🇮🇪Which genius came up with this?

We can only assume they've never been to Dublin...

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❌ 🇱🇻 Latvia To Boot Elderly Russians After 60% Fail Language Exam

61% of Russian citizens living in Latvia who signed up for the Latvian language exam did not pass it, it was announced on Tuesday, and soon they will receive letters ordering them to leave if they do not pass a resit.

13,000 citizens of the Russian Federation who have a residence permit in Latvia registered for the exam, according to the State Education Center (VISC) - many are pensioners who have been living in Latvia since the times of the USSR.

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🇭🇷💩 Seagull Seal Of Approval? Bird Responds To Croatian PM

A seagull gave a crappy response to Andrej Plenković as he was about to answer about taxing the tourism sector, but the PM saw it as a blessing.

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🇬🇧 Wagner Group To Be Named As Terrorist Organisation By Gov

A draft order will proscribe the group as a terrorist organization, the BBC reported.

The classification will allow Wagner's assets to be categorized as terrorist property and seized, the BBC reported.

Now, it will be illegal to be a member, support or promote the organization, or carry its logo, according to the order.

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🎵💲Seedy Spotify: Platform Used By Criminal Gangs For Laundering

Sweden's criminal gangs are using fake Spotify streams to launder money, according to a report by the Svenska Dagbladet.

The networks have been using money from drug deals, robberies, fraud and contract killings to pay for false Spotify streams of songs published by artists with ties to the gangs, the investigative report states.

The platform then pays them for the high number of streams, thereby laundering the money.

The newspaper said its information had been confirmed by four gang members from separate criminal networks in Stockholm, as well as an anonymous police investigator.

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🇪🇪 Western Allies Called Out By...Estonian Company Owner?

Amid a furious backlash for continuing to provide services to Russia, the owner of the Estonian logistics company Estma OÜ called out the apparent double standard in current geopolitical thought.

"Exactly the same question can be asked why enterprises cooperate with the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Australia and other countries that over the past 20 years have destroyed several countries and killed more than a million civilians. And this continues to this day, inflicting on Ukraine much more damage," he said.

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❗️🇬🇧's New Defense Chief Almost Lets Slip UK Kill List

After Britain declared Wagner PMC a terrorist organization, Grant Shapps was asked if killing Yevgeny Prigozhin was now... okay.

"When we proscribe a group, it's not about our target list, which of course we never... [inaudible]"

Did Shapps just acknowledge the UK assassinates people on the list?

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🇱🇹NEW: First Lady Of Lithuania Arrives In Kiev To Talk Mental Health

Priorities.

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NEW: 🇬🇧 Ed Sec Now Embroiled In Corruption Saga

Gillian Keegan's department gave £1m from a rebuilding pot for schools at risk of collapse due to deadly concrete to a firm linked to her husband, a Mirror investigation has revealed.

The deal, made in May, was with Centerprise, of whom Michael Keegan is a non-executive director.

His Linkedin page says he is “responsible for cross-government relationship with a strategic supplier working with the MoD and other ­Government departments.” The Mirror believes this is the arms firm BAE Systems.

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