➡️ UAE State Energy Firm Suspends $2BN Bid to Buy Major Stake in Israel’s NewMed Energy

Adnoc along with BP have suspended talks because of “uncertainty created in the external environment,” as per a statement from NewMed.

Shares of NewMed fell as much as 8% in Tel Aviv on the back of the news - as the war in Gaza roils the wider region.

The deal was announced in March last year, highlighting the burgeoning financial ties between the UAE and Israel since the normalization of diplomatic relations in 2020.

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⚠️ Far-right Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir defends police officer who murdered 12-year-old boy in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp

“Friends, you say ‘a 12-year-old boy.’ Enough with this. A 12-year-old-boy, who is a terrorist.”

This is where Western taxes are currently going to…

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⚠️ Israeli Def Min Gallant Hints at Imminent Rafah Op: ‘Those Who Think We Are Delaying Will Soon See’

Gallant made the comment during a trip inside Gaza Thursday - amid international warnings that a ground invasion of Rafah would be a “red line.”

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ℹ️Q: “If you lived in the West Bank or Gaza, what would you do?”

Ami Ayalon, former director of Israeli Security Agency Shin Bet: “I would fight back, I would do everything in my power to secure my liberation.”

They know they’re the oppressors - they just don’t care.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Far-right political leader Geert Wilders will not seek to become next Dutch prime minister - but he is willing to remain in Parliament (AFP)

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📺ICYMI: People who signed up for Netflix in 2007 have spent $1,918.08 on their subscription

If they invested that same $2k into NFLX stock, it would be worth $331,162 today.

Y'all misunderstood 'Netflix and chill.’

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⚠️ ICYMI: Clash erupts at Israel’s Knesset as Ben-Gvir is confronted by Ahmad Tibi - regarding his backing of police officer who murdered child in Shuafat refugee camp

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⚡️ Malaysia’s PM Gives Stinging Rebuke to Olaf Scholz for Berlin’s “One-Sided Hypocrisy” of Gaza War

‘Why this hypocrisy? Why this ambivalent and selective attitude towards one race and another?’ - Anwar Ibrahim said in response to the German chancellor.

"You cannot find a solution by being so one-sided, in terms of looking only at one particular issue and erase 60 years of atrocities.

The solution is not just releasing the hostages. What about the settlements? What about the behavior of the settlers now? It continues daily.”

The Global South is rising up!

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😈 Global IT Supply Chain Under Attack - Cloud Evolution Could Bring Down Whole Nations

Financially motivated cybercriminals are hitting crucial components of govts around the world.

☠️ 🇵🇾 In Paraguay, hackers brought down the foreign ministry's services and the companies linked to it.

☠️ 🇸🇪In Sweden, the central bank, parliament, as well as hospitals & retailers had HR accounts & payrolls breached with ransomware.

☠️ 🇺🇸In the US, software systems were attacked for major banks' trading, networks linking medical providers, pharmacies and insurance companies - causing havoc with Wall St.

The victims may be not well known, but supply the engines of the digital world - meaning they can collapse whole industries, govts and countries. Get your popcorn 🍿 for chaos.

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☄️ BREAKING: Chuck Schumer Calls for Heads to Roll in Israel

The US Senator criticises Netanyahu & calls for new leadership, five months after total destruction of Gaza began.

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✈️🔎 What a Load of Shapps! UK Defence Chief Flies Past Russian Territory, Moans Plane Jammed

Grant Shapps' plane was reportedly forced to use alternative navigation methods after flying too close to Kaliningrad on his way home from Poland - with Russia blamed for jamming the GPS.

What did he really expect?

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