💸 Nigeria announces plans to sell crude oil in local currency instead of US dollar

Nigeria is one of the top 15 countries in the world for crude oil production, with the eighth-largest oil reserves and the sixth-largest exporter of oil globally.

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➡️ Slovak PM Robert Fico Vows to Block Ukraine from Joining NATO

“As long as I am head of the Slovak govt, I will direct the MPs that are under my control as chairman of the [ruling Smer] party never to agree to Ukraine's joining NATO,” Fico said.

Adding, “Freedom came from the East, and absolutely nothing can change this truth.”

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🇵🇸 THIS ENTITY HAS NOT SEEN A SINGLE YEAR WITHOUT RESISTANCE - says Abu Obaida in video above, reminding Israel that its few decades are no match for the thousands of years of history, and struggle, they're coming up against.

Iran delivered the blow of the true promise of raining down dozens of ballistic missiles on the enemy's sites, breaking the established rules of the enemy with the region that it is exempt from accountability - Abu Obaida, video above.

UPDATE: U.S. Treasury announces new anti-Hamas sanctions.

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🔴 Multiple explosions reported following sirens in and around Tel Aviv

Interceptors have been launched over central Israel following an attack from Lebanon.

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🔥ELON MUSK: “I think part of why Kamala’s getting so much support is that, if Trump wins, that Epstein client list is gonna become public”

"Some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome,” Musk told Tucker Carlson.

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⚠️ Biden Forced UK to Surrender Chagos Islands

Mere days after the UK general election, senior officials from the White House told the incoming Labour govt that refusing to sign away the islands would jeopardise the “special relationship” with Washington.

The US feared that Mauritius could have gone to the ICJ and apply for a binding ruling for the island - which could in turn give China access to the Diego Garcia air base.

Under the new deal, Mauritius will have control of the island but the US will rent the air base for the next 99 years.

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❌ Germany Acquits Prime Madeleine McCann Suspect of Separate Rape Charges

Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner has been acquitted of horrific sex offences Tuesday due to “insufficient” evidence.

He was on trial at Brunswick Regional Court for various offences that took place in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017 - including charges of rape and masturbating in front of children.

Brückner, 47, is who German investigators believe killed Madeleine, then 3, after abducting her from her holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.

He has never been charged in relation to Madeleine’s disappearance.

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⚠️ NEW: Heavy Rocket Barrage Over Israel’s Haifa

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🇦🇱 Unrest in Albania: Protests Turn Violent

Supporters of the Democratic Party hurled Molotov cocktails at government buildings, the capital’s municipality, the ruling Socialist Party office, and security forces during protests yesterday and last night.

The police reported ten officers injured in the attacks as tensions escalate. Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.

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🤡 ICYMI: Quite possibly the worst television interview by a US presidential candidate in history

Bill Whitaker (CBS): ‘You’ve changed your positions so much that no one truly knows what you believe or stand for?’

Kamala Harris: ‘Well, I’m the vice president and I travel a lot...’

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💰 US Military Aid to Israel Hits Annual Record of $17.9 Billion Since Gaza Conflict Began

In addition, the US has invested $4.86bn in enhanced military operations in the region since October 7, 2023.

This funding includes a Navy-led initiative aimed at countering strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthi army.

Israel has received a whopping $251.2bn in military aid from the US, adjusted for inflation, since 1959.

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🤔 Israel Accuses ICC Prosecutor of Seeking Warrants Without “Giving Time” to Probe Genocidal Acts

Tel Aviv has lamented in a submission to the ICC that the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan failed to give Israel the opportunity to investigate itself before seeking arrest warrants against its leaders, a fundamental principle of the ICC’s founding charter.

Israel, of course, has such a great record of investigating itself objectively… 🤡

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🇨🇺 Cuba officially applies for BRICS partner status

The Cuban government has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc as a partner country in a letter to President Putin, since Russia currently chairs the association, Carlos Pereira, the director general of bilateral affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said.

"Cuba has officially requested to be included in BRICS as a 'partner country' in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the interim chairman of the association, which is strengthening its position as a key player in global geopolitics and the hope of the Global South," Pereira said on X.

Earlier, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel received an invitation to the BRICS summit in Kazan.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Russia’s response measures will be in effect as soon as West authorizes Ukraine to use long-range missiles – 🇷🇺FM Sergey Lavrov

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😮 France Boots Out Osama bin Laden’s Son

Omar Binladin - son of the former top al Qaeda terrorist - must find a new permanent home after French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced Tuesday he was banned from entering the country.

Binladin, who left France last year, was slapped with the restriction due to posts in 2023 which were “hosted on his social media pages” allegedly containing messages “glorifying terrorism.”

An X account with the handle omarbinladin1 reportedly posted on May 2, 2023, the 12th anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, a message paying tribute to the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center in NYC. (Le Publicateur Libre)

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