17 400 000 dollars. It would have been more understandable had they just stolen that money instead.

🇳🇬 - Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country’s northwest.

🇺🇦 - Despite reports that news about Umerov's refusal to return to Ukraine were debunked, official representative of former president Poroshenko's pro-European party just confirmed that rumors of Umerov unilaterally refusing to come back despite President Zelensky's request are indeed true.

🇺🇸 - Axios claims that Texas senator who barely won his most recent reelections, Ted Cruz, is preparing for another presidential run in 2028.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza.

For the past few years, Israel has been providing daily and free high cost medical help to hundreds of Palestinian patients, including children, who could have died within few days had it stopped.

Now, as the Gaza operation is officially over, Israel started deportations of these people back to their homeland that is supposed to take over provision of medical care for its citizens.

🇩🇪🇵🇱 - German auction house cancels sale of 600+ artefacts from the Holocaust era after pressure from the Polish foreign minister.

🇪🇨 - Ecuador's pro-Western president loses the nationwide referendum that was supposed to reform the nation's politics, making it more friendly to the West, more transparent, and less socialist.

However, the referendum hold consultative legal status and the nation's parliament can still pass the reforms, even though citizens clearly voted against these changes.

🇺🇸 - NFL cornerback Kris Boyd of the New York Jets team is in critical condition after being shot in Manhattan.

🇸🇦 - Reportedly, Saudi Arabia executed 345 people in 2024 - double the rate of the past few years.

Western human rights organizations condemn, even though some were executed for horrific crimes such as drug trafficking or kidnapping babies for bloody sorcery rituals.

The whole Western block voted against the UN resolution for the fight against Nazism and other forms of racial discrimination - primarily, because the initiative was suggested by Russia and, therefore, there have been concerns that it could have been used to advance its aggressive foreign agenda.

🇬🇧 - UK plans to confiscate illegals' jewelry in order to cover expenses related to their presence in the UK, the nation's deputy interior secretary confirmed.

He also called the situation when illegals receive monthly welfare payments, yet manage to buy Audis, unacceptable.

🇫🇷 🇺🇦 Ukraine to buy 100 Rafale fighter jets from France, presidents Zelensky and Macron agreed.

🇺🇸 - Newly resurfaced footage of the failed assassin of President Trump shortly ahead of the shooting.

It is also revealed that the assassin used they/them pronouns on the furry porn website, DevianArt.

🇸🇦 🇮🇳 At least 45 Indian citizens were killed in a horrific bus accident that occurred near Medina in Saudi Arabia.

🇷🇺 - In St Petersburg, AI will be used to find buildings with icicles. Owners, whose buildings will be identified as those where icicles formed and were not removed, will be issued fines of USD 1000+.

🇪🇬 - After 30 years of planning and construction, Egypt finally opened the Grand Egyptian Museum that is specialized in Egyptology and is located right next to the famous pyramids. All that while the actual Ancient Egyptian tombs are underfunded and suffer from floods that destroy heritage and create risks of collapse.

It looks like one big Walmart.

🎮⚡️- Ubisoft has been bought by someone.

No official comment yet on who.

🇨🇩 - In DR Congo, a private jet with the nation's industry minister onboard caught fire. Initial reports suggest that no one died.

DR Congo just can't have a break.