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@MID_RF From frying pan to 🔥 fire

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@Ade_lois Valar morghulis

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@ShehuSani Process was rigged

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@ShehuSani He who kilLs by the sword, dies by the sword.

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The Islamic regime in Iran has confiscated St Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran, founded in 1876 and described as the country’s oldest Protestant church, and evicted 27 Armenian and Assyrian Christians, around 20 families, from its compound.

The ten-acre property contained the historic church, two schools, residential homes and offices belonging to Christian institutions including the Bible Society and Council of Evangelical Churches of Iran.
Two UN experts say most of the families were low-income, long-term residents who were given just two weeks to leave, while church leaders were reportedly threatened with arrest if they refused to comply.

The experts warned that the seizure forms part of a “decades-long pattern” targeting Iran’s Christian community, particularly Persian-language Christian worship.

Iran once had around 50 Protestant churches offering services in Persian. The UN experts say effectively none do so today, while at least 79 Christians are currently detained or imprisoned in Iran, the vast majority converts.

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@RDTParody @BBCWorld 😅😅

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@OneModupe Good

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@nexta_tv Never gonna happen Chief.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

The list of U16 academies competing in Messi’s “Messi Cup” tournament is STACKED 😳🔥

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City
🇪🇸 Atlético de Madrid
🇪🇸 Barcelona
🇪🇸 UE Cornellà
🇺🇸 Inter Miami
🇮🇹 Inter
🇳🇱 Ajax
🇵🇹 Benfica
🇦🇷 Boca Juniors
🇦🇷 Newell’s Old Boys
🇦🇷 River Plate
🇧🇷 Flamengo
🇧🇷 Palmeiras
🇪🇨 Independiente del Valle

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[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Kwankwaso expresses willingness to forgive, reconcile with Gov. Yusuf https://t.co/ZnqwlFtWKz

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Aunty Esther is trending because Jehovah’s Witnesses have changed the draconian 1961 rule on blood transfusions, 9 months after the trader’s death. — But it’s still not what you think. [Explained]

They can now only transfuse blood component like; white cells, red cells, plasma or platelets; if only a persons conscience carries it. Members are still not allowed to transfuse full blood.

What this simply means is:

If a JW member is ill and needs blood, medical practitioners will identify the particular blood component they need and transfuse that one, entirely at the patient’s conviction.

Blood has 4 components: Red, White, Plasma and Platelets. All of these combined makes up a full blood unit.

So the new global announcement released yesterday 18th September 2026, is saying if you are sick, you can now transfuse the part of blood that your body needs, not the whole blood unit containing all four parts.

This is interesting because medically, patients don’t always need all four.

For example, someone who has lost a lot of blood may primarily need red blood cells, while someone with a clotting problem may only need plasma or platelets. — Good update.

However, the distinction gets tricky. Say a patient needs red cells + white cells + plasma + platelets — all four components of blood.

They may have to receive them separately rather than simply take a unit of whole blood; which can technically, be described as a whole blood unit, but the transfusion process differs. This, of course, is just a technical interpretation, as the Sept. 18th announcement is nuanced.

Aunty Esther Mensah, 38, died on December 27, 2025, after a months-long battle with breast cancer. She had refused blood transfusions proposed as part of her treatment, in accordance with her faith, despite Twitter NG donating ₦30 million towards her treatment.

3-months later, JW reoriented is 9m+ members that blood transfusion is allowed, but it has to be your own stored blood.

This blood transfusion policy was introduced in 1945 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

But it didn’t forbid blood transfusions, until 1950’s when the church banned it totally and then 1961 when they officially made blood transfusion a punishable offense. — disfellowship, ostracism, expulsion from the church. But apparently revised it in the 2000 WatchTower.

Now twitter is wondering if Aunty Esther’s fate would have been different if this adjustment was made earlier.

Apparently, Jehovah’s Witnesses forbids blood transfusions, because in the Old Testament God told the Israelites not to eat blood because it is sacred. Leviticus 17:10–14, Acts 15:28–29 and Genesis 9:4

In essence, they believe transfusing blood = consuming blood, just through the veins instead of the mouth. And it’s disobedient and a moral sin.

Follow @TrendingEx for daily explanations!

Full JW press release: https://t.co/Lw7Bih1Cdk

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@GloWorld In Ariaria market as a whole, your network both for data and call is ZERO. Make my weekly bundle finish first, I'm swapping for another network immediately

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@shatty_clothing @GloWorld That magic bundle is a scam. They'll never give you more than 500mb in bonus.the so called system that generates the bonus was given a specific instruction, to give only 500mb..

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Today, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made a very interesting and rather surprising claim about Ukrainian casualties. In this post, I will analyse this statement and apply some related statistics to get a clearer picture on the current manpower situation within the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

According to Tusk, due to new Russian tactics and improved technical capabilities, Ukraine's casualties have increased to around 27,000 killed and wounded per month. He says that this information came from Poland's "partners from Ukraine".

Is this claim true? Well, you may remember that Budanov stated in August that Ukraine would need to mobilise 30,000 soldiers per month in order to maintain the current strength of it's armed forces. This gives a lot of credibility to Tusk's claim of 27,000 Ukrainian casualties per month. Additionally, with Poland being an ally of Ukraine (regardless of what people say about their cultural/historical tensions), Tusk has no incentive to lie about such a high number that directly contradicts the ludicrous claims made by Zelensky.

While we don't know the monthly casualty rate before August, if we were to assume that it has been 27,000 per month on average for the entirety of the war, it would give us a figure of about 1.46 million.

Do I think that 1.46 million is the true casualty count for Ukraine? No. I think it's less, and that Ukrainian casualties have increased since the failed 2023 summer counteroffensive and the rapid increase in glide-bomb and drone usage by Russia.

However, for the longest time, I have estimated that Ukraine and Russia's casualties are MUCH closer to 1:1 than either side wants to admit, probably with Ukraine having slightly more than Russia due to Russia's superior firepower capabilities and capacity. Casualties for both sides have increased significantly since the beginning of the attritional phase of the war in late-2022, and will likely continue to increase this year and into 2027. My personal estimates (which of course, are largely baseless and just educated guesses from my thousands of hours of covering this war) would put Russian and Ukrainian casualties each at around 700,000, or around half of this 1.46 million figure.

However, it's important to mention the replacement rates Russia and Ukraine both have. According to NATO estimates (so, the bare minimum number, as they have an incentive to understate this), Russia recruits - via financial incentives - anywhere between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers per month. This was also repeatedly backed up by Syrskyi's own claims about the total number of Russian personnel within Ukraine, as this number he gave increased each time he made a statement about it.

According to my information from sources within Ukraine who analysed the recent mobilisation activity though local tracking services, Ukraine forcibly mobilises a little less than 1,000 soldiers per day - a rate that has increased substantially since July due to a new campaign against military-aged men in Kyiv, western Ukraine, and some smaller towns. When taking into account the small number of volunteers who still sign up to join the AFU, that figure would probably reach around 1,000 per day, or 30,000 per month.

So, in theory, both sides are *likely* able to maintain their current army sizes, right? Well, no. At least not for Ukraine. There's always all this talk about Ukrainian manpower shortages. Why is this?

Well, the vast majority of Ukraine's manpower replacements come from forcibly mobilised men, and most of those are from men kidnapped off the streets by the TCC. The training camps they are sent to are often of very poor quality compared to ones for volunteer soldiers, and most of the time they do not receive the necessary amount of training time before being sent to the frontline. Some of these soldiers serve as "meat" for the notorious assault units or territorial defence brigades (e.g. the 108th TDF Brigade, 425th Assault Brigade "Skala"). While Ukraine has improved on this major issue (e.g. the infamous 47th and 110th Mechanised Brigades are no longer seeing massive destruction of their combat capabilities, and Skala has been broken up and reformed), the lack of training remains a major issue for their ability to fight effectively.

Additionally, prior to August, Ukraine *wasn't* achieving a replacement rate for their military, at least according to Tusk's 27,000 figure. This has only changed due to a new change in policy allowing for massively increased mobilisation in Kyiv and western Ukraine, which, especially Kyiv, served as a form of "safe haven" for young military-aged men, to an extent.

Furthermore, this 30,000 soldier per month mobilisation rate I provided is only based on recorded mobilisation incidents. It does not take into account men who escaped training centres or went AWOL upon reaching the frontline. I assume that Tusk's 27,000 number also does not include soldiers who went AWOL, as they are generally not considered "casualties" by the Ukrainian government. Therefore, when taking this into account, it becomes clear that, if Tusk's claim is correct, Ukraine likely isn't achieving a replacement rate on their army, with its size actively decreasing. This, in my opinion, is the single more important factor contributing to the manpower issues within the Ukrainian military that we so often hear about.

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Maybe the Chinese should set up refineries in Nigeria. Nothing should stop them from doing so.

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@statsglobe Ukraine shouldn't be on that list.

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@GloWorld Free 100gb? How?
Even Gloria is out of service ever since the upgrade

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@ZelenskyyUa #Justice for oil refineries in Russia 🤡