🇦🇪🤝🌐 — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) calls on France to let it provide ‘all consular services’ for Durov, says ensuring care of UAE citizens is a ‘top priority’.

➡️ The United Arab Emirates has said it is following closely the case of Telegram messaging app founder and CEO Pavel Durov – who is an Emirati citizen – following his arrest and the extension of his initial detention by authorities in France.

➡️ The Russian-born Durov, 39, was detained on Saturday at Paris-Le Bourget Airport in France based on a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 unfounded alleged criminal violations involving his popular Telegram app, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

➡️ The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement early on Tuesday that it was “closely following” Durov’s case and that it had “submitted a request to the French government to provide him with all consular services urgently”.

“Caring for citizens, preserving their interests, following up on their affairs, and providing them with all aspects of care are a top priority for the UAE,” the Arab Kingdoms' ministry said in the statement.

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🇺🇾⚠️🇻🇪💥 — The Uruguayan Minister of the Interior, Nicolás Martinelli, has put the country on high alert due to the possible arrival of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua and the growing use of the dangerous drug fentanyl

❗️ During the Latin American Security Summit in Guayaquil, Martinelli emphasized the need for the government to face these challenges with determination, although the presence of this organization in Uruguay has not yet been confirmed.

☠️ The Tren de Aragua, one of the most dangerous gangs in the region, is known for its brutality and networks in human trafficking, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. Additionally, the recent detection of fentanyl in the country has raised alarms among Uruguayan authorities, who warn of the devastating risk this drug poses to society.

❌ Under Martinelli's leadership, the government is implementing strategies to combat these threats before they can establish a foothold.

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🇨🇱❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Chilean President Gabriel Boric has toughened his stance towards Venezuela, openly labeling Maduro's regime as a "dictatorship" and rejecting the idea of repeating the elections.

💥 Despite mediation proposals from Brazil and Colombia, Boric has aligned himself with 11 other countries condemning the Venezuelan electoral process as fraudulent, positioning himself as one of the strongest voices in Latin America against the Chávez regime.

🇻🇪🇻🇪❌🗳 — Diosdado Cabello announced that Juan Carlos Delpino will be removed from his position as the principal rector of Venezuela's National Electoral Council.

🇾🇪 Yemeni weapons dealers selling machine-guns on X

Weapons dealers in Yemen are openly using the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to sell Kalashnikovs, pistols, grenades and grenade-launchers.

The traders operate in the capital Sana’a and other areas under control of the Houthis.

An investigation by The Times newspaper found that several of the Yemeni accounts bore the blue tick of verification.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86l4pl6072o

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🇻🇪⚡️📉❗️ — Venezuelan Media reports that a nationwide blackout has hit the South American country, including areas in Caracas!

🇻🇪⚡️📉❗️ — Diosdado Cabello, the Chavista Regime's Second-in-Command, denounces a "terrorist attack" by "fascist and reactionary elements" against the electrical system that left a large part of Venezuela without electricity, including the capital!

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🇻🇪⚡️📉 — Diosdado Cabello, the Chavista Regime's Second-in-Command, says that multiple substations across Venezuela were hit at the same time, causing the blackout

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128063

🇫🇷🇪🇺❌✉️ French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March, according to a French administrative document

The document indicates the French undercover investigation into Telegram is wider and began months earlier than previously known. The case revolves around Telegram’s refusal to cooperate with a French police enquiry into child sex abuse.

⚠️ The arrest warrants were issued after the messaging platform gave "no answer" to an earlier judicial request to identify a Telegram user, according to the document, which was shared with POLITICO by a person directly involved in the case.

The document also stresses "Telegram's almost non-existent cooperation" with both French and European authorities in other cases.

The warrants were issued after an undercover investigation into Telegram led by the cybercrime branch of the Paris prosecutor's office, during which a suspect discussed luring underaged girls into sending "self-produced child pornography," and then threatening to release it on social media.

The suspect also told the investigators he had raped a young child, according to the document. Telegram did not respond to the French authorities’ request to identify the suspect.

There’s no suggestion either of the Durov brothers were directly involved in any of the illegal activities identified by the investigation.

📝: From the horse's mouth: a French investigator admits that the whole charges brought on Durov are made up and are revenge because Durov refused to doxx European telegram users under the EU's information requests.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/exclusive-telegram-ceo-brother-nikolai-durov-wanted-france-authorities-pavel-durov/

🇫🇷❌✉️ When the initial 96-hour questioning period ends, the investigating magistrate can either free Durov or press charges and remand him in custody.

He could also be freed under judicial control that could include restrictions on his movements.

Durov, who has been based in Dubai in recent years, arrived in Paris from the Azerbaijani capital Baku and was planning to have dinner in the French capital, a source close to the case said.

🔗 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240828-telegram-founder-set-to-learn-fate-after-france-arrest

🇫🇷❌✉️ Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, was freed from pre-trial detention by a judge.

🔗 https://www.bfmtv.com/tech/actualites/reseaux-sociaux/fin-de-garde-a-vue-pour-pavel-durov-le-patron-de-telegram-transfere-a-la-justice_AD-202408280531.html

🇰🇷✉️South Korea, following France, has announced claims against Telegram.

South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol has called for a thorough investigation into digital sex crimes after local media reported that explicit fake images and videos of South Korean women were common in Telegram chats, Reuters reports.

The Communications Standards Commission, the state media regulator, plans to hold a meeting on August 28 to discuss measures to combat such content and its distributors.