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🇫🇷 France's money problems have spilled into its stock market, which is now trailing the rest of Europe by the widest gap since 2010. French stocks are down 3% this year, while Europe as a whole is up more than 7%. It all started with France's debt, which is now almost as big as its entire economy. Investors got nervous, dumped French government bonds and pushed borrowing costs to nearly 5%, the highest in almost 25 years. The panic then hit French banks, which hold a LOT of that debt. Société Générale is down over 20% since August and BNP Paribas 19%. France's big names were already in trouble. Luxury giants LVMH, Hermès and Kering are all down more than 25% this year, and carmaker Stellantis has lost almost 60%. "Buying French banks is for the brave," as a fund manager said, and with a budget fight and a presidential election next April, there aren't many heroes lining up. Turns out Europe's most stylish market isn't so fashionable anymore. Source: FT / Writer: Julie

🇮🇷 The Strait of Hormuz is starting to look like a floating junkyard. Containers and debris from the recent attacks on ships are now drifting through the route that normally carries about a fifth of the world's oil. Every container bobbing out there is cargo that never arrived, and a price tag that's about to land on someone's bill. Writer: Julie t.co/19VdOPA2BZ

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine says ONE missile strike just wiped out 6 Russian Su-34 bombers. Ukraine's Navy says a Neptune missile hit Borisoglebsk airbase in Russia's Voronezh region overnight, destroying 6 Su-34M jets and setting off secondary blasts across the base. These are the bombers Russia uses to drop glide bombs on Ukrainian troops and frontline towns. If the numbers hold up, that's 6 fewer planes raining bombs on Ukraine tonight. Source: United24 Media / Writer: Julie t.co/Wl1InEpis0

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky said Ukraine was done holding back, and a Russian refinery is already on fire. A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, set an oil refinery ablaze overnight, the local governor said. It’s Kyiv’s first refinery strike since Trump announced an energy ceasefire on Sunday. Ukraine held off for days while Russia kept hitting its grid, leaving 600,000 people without power, Zelensky says. When Zelensky said “We’re done,” he clearly wasn’t bluffing. Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

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🇮🇷 The IMF says the Middle East has been living off its savings since the Iran war began, and they're running OUT. "These buffers bought time, but they are finite," the IMF's Middle East chief said today, warning any fresh disruption could send prices jumping far more than before. The region is now set to shrink 1.3% this year after growing 3.3% in 2025. A 6.6% rebound is penciled in for 2027, but that’s a big bet on a war nobody can say will end. Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Footage circulating online reportedly shows another oil tanker hit by Iran’s IRGC near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said they ordered a faster tempo of tanker attacks earlier this month, aiming to keep oil prices high through the U.S. midterms. Iran can’t vote in the midterms, but it’s clearly trying to have a say. Writer: Julie t.co/TF4Jpqh9SI

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🇦🇺 Hidden cameras were reportedly found in the FEMALE SHOWERS of an Australian Navy ship. The military confirmed a hidden recording device was found aboard HMAS Leeuwin on Sunday, and police are investigating. Senator Jacqui Lambie says the footage may already have been uploaded online. "How many of our female sailors have unknowingly been recorded in their most private moments?" Seriously? Women in uniform now need to sweep the showers for cameras before they can wash? Source: The Independent / Writer: Julie

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🇬🇧 This woman in London was ARRESTED for feeding a few PIGEONS on the road. The British police have nothing to say about RAMPANT shoplifting that's causing INFLATION, but post mean tweets or feed a few birds, and the sirens come out. Pathetic. Writer: Mhedi t.co/hvhbUL6nph

🚨🇵🇰 At least 21 children, all under 13, and their teacher were killed when a school roof collapsed in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan. The hospital says more than a dozen others were brought in injured. Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie t.co/9eDCSjUKtU

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia launched a massive overnight drone attack on Ukraine's Kirovohrad region, killing three people and injuring six... as both sides continue exchanging large-scale strikes. The assault lasted more than 10 hours, with Ukrainian authorities reporting strikes at 25 locations, including logistics centers, warehouses, transport infrastructure, and residential buildings. Regional officials described it as the largest attack on Kirovohrad since the full-scale invasion, with nearly 360 Russian drones entering the region. The strikes come just days after Trump announced an immediate halt to attacks on energy infrastructure, an arrangement that Ukraine said it would support if Russia reciprocated. Writer: Mhedi t.co/r1CkJ4Repa

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🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺 Zelensky says Ukraine is going back to hitting Russia's oil refineries, Trump's ceasefire be damned. "The block is out. We're done." Ukraine paused energy strikes for 3 days to keep Washington happy, while Russia kept pounding Ukraine's grid and killed more than 100 civilians in a week. In return, Zelensky says, Kyiv lost U.S. early warnings for incoming ballistic missiles, which Washington later chalked up to a technical glitch. The U.S. wants the refinery strikes stopped so its deal for hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel can bring down fuel prices at home. Zelensky's bet on what comes next is "definitely" gas. He says he'd only hold off again in exchange for more Patriot interceptors, calling that the bare minimum. Kyiv held up its end for 3 days and got its missile alerts switched off for the trouble, so it's hardly shocking it's done playing nice. Source: FT / Writer: Julie t.co/GfrmrOXIT4

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Zelensky just implied that Trump's respect for Putin is because he rules with an iron fist: "I think President Trump is a man who speaks about it openly and loudly, that he loves such people and respects such people. Because for him, people who can be leaders for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, that means they are very strong, because they can hold power." Writer: Mhedi t.co/AjG3CDMgYC

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky says Ukraine asked the U.S. for Patriot missiles and got its comms throttled instead. "When I don't attack them, because you asked me not to attack them, they will attack me. It's fair if you give me something with which to defend myself. That's the minimum I'm asking for. And when I'm asking this, your answer is blocking Starlink." Elon said that call doesn't sit with SpaceX at all. The military version of Starlink is called Starshield, and it's owned and controlled by the U.S. government, so any limits on speed or usage are decided by the U.S. military and ultimately Trump. So the same man asking Ukraine to go easy on Russia is the one pushing the buttons that keep their comms going. Huh… Writer: Julie t.co/wNqjWa2zTV

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🇺🇸 Scott Bessent is calling for major World Bank reforms, including lifting restrictions on financing oil and gas extraction projects. Bessent argues that countries should be allowed to develop their energy resources without the bank automatically excluding fossil fuel projects. He also wants the World Bank to support deep-sea mining for critical minerals and expand investment in nuclear energy. Other demands include limiting borrowing by wealthier countries such as China and Poland and reforming procurement rules to encourage competition. Bessent also urged the IMF to take a tougher stance against economic policies that distort global trade in an apparent reference to China. The proposals reflect the Trump administration's push to reshape international financial institutions around its energy and economic priorities. Source: The State / Writer: Mhedi

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky says Ukraine kept its hands off Russia’s refineries for 3 days to respect the energy ceasefire, and Russia spent all 3 hitting Ukraine anyway. “I said to my military people that during the energy ceasefire, we would not attack Russian refineries, or anything connected with diesel. Because even if we are right, and we are right, somebody will say that we broke the energy ceasefire. I don't want to play this game. That's why, for three days, we didn't attack any of Russia's energy or diesel infrastructure. And for three days, they attacked us.” Kyiv kept its promise, and Moscow kept firing. Guess which one Washington is pressuring. Writer: Julie t.co/UPeAgTeQKw

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🇹🇷 Massive torrential downpours turned Istanbul into Venice This is wild Writer: Ian t.co/yrDosxbCa5

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 The U.S. pitched Europe on unfreezing some of Russia's frozen assets to lure Putin back to peace talks. Witkoff and Kushner suggested the money could go into a special vehicle overseen by Washington, which raised more than a few eyebrows. They floated the idea in Miami last week with officials from Ukraine, France, Germany, the UK, the EU and NATO in the room. A person briefed on the meeting said they were, unsurprisingly, told it was "simply not going to happen." Western allies froze about €260B of Russian state assets in 2022, most of it sitting in the EU. Releasing a single euro would need all 27 EU members to agree, which is about as far-fetched as Moscow paying war reparations. The Kremlin, meanwhile, says it will chase its “stolen” assets through the courts. Europe has sat on that vault for 4 years, and somehow someone thought it would just slide the key across the table 😆 Source: FT / Writer: Julie

🇹🇷 The scenes from Turkey looked apocalyptic Shopkeepers desperately tried to save their businesses after torrential downpours dumped up to 242 mm of rain on Istanbul To put that in context 1 mm of rain = 1 litre per m² Writer: Ian t.co/ndgg83pybm

Older cars aren't supposed to get better at driving. Yet here we are. Tesla is bringing FSD Supervised v14 Lite to older Intel-equipped Model S and X vehicles, squeezing newer driving intelligence into their existing HW3 computers. Smoother merges, better pedestrian handling and improved parking. The kind of stuff you actually notice in everyday driving. Getting more out of the car you already paid for? That's a pretty impressive way to make a software update feel like a car upgrade. @Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

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