🇦🇿🤝🇨🇳🇷🇺 — 🇷🇺 Russian media TASS on Telegram:

Azerbaijan would like to join BRICS, the republic's ambassador to Moscow Polad Bulbul oglu told TASS.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/tass_agency/266976

🇺🇸🇮🇱✈️🚫 — 📰 Israel Hayom: American Airlines suspends flights to Israel until April 2025

➡️ All American Airlines flights have been removed from booking systems until April 2025, travel agents have informed Israel Hayom. We attempted to receive a response from the company's Israeli representatives, but none has been received so far.

➡️ While all US-based airlines have currently halted their flights to Israel, some continued operations during the Swords of Iron War for a time. American Airlines, meanwhile, has not resumed flights to Israel since the conflict began.

➡️ Israel Hayom contacted the American Airlines reservation center, where we tried to book a flight for December, a month during which the airline was expected to operate in Israel. According to their latest announcement, the airline had planned to resume flights to Israel at the end of October.

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🇮🇱💣❗️ — Over the past minutes, Israeli media reported that a major explosion, likely from a car bomb attack, took place in Central Tel Aviv!

A report was received about an explosion in a car on Derech Lod Street in Tel Aviv.
As a result of the explosion, a man was critically injured and pronounced dead at the scene. Police forces are at the scene, the circumstances of the incident are under investigation

https://news.1rj.ru/str/newss/195693

🇩🇪👎💸🇺🇦 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"Arms deliveries from Germany to Ukraine are under threat of disruption due to the decision of the German government

Recently, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the German government would not provide Ukraine with additional financial aid. Following this, the German Ministry of Defense, as BILD learned, prepared a report stating that this decision is already having consequences for military support for the Ukrainian army.

"Ukraine's requests for spare parts for the 2000 self-propelled howitzer, for example, can no longer be met, since the requested spare parts will have to be purchased anew," the ministry's report says.


In the midst of the offensive in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian army can no longer make full use of German howitzers. Over time, according to the report, the situation will worsen even more.

Thus, the German Ministry of Defense can no longer "fulfill obligations under new projects to support the Ukrainian armed forces": this concerns 30 priority measures for Ukraine at once, for a total of more than 3 billion euros. In particular, such areas as "air defense, artillery and drones" are affected.

Additional problems may arise with the supply of ammunition that has already been promised to Ukraine.

"Supplies from the Bundeswehr's stockpiles cannot be ensured again as planned and promised," the report says.


Finally, the internal ministry document warns that “the continued supply of all weapons systems promised to Ukraine is now at risk” because the new demands from the German Finance Ministry represent “a change in the rules of the game after it has begun.”

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🌎🚫💸👌💰 — 📰 Money Metals | Many Countries Turning to a "Stateless Currency" -- Gold | August 12, 2024:

"(...) U.S. and other Western countries aggressively sanctioned Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. America and her allies locked Russia out of the SWIFT financial system and froze around $300 billion in Russian central bank assets. The U.S. even threatened to sell frozen Russian assets and give the money to Ukraine.

Other countries were paying attention. Nikkei Asia said U.S. policy persuaded emerging economies to “accumulate gold, and “the shift from currency holdings reflects global fragmentation.”

This is a classic example of people responding to incentives."

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🌎🚫💸💸👌💰 — 🇯🇵 Nikkei Asia | Central banks dump dollars and yuan in favor of gold | The 'stateless currency' shines as a haven amid geopolitical tension | August 10, 2024:

"TOKYO -- Central banks are diversifying away from the dollar and yuan while loading up their foreign exchange reserves with a "stateless currency," gold, in a nod to intensifying geopolitical tensions and global economic uncertainties.

The proportion of the U.S. currency in global foreign reserves has dropped significantly, from over 70% in the early 2000s. Currently, the dollar's share of foreign reserves held by central banks and governments worldwide sits at a historic low. China's currency is also trending lower.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered strict U.S. sanctions locking Moscow out of the dollar-based global financial system and persuading emerging economies to accumulate gold, which is not tied to any specific country. The shift from currency holdings reflects global fragmentation."

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🇧🇷⁉️🍏🖥 — ProtonVPN reports that Apple is blocking the download of its app on iOS for users in Brazil; see full statement below:

We have received multiple reports today from users in Brazil having difficulties installing the Proton VPN app on iOS devices via the Apple App Store. We can confirm that the issue is not on our side, but likely with the App Store itself, which is controlled by Apple. What makes this an extremely strange coincidence is that it is also impacting multiple other VPNs in the Brazilian app store.

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🇧🇷⁉️🍏🖥 — ProtonVPN reports that Apple is blocking the download of its app on iOS for users in Brazil; see full statement below:

We have received multiple reports today from users in Brazil having difficulties installing the Proton VPN app on iOS devices via the Apple App Store. We can confirm that the issue is not on our side, but likely with the App Store itself, which is controlled by Apple. What makes this an extremely strange coincidence is that it is also impacting multiple other VPNs in the Brazilian app store.

Most likely, something has happened on the Apple side, and we do not know if it is accidental, or if Apple is secretly implementing a censorship order. But because of Apple's monopoly on iOS app distribution, there is no other way to get the app on iOS devices.

As a workaround for iOS users, we suggest trying the iOS beta version via Testflight ( https://protonvpn.com/blog/vpn-ios-beta/ ), or alternatively, a manual WireGuard setup can be used ( https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-manual-ios ) to access our VPN servers.

Note that Proton VPN apps are still available through all other platforms in Brazil (https://protonvpn.com/download) and other Proton Apps such as Proton Mail, Proton Drive and Proton Pass remain unaffected at this time.

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🇻🇪🇻🇪⁉️ — This is how Chavismo marks the houses of those who protest against Nicolás Maduro's regime in the neighborhoods of 23 de Enero, parish located in the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality west of the city of Caracas, Venezuela, abeling them as "terrorists." This intimidation tactic aims to silence dissenters and deepen repression in the country.