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🇺🇸📞🇮🇱❗️ — Axios reports US President Donald Trump has effectively given Netanyahu the green light to act as he sees fit in Gaza!

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — According to Ukrainian media, Ukrainian Armed Forces started a massive drone attack against Russian Federation border regions

The red arrows are directions of movement of attack/jet UAVs

https://news.1rj.ru/str/dronbomber/19133

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese companies still shipping into the US are relabeling their items as made in Malaysia or Thailand so they pay 10% tariffs instead of 145%.

https://www.ft.com/content/147fddbb-7031-4347-9251-4425614e138d

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🇮🇱🇺🇸❌👺💸 — Israeli police arrested Alexander Gurevich, suspected mastermind of the $190M Nomad hack, pending U.S. extradition.

➡️ Israeli police arrested a hacker suspected of being involved in the exploit that drained $190 million in cryptocurrency from Nomad, leading to the collapse of the crypto bridge protocol.

➡️ According to reporting by The Jerusalem Post, Alexander Gurevich, the suspected hacker, was nabbed at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

➡️ Gurevich, a dual Russian-Israeli citizen, attempted to travel to Russia using documents bearing a different name at the time of his arrest.

“He fits the profile of a crypto-native threat actor: skilled in smart contract exploitation but ultimately undone by poor opsec,” Peter Kacherginsky, a blockchain security expert and formerly of Coinbase’s Unit 0x security team, said on X in reaction to Gurevich’s arrest.

🇺🇦⚠️❌🇷🇺 — 💛Al Jazeera | Russia reports Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow ahead of May 9 events | The attack comes as Moscow prepares to welcome foreign leaders from China and Brazil, among others | May 5, 2025:

"Russia has reported that it repelled a drone attack on Moscow as the capital city prepares to host a major military parade with foreign leaders in attendance.
Russia’s air defence systems intercepted “four drones flying towards Moscow”, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Monday. The attack appears intended to unsettle Moscow’s preparations for events marking the end of the Great Patriotic War, commonly known as World War II elsewhere, on May 9.

President Vladimir Putin has called for a 72-hour ceasefire to mark the occasion starting on May 8. However, Ukraine has demanded instead a 30-day truce aimed at agreeing to a permanent ceasefire in the conflict that began when Russia invaded in February 2022.

Sobyanin said in a post on Telegram that there were no reports of injuries or damage.

However, the attack did prompt a brief halt to air traffic at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. Aviation regulator Rosaviatsia confirmed flights were suspended for about 90 minutes overnight to ensure air safety."

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🇵🇰❌🇮🇳 — Reports say that Indian Armed Forces and Pakistani Armed Forces are clashing in the Digwar and Krishna Ghati sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir.

🇦🇷🥇🥈 🤝🇨🇦Lundin Mining Announces Initial Mineral Resource at Filo Del Sol Demonstrating One of the World's Largest Copper, Gold, and Silver Resources.

Lundin Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that Vicuña Corp. has completed an initial Mineral Resource estimate for the Filo del Sol sulphide deposit, an update to the Mineral Resource estimate for the Filo del Sol oxide deposit and an update to the Mineral Resource estimate for the Josemaria deposit.

Vicuña Mineral Resource Highlights:

One of the world’s largest copper, gold, and silver resources: Ranks in the top 10 for Mineral Resources of the largest producing copper mines in the world.

Contained copper of 13 million tonnes (“Mt”) Measured and Indicated (“M&I”) and 25 Mt Inferred.

Contained gold of 32 million ounces (“Moz”) M&I and 49 Moz Inferred.

Contained silver of 659 Moz M&I and 808 Moz Inferred.

Generational discovery: The largest greenfield copper discovery in the last 30 years.

https://lundinmining.com/news/lundin-mining-announces-initial-mineral-resource-a-123197/

@FelipeChannel

🇰🇬🥇🥇 Kyrgyzstan's Gold-Backed Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin USDKG to Debut in Q3

The stablecoin will be backed by $500 million in gold from the Kyrgyz Ministry of Finance, with plans to expand reserves to $2 billion.

Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan plans to debut the Gold Dollar, or USDKG, the gold-backed stablecoin pegged 1:1 with the U.S. dollar in the third quarter, project's advisor Gabriel Guerra told CoinDesk at the Token2049 conference in Dubai.

The stablecoin, backed by $500 million in gold from the Kyrgyz Ministry of Finance, is designed to facilitate seamless cross-border transfers in a country where remittances account for 30% of the GDP.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/05/05/kyrgyzstan-s-gold-backed-dollar-pegged-stablecoin-usdkg-to-debut-in-q3

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🇺🇳🌊 Trump’s Push For Deep-Sea Metals Clashes With UN Ocean Treaty

Just days after Trump issued an executive order expediting the processing of seabed mining applications, The Metals Company (TMC) on Tuesday applied for a US license to extract minerals from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, an immense region of the Pacific that stretches from Hawaii to Mexico.

There’s a hitch, though. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the rest of the ocean floor in international waters falls under jurisdiction of the International Seabed Authority, whose 169 member nations plus the European Union are loath to give up their mandate to regulate deep sea mining for the benefit of humanity while ensuring the effective protection of the marine environment.

ISA Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho on Wednesday warned that unilateral action by the US “sets a dangerous precedent that could destabilize the entire system of global ocean governance.”

At stake is not just who gets to exploit polymetallic nodules — potato-sized rocks rich in cobalt, nickel and other metals that carpet the Clarion-Clipperton seabed — or the fate of the otherworldly deep sea life that lives on them, but the future of a treaty that has kept commercial peace on the world’s oceans for more than 30 years.

https://gcaptain.com/trumps-push-for-deep-sea-metals-clashes-with-un-ocean-treaty/

🇷🇴🇪🇺 Romania’s “pro-EU” PM Marcel Ciolacu resigned after his coalition’s candidate failed to reach the presidential runoff.

Ciolacu lost to nationalist George Simion and centrist Nicușor Dan.

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🍻🍷 Alcohol consumption has gone into possibly permanent decline

Global wine production, for instance, reached its high point of 37.5 million metric tons—equivalent to around 50 billion bottles—back in 1979. Since then, it has dropped by roughly 27%, despite years of promotion around the supposed health benefits of a daily glass of red. Beer may have crested too. The amount brewed worldwide has dipped about 2.6% from its peak of 190 million tons in 2016—roughly half a trillion bottles.

Include spirits and other alcoholic beverages, and the picture becomes even more subdued. Market research firm IWSR reports a marked decline in per-person alcohol consumption—from 5 liters of pure alcohol per adult per year in 2013 to 3.9 liters in 2023. Apply population data to those figures, and it appears global alcohol consumption peaked in 2016 at 25.4 billion liters—a drop of about 13% since then.

“This has been a story of gradual, long-term moderation,” says Richard Halstead, IWSR’s head of consumer insights. “We’re seeing a generational transition—from older drinkers who regularly consumed inexpensive alcohol with meals, to younger adults in their 20s and 30s whose drinking is more occasional and socially driven.”

https://unusualwhales.com/news/alcohol-consumption-has-gone-into-possibly-permanent-decline

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel is reportedly planning a new offensive to “conquer” all of Gaza and establish a lasting military presence.

🔗 AF Post

🇵🇸 What's the endgame in Gaza?

The IDF is drafting 10,000s as operation 'Gideon's Chariots'. It's a long time since Gaza posed a strategic threat, but it still exists as a festering sore, holding 24 hostages & 35 bodies. So what will the endgame be?

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1919408004295725111