🇷🇺 - In 2025, Russian Railways had their profit decrease by over 2200% compared to 2024.

🇪🇺🇺🇳 European football fans filed a formal complaint with the European Commission, accusing FIFA of abusing its monopoly position over 2026 World Cup ticket sales.

Euroconsumers, a European consumer rights organisation, argues it is abusing that power through high prices and a lack of transparency. The cheapest available final ticket starts at $4,185 (€3,611) or more than 7 times the price of the same ticket at the 2022 World Cup.

FIFA uses what it calls "variable pricing," which is similar to dynamic pricing, in its ticket sales. This means that the price customers pay can change during the ticket sale process depending on demand and availability.

An investigation by The Athletic revealed that the price of tickets for games in Mexico and Canada increased by around 25% between sales phases.

Prior to the first phase of ticket sales opening, FIFA announced it would sell group-stage tickets starting at $60 (€51.77). In reality, very few fans were able to get tickets at those prices.

🇬🇷 - Powerful earthquake rocked Mount Athos yesterday leading to cracks in a big number of old monasteries and churches.

🇺🇸 - US analysts developed an index that predicts Trump's mood swings. The higher it is the more likely a new mood swing is.

🇺🇸 - Elon Musk is demanding an investigation into the jury after a ruling against him in the Twitter acquisition case, saying jurors mocked him in court and that he had “0.0%” chance of a fair trial; the presiding judge, Charles Breyer, was appointed by Bill Clinton.

🇭🇷 A collaboration between Croatian startup Verne, Uber, and China-based Pony.ai is bringing robotaxis to Europe’s roads, starting with Zagreb.

Pony.ai will supply the autonomous driving system, Verne will be the fleet owner and service operator, and Uber will lend its global ride-hailing network alongside Verne’s own platform.

The move comes as Chinese self-driving technology companies are ramping up their presence in Europe as they face restrictions in the US market.

Pony.ai last year partnered with Estonian ride-hailing app Bolt to bring autonomous vehicles to Europe. Meanwhile, Uber said last month that it would deploy autonomous vehicles in Madrid in 2026 and US companies Waymo and Uber have started trialling robotaxis in London.

🇷🇺 - In Russia, increasing number of independent pro-government journalists and bloggers begin to criticize the government for excessive restrictedness and needless bloodiness of the ongoing war.

🇺🇸 - Almost 25% of Americans missed at least one 'buy no pay later' payment within the last year's time.

🇷🇺 - Head of the main Russian automotive company gave an interview where he described how his company dominates in the Russian market and proceeded to drive away in a Mercedes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump announced that he moved the scheduled deadline for destroying Iran's power plants for 10 more days, because 'talks are going very well'.

At the same time, Iranian officials keep describing Trump as a liar and loser who cannot be trusted and whose demands are unacceptable to them.

🇷🇸 Aleksandar Vučić stated that he has information according to which Kosovar PM Albin Kurti is going to a meeting with Emmanuel Macron tomorrow with two demands.

The first is that Serbia must never use weapons against Albanians, and the second is that NATO forces leave the land security zone and be replaced by members of the so-called Kosovo Security Forces

🇬🇧 - 21yo Brit killed own mom, asking AI for advice how to do that. He got from 22.5 years to life in prison.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 - Russian MPs say that their visit to the US Congress is going very well, way above the expectations they had. Describe it as 'extremely positive'.

🇮🇷 - Iran banned all sport clubs and national teams from travelling to 'hostile' nations for competitions.

They did not specify who constitute 'hostile nations', but it is understood that these are almost all the countries except for Russia, China, perhaps India, perhaps Pakistan.

🇲🇰🇺🇦 - Macedonia and Ukraine eliminated from being able to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after defeats from Denmark and Sweden.

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🇮🇹🇽🇰 - Italy and Kosovo eliminated Northern Ireland and Slovakia from being able to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Kosovo will face Turkey next week. The winner qualifies.

🇵🇱🇦🇱 - Poland eliminated Albania from being able to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2:1.

Poland will face Sweden next week. The winner qualifies.