🤑 Brazil Snaps Up Record Amounts of Russian Fuel

Imports of 🇷🇺 petroleum products is set to rise 25% from July to about 235k bpd, data from energy analytics firm Kpler show – far outstripping the US, which used to be Brazil’s top foreign fuel supplier.

🇧🇷 started ramping up the purchases sharply in February, the month the EU banned imports and joined other Group of Seven nations in imposing a cap on Russian fuel prices.

Since the cap came into effect, 🇧🇷 became the second-largest buyer of 🇷🇺 diesel globally, lagging only 🇹🇷, according to Kpler.

Has the G7 cap backfired as Moscow builds new markets in Asia and Latin America?

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🔴 Africa on the Brink? ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Declare Readiness to Invade 🇳🇪

The West African bloc is ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana Thursday.

The Accra meeting of top army commanders, which continues Friday, comes after fresh violence in 🇳🇪, with jihadists killing at least 17 soldiers in an ambush.

Twenty more soldiers were wounded, six seriously, in the heaviest losses since the July 26 coup, when the presidential guard ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and detained him and his family.

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❗️Chinese Property Giant Evergrande Files for US Bankruptcy Protection

It will allow the heavily-indebted company - in excess of $300bn - to protect its assets in the US as it works on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors.

Evergrande defaulted on its huge debts in 2021, which sent shockwaves through global financial markets.

China Evergrande Group made the Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection filing in a New York court on Thursday.

Here comes the crash?

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☄️ BREAKING: Austria‘s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz charged on suspicion of making false statements during inquiry - 🇦🇹's Economic and Corruption Prosecutor's Office

Kurz had stepped down in 2021 after pressure triggered by a corruption scandal - he denied claims he used govt money to ensure positive coverage in a tabloid newspaper.

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🇨🇳 China’s military release video showing its soldiers preparing for a conflict in what appears to be the Taiwan Strait... 👀

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⚠️ Kiev Military Recruitment Campaign Tells Citizens to ‘Overcome their Fear’

Ukraine has urged military-age citizens to update their data at army enlistment offices and "overcome their fear" in a campaign launched Thursday.

Deputy defense minister Hanna Maliar was careful to say that not all those who updated their personal data would automatically be mobilised into the army and that not all those who are mobilised would end up in a combat zone… 🤔

The slick promo flick comes amid mass corruption claims in recruitment offices and after Zelensky fired all regional military recruitment chiefs due to the allegations of widespread graft.

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The future of in-store shopping? 😐

Whole Foods in Washington DC requires you to:

📍Scan in before entering
📍Scan to enter checkout
📍Scan to leave the checkout
📍Scan to leave the store

The West is sleepwalking towards tech totalitarianism…👁

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❗️BREAKING: Baby Killer Lucy Letby Found GUILTY Of Murdering 7 Children

Letby is now the UK's most prolific child killer of modern times.

She was found guilty by a series of partial verdicts, delivered several days apart, with the judge issuing reporting restrictions until the end of the trial.

Letby cried during some of the verdicts, while families of her victims sobbed and comforted each other.

Developing.

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US🇺🇸: $858bn defense budget, over 750 military bases in 80 countries, hundreds encircling China

China🇨🇳: $224.79bn defense budget, one foreign military base in Djibouti

US🇺🇸, NATO media: China’s actions are the biggest threat to world peace…😂

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😳 Meteor Shower Followed by SpaceX Satellite Train Caught on Camera

While recording the annual Perseid meteor shower from Hawaii, this camera happened to capture a parade of satellites.

The group of 15 dots moving through the sky are SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

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🤖ChatGPT Job Postings Have Surged 21-Fold Since November – LinkedIn

Newer job titles include chief AI officer, AI engineer, head of AI, AI specialist, AI advisor and AI data scientist.

The number of US companies with a head of AI has nearly tripled in the last five years, according to LinkedIn’s report.

Rise of the Machines?

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JUST IN: Operations at 🇫🇮Olkiluoto 2 nuclear rector suspended due to "an increase in humidity detected at the turbine island's generator” - operator TVO 🤔

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🇩🇪: Cologne Catholic Church Staff Used Work Devices to View Masses of Porn 🤡

Dozens of staff – including a high-ranking priest – have been caught red-handed accessing pornographic websites on archdiocese computers, according to local media.

In the span of one month, there were over 1,000 attempts to watch porn, the cybersecurity team for the archdiocese discovered.

Although there were no indications that the material viewed on church computers was illegal, archdiocese officials turned over the information to Cologne investigators.

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📣 Berlin unwilling to make binding legal commitment to NATO's target for military spending - DPA citing 🇩🇪 govt sources

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🤡 BBC Blames Rain For High Street Slump

A fall in retail sales in July has absolutely nothing to do with the fear mongering over a new Covid variant, the war on small business, the spiralling cost of living crisis, or the hike in interest rates - it’s the bad weather, the broadcaster says.

“Some of the fall was because of the poor weather reducing summer clothing sales, the ONS said. ”However, food sales in supermarkets also fell back.”

Because you don’t eat when it’s wet?

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Biden at Camp David asks the “press to leave..."

He then ignores questions and smirks as his handlers force them out of the room. 😡

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