🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US banned its citizens and companies from using Iran's services to secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸 🇷🇸 Donald Trump posted an interview with Aleksandar Vučić on his social network, Truth.

Exclusive — President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić: Donald Trump is "much more popular" in Serbia than any other American leader because he is "pragmatic" and "rational," Trump wrote.

In that interview, Vučić also spoke, among other things, about the opinion of the American leader in Serbia, where most people respect him.

🇻🇪 In Barinas, Venezuela, prison inmates rioted, took over the institution and staged protest against tortures, which, according to them, were commonly used by their prison's management.

Since then, the penitentiary's director was sacked by the government.

🇺🇸 Cindy McCain, the widow of John McCain, tells Trump that her organization, the World Food Programme (WFP), needs more food aid, per The Hill.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇹🇷 Far-left activists Hasan Piker and Cenk Ughyur have both been banned from entering the United Kingdom.

How dares she speak to Trump considering all her husband had done to sabotage Trump's 1st term?

🇷🇸🇷🇺 - Serbia likely to introduce entry visas for Russians by the end of this year.

You've got to give first before you take

<- Eastern European USSR-inspired mindset which leads to 0 investment from borrowing and solid 1% per year GDP growth.

Then everyone eats potatoes and pickled grass called cheremsha.

🇧🇬 - Bulgarian banks begin charging non-EU residents 500 euro for considering their application to open a bank account.

🇧🇾🇷🇺 - Reportedly, Lukashenko spent hours on the phone with Putin trying to explain to him how market economy works.

Some of you might be under impression that Lukashenko is a wise elder who reminds Putin of the old ways and moderate approaches.

However, actually, Lukashenko is 2 years younger than Putin.

Unlike Putin who brags that he doesn't own a smartphone and doesn't know how to use the Internet, Lukashenko is so in touch with modern technology that he spends hours every week watching TikToks where he was tagged.

🇪🇺 EU confirms its decision to ban single serving plastic sachets commonly used in products like sauces, hotel shampoos, tea and coffee bags, condoms, candies, Pokemon cards.

The decision bans all of them starting with 2030.

🇬🇧 British Labour government keeps acting on its election campaign commitment of re-nationalizing the country's railway system - in reversal of the privatization reform once conducted by Margaret Thatcher.

Nonetheless, instead of enjoying positive consequences of state ownership unbothered by constant chase after profits, passengers face termination of multiple routes and decrease in the number of daily rides - after the Starmer government orders newly acquired once-private railway operators to cut expenses, saying that it just doesn't have the money to pay.

🇷🇺 - Russia bans parking EVs underground because they catch fire and burn everything around meanwhile firemen's cars cannot get into underground parkings because ceilings are very low.

🇧🇾🇷🇺 - After hours-long phone therapy with President Lukashenko, President Putin ordered his intelligence and government to ensure that Russians have uninterrupted Internet access at all times, even when there are intelligence operations going on.

Seems like long conversations with Lukashenko really help.

Trump and Macron should also try talking to Lukashenko more.