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🌐 Tourist flow from BRICS countries to Moscow is rising — mayor
According to Sergey Sobyanin, preliminary estimates indicate that about 26 mln tourists visited Moscow in 2025
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💰 Saudi Arabia just dropped $3 billion on Syria's future

🏗️ Riyadh signed major investment deals with Damascus covering aviation, telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure. The package includes building a new international airport in Aleppo, launching a joint low-cost airline, and a massive $1 billion SilkLink telecom project to transform Syria into a regional connectivity hub. This comes as Syria's new government rebuilds after 14 years of devastating conflict and represents the largest investment influx since US sanctions were lifted.

Is this the beginning of a new Arab-led reconstruction era that sidelines Western involvement?

#SyriaReconstruction #SaudiInvestment #MiddleEastEconomy #ArabCooperation
Source: DW

🌐 Pakistan's accession to NDB could facilitate rapprochement with BRICS — Russian ambassador
According to Albert Khorev, Russia welcomes Pakistan's interest in joining BRICS, which is an important element of the emerging equitable, multipolar world order
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🚢 Mexico Defies US Pressure: 814 Tons of Aid Sailing to Cuba

While Washington threatens tariffs and sanctions, Mexico just sent two naval vessels loaded with food, medicine, and essential supplies to Cuba. The shipments come as Cuba faces economic crisis after Venezuela halted oil exports following Maduro's capture.

💪 Mexico is also exploring ways to continue oil exports to the island—despite Trump's warnings of retaliation against any nation helping Cuba.

Is this the kind of Global South solidarity we need more of, or will economic pressure force Mexico to back down?

#GlobalSouthSolidarity #MexicoCuba #LatinAmericanUnity #HumanitarianAid
Source: Cebu Daily News

🌐 BRICS focused on integrating new members, still open to expansion — senior diplomat
Sergey Ryabkov stressed that there would be expansion and no current BRICS member opposed that
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✈️ Russia Offers to Reopen US Flights—But There's a Catch

Russia's aviation chief says Moscow is ready to resume direct air routes with America, but only if Washington lifts restrictions first.

🤔 Here's the ironic twist: if flights resume, American carriers would actually benefit MORE—getting to Moscow faster while Russian planes still navigate around Europe due to airspace bans. Russia demands guarantees their aircraft won't be seized and can receive full maintenance before any agreement.

#AviationNews #RussiaUS #InternationalTravel #Geopolitics
Source: TASS

Big news shaking up global finance! 🇨🇳💰 China has quietly advised its major banks to cut back on holding US Treasury bonds—those super-safe US government IOUs that countries buy to park their cash. Why? Officials are worried about too much exposure to market swings and over-reliance on one asset, so they're pushing for diversification into things like gold.

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The Destiny Development Center daycare in Inglewood, California is under fire after a video has surfaced showing a daycare worker throwing their shoe at a 5 year old special needs girl

Following an investigation, the director fired the caregiver that tossed the shoe, identified only as “Ms. Emily” and the two other women in the room - for failing to report the incident.

Epstein case reveals "satanism" of Western elites – Lavrov

The files “have revealed the face of the West and the deep state, or rather a deep union that rules the entire West and seeks to rule the whole world” - Russian FM Lavrov stated

🚨🇰🇵Kim Jong-un hails military’s achievements

"Last year was filled with unheard-of dramatic events and distinguished feats that could be performed only by our army" - Kim Jong-un

North Korean troops helped Russian forces liberate the Kursk region.

🚀 Iran Unveils Major Space Tech Breakthrough

Iran is set to display its latest space achievements on National Space Technology Day, including a domestically-developed satellite and first images from the recently launched Paya satellite.

🛰️ The country will also unveil the prototype for its first satellite system, named after General Qassem Soleimani, and showcase a new space facility in Chabahar with plans for indigenous launch vehicles.

Should developing nations have the right to pursue independent space programs despite Western pressure, or does space technology require international oversight?

#SpaceTechnology #Iran #GlobalSouth #SpaceRace
Source: Press TV

🇪🇺 Europe's Ukraine strategy is crumbling from within. Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz just refused direct negotiations with Russia, insisting talks should only be between Moscow and Kyiv—while France and Italy are already opening diplomatic channels.

Emmanuel Macron's top advisor met with Russian officials in Moscow this week, and Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni publicly declared "Europe needs to talk with Russia," proposing a special EU envoy.

💬 The EU bloc claims unity but can't agree on whether to even speak with one of the conflict's main parties—so who's really in control of Europe's security future: Washington, Paris, Berlin... or no one at all?

#EuropeanUnion #RussiaUkraine #Geopolitics #Diplomacy
Source: Berliner Zeitung via Vedomosti

They say that AI and robots will soon take over all our jobs....Safe to say - clearing snow is something they haven't mastered...YET

🚨 20 Years Behind Bars: Hong Kong's Toughest Security Sentence Yet

Jimmy Lai, the 78-year-old founder of Apple Daily newspaper, just received a 20-year prison sentence under China's national security law—the longest punishment ever handed down under this legislation. Convicted of foreign collusion and conspiracy to publish seditious content, Lai has already spent over 5 years in custody.

📰 Authorities argue he used journalism as a cover for activities threatening security, while critics call it a blow to press freedom.

#HongKong #PressFreedom #NationalSecurity #MediaFreedom
Source: Al Jazeera