🇷🇸❌🇭🇷 — 📰 The National Independent: Serbian Security Intelligence Agency arrested a Croatian spy this morning in Belgrade, according to Serbian media

https://fxtwitter.com/NationalIndNews/status/1827994350388654273

🇺🇦📞🌐🇪🇺 — Ukrainian President Zelensky urges European/NATO air forces to help down Russian drones, missiles

🇪🇺🇫🇷✉️ The EU is closely monitoring the situation around Telegram and is ready to cooperate with the French authorities, the European Commission told RIA Novosti.

Telegram, like other online platforms, is obliged to comply with EU laws, including cooperation with the authorities of the union countries, Brussels said.

🔗 https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/258774

🇳🇪 🇧🇯 🛢 🇨🇳 — Niger Republic resumes export of crude oil to Benin ports through Chinese-funded pipeline

➡️ An agent with the West African Gas Pipeline Company (Wapco), which operates the pipeline, told Reuters that the Aura M, a Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker, had loaded around one million barrels of oil from Niger at the Benin port on Tuesday.

➡️ The ship bound for China, where it was due to arrive on Oct. 10, the data showed. It was last spotted on Tuesday in the Gulf of Guinea, just off the West African coast.

➡️ Niger's disputed ban on Benin related to political disagreements within the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS that led it to impose sanctions on Niger last year.

➡️ ECOWAS later lifted sanctions on Niger, after junta-led governments in the region coordinated to leave the bloc.

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🇫🇷🇪🇺❌🌐 — France's Judicial system releases the 12 charges against Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.

The charges:

➡️ 1. Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups 💸

➡️ 2. Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations 🔎

➡️ 3. Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors 🔞

➡️ 4. Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors 🔞

➡️ 5. Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics 💊

➡️ 6. Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks 💻

➡️ 7. Complicity - Organized fraud 🕵️‍♂️

➡️ 8. Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years 🕵️‍♂️

➡️ 9. Money laundering 💸

➡️ 10. Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration 💻

➡️ 11. Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration 💻

➡️ 12. Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. 💻

⁉️ Technically speaking, such charges, if actually applied would make every single social media guilty, as in networks as Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter/X and Instagram, matters related to pornography and drug trafficking are much more widespread and easier to minors access than in Telegram per se

🌍❌🌐 — With such, the list of countries restricting Telegram per, partially or totally is:

Total bans:
➡️ 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China (over Anti-Communist, Monarchists, "Reactionary Parties" and similar opposition figures having pages here)

➡️ 🇵🇰 Islamic Republic of Pakistan (over ISIS and Separatist groups having channels here)

➡️ 🇮🇷 The Islamic Republic of Iran, despite the fact that Telegram is used by 75% of the population, including supporters of the Wilayat al-Faqih and its 19289182918291 opposition groups

➡️ 🇴🇲 The Sultanate of Oman, which banned Telegram alongside, all VoIP services (even thought locals don't care and still use it, including some of our close partners from there)

Partial bans:
➡️ 🇧🇷 The Federal Republic of Brazil, in which some channels are still banned over "Fake News and Conspiracy Theories" despite the ban being officially lifted

➡️ 🇪🇺 European Union countries, where Russian State Media and Pro-Palestine channels are restricted over the War in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas War

❌🚘🇻🇪 — A video has appeared on TikTok showing a Tesla Cybertruck driving on the streets of Caracas (likely illegally imported from the US), despite the entire rhetoric against Elon Musk by the Chavista Regime

🔗 CNW (@ConflictsW)

🇨🇦 Trudeau announces reduction in temporary foreign workers, suggests more immigration changes to come

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday the federal government will reduce the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada after a historic surge that some experts say has fuelled unemployment among immigrants and young people.

The government loosened restrictions during a severe post-COVID labour shortage — a decision that led, in particular, to a spike in the number of low-wage temporary workers.

Trudeau said employers in high unemployment areas — places where the unemployment rate is six per cent or higher — will not be able to hire low-wage temporary foreign workers (TFWs), with limited exceptions for "food security sectors" like agriculture and food and fish processing as well as construction and health care where acute staffing shortages still exist.

In another reversal, the government said employers will no longer be allowed to hire more than 10 per cent of their total workforce through the TFW program.

As well, low-wage TFWs will also be limited to one-year contracts, down from the current two.

📝 Maxime Bernier: Trudeau finally stops listening to his corporate sponsors that demand cheap labour and begins imposing minor restrictions on immigration. All it took was a massive replacement of the White Canadian population and the unemployment graph to rise to an unacceptable figure to do it. Trudeau and the fake conservative, Poilievre who smeared people for speaking out against immigration, will always choose their interests and those of their sponsors and back down when the problem becomes impossible to ignore.

🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-crackdown-temporary-foreign-workers-1.7304819

🇻🇪🇻🇪🗳❌🌍 — #BREAKING: The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela has closed the door on international community requests, stating that the election records will not be published.

🇳🇮❌🇧🇷🇨🇴 — 🌹 Daniel Ortega, the leader of the dictatorial regime in Nicaragua, criticized the behavior of Brazil and Colombia regarding the elections in Venezuela, calling it shameful: "They repeat the slogans of the Yankees, the Europeans, and the dragged-along governments of Latin America"

💥 The dictator stated that the governments that do not recognize the official result of the elections in Venezuela are servile and submissive, directly mentioning Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a prominent figure of the Latin American left.

"You are crawling too, Lula, you are crawling! If you want me to respect you, respect me, Lula, if you want the Bolivarian people to respect you, respect President Nicolás Maduro's victory and don't go around crawling.

Servile, traitorous, crawling governments, governments that presented themselves as very progressive, very revolutionary, now say the elections must be repeated. Brazil says it, Lula. [...] We don't need intermediaries, nor did we ask Lula to be an intermediary, so we didn't respond to Lula, and then he got upset."

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