the American representative at the UN.

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🤔 NEW: Poland and Germany to Establish Rapid Reaction Combat Group of 5,000 Personnel in July - Polish MoD

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