📢 🇺🇦 🇧🇾 Zelensky appears to threaten Belarusian President Lukashenko with kidnapping if Belarus were to join the war in Ukraine on the side of the Russians.

📎 Woofers

🛢 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Rosneft reroutes oil to Tuapse after Novorossiysk drone strike

Rosneft is diverting crude from the damaged Novorossiysk port to its Tuapse refinery after a Ukrainian drone strike halted major Black Sea exports. The Sheskharis terminal attack disrupted roughly 14% of Russia’s crude export capacity, forcing refinery runs at Tuapse to rise sharply. The move underscores mounting pressure on Russia’s oil infrastructure and aligns with Ukraine’s broader strategy to target key energy assets.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hits-major-russian-oil-refinery-in-krasnodar-krai-media-officials-report/

🛢 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 US move on Russian oil waiver adds pressure as Iran war strains energy markets

The US announcement against allowing extension on waiver of Russian oil exports will further stress an already strained energy scenario, where continuation would have benefited countries worst affected by the Hormuz crisis and least able to withstand its effects, highly placed sources told ET.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/us-move-on-russian-oil-waiver-adds-pressure-as-iran-war-strains-energy-markets-india-engaged-in-talks-sources/articleshow/130341055.cms

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Head of Iran's National Security Commission Ebrahim Azizi:

"The time has come to comply with the new Maritime Regime of the Strait of Hormuz.
These regulations are determined by Iran, not by social media posts!

Under this new system, only commercial vessels with authorization from the IRGC Navy are permitted to navigate through designated routes after paying the required tolls.

If the U.S. attempts to create any disturbance for Iranian ships, this situation can easily be changed."

🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has told mediators it will limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz and charge tolls for the remaining period of the ceasefire, officials familiar with the matter tell the WSJ.

The IRGC will also block ships they deem hostile.

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump says the U.S. will extract Iran's enriched uranium, in partnership with Iran, using excavators.

📎 Disclosetv

🦅🦖📝 - How birds survived the dinosaurs’ doomsday

Then, suddenly, the Age of the Dinosaurs was over. A massive asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a chain reaction of carnage: earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires followed by years of darkness and cold. It was probably the worst moment in Earth history, and before long three out of every four species were extinct. The asteroid was so catastrophic that it spawned one of the greatest myths in science, one so pervasive and repeated so constantly that most of us think it is true. It is the myth that dinosaurs are gone, felled one and all during the end-Cretaceous extinction.

In fact, some dinosaurs survived the asteroid apocalypse. Although canonical species such as T. rex and Triceratops perished, members of one dinosaur group managed to endure: birds. Why did birds persevere when every single other type of dinosaur died? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades. The mystery has deepened in the past 30 years as paleontologists have uncovered scores of feathery and winged dinosaurs that were closely related to birds and similar in many aspects of biology and behavior, though not actually part of the avian lineage. Some of these dinosaurs could even fly. What, then, allowed birds alone to escape the fate of their family?

🔗 Scientific American

📢 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 Trump: 70 years in waiting: it's called a new dawn for Cuba.

We're going to help them out with Cuba.

Now watch what happens.

📎 Clash Report

🦅📰 - Brand New Terror Bird from the Upper Pleistocene of Brazil

Terror birds comprise an iconic group of apex predator birds from America, with a rich fossil record that is one of the longest among birds for a Neoaves family, ranging from the middle Eocene to the latest Pleistocene. Here, we report the discovery of a new genus and species of Phorusrhacidae, based on an incomplete tibiotarsus recovered from an Upper Pleistocene (25 326–25 733 cal yr BP) cave deposit in Bahia, northeastern Brazil, and previously interpreted as a New World vulture. The preserved morphology exhibits unique diagnostic features that support the recognition of a new species belonging to the small-size phorusrhacids, the Psilopterinae, a clade that probably had poor flying abilities.

📝 - It is now entirely possible that Humans and Terror Birds overlapped at least briefly in South America.

🔗 Papers in Paleontology

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- Last Friday, U.S. State Department officials met with Cuban apparatchiks in Havana, marking the first presence of U.S. diplomats in a decade. The talks focused on the impending fate of the Cuban Communist regime and the current crisis on the island, with the U.S. officials urging democratic and economic freedoms. In addition, U.S. officials offered Starlink satellite services to help address internet shortages in Cuba, according to Axios.

One notable figure is Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson and de facto spokesman for the First Secretary Raúl Castro, the brother of Fidel Castro, who was the only named Cuban at the talks.

Furthermore, the U.S. officials also expressed concerns about foreign intelligence operating in Cuba, with its proximity to the United States. In addition, in the event of a collapse, U.S. officials stated they “Will not let the island collapse into a major national security threat if Cuba's leaders are unwilling or unable to act.”

The U.S. officials also included these reforms to ensure the end of the U.S. blockade:

1) Compensating U.S. residents and corporations whose assets and properties were confiscated after the 1959 Revolution.

2) The release of political prisoners.

3) Ensuring the Cuban people greater political freedoms, which would eventually include free and fair elections.