🇪🇺🇭🇺 The EU plans to cut funding for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s administration, because of concerns about "widespread corruption" in Hungary, Bloomberg reports, citing senior EU officials

The flight containing the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II became the most tracked in history, according to FlightRadar24

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⚡️Armenian MoD accuses Azerbaijani military of shelling Russian FSB transport. Azerbaijan denies all accusations.

Former US President Donald Trump fears assassination by Iran as revenge for Soleimani death, reveals book 'The divider'

In 2020, Donald Trump allegedly told friends that he was afraid Iran would try to assassinate him in revenge for the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a US drone strike. At the time, Trump said: “I thought about it for a second and I said, ‘You know what, they shot down an unmanned drone … and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead.’ And I didn’t like it … I didn’t think it was proportionate.”

The startling revelation appears in a new book 'The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021', which will be published in the US next week.

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💰 End of dollar hegemony?

🪙 Russia has been seeking to eradicate the dollar and euro from its foreign trade relations ever since the 2014 wave of sanctions over Crimea’s reunification. As efforts have been renewed recently, check out the list of nations that are ready to dethrone the dollar (or are already in the process of doing so) together with Russia.

❗️Spoiler: the list is not complete

🇮🇳 India: Moscow & Delhi are working to reinstate the rupee-ruble payment mechanism that was in place during the Cold War before the collapse of the Soviet Union

🇨🇳 China: a mechanism is already in place, & the share of national currencies in Russia-China payments keeps growing

🇮🇷 Iran: Tehran and Moscow have already switched to the use of national currencies in some mutually agreed upon types of settlements

🇹🇷 Turkey: Presidents Putin & Erdogan agreed to switch bilateral trade to national currencies, starting off with settling gas deliveries in the Russian ruble, during their latest meeting in Sochi

🇻🇪Venezuela: the country is working with Russia to make automatic payments in their national currencies as the two seek to move away from the dollar

🇮🇩 Indonesia: discussions on trade payments in national currencies are ongoing

👉 💳 What's more, the use of Russia’s Mir card payment system is allowed in Turkey, Vietnam, Armenia, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia.

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📹Here is a look at the current economic situation in Pakistan.

Local news media report that “Pakistan is on the verge of economic collapse, despite international support from Saudi Arabia and the IMF and Saudi Arabia”

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The European Commission officially suggested that EU countries:

▪take excess profits from oil and gas companies, which by the end of the year will exceed the average profit for the previous three years by more than 20 percent

▪temporarily limit the income of electricity producers from renewable sources

▪compulsorily reduce energy consumption by at least 5 percent during peak hours and aim to reduce total electricity demand by at least 10 percent by 31 March

▪no proposals have been made for a gas price cap

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❗WHO chief: World has 'never been in a better position to end the pandemic'

💬 “We are not there yet. But the end is in sight,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

🇧🇷 Brazil’s president has announced that if he loses the election, he will leave politics

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has stated that if he loses the October election, he will leave politics, a possibility that he has never considered before.

Until now, Bolsonaro had never spoken openly about the possibility of accepting an electoral defeat, even saying that "only God" would remove him from the presidency.

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⚡🇺🇸🇷🇺 President Biden will nominate Lynne Tracy, currently serving as US ambassador to Armenia, as the next ambassador to Russia, CNN says, citing sources

Here is a recap of my impressions from Uzbekistan's final preparations for the SCO summit kicking off tomorrow in the beautuful historical Samarkand.

❗Guterres says will raise issue of exports of Russian food, fertilizers during UNGA high-level week

▪The UN secretary-general says he discussed obstacles to the delivery of Russian food and fertilizers to world markets with Putin on Wednesday;

▪The UN is in dialogue with Russia not only on prolongation, but also on expansion of grain deal - Guterres

▪ The UN secretary-general: there is no food shortage in the world, there is a problem with its distribution

❗ Guterres has informed Putin in detail about the UN’s efforts to remove all obstacles to the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets, the Kremlin said

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