💶 Kosovo So Awash with Fake Euro Coins they are Accepted as Payment

The forged 2-euro coins are of such a high quality and in circulation so much that service industries have stopped checking to see if they are genuine.

At Pristina police's forensic laboratory, staff examined more than 30,000 counterfeit 2-euro coins in the first half of this year, compared to 4,451 in the same period last year.

An anonymous supermarket manager in the city told Reuters it is easier to pass the 2-euro coins on to other customers rather than risk prosecution by taking them to a bank.

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☄️ BREAKING: At least 2 people shot at Toyota Service Center in Berkeley, California🇺🇸 - Police

A search within the business premises is ongoing, the police said.

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‼️ Family Sues Google – Accuses Maps App of Directing Father Off Collapsed Bridge

Philip Paxson, 47, died after driving off a collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina and his family is suing Google for negligence.

They claim the GPS put him on the unfamiliar path of a bridge that collapsed nearly a decade earlier and was never repaired, causing him to drown while driving home from his eldest daughter's birthday party on Sept 30, 2022.

The court filing includes email records from another Hickory resident who had used the map's 'suggest an edit' feature in September 2020 to alert the company that it was directing drivers over the collapsed bridge. 

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📢 Russia Secures New Buyers for Crude as Brazil, Ghana Step Up

🇷🇺’s Lukoil PJSC has sent three cargoes of crude across the Atlantic to 🇧🇷’s Madre de Deus, a terminal linked by pipeline to the 300,000-barrel-a-day Mataripe refinery.

While two cargoes of crude that loaded last month at Russia’s Arctic port of Murmansk are now anchored off Tema in 🇬🇭- reportedly headed to a new refinery built by the Sentuo Group, as part of China’s Belt and Road Development Strategy.

After losing around two-thirds of its crude market last year – things seem to be swinging back in Moscow’s favor.

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💲Biden officially announces latest $325mn aid tranche for Kiev

Including:
💥AIM-9M missiles for air defense
💥HIMARS ammo
💥Avenger air defense systems
💥.50 caliber machine guns to counter UAS
💥TOW missiles
💥Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
💥Over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition
💥59 light tactical vehicles

Plus much more… how long until the begging bowl comes back?

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☄️Ukraine's Globe-Trotting Beggar Arrives in Canada for a Hug from Trudeau

Zelensky will address 🇨🇦's parliament in Ottawa on Friday.

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ICYMI: Von der Leyen Condemns Russia🇷🇺 for Nuke Threat "Yet Again” – Wasn’t it the US🇺🇸in Hiroshima? 🤔

The EU Commission president was speaking at the Atlantic Council Awards honoring 🇯🇵’s PM Kishida, Zelensky and Janet Yellen – nope, no idea either.

Soon, they will have the world believing Russia nuked Japan.

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❗️Deadly Storm in Uganda 🇺🇬 Leaves Kampala Submerged

Just two hours of 🌧 has caused chaos in the African nation's capital city, with lives reportedly lost and property destroyed.

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🚫 Hungary🇭🇺Vetoes Joint EU🇪🇺Statement Condemning Azerbaijan🇦🇿

Budapest has allegedly scuppered the bloc from releasing a collective 27-nation statement on the situation in Karabakh.

The veto was reportedly exercised in response to what Hungary believed to be a ‘prejudiced and anti-Azerbaijani statement’ by top EU diplomat Josep Borrell.

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