🇷🇸🇽🇰 - New Serbian Prime Minister Đuro Macut says "Kosovo remains central to Serbia's national interest".

🇬🇧 - UK Supreme Court only clarified the scope of existing frameworks — particularly how the Equality Act 2010 interacts with the Gender Recognition Act 2004, not as much as the groundbreaking ruling some want it to be.

🇬🇧 - What the ruling implies in practice is only that in Scotland, the SNP's women in administration council quotas don't include trans women.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - US Vice President JD Vance calls the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq a "strategic disaster", adding that skeptical Europeans could have spoken up more forcefully against it.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵 - Trump says progress with Japan on tariffs.

🇫🇷 - Paris courthouse evacuated after bomb threats.

🇫🇷 - The mailbox of a prison guard got vandalized in Amiens, France.

🇫🇷 - Overall portrait:

Cars burned down in 8 jails' parkings
Rifle shots fired at 8 jails's doors and windows.
A courthouse evacuated due to a bomb threat.

And now this.

The mailbox is obviously a way to scare the guy, to tell him "We know where you live".

On the long run, if you repress people who are actually smart because you don't want to hurt people's feeling that they are all "equally special and all went through exactly the same stuff"... well its not compatible with modernity on the long run. Modernity needs people who are actually smart, and it needs them doing their job properly without having to rely on "soft skills" to get their projects approved.

Modernity needs people who are smarts, and it needs them doing their smarts guys thing, not being at Walmart to "make other people feel comfortable their ego is in check".

🇪🇺 - ECB cuts interests rates by 25 basis points.

🇷🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 - Russian Foreign Ministry:

The use of Taurus missiles to strike Russia's critical infrastructure can be regarded as Germany's direct participation in the war on the side of Ukraine.

🇮🇹 - Three dead in a cable car accident in Naples, Italy.

🇫🇷🇪🇺 - Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury giant LVMH: "Europe is not run by a political power but by a bureaucratic one".

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - A video allegedly taken tonight in Syria reportedly shows a US convoy withdrawing from the Conoco base in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - #BREAKING NYT confirms the "U.S. Is Withdrawing Hundreds of Troops From Syria" (article published 10 minutes ago)

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - The NYT confirms and says the "US is withdrawing hundreds of troops from Syria", reducing troop levels to about 1,400 from 2,000.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the US will cease efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine within days unless there are clear indications that a resolution is achievable.

🇹🇷 - Erdogan: "unfortunately, the Islamic world has also failed to fulfill what was expected of it" (on Gaza).

Have an happy good Friday.