😕 Norwegian authorities say they are considering putting down a walrus that won hearts basking in the sun of the Oslo fjord, because of the danger to the public and itself from sightseers.
▪️ Despite repeated appeals to the public to keep their distance from the walrus – a young female weighing 600kg (1,300 pounds) that has been nicknamed Freya – the mammal continues to attract big crowds, the fisheries directorate has said.
▪️ It released a photograph of a group of onlookers crowding near the animal.
🗯 “The public’s reckless behaviour and failure to follow authorities’ recommendations could put lives in danger,” said Nadia Jdaini, a spokesperson for the fisheries agency.
🗣 “We are now exploring other measures, and euthanasia may be a real alternative.”
▪️ Freya, named for the Norse goddess of beauty and love, has made headlines since July 17, when she was first spotted in the waters of the Norwegian capital.
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▪️ Despite repeated appeals to the public to keep their distance from the walrus – a young female weighing 600kg (1,300 pounds) that has been nicknamed Freya – the mammal continues to attract big crowds, the fisheries directorate has said.
▪️ It released a photograph of a group of onlookers crowding near the animal.
🗯 “The public’s reckless behaviour and failure to follow authorities’ recommendations could put lives in danger,” said Nadia Jdaini, a spokesperson for the fisheries agency.
🗣 “We are now exploring other measures, and euthanasia may be a real alternative.”
▪️ Freya, named for the Norse goddess of beauty and love, has made headlines since July 17, when she was first spotted in the waters of the Norwegian capital.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 China is vigilant as the United States may use the instability around Taiwan and further escalate the crisis, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
🗯 "The situation in the Taiwan Strait is still strained and we will be vigilant as the United States may use the situation by planning to boost military presence and trying to escalate the crisis," Wang told Chinese media.
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🗯 "The situation in the Taiwan Strait is still strained and we will be vigilant as the United States may use the situation by planning to boost military presence and trying to escalate the crisis," Wang told Chinese media.
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🇩🇪 Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder is suing the country's parliament in a bid to restore the special privileges he was stripped of in May - DPA
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🤔 59% of Americans are concerned about Biden's mental health.
▪️ According to an Issues & Answers/TIPP poll, even among Democrats, this issue worries almost 40% of respondents, writes The Washington Times.
▪️ President Biden has made many public gaffes and found himself in other ridiculous situations, such as when he confused the names of countries and shook hands with the air.
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▪️ According to an Issues & Answers/TIPP poll, even among Democrats, this issue worries almost 40% of respondents, writes The Washington Times.
▪️ President Biden has made many public gaffes and found himself in other ridiculous situations, such as when he confused the names of countries and shook hands with the air.
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📹 An OnlyFans and Instagram* model with a large social media following is now facing a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend at their Miami high-rise back in April, officials said.
▪️ Courtney Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii Wednesday and will be extradited to Miami-Dade to face a second-degree murder charge, the Hawaii Police Department said in a statement.
▪️ The charges stem from the April 3 stabbing death of 27-year-old Christian Toby Obumseli at the One Paraiso condo building on Northeast 7th Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood.
▪️ Officials said a woman was detained at the scene and later taken for a mental health evaluation.
▪️ A newly-released video has shown the moments when American social media influencer Courtney Clenney aka Tailor, attacked her late Nigerian boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, in an elevator.
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▪️ Courtney Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii Wednesday and will be extradited to Miami-Dade to face a second-degree murder charge, the Hawaii Police Department said in a statement.
▪️ The charges stem from the April 3 stabbing death of 27-year-old Christian Toby Obumseli at the One Paraiso condo building on Northeast 7th Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood.
▪️ Officials said a woman was detained at the scene and later taken for a mental health evaluation.
▪️ A newly-released video has shown the moments when American social media influencer Courtney Clenney aka Tailor, attacked her late Nigerian boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, in an elevator.
*Activity of Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia over extremism
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🇰🇷 South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol pardoned Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Friday, with South Korea's Justice Ministry saying the business leader was needed to help overcome a "national economic crisis."
▪️ The pardon is largely symbolic, with Lee already out on parole after serving 18 months in jail for bribery relating to his time leading the world's biggest smartphone and memory-chip maker.
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▪️ The pardon is largely symbolic, with Lee already out on parole after serving 18 months in jail for bribery relating to his time leading the world's biggest smartphone and memory-chip maker.
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📹 Footage of combat sorties of the Western Military District’s Su-35S fighter crews to destroy the military infrastructure facilities of AFU during the special military operation.
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⚡️ The shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was carried out with Western-made guided missiles, the authorities of the region say
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🎒 With food prices, inflation, and food insecurity on the rise in California, leaders in education are taking action.
🥦 Beginning this school year, California will be the first state to implement the Universal Meals program, providing free meals to all schoolchildren.
▪️ The program will make sure all kids have access to free meals at school.
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🥦 Beginning this school year, California will be the first state to implement the Universal Meals program, providing free meals to all schoolchildren.
▪️ The program will make sure all kids have access to free meals at school.
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❗️ Zaporozhye Region's official not excluding mothballing NPP if shelling continues
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▪️ Former President Donald Trump has stated that he would not oppose the release of documents pertaining to Monday’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.
🗣 In a message posted on his Truth Social media platform on Thursday, Trump slammed the FBI raid and break-in at his Mar-a-Lago home as “unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary.”
📍 He added that apart from not opposing the unsealing of a search warrant for an FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence, he was “going a step further by encouraging the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years […].”
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🗣 In a message posted on his Truth Social media platform on Thursday, Trump slammed the FBI raid and break-in at his Mar-a-Lago home as “unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary.”
📍 He added that apart from not opposing the unsealing of a search warrant for an FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence, he was “going a step further by encouraging the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years […].”
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❗️Russian court sentences US basketball player Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison for drug smuggling
❗️ American basketball player Griner's defense to file an appeal against the verdict
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📹 The Vostok grouping’s assault aviation crews perform missile strikes against the AFU's military facilities and equipment in the special military operation zone.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Imposing additional tariffs on China’s products is “a stupid and wrong move taken by Washington,” the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times claimed in an op-ed on Friday.
▪️ The news outlet referred to media reports claiming that White House officials have revised their thinking about whether to eliminate some tariffs or maybe impose new ones on Beijing in light of China's military exercises around Taiwan. Beijing kicked off the drills in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week.
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▪️ The news outlet referred to media reports claiming that White House officials have revised their thinking about whether to eliminate some tariffs or maybe impose new ones on Beijing in light of China's military exercises around Taiwan. Beijing kicked off the drills in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week.
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🇮🇷 🇪🇺 Iran is ready to consider Europe’s new proposal on the nuclear deal if its demands on sanctions and other issues are taken into account, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on Friday, citing an informed Iranian official.
▪️ According to the Iranian official familiar with the nuclear talks, the EU's proposal will be acceptable to Tehran if the bloc provides Iran with confidence in various issues, including political claims related to safeguards, sanctions and guarantees for the sustainability of the agreement.
▪️ Earlier in the day, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a European diplomat, that the European Union had made a proposal, with significant concessions, to Iran on the revival of the nuclear deal.
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▪️ According to the Iranian official familiar with the nuclear talks, the EU's proposal will be acceptable to Tehran if the bloc provides Iran with confidence in various issues, including political claims related to safeguards, sanctions and guarantees for the sustainability of the agreement.
▪️ Earlier in the day, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a European diplomat, that the European Union had made a proposal, with significant concessions, to Iran on the revival of the nuclear deal.
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😮 📹 A Florida man on Wednesday commissioned a plane to pull a sky banner with the message "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" and fly over Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home as supporters of the former president rallied outside to protest this week's FBI search of the home.
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❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ As a result of the Allied Forces offensive operation near Soledar, the AFU's 14th Mechanized Brigade has lost more than 2,000 people.
▪️ As a result of the high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the losses of the AFU's 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the DPR exceed 70 percent of their manpower.
▪️ A Russian Aerospace Forces precision strike on a temporary deployment point of the AFU's 28th Mechanized Brigade in Nikolayev Region has destroyed up to 100 fighters and 9 pieces of military equipment.
▪️ As a result of concentrated strikes on the combat positions of Ukrainian combatants in the DPR, the 3rd Battalion of 66th Mechanized Brigade has sustained over 50 percent losses in personnel.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue to strike military facilities in Ukraine.
▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed 1 US-made AN/MPQ-64 counter-battery radar station supplied to Ukrainian troops in the DPR.
▪️ Russian air defense units have destroyed 5 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past 24 hours.
▪️ Some 267 Ukrainian airplanes and 146 helicopters, 1,732 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,293 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 797 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,290 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,844 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.
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▪️ As a result of the Allied Forces offensive operation near Soledar, the AFU's 14th Mechanized Brigade has lost more than 2,000 people.
▪️ As a result of the high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the losses of the AFU's 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the DPR exceed 70 percent of their manpower.
▪️ A Russian Aerospace Forces precision strike on a temporary deployment point of the AFU's 28th Mechanized Brigade in Nikolayev Region has destroyed up to 100 fighters and 9 pieces of military equipment.
▪️ As a result of concentrated strikes on the combat positions of Ukrainian combatants in the DPR, the 3rd Battalion of 66th Mechanized Brigade has sustained over 50 percent losses in personnel.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue to strike military facilities in Ukraine.
▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed 1 US-made AN/MPQ-64 counter-battery radar station supplied to Ukrainian troops in the DPR.
▪️ Russian air defense units have destroyed 5 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past 24 hours.
▪️ Some 267 Ukrainian airplanes and 146 helicopters, 1,732 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,293 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 797 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,290 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,844 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.
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🇫🇷 ♻️ Last week the French Parliament approved a law requiring all new buildings in commercial zones to be partially covered in plants or solar panels. In a bid to make France more eco-friendly, all new buildings in commercial zones across the country must comply with the new environmental legislation.
▪️ The law will sanction businesses to either partially cover any roof space with plants or install solar panels to generate electricity. Green roofs are becoming an increasingly popular feature of city infrastructure around the world. This is because they:
- Can absorb 50-80% of annual rainfall
- Create habitats for biodiversity
- Are aesthetically pleasing
- Transform city roofs into useable spaces, offering the features of parks, vegetable gardens or office recreation areas
- Reduce indoor temperatures and the urban heat island effect
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▪️ The law will sanction businesses to either partially cover any roof space with plants or install solar panels to generate electricity. Green roofs are becoming an increasingly popular feature of city infrastructure around the world. This is because they:
- Can absorb 50-80% of annual rainfall
- Create habitats for biodiversity
- Are aesthetically pleasing
- Transform city roofs into useable spaces, offering the features of parks, vegetable gardens or office recreation areas
- Reduce indoor temperatures and the urban heat island effect
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❗️ Five of China’s largest state-owned companies have announced plans to delist from US exchanges as the two countries struggle to come to an agreement allowing American regulators to inspect audits of Chinese businesses.
▪️ China Life Insurance Co., PetroChina Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. all disclosed their intentions to delist in statements published in quick succession on Friday, along with Aluminum Corp. of China and Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co.
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▪️ China Life Insurance Co., PetroChina Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. all disclosed their intentions to delist in statements published in quick succession on Friday, along with Aluminum Corp. of China and Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co.
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📹 Trump supporters outside Mar-a-Lago say they know he is innocent: “I know it in my heart! I know it in my spirit! He has never lied about anything!”
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❗️ China announces sanctions against the Lithuanian deputy minister of transport and communications - Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
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