🇲🇩 - Moldova's court sentenced former shadow criminal leader of the country, who de facto controlled nearly everything there in the 2010s, Vladimir Plakhotnyuk to 19 years in prison.

🇺🇸 - Tether froze assets worth 344 million dollars following a request by the US government - the single biggest freeze in the stablecoin company's history so far.

🇺🇿 - 20yo Uzbek prodigy Javokhir Sindarov won this year's FIDE candidates tournament and qualified to face the reigning chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju from India. The winner will either gain or retain the chess crown.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran once again formally banned passage through the Strait of Hormuz for ships associated with Israel.

Previously, Iran claimed that the Strait would be open for all commercial vessels.

🇩🇪🇮🇷 In Berlin, someone threw tomato juice at Iranian shah-in-exile Reza Pahlavi.

🇷🇺 - Head of the main media holding of the Russian military, Alexey Pimanov, died at the age of 64, despite being a lifelong sportsman - heart attack.

🇬🇪 - Former Georgian defense minister Juansher Burchuladze sentenced to 10 years for corruption.

🇷🇺 - For 2025, 78 out of 102 Russian official demographic statistical datasets were not updated - either because the government made this information secret, or because it decided not to publish that at all.

🇪🇸 Spanish paratroopers disastrously failed their military exercises this year. Armed vehicle URO VAMTAC worth €600 thousand detached from its parachute and suffered 300m fall. Barely anything was left from that.

🇮🇹 - Italian government ruled out taking part in this year's FIFA World Cup, saying that they cannot take a spot that they didn't qualify for in a fair way.

🇧🇾 - Belarus legalized cryptobanking. Now banks are allowed to provide pretty much the entire spectrum of crypto-related services.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israel's defense minister said that his country is waiting for the US to greenlight further war against Iran.

🇮🇷 - Reportedly, speaker of the Iranian parliament resigned.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump re-posted an X tweet, where the author suggested to kill the faction of Iranian elites who don't want a deal with the United States.

🇫🇷 - While visiting Cyprus, President Macron said that he plans to quit politics after his presidential mandate expires.

🇺🇸 Kids on college campuses advocating for open borders were left speechless upon being confronted with the assertion that their desire to remove conservative influencers from their schools renders them no different from ICE.

🇺🇸 - Shareholders of Warner Brothers Discovery voted in favor of acquisition by Paramount.

🇷🇺 - In the Russian town of Makhachkala, an aggressive man broke into hospital and used knife to wound 3 doctors.

Reportedly, he was angry that his relative didn't recover as well as he expected.

Lately, doctors worldwide reported increase in violence from relatives of their ethnic minority patients.

🇳🇱 Dutch police was very violent in its crackdown against anti-immigrant protests in the town of Loosdrecht.

At this point, the protests have been ongoing for three consecutive days. Initially, they were caused by the liberal government's plans to create an asylum centre in the town.