Reports of a massive fire sweeping through Desa Adat Sade, a traditional Sasak village on Indonesia’s Lombok Island, destroying around 120 houses and displacing hundreds of residents.
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: Omani Foreign Minister @badralbusaidi is scheduled to visit Iran on Tuesday.
He is to hold talks with Iran's Foreign Minister @araghchi on bilateral issues and regional developments.
President Trump said 97% of his endorsed candidates have won their primaries.
While that’s good for him in solid red states, he left out an important factor which is 5 out of 6 battleground states had higher Dem turnout.
If turnout is similar in the general, that’s not a good sign for Trump-endorsed candidates in those states.
Former Colombian President Petro:
Restoring relations with Israel while Netanyahu is in power applauds the Gaza genocide.
No honorable man or woman in Colombia can accept applauding the genocide.
🇨🇳🇺🇸 One little-known metal is becoming a pretty big headache for the U.S.
It’s tungsten, and the Pentagon wants more of it for weapons and its strategic stockpile.
But when the U.S. recently went looking, it ran into an awkward problem: there’s barely any non-Chinese supply sitting around to buy.
And that’s where this gets bigger than weapons.
Tungsten is also needed for advanced memory chips used in AI. Two Japanese factories making around a quarter of the world’s supply of a key tungsten-based gas shut down in July after their Chinese raw material ran out.
Now Samsung and SK Hynix are scrambling for new suppliers.
Meanwhile, China, which restricted those tungsten exports in the first place, is expanding its own production of the gas.
So China cuts the raw material, foreign factories shut down, and Chinese factories expand. Pretty convenient.
Source: Zero Hedge / Writer: Daniyal
BREAKING: Israeli forces have advanced with several army vehicles into the village of Ma’ariya in the western Deraa countryside, southern Syria, reports Syrian media.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the new US sanctions package, likely to be unveiled Monday, is like watching the ‘same movie playing over and over again’.
He added that the ‘bullying’ under Trump is no different from that under previous US administrations.
🇯🇵‼️🚨 Poop rivers in Tokyo
Tokyo has a combined sewer system, meaning sewage and rainwater use the same piping.
It is designed to discharge into rivers if it overflows due to heavy rains.
When extreme rains happen, the “bayside view” apartments turn into “poop side view.” This happened this week again, strong rains flushed the sewage into the water.
Wonder why the design choice? Japan surely could have found a better solution.
Trump is having a ROUGH Weekend
First Iran, then Canada, and now his WIFE
So Trump and Melania had a FIGHT At the Freedom 250 celebration. She got up, WIPED OFF the part where he touched her and WALKED AWAY
Here are both clips stitched together
🇷🇺🇬🇧 Russia recalls ambassador from London after seven years
Russia has recalled Ambassador Andrei Kelin from the United Kingdom after seven years in the post, The Guardian reports. He left the country on July 21, and Moscow has not yet named a successor.
A Russian Embassy representative told the paper that relations with London have deteriorated to an "unprecedentedly low level."
The recall comes as the United Kingdom continues supplying strike drones to Ukraine that have hit several Russian oil refineries.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
‘If you add up the 55 countries of the African Union, that’s around 1.5 billion people, same size as India🇮🇳 and China🇨🇳. The big difference is the imperial powers divided Africa…they HAVE TO unite. As 55 countries you can’t make it, but as ONE African continental economy, you can.’
‘Look at what China did, follow that model.’
📂🇫🇷FLASH INFO - Hubert Van Den Torren de Montal affirme avoir été approché par deux hommes se présentant comme juges francs-maçons (un ex-DGSE, un dans l’immobilier), qui auraient été mandatés par le Grand Maître du Grand Orient pour lui demander une proposition financière dans son affaire.
Il dit avoir exigé en retour des sanctions et des excuses des institutions judiciaires et maçonniques.
⚡️⭕️ Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister hold emergency meeting to assess threat of drones, balloons, and incendiary kites launched from Gaza toward Israel. (IRIB News)
🇨🇳BREAKING: China slashed oil imports by 5.5 MILLION barrels per day during the Iran war and single-handedly shaved $30 off global oil prices.
That is a bigger demand cut than the entire world made during COVID, except China's GDP kept growing through it, per The Economist.
Beijing used three levers: it drew down 150 MILLION barrels of reserves, halved fuel exports, and pushed citizens onto trains and EVs while infrastructure projects were paused.
One oil trading executive put it simply: "China is the new OPEC."
🚨🇮🇱✡️ FLASH
DE LA FOLIE !
Le grand rabbin séfarade d’Israël nie l’existence du peuple palestinien et appelle à la colonisation de Gaza :
« Gaza est À NOUS.
Naplouse est À NOUS.
Jénine est À NOUS.
TOUT EST À NOUS.
Ce que nous devons faire maintenant, c’est prier Dieu, béni soit-il, afin que nous méritions la rédemption qui nous permettra réellement de retourner DANS LES LIEUX qui sont LES NÔTRES.
Que le TOUT-PUISSANT DÉTRUISE GAZA et que NOUS Y RETOURNIONS.
Nous savons que lorsque viendra la rédemption, le peuple d’Israël fera preuve d’une telle force face à TOUTES LES NATIONS, et à plus forte raison face à cette populace, qui se fait appeler "peuple palestinien", mais qui n’est pas un peuple. Ils n’ont jamais été un peuple. Ils ne sont pas un peuple et ils n’auront aucun droit ici. Les droits nous reviennent. »