🇺🇸🇸🇦📁 — Jeffrey Epstein told an unknown individual that he met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on September 30, 2018.

➡️ This is just days before Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The CIA is moving to accelerate its access to cutting-edge technology to better compete with China.

➡️ The agency announced a new acquisition framework designed to reduce bureaucratic delays and streamline vendor vetting, allowing faster deployment of innovative tools.

➡️ The CIA is expanding partnerships with startups and industry leaders in fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, financial technology, and microchips, urging companies at the forefront of emerging tech to collaborate with the agency.

➡️ Under the updated framework, the CIA plans to fast-track prototype testing for officers in the field and at headquarters. The agency has already worked with firms such as Amazon Web Services and Palantir for cloud computing and data analytics.

🇫🇷⚡️ — French President Emmanuel Macron was presented with a custom rosé bottle labeled “For Sure” at the Wine Paris 2026 fair.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The U.S. War Department’s AI platform, GenAI.mil, has exceeded one million users within two months of launch and is now used across all military branches.

➡️ The department announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the platform, making advanced AI tools available to its 3 million personnel to support mission readiness and operations.

➡️ The move is part of a broader AI acceleration strategy aligned with the administration’s national AI plan, aiming to embed secure, reliable AI capabilities into daily military operations.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — NEW: President Trump will travel to Beijing in the first week of April for a long-anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to POLITICO.

🇮🇱🥇💲🔫🌎 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Israel Spends By Far The Most Per Capita On Defense | February 10, 2026:

"Global military spending is often measured in massive national budgets, where the United States and China dominate the conversation.

But looking at defense spending on a per-person basis tells a very different story, one where smaller countries rise to the top.

This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks major countries by how much they spent on defense per citizen in 2024, revealing which nations invest the most in military power relative to their population - and how countries like the U.S. compare when spending is measured per person rather than in total dollars."

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🇫🇷💬💩 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Macron Reopens Direct Channel With Putin As He Moves To Counter Trump | February 10, 2026:

"The Kremlin has newly confirmed that France has restored "technical-level" contact and dialogue with Russia, after for years having stymied diplomacy related to the Ukraine war. "Yes, there have indeed been contacts, and we can confirm that," Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "If there is the desire and the necessity, they could help fairly quickly reestablish dialogue at the highest level."

But ironically it's not necessarily for the sake of seeking to forge a peace deal in eastern European, but in reality toward ensuring the United States doesn't mediate something less than satisfactory to Ukraine and Europe.

President Macron said in fresh remarks in a Tuesday interview: "What did I gain? Confirmation that Russia does not want peace right now." Yet he stipulated, "But above all, we have rebuilt those channels of discussion at a technical level."

"My wish is to share this with my European partners and to have a well-organized European approach" in diplomacy with Moscow, Macron added.

He reasoned that Europe must be engaging Putin directly "so as not to depend on third parties" or rather - so the EU doesn't stay cut out of US-Russia discussions, as has been the case so far under Trump."

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🇷🇺❌📱❗️ — RIA Novosti (Russian State Media) says that Russian Government's Roskomnadzor (Russia's main censor agency) will start slowing down Telegram in Russia today, quoting reports the Russian RBC, citing three sources

📝 Per RIA (Russian State Media), another source claims that the agency is already slowing down the messenger's work.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/332863

🇷🇺❌📱❗️ — Telegram faces fines of up to 64 million rubles under 8 administrative protocols, according to the materials available to Russia's RIA Novosti.

According to RIA, Most of the "fines are for refusing to remove prohibited content"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/332867

🇷🇺❌📱❗️ — Telegram faces growing restrictions in Russia, with over 11,000 malfunctions reported in 24h.

➡️ Widely used by military bloggers and active-duty personnel, the app is under scrutiny after authorities filed seven protocols over "prohibited content"

❗️ A full ban could be coming.

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🇷🇺❌📱 — Russia's Roskomnadzor is reminding Telegram that "they need to comply with Russian legislation", said Andrei Svintsov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, to Zvezda.

“If Roskomnadzor decided to remind the management of Telegram that it is necessary to comply with the entire complex of Russian legislation, then it is acting absolutely correctly.

We observe that the management of the messenger very harshly criticizes various decisions, saying that restrictions are pressure on democracy and freedom of speech.

I do not agree with this,” the deputy said.