🇹🇷🗳📃 — Turkish President Erdogan: "We have prepared housing projects in Syria for the return of nearly 1 million refugees to their lands. We will ensure that the refugees return to their homelands."

🔗 Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu)
https://archive.is/4UqnM

🇺🇸💸📉 — 📰 CNN: US Secretary of Treasury Yellen told Bank CEOs that more mergers may be necessary in a near future

Link
https://archive.is/CZLdd

tl;dr: More Bank failures incoming

🇺🇸💸📉❗️ — 📰 Bloomberg: Republican Debt-Ceiling Negotiators Walk Out of Meeting, Say White House ‘Unreasonable’

— "House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top debt-ceiling negotiators abruptly left a closed-door meeting with White House representatives soon after it began Friday morning.

“Look, they’re just unreasonable,” Republican Representative Garret Graves said, adding that the talks were on a “pause.”

Graves said he did not know if the negotiators would meet again Friday or over the weekend.

“Unless they are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, we’re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves,” Graves said, as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry stood near him."

Link
https://archive.is/6tAFK

🇺🇸❌🇳🇬 — 📰 Reuters: U.S. imposes election-related visa restrictions on Nigerians

— "The United States has imposed entry restrictions on more Nigerians for undermining the democratic process during the African nation's 2023 election cycle, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.

"These individuals have been involved in intimidation of voters through threats and physical violence, the manipulation of vote results, and other activity that undermines Nigeria’s democratic process," Blinken said in a statement."

Additional details were not provided.

The action is the latest in a series of visa restrictions imposed on Nigerian individuals in recent years.
Nigeria's election tribunal this month was to begin hearing opposition petitions challenging president-elect Bola Tinubu's victory in the disputed February presidential vote, court records showed."

Link
https://archive.is/n2bRr

🇷🇼❌🇪🇹 — According to Minnesota-based KSTP, a Curious incident took place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the local Police arrested the suspect of burning a local Mosque

Per the St. Paul police, 42-year-old Said Ntamugabumwe — An etnhic Hutu migrant living in United States — was booked at the Ramsey County jail at around 8 p.m. Wednesday.

He’s suspected of intentionally starting a fire at Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center earlier Wednesday, an Mosque where ethnic Oromos worship

Driver records show Ntamugabumwe also goes by Said Murezeki. KSTP TV says he has multiple convictions, including a felony conviction for arson stemming from an incident at the Dorothy Day Center in St. Paul in 2020.

The mosque was undergoing renovations at the time and was extensively damaged by the fire.

The fire also marked the sixth attack on a Minnesota mosque this year and the third in the past month, and so to speak a curious case of Bantu-on-Cushite violence in US Soil

Link
https://archive.is/A1Xzm

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 Russian military-focused Channel @new_militarycolumnist on Telegram:
— "Yevgeny Prigozhin said that about 0.6 square km of the territory of Bakhmut remained under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fights continue. The enemy is pulling up reserves.

PMC "Wagner" is close to fulfilling the task - complete control over Bakhmut, said Prigozhin."

https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/108091