🇷🇺🇫🇮 - Alleged Finnish politician Armando Mema that major official Russian media referred to and covered his statements weekly turned out to be an Albania-born plumber with Italian citizenship who only moved to Finland in 2019.

Finally a worthy counterpart for Gunther Fehlinger.

🇨🇳🇰🇪 - Chinese national arrested at a Kenyan airport: he tried to smuggle 200 ant queens out of the country.

🇺🇸 - Nvidia released new AI model that makes video games look realistic live while users are playing.

🇪🇺🇭🇺 - European Commission accused Russia of trying to meddle in the Hungarian legislative election and activated special law, which allows it to use EU-approved fact checkers to hide or delete social media posts, which are labeled as suspicious or Russian propaganda.

It led to posts in favor of Orban and the ruling Fidesz party being hidden, deleted, and restricted.

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🇸🇦🇮🇷 Saudi minister of foreign affairs promised that his country will escalate, if Iran escalates.

Iran kept striking military and oil facilities inside Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states since the beginning of the war, so it remains unclear what the minister means by an Iranian escalation.

📱 A new study shows “doomscrolling” is on the rise among boomers, with grandchildren increasingly concerned about its effects.

🇮🇷🇧🇧 - Iranian government boasts that they forced a Barbados tanker to retreat from the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran 1 Barbados 0

🇳🇬 - Footage of the aftermath of the recent suicide bomber attack, which targeted a market in Nigeria.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 White House officials are bracing for a dramatic rupture between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu - Axios

🇪🇺 Gas prices in the EU rose over 30% today.

🇸🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 SAS Scandinavian Airlines will cancel around 1000 flights in April after aircraft fuel prices doubled, because of the Strait of Hormuz blockade.

The company is among the first players in the industry whose profit margins are too thin to make money with aircraft fuel prices being so high. More European airlines are expected to follow.

The cancellations will mostly target longer flights such as connections between Scandinavia and Spain, which are particularly popular ahead of the Easter season.

🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 AfD leader Alice Weidel called on Chancellor Friedrich Merz to restore relations with Moscow, resume Russian energy supplies, and reconsider funding for Ukraine.

She urged Berlin to “re-engage with Russia,” help end the war, and negotiate a return of gas flows through Nord Stream.

🇦🇿 Marriages in Azerbaijan fell by 38% this January, months after the country banned cousin marriages.

📉 Jan 2025: 4,717
📉 Jan 2026: 2,922

Some now warn the country could be heading toward a TFR as low as 0.8.