🇺🇸❌🇷🇺 — 📰 CNN: US sanctions Wagner in Mali, confirms CNN investigation on support to Sudan paramilitaries

— "The US Treasury has sanctioned the head of the Wagner private military group in Mali, Ivan Maslov, as part of its pushback against Wagner activities in Africa funneling support to Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to a press release published on Thursday.

The sanctions come after a US official told CNN that Wagner has been trying to ship military equipment for use in Ukraine through Mali and falsifying paperwork for the transactions, citing recently declassified intelligence.

The Treasury also confirmed the findings of a CNN investigation into Wagner’s support for the Sudan paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the current war devastating the country."

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🇺🇸📞🇨🇳 — 📰 Sky News: Blinken urges China to "keep the channels of communication open" after the incident involving the interception of a US military aircraft in the South China Sea

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 🇫🇷 French President Macron: The West will reconsider supporting the Ukrainian army if the counter-offensive fails

🇷🇺⚡️🌐😴 — 🇫🇷 French President Macron: Putin woke the "brain-dead" NATO up through "worst kind of electroshocks" in its history

🇪🇺🔫🤑 — French President Macron urges the European nations to buy European-made weapons only

🇮🇷☢️❗️ — 🇺🇳 IAEA: Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium exceeds by 23 times the limit allowed in the 2015 agreement

🇮🇷☢️❗️ — 🇺🇳 IAEA: Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium increased from 983.7 kg since the last quarterly report to 4744.5 kg

🇮🇷🤝🇺🇳 — 🇺🇳 IEAE: Iran allowed us to install a surveillance camera at a uranium enrichment site in a facility in Isfahan

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 White House's Kirby: US is announcing an additional aid package for Ukraine

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 White House: The US debt ceiling deal won't affect US ability to support Ukraine

🇺🇸💸📉 — 🇺🇸 White House: We believe that the Debt Ceiling bill is going to happen

🇺🇸🗳📃— 📰 NBC News: Mike Pence to launch presidential campaign next week in Des Moines, Iowa

🇺🇦🤝🇷🇺🏴 — Adviser to the Ukrainian President to Al-Jazeera: There are Russians who formed armed opposition groups, and we do not interfere in their work

https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1663980569158402050

🛢❌🗞 — 📰 FT: Opec bans prominent media groups from Vienna meeting

— "Opec has barred several media groups from attending its crucial production meeting in Vienna this weekend, in a move officials said was driven by Saudi Arabia as it struggles to support oil prices.

Reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg News and Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, have been denied invites to Opec’s Vienna headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter. Opec is set to meet Russia on Sunday to agree on oil production policy for the second half of the year.

The media ban is unusual for Opec, with headlines from its meetings having the potential to move oil prices and financial markets around the world, particularly at a time when the global economy is wrestling with inflation."

https://archive.is/ZnQIN
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