🇨🇳🇷🇺 - Reportedly, Chinese companies temporarily stop all oil purchases from Russia in the aftermath of the new US sanctions against Russia's oil industry and companies.

🇰🇵🇷🇺 - Kim Jong Un declared that North Korea will always support Russia.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 - British PM Starmer to attempt to coordinate supplies of long-range missiles for Ukraine.

🇪🇬 - Egyptian authorities in Ismailia have uncovered details of a horrific crime that has shocked the nation, a 13-year-old boy invited his classmate home, beaten up to death with a stick, and dismembered the body using a power saw in an attempt to imitate scenes from a violent movie he had recently watched.

Then, proceeded to hide parts of body all across the city and one smaller part cooked and ate - allegedly, because he felt curious.

The young killer is in custody now.

🇺🇸 - Alaska Airlines has grounded all flights following a major IT outage disrupting operations.

🇺🇸🇨🇦 - President Trump has ended all trade talks with Canada.

🇩🇴 - 500 thousand people left without power in the Dominican Republic due to the tropical storm Melissa.

🇲🇽 - 48 bags with human remains found all at once in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

🇮🇳 - At least 20 dead in a bus fire in Southern India.

🇭🇺🇪🇺 - PM Orban said that Hungary intends to circumvent the EU's ban on importing Russian oil.

🇲🇲🇹🇭 - More than 1000 former slaves, who were kept against their will at a scam call center in Myanmar that was recently discovered and destroyed by the nation's military, fled the country and crossed into Thailand.

🇷🇺🇫🇷 - Russia released French traveller Sofiane Sehili, who intended to cross Eurasia on his bicycle, after making him spend 50 days in custody and crushing his dream of completing this journey - all because Sehili crossed the border into Russia at a checkpoint that only accepted train and bus passengers, not individual travellers.

🇬🇧 - Financial Times reports that the Downing Street and British government overall became 'viper's nest' after Chris Wormald was appointed head of the British Civil Service - essentially, in charge of the British bureaucracy.

Claims that now bureaucrats spend most time intriguing one against another, whole Civil Service separated in fractions, they constantly leak information and sabotage each other's projects. Describes the current state of the British bureaucracy as whatever you see in the most comedic and stereotypical TV series about it.

🇺🇸 - Dr. Mehmet Oz says federal officials have discovered that six Democrat-run states spent over $1 billion in taxpayer funds on healthcare for illegal immigrants in recent months.

🇲🇽 - Mexican state of Jalisco admitted that, overall, 15 900 people are considered missing in the state. And that number only represents those registered as local residents.

🇷🇺 - Moscow woman stabbed taxi driver after he asked for additional 2 dollars when she demanded to make a stop next to a supermarket and wait for her - initially, the woman agreed to the surcharge, however, after returning from the shop, refused to pay the extra cost and attacked the driver instead.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Lugansk man, who kicked subwoofer that was playing Ukrainian songs and suffered from the subsequent explosion of that device, died at hospital after losing a leg shortly before passing.

🇺🇸 - After US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy decided to consider other contractors for the US Moon program, not just Musk's SpaceX (reportedly, because SpaceX admitted lack of the necessary resources), Elon Musk started a Twitter crusade against the government official.

Among other things, Musk ran a poll, comparing Duffy to a chimp, and twisted the Secretary's last name into 'Dummy'.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- US Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Russia's Envoy Kirill Dmitriev this weekend in Miami.

🇲🇾 - Over 4200 people evacuated in Malaysia after series of floods.

🇺🇸 - US destroyed another narco boat in the Caribbean. 6 cartel operatives killed.