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🇵🇭🇨🇳 The Philippines has summoned China's ambassador after he warned Beijing could "easily win" a military conflict between the two countries. Chinese Amb. Jing Quan made the remarks last week, telling Manila it should consider itself fortunate to have China as a neighbor. "If we want to use force, we may easily win. But no, we will not choose force, and we love peace." The Philippine Foreign Ministry condemned his comments as provocative and unacceptable, while several senators called for his expulsion. The confrontation follows clashes between Chinese and Philippine forces in parts of the South China Sea, where Beijing claims vast territories despite an international ruling rejecting the legal basis for its claims. Source: New Indian Express / Writer: Mhedi

🇶🇦🇮🇷 Qatar’s Defense Minister on Iran: "We want to build a bridge in order to use economic ties to prevent any conflict. Because Iran is our neighbor. We need to find ways to prevent any kind of conflict in the future." YES, this is the WAY! Writer: Samuel t.co/rytwcFdi4e

🚨🇦🇹🇮🇱🇧🇬 BREAKING: A BOMB THREAT forced a passenger flight from Israel to make an emergency landing in Bulgaria. The Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 was flying from Tel Aviv to Vienna with 51 passengers and 6 crew, when the threat was reported while it was over Romania. Bulgaria scrambled a MiG-29 fighter jet, and the airliner diverted to Sofia, where everyone was evacuated and authorities searched the aircraft. No bomb was found, no injuries were reported, and the passengers later continued safely to Vienna. Source: BBC / Writer: Samuel

🇫🇷 France’s rioters are angry about the cost of living, so some of them came up with a solution: just stop paying. A Carrefour Express in Paris got cleaned out, with shelves stripped, registers smashed and glass all over the floor. Inflation solved, one looted grocery store at a time 😆 Writer: Julie t.co/JZdt9aNNk6

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Netanyahu: "We have the readiness, determination, and capability to strike our enemies whenever necessary. Our enemies will suffer even heavier blows than those they have endured so far." More threats. More strikes. More destruction. But where is the actual plan for peace, Bibi? Writer: Samuel t.co/7xlBV3HBTj

🇫🇷 French citizens have had enough of watching their towns get trashed, and this one decided to handle it personally. It’s definitely NOT the bus stop’s fault that “education” in France isn’t up to this kid’s standards… Writer: Julie t.co/ipFQOw89Qf

🇧🇷 Lula and Bolsonaro's 1st debate did NOT disappoint!! But what Lula said here was patently fking ridiculous... "Is your brother fleeing to the United States, plotting against Brazil, asking for Trump's intervention? What you are doing is betraying your country and you will be judged for it." No Lula, YOU and YOUR corrupt government are the ones that have betrayed Brazil... Crackpot calling the kettle black!!!! @BolsonaroSP / Writer: Michael t.co/QEy2oG63fn

🇺🇸 Elon says he’ll give a SpaceX share to every kid in America next year, and he’s calling it “the first of many.” With SpaceX trading around $146 a share and roughly 73 million kids in the U.S., that’s a gift worth about $10.7 BILLION. The next generation just got more reasons to be rooting for Mars. Sources: MarketBeat, U.S. Census Bureau / Writer: Julie

🇩🇪 Jensen Huang has some tough love for Germany: stop overthinking and get to work. “Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically advanced countries to be left so far behind in technology. And I think the reason for that is this: maybe it’s the European way to overthink everything.” The Nvidia boss says Germany has no shortage of talent, it just needs to actually use it. The country that built the car and the printing press now needs productivity advice from Silicon Valley. How times change. Writer: Julie t.co/52QviAqKvO

Dude, Where's My Car? Right here. @Tesla Writer: Oliver t.co/KzaeaR1upO

Putin has NO RIGHT to invade Ukraine and start this war, but honestly, how fkn stupid have NATO's decisions been over the past 20 years

🇫🇷 Students from École du Louvre just decided the world’s most visited museum belongs to them. Tourists who paid full price are standing out in the cold while they block the entrance and call it activism. Selfish pricks... Writers: Samuel, Michael t.co/1ZPxWu3BAS

🇮🇳 A biker in India sped past a police checkpoint to dodge a fine. He sent his wife flying off the back in the process and didn’t even look back. Guess who’ll be flying out of bed tonight 😂 Writer: Julie t.co/NwBmy2XG3E

🇫🇷 France's protests have reached the Louvre, with art and culture students blocking the entrance to the world's most visited museum this morning. A protester says the tourists stuck in line are getting aggressive with them, since they've already paid for their tickets. They came for the Mona Lisa. They got French protest culture thrown in for free. Sources: @JBSemerdjian / Writer: Julie t.co/qtwfRu8Hea

He fed ant colonies sugar in an experiment to see what happens when you eliminate their need to do any work. Writer: Mhedi t.co/5QvPdUd1b0

🚨🇫🇷 Rioters in Paris have reportedly begun breaking into people's HOMES! Poor people KNOW the French authorities WON'T be helping them. It may be too late to save France at this point! Writer: Mhedi t.co/tru447BROG

Weasel is a 15-year-old golden retriever who has apparently discovered Pilates, and now he's refusing to grow old gracefully. While other dogs his age are contemplating retirement, this gentleman is working on his core strength. Fifteen years old, doing Pilates, and making the rest of us look like lazy bastards. Legend! Writer: Oliver t.co/GUPUw7fMr0

PARIS HAS FALLEN

🚨🇫🇷 France's weekend of riots has now spilled into the markets... 📉 French stocks, bonds and the euro all slid this morning, with the CAC 40 down nearly 1% and government borrowing costs hovering near their highest since 2002. The extra interest France pays to borrow compared to Germany is sitting near levels last seen during the euro debt crisis, and Goldman Sachs warns taxes will probably have to go up. If things get bad enough for the ECB to step in, Goldman says France could be in for the kind of painful reforms Greece and Ireland went through. Ask the people in those countries what “painful reforms” actually feel like. Source: CNBC / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 The remains of one French supermarket affected by the savage Paris lootings. A close look at what they DIDN'T TAKE reveals more than taking stock of what they did. Writer: Mhedi t.co/d0HALTlTLl

🇮🇩 3 HIKERS have DIED after an eruption at Indonesia's Dukono volcano caught their group near the crater. Now authorities are investigating whether their tour guide ignored warnings about the danger. It's heartbreaking to think these people set out for an adventure and never came home. Volcanoes are incredible to witness, but the warnings exist for a reason. If they were ignored, the families deserve to know why. Writer: Oliver t.co/7UwcMtyOEY

Muscles are one thing. Making it count in a fight is another thing entirely. Writer: Mhedi t.co/KZICa1lmO2

This is how we entertained ourselves before TikTok 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/MkRptVpTGi

🇵🇸 Half a million people in Gaza are about to lose their food aid, right as winter sets in. The World Food Program says a funding gap is forcing it to cut the number of people it feeds from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. Community kitchens will drop from 250,000 hot meals a day to 150,000, and families in the hardest-to-reach areas will now eat EVERY OTHER day. The reason comes down to money, with the WFP receiving less than half its usual funding for Gaza this year. Markets in Gaza are stocked, but with more than 80% of people out of work, few can afford to buy anything. Cooking gas still isn't allowed in, so children are sent out to collect plastic and cardboard to burn just to bake bread. The agency says it needs $450 million to keep going for the next 6 months. Source: BBC / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 If Macron doesn't make an example of these scumbags, it's game over for France Writer: Ian t.co/EY8mi29E2x

🇮🇱🇪🇺 Netanyahu says Europe has two very different attitudes toward Israel. At the UN, European countries accuse Israel of stealing land and losing the moral high ground. But behind closed doors, he says, those same countries come asking Israel for help fighting terrorism. Europe seems to like Israel’s intel a lot more than it likes Israel. Source: Clash Report / Writer: Julie t.co/ww2Sy4PVUg

🇫🇷 Footage of the bruised woman who lost her restaurant in the Paris riots. The looters reduced the restaurant to what looks like the ruins of a fallen city. "A life of work," she exclaimed in tears. Something that the parasites the French government won't try very hard to prosecute will never know. Writer: Mhedi t.co/cyyZ9D3L49

🇮🇱🇪🇺 Netanyahu on his belief that Europe has been seized by far-left lunatics and Islamists: "I really get pissed off with them. You don't have to bend to Islamist constituencies and the lunatic left. Stand up. Be a leader. President Trump is a leader. Be a leader! They're not leaders. They're so weak and passive, and they're basically trying to appease the worst fanatics in their realm." Surprised he didn't add that they need to bomb a few countries Writer: Mhedi t.co/OkYaMxh4wQ

This was Ohio's answer to looters back in 2020 The right to bear arms certainly has its benefits Writer: Ian t.co/g9NQ00pj9Z

🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders just explained how DEMOCRATS managed to LOSE THE WORKING CLASS to a billionaire. And he isn't being particularly gentle about it. Democrats spent years promising ordinary Americans a better life while backing trade deals that wiped out good-paying manufacturing jobs. “They lost faith in the Democratic Party, and not unjustifiably.” The party that spent decades calling itself the champion of working Americans watched those same voters turn to Trump. And Bernie, who has been complaining about this forever, is still trying to get his own side to listen. Imagine losing the factory worker vote to a billionaire with gold-plated furniture and then needing Bernie Sanders to explain what went wrong. Source: Fox News / Writer: Oliver