🤔 Operation Menai Bridge? King Charles Faces ‘Aggressive Cancer – Prepping William as Successor' (Reports)

King Charles’ health is 'much more serious' than doctors thought, according to royal expert and author Tom Quinn. (The Mirror)

The monarch is reportedly already grooming his eldest son, Prince William, to be his successor, however, this is being kept a closely guarded secret from Prince Harry.

William canceled a Windsor Castle event at late notice on Tuesday for 'personal reasons.'

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➡️ Barclays Offloads US Credit Card Debt to Blackstone

Barclays has agreed to sell approximately $1.1bn worth of credit card debt to private equity firm Blackstone, as the British bank steps up efforts to move assets off its balance sheet in advance of more onerous regulations.

Blackstone merged its credit and insurance investment operations in September in preparation for a push into asset-backed lending markets.

With fewer restrictions in place, will large private equity groups replace the high street big lenders?

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🎮Sony Shutters London Studio, Set to Cull 900 Employees

The layoffs will affect about 8% of the division's staff in regions from the Americas to Asia and come days after Sony slashed the annual sales expectation for its PlayStation 5 console.

The move aligns Sony with the likes of Microsoft, and Tencent-owned Riot Games, which have also laid off thousands of employees in recent months due to the slow post-pandemic recovery in the gaming market.

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💸Israeli PM’s Office Confirms State Paid for Wartime Repairs of Netanyahu's Private Swimming Pool

A true man of the people… 🤡

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❌ JUST IN: Hezbollah Rockets Impact Near Northern Israeli Highway

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany announced the provision of another package of military aid to Ukraine.

The package includes:

- 14,000 artillery shells;
- 4 WISENT 1 mine-clearing vehicles;
- 3 mobile remotely controlled and protected mine clearance systems;
materials for disposing of explosive objects;
- 250 sets of demining tools;
- 10 reconnaissance UAVs "VECTOR";
- 22 anti-drone sensors and jammers;
- 12 SatCom terminals;
- 4 vehicles for border guards;
- 10 armored recovery vehicles Bergepanzer 2.

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😳 JUST IN: Norway’s King Harald Hospitalized by Infection on Holiday in Malaysia

Harald has been Norway's ceremonial head of state since 1991 and is Europe's oldest living monarch.

The Royals are dropping like flies…

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🤡 SCHUMER: "The boldest autocrats of the world - the Putins, the Xis, the presidents of North Carolina..."

China Chuck has a short memory…

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🚀JUST IN: NASA admits to small chance of US spacecraft colliding with Russian satellite at 1:30am ET

If a collision occurs between the two non-manoeuvrable objects, it could create "significant debris" at an altitude of about 373 miles.

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📉 Embattled China Property Giant Country Garden Faces Liquidation Petition

Country Garden’s shares fell more than 12% in early trading Wednesday, amid a continued debt crisis in China’s property sector.

A liquidation petition has been filed against the property developer for non-payment of a loan worth $205mn.

Country Garden said in a regulatory filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange it would “resolutely” oppose the petition, which was filed by a creditor, Ever Credit Limited.

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⚠️ US Nuclear Weapons Plant Pauses Operations amid Texas Wildfires

Workers were forced to flee the Pantex Plant, where atomic bombs are assembled, as raging wildfires burned through the land nearby.

Officials said a "small number" of non-essential staff were still sheltering inside and plant operations were paused.

The nuclear factory is about 30 miles from the city of Amarillo, where a state of disaster was declared.

Eleven million people in Texas are under an urgent "red flag warning" amid the strong winds and raging blaze.

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