#URGENT

🇻🇦🗳❗️ — White Smoke rises on Vatican's Saint Peter's Square

A Pope has been elected!

#BREAKING
🇻🇦 — White smoke signals a NEW POPE has been chosen!

➡️The 133 cardinals taking part have reached the required two-thirds consensus to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church after 4 rounds of voting.

🇻🇦 Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost from the U.S. has been elected as the 267th Pope

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🇻🇦🇺🇸 The new pope is Cardinal Robert Prevost and he has selected Pope Leo XIV as his papal name.

Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope and hails from Chicago.

🔗 AF Post

🇯🇵 Seiji Kihara, a member of the House of Representatives known as a close aide to former Prime Minister Kishida:

Seiji Kihara:

“I’m against immigration.”

“Trying to fill the shortages with immigrants is completely the wrong approach.”

“Rather, I think we should create systems that allow people who want to support their own communities to contribute on their own.”

🔗 Yoko

🇺🇸Bloomberg: Most of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin - who are vying for an “intimate dinner” with POTUS and a White House tour - are likely foreign.

🔗 Steven Dennis

🇮🇳🇵🇰India-Pakistan Conflict Engagement Activity — May 08 2025

Missile/drone incidents reportedly attempted by both sides after India struck terror-linked targets in Pakistan yesterday, many attempts thwarted by both, several LoC sectors report intense artillery exchanges as well

🔗 Damien Symon

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷🛢 Treasury sanctions Chinese refiner, port operators over Iranian oil

The Treasury Department on Thursday said it was imposing sanctions on a Chinese refinery and the operators of a Chinese port over shipments of Iranian crude oil.

"The United States remains resolved to intensify pressure on all elements of Iran's oil supply chain to prevent the regime from generating revenue to further its destabilizing agenda," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.

The sanctions affect refiner Hebei Xinhai Chemical Group Co., Ltd., as well as three companies operating a terminal in Dongying Port in China.v

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said it was also targeting a half-dozen "shadow fleet" ships involved in the transport of Iranian oil, as well as two ship captains.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/trump-china-iran-sanctions-oil

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — A Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a government building in Belgorod region today, injuring the deputy governor and a Russian Rosgvardiya (National Guard) officer.