🇺🇸 - Rumors are circulating that Donald Trump Jr "bought" Mar-a-Lago from his father, which Trump Jr denied in a Breitbart article.

🇺🇸 - Chief Keef posted this.

🇷🇺 - Western firms have faced heavy financial penalties for leaving Russia.

So far companies have been hit with losses exceeding $80bn due to write-downs and lost revenue.

Moscow has demanded a 50% discount on all foreign deals and a further tax of at least 10% of the price to support Russia’s national budget.

🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Joint Russian and Syrian strikes against Idlib, supposedly against rebel forces.

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️ - Niger's junta declared the French ambassador persona non grata, ordering him to leave the country within 48 hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇳 - Vivek Ramaswany softened his stance on Israel.

🇺🇦⚡️- Two Ukrainian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets crashed into each other over Zhytomyr.

🇺🇸⚡️- Joe Biden, the so-called 46th President of the United States, responded to a reporter asking about President Trump's mugshot, stating "he's a handsome guy."

🇳🇪⚡️- The Nigerien Chief of Staff has ordered that all armed forces be on "high alert"

🇳🇪⚡️ - This tweet was issued by the Nigerien press office concerning rumors of further expulsions.

🇷🇺⚡️- Kremlin Spokesman Peskov has rejected all allegations that Prigozhin was killed on Kremlin orders, referring to it as an "absolute lie."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian anti-aircraft systems activated against Ukrainian drones over Moscow.

🇸🇾 - Protests, mainly surrounding food prices, have broken out in several Syrian cities.

🇫🇷🇮🇳 - France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that Niamey had no authority to expel its ambassador.

🇸🇩⚡️- Al Jazeera reporting a huge explosion in Khartoum, Sudan, likely a jet fuel depot

🇬🇧 - Record numbers of British households have fallen behind on their energy bills.

A typical British family is now expected to pay an average of £1,923 from October to December, but the British government have withdrawn the £400 of support given to households last winter, meaning millions of households could end up having to pay even more despite many being unable to afford it.

🇳🇬🇬🇭🇳🇪 - Over 50% of Nigerians and Ghanaians said that the Nigerien coup d'etat was "justified", in a blow to Western liberalism.

🇺🇸⚡️- FOX News is reporting a mass shooting at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, FL. 4 are supposedly dead.

🇿🇼⚡️ - Zimbabwe's president Emerson Mnangagwa has been reelected.

🇺🇲⚡- The 3rd largest oil refinery in the United States - The Marathon Oil Refinery of Garyville, Louisiana - has caught fire.

According to officials at the scene, "The fire is currently under control and has remained within the common containment-dike area of two tanks on the refinery’s property."

This incident is not at all uncommon: there has been a noticeable trend involving US industrial facilities and infrastructure breaking down. Although these issues have been occuring for years the rate at which they occur has seemingly accelerated since the infamous East Palestine disaster earlier this year.