🇵🇰⚡️- A Pakistani court has dropped charges against deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan for incitement to murder

🇫🇷 - France banned the abaya, a cloak worn by Muslim women, in public schools.

🇺🇸⚡️ - President Trump's trial is slated to begin on March 4th 2024.

🇺🇸⚡️- Reports of a mass shooting at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Officers are on on scene.

🇷🇺🇱🇻⚡️- Russians living in Latvia may face total expulsion from the nation next month.

According to Ingmars Lidaka, head of Latvia's citizenship ministry, between 5,000 and 6,000 Russian citizens with residence permits who have not passed the Latvian language exam will receive official notices to leave Latvia as of 1 September, and be given only three months to leave the country.

Russia has yet to react to this development diplomatically.

🇺🇸⚡️- Shooter at the UNC Chapel Hill campus has been apprehended.

🇹🇼🇺🇦 - Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou, founder of Apple parts supplier Foxconn, has entered the race for President of Taiwan on a platform to stop the country becoming the “next Ukraine.”

In his announcement speech, he said, “Taiwan must not become Ukraine, and I will not let Taiwan become the next Ukraine… I implore the Taiwanese people to give me four years. I promise that I will bring 50 years of peace to the Taiwan Strait.”

Having failed to secure the nomination of the main opposition party, Kuomintang (KMT), Gou decided to run as an independent candidate positioning himself as the only candidate who can stop war with China.

His company, Foxconn, derives 70% of its revenue from Chinese factories.

🇺🇸⚡️- A National Guardsman has fired at illegal migrants attempting to cross the border in Texas, injuring one.

🇻🇦🇷🇺 - Pope Francis advised young Russians not to forget that they are "heirs of a great country".

🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️- Iran and China have signed a $2.7 billion deal to expand Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️- Putin will be visiting China on a state visit in the future, despite the ICC arrest warrant

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- The General of the Quds Force Ismael Qaani stated today "If Iraq does not abide by its commitment to disarm Kurdish terrorists, Iran will take decisive action to defend its national security."

🇷🇺⚡️- Press Service of Yevgeny Prigozhin reported today that his funeral was held outside Saint Petersburg

🇺🇦⚡️- Zelensky dismissed the head of the SBU in Zakarpattia Oblast (Subcarpathia.)

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- Iraqi government announces plans to dismantle Kurdish terrorist encampments in Northern Iraq, per agreements with the Iranian government

🇷🇺⚡️- Yevgeny Prigozhin has been buried next to his father, Viktor Prigozhin.

🇷🇺⚡️ - Putin notably declared he would not be attending the funeral.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- The US Department of Defense has announced a yearly aid package for the Ukrainians, totaling $250 million annually.

🇳🇬 - Over 100 alleged homosexuals have been arrested in Nigeria for attending a same-sex wedding event in the country’s Delta state.

The police chief who led the arrests emphasized that all the suspects will be charged in court, and that “this is not something that will be allowed in Nigeria... we cannot copy the West.”

One suspect protested his arrest, saying, “I dressed like a female because I’m a model and want to perform on stage. I don’t know if dressing like this is an offense. I’m not gay.”

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🇷🇺⚡️ - A fire broke out at Pskov airport following a suspected Ukrainian drone attack. Pskov is located around 50km from Russia's border with Ukrainian ally Latvia.