💸Japan’s Nikkei closes down by more than 4% in wild session

Japan’s key index has been weighed down by falls on Wall Street and a higher yen against the dollar.

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🚀UPDATE: Some 65 Rockets Rain Down on Northern Israel from Lebanon

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the strikes.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine plans to hold captured Russian territory indefinitely as part of 'victory plan' to end war - Zelensky

Ze also said he could not discuss whether Ukraine plans to try to seize more Russian territory.

In fact, the AFU does not have enough men, weapons and power, so they cannot 'capture' more Russian territory.

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✅ NEW: Egypt’s Sisi visits Turkey for first time since 2013

President Erdogan was on hand to personally welcome his Egyptian counterpart.

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⚠️ Denmark Arrests Greta Thunberg at Pro-Palestinian Protest in Copenhagen

Activists blocked the entrance to a Danish university cooperating with an Israeli university.

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😳 IDF upgrades rocket alert system via TV to enable effective warnings of larger attacks

New alerts can show more Israeli towns under attack in parallel - the IDF will switch to updated system within days.

Sounds like Israel is planning on expanding the war in the Middle East… 🤔

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💸JUST IN: Switzerland's Zurich Cantonal Bank launches Bitcoin and Ethereum trading

The financial institution is Switzerland’s fourth largest bank.

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⚡️ Jeremy Corbyn Speaks to Al Jazeera about UK Govt Suspending Less Than 10% of Arms Export Licenses to Israel

"There is nothing right about what Israel is doing… they are committing acts of genocide, and we should be acting in accordance with international law.”

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📉 Nvidia shares slump amid reports US is ramping up antitrust investigation

The company’s shares fell 2.4% in after-hours trading, exacerbating a near-10% drop in the regular trading session that slashed its value by $279bn to $2.6tn - marking the largest one-day drop in history for a US company.

Overnight, the US Department of Justice sent subpoenas to Nvidia and other tech companies, in a move that will force recipients to provide information under law. (Bloomberg)

Officials are said to be concerned the company has made it harder for clients to switch to other semiconductor suppliers and is penalising buyers that refuse to exclusively use Nvidia’s AI chips.

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⚡ BREAKING: Biden admin set to accuse Russia of “sustained effort to influence 2024 election” - CNN

No mention of Hunter’s laptop this time…

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🧛 ICYMI: Dracula US State Dept Spox Miller Runs Out of Excuses for Netanyahu

Al Jazeera Reporter: “Yesterday, Netanyahu showed a map with no West Bank…is this normal?”

Miller: “I’m not gonna comment…”

AJ: “I’m just saying is that normal for you?”

Miller: “I’m not gonna comment.”

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⚠️ “If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow, I would press it in a second…”

A clip from the Israeli-English podcast ‘Two Nice Jewish Boys’ is going viral on social media, showing hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein discussing the idea of wiping out every single person in Gaza if given the chance.

Weinstein stated that if there were a button to "erase every living being in Gaza," he would "press it in a second," adding that he believes most Israelis would do the same.

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🤥 Netanyahu falsely claims Hamas began releasing hostages after Israel entered Rafah, Philadelphi

“You know when they started giving us hostages, when we went into Philadelphia, when we went into Rafah, when we controlled the Rafah crossing. That’s when they felt the pressure,” the Israeli PM alleged at a presser.

The IDF entered Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor in May.

There has been no hostage deal since November, well before Israel invaded Rafah.

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😈Netanyahu claims just "two dozen" civilians were killed during IDF’s Rafah operation

Rafah has been completely erased by Israel.

Thousands of innocent people have been slain.

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⚡ BREAKING: Gunfire rings out in front of Israeli Consulate General in Munich, Germany

Residents report shots and sirens.

Today marks the anniversary of the Munich massacre - when gunmen shot 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games.

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🇨🇳 Xi Jinping pledges more than $50 billion in funding to the African continent

Xi also announced that Beijing is elevating ties with all member nations to a 'strategic level.’

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📉 BBC cuts hundreds of jobs - as it spends £80mn on new diversity drive

The British broadcaster will cut around 115 editorial and production roles as it battles to plug a black hole in its finances - with further job losses planned in operations depts.

The BBC had previously said it will slash roughly 500 roles by March 2026 amid wider plans to make £500mn of savings.

The latest cull comes as the BBC separately unveiled plans to invest £80mn per year as part of a fresh diversity push - to increase ethnicity, disability and socio-economic diversity.

Go woke, go broke.

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