Mario Nawfal

🇩🇪 Berlin wants to take over 144,000 apartments from private landlords. And pay them BILLIONS less than they're worth on paper. Die Linke, which won last month's election, is negotiating with the Social Democrats and Greens to bring the properties into public ownership and curb soaring rents. Any company owning more than 10,000 apartments in Berlin would have to give up every flat above that line, with legislation planned for 2028. And here's where things get VERY expensive. Berlin wants to cap compensation at €16 BILLION, roughly €100,000 per apartment and more than 40% below what the landlords have them on their books for. Europe's biggest landlord, Vonovia, faces an especially nasty hit. Its 120,000 affected flats are valued at €20.4 BILLION. Berlin would pay roughly €12 billion, leaving an €8.4 BILLION gap, equivalent to about 60% of the company's entire market value! Vonovia’s CEO calls the plan “unconstitutional,” and a rival landlord warns Germany becomes “uninvestable” if it goes through. Berliners voted for the idea back in 2021, and the city's housing shortage remains severe. Berlin has a housing crisis, angry renters, and now some VERY angry billion-euro landlords. What could possibly go wrong, right? Source: FT / Writer: Julie

🇵🇰 Imran Khan’s sons say Pakistan’s government wants their father DEAD... and he fears ending up like Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi Three years of pressure never broke him into a deal that would end his political career, so the plan now, as Qasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan see it, is to make him vanish from public life, and they haven’t forgotten the bullets fired at him before he was ever jailed: “It’s very clear they want him dead.” If Islamabad wants to put those fears to rest, the fastest way is opening that cell to his family and independent doctors. @Kasim_Khan_1999

🇮🇳 A look at the monumental levels of INSANITY at India's circuses. This episode was all about whether a man would survive having a massive rock dropped onto his cushioned chest. Writer: Mhedi t.co/9gxPZQAmSk

China's approach to workplace safety 😬 Writer: Ian t.co/SiMNeWqw5J

🇵🇰 EXCLUSIVE: IMRAN KHAN'S SONS SAY THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO KILL THEIR FATHER! I spoke again with Qasim and Sulaiman Khan, and this conversation was the most heartbreaking. Not only is their father, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, still in solitary confinement, but his three courageous sisters, Aleema, Uzma and Noreen, have now also been arrested And when @PTIofficial supporters hit the streets, many were arrested, beaten, and even killed! Imran Khan’s sons say they haven't spoken to their father in over 6 months, nobody has seen him for 2 months, and they're increasingly worried about his deteriorating health. I asked them the hardest question of all: Do they still believe they’ll ever see their father again? Qasim admitted, he has very little hope, but they will never stop fighting I told them both I wouldn't give up hope. And I meant it. @Kasim_Khan_1999

This breaks my mind By 2030, we're cooked Writer: Ian t.co/WmlKhAqYYj

🇺🇸 This woman decided it was worth getting a tan that makes her look like a badly cooked piece of meat so she too could be a victim of ICE. It was terrible, she said. They are so racist, she said. 🤣 Writer: Mhedi t.co/emrijuzjeS

Should have bought a Tesla 🤣 Writer: Ian t.co/1HuOgWrcQQ

🇨🇳🇳🇱🇨🇦 China says it bought 65 TONNES of gold in 4 months. Goldman Sachs estimates 148. That's one hell of a difference! From May through August, Goldman reckons Beijing bought more than DOUBLE what it officially reported. Even August's 25 tonnes was higher than China's declared 20, and that was the smallest gap in months! And the official numbers are hardly modest. China has been buying gold for 23 straight months, with September marking its biggest monthly purchase in nearly 3 years. Beijing isn't alone in this gold rush. Goldman estimates central banks worldwide snapped up 79 tonnes in August, more than 4 TIMES their pre-2022 monthly average of 17. But they’re not just buying gold, they're also moving what they already hold OUT of North America. The Dutch central bank shifted 86 tonnes of gold reserves from New York and Ottawa to London, citing growing geopolitical unrest. Gold holdings at the New York Fed also fell by 40 tonnes in August alone. Nobody's officially breaking up with the dollar. But central banks seem awfully interested in having a VERY shiny Plan B. Sources: Fortune, Goldman Sachs, DNB / Writer: Julie

This has to be one of the luckiest guys ever hit by a drone Writer: Ian t.co/KVaRA66R04

Grok Bot's computer just got 3X faster. And that's only ONE of the upgrades. It can now read and reply to your 𝕏 DMs, jump into 𝕏 threads when you tag it, and remember what you discussed on recent phone calls. Need research done? Tag your bot on 𝕏. Need your messages handled? Let it help. Want to connect more of your apps? New integrations are rolling out too. Cleaner chat cards, fewer notifications and easier ways to manage bots across your team. Every week, there's a little more you can hand over to Grok Bot. Less for you to handle. @Grok @Bot @X @spacexai / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

If you're going to smoke drugs, maybe find somewhere more chill to do it 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/vJOJAx3k9v

She asked her grandma to give a message for her future husband, and she basically politely said she's FOR THE STREETS 🤣 Writer: Mhedi t.co/SyFIdjz6zE

This guy was having an argument with his wife and couldn't take it anymore, so he jumped out of his apartment window 😬 Writer: Ian t.co/fj2hWpaRRb

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's “4 to 5 weeks” war with Iran is heading into MONTH 9. And his UN ambassador won't rule out ANOTHER YEAR of stalemate. Mike Waltz says the U.S. Navy can keep blockading Iranian ports “for the foreseeable future,” while Washington piles on even more economic pressure. Asked whether the U.S. could still be stuck in the same situation next year, with no nuclear deal and no normal traffic through Hormuz, Waltz dodged the hypothetical. He hopes Iran will “come to the table,” but Washington wants its highly enriched uranium gone and a deal restricting domestic enrichment before calling it done. Meanwhile, fuel prices are soaring, fertilizer supplies are strained, and Trump's approval is hovering around 31%, with the midterms less than 2 weeks away. November 3 is on the calendar. An end date for the war? Still nowhere in sight. Source: FT / Writer: Julie

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Forget trench warfare, it's now pipeline warfare in Ukraine This is the moment when Russian troops were reportedly trying to cut into a pipe being used by Ukrainians, who opened fire on them before it could be fully breached Writer: Ian t.co/4ADGgwMVVY

🚨BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇵🇸 West Bank shooting injures 5 Israelis, 2 of whom are in critical condition Two gunmen opened fire at the Judea Junction on Route 35, with IDF soldiers returning fire and killing them  Writer: Ian t.co/YHP4CPANaU

🇦🇺 Apple fans LINE UP in Melbourne for the iPhone Duo launch! 📲 The first customer even wore a blazer matching the Star White model. Australia is among the first countries to get it, with prices starting at A$3,499. The wait is over, and the first buyers are getting their hands on it. Writer: Lucas t.co/kSfGaUKIlG

🇺🇸 Trump endorses Max Engling for Indiana Secretary of State praising the lifelong Hoosier and former Senate staffer as a true MAGA Warrior! “Max Engling has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Secretary of State of Indiana — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” Engling better deliver too. Trump does not take kindly to being let down... Writer: Bri

🇨🇦Pushing body and mind to the absolute limit. Canadian diver, Molly Carlson made history off the coast of Newfoundland as the first woman to dive off an iceberg. What started as a journey with her own mental health turned into the scariest, most powerful jump of her life…and she NAILED IT! “I’ve always seen icebergs as 10% of what everyone sees and then 90% under the surface what nobody is seeing and what people are struggling with.” Writer: Bri t.co/md8LM3PDMo

🇰🇵 The YouTuber Harry Jaggard showed up in NORTH KOREA to ask for the KIM JONG UN HAIRCUT He brought a barber in Pyongyang a photo of the leader and walked out with the signature style for $8, plus a head massage. North Korea will lock you up for the wrong song or the wrong haircut if you’re local, but a tourist can walk in and ask for the supreme leader special. Turns out the rules get a little flexible when the customer is paying in dollars. Writer: Lucas t.co/yZfhHCR3fv

🇺🇸 The Pentagon and Lockheed just shook on a 10-year, 850-jet F-35 deal worth tens of billions Production stays at 156 a year, Lockheed kicks in $7 billion for unspecified "initiatives," and nobody has said what the whole thing costs or saves. Congress still has to sign off, the House wants proof of at least 5% savings plus full spare parts on every jet, and neither chamber has authorized the decade of maintenance that's half the point. A previous five-year maintenance deal died because nobody could show it saved money or improved readiness. The Air Force told Congress yesterday it needs 1,509 combat-ready fighters by 2035 after losing 81 airframes to Iran. The answer this week is a deal that locks in the same output for ten years, on a jet whose newest copies are parked for training because the upgrade isn't cleared for combat. Source: Breaking Defense / Lockheed Martin / Writer: Daniel

🇫🇷 Tucker says the first thing you notice in the Paris riot footage is that MOST of the people DON'T LOOK FRENCH He argues that many people in the clips appear to have African or North African backgrounds, pointing to France’s colonial history and decades of immigration from French-speaking African countries. His broader argument is that France stopped tracking origins as immigration accelerated, making the scale of the change harder to measure. When you bring in large numbers from places that have long struggled with stability, he argues, the conditions tend to follow. The footage, in his view, simply makes the demographic shift impossible to ignore. Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Lucas

🚨🇺🇸 Palmer Luckey and the man who brought back the dire wolf are building CAPTAIN AMERICA PUPS... $200 million worth of cloned and gene-edited good boys for the Pentagon The problem Warhound is solving is real: the Pentagon runs 2,200 dog teams, buys 80% of them from Europe while bidding against China and Russia for the same litters, and has to purchase 200 dogs to field 100 because the rest wash out with bad hips, bad eyes or cancer. Warhound biobanks the best Malinois and Shepherds that already passed, clones them, edits out the career-ending genes, and straps on Anduril armor, eye and ear protection and goggles tied into its battlefield network so dog, handler and drones share one picture. First dogs in two years, sold as “Canine-as-a-Service,” with the Humane Society certifying training and reuniting retirees with their handlers. Anyone who has worked next to a military dog knows they find what sensors miss and go where machines can’t, and losing half of them to genetics before they deploy is a waste the troops have eaten for decades. Lamm calls it the Captain America dog program. A $1.2 billion valuation for the goodest boys ever made, and WORTH EVERY CENT. Source: TechCrunch / Writer: Daniel

🇨🇱Lightning strikes a LATAM flight mid-air en route to Santiago A blinding flash LIT UP the entire cabin and sent a wave of panic through the passengers. The sudden strike hit amid severe thunderstorms but thankfully the plane landed safely at Santiago Airport. Writer: Bri t.co/XGbB5cjkLK

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump floats renaming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait” and jokes the Atlantic is next😅 “I’m thinking about calling the strait, the Hormuz strait, the Trump strait. We have a gulf. Now I need an ocean and a river. The American Ocean... I’m pleased to announce that on Monday morning, we’ll be changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean.” Writer: Daniel t.co/rJnG8mJAQs

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Eight months of bombing produced the exact Iran Washington said it wanted to prevent: one run by the Revolutionary Guard, with nobody left who can sign a deal A new Carnegie and Brookings assessment counts 17 or 18 of Tehran's 20 most powerful figures as hardliners, most of them Guard veterans, and finds that plenty of them can order an escalation while none has the standing to authorize a concession. The supreme leader who could was killed in the opening weeks. That's the bill for the decapitation strategy, and it's coming due in real time. The vice president admitted to Reuters this month that Washington doesn't know who makes decisions in Tehran. The WSJ reported Thursday that parliament just handed the defense ministry to one of the architects of Iran's ballistic program, and that Iranian officials told mediators the next round means sinking US warships. Pressure was supposed to make the regime bend. It made the regime the Guard, and the Guard doesn't bend. The post-midterm strike plan only works if someone in Tehran can pick up the phone and surrender... which is why Trump keeps saying he went too far, because every new strike kills another man who might have made that call. So who’s left to say uncle? Source: Carnegie Endowment / Brookings / Reuters / WSJ / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Iron Man himself JUMPED in to push Specs AR glasses 😎 Robert Downey Jr. signed on as the face of the new see-through glasses, and developers are already demoing full hologram scenes on Quest 3 that run entirely through Rive’s GPU renderer. The jump from early experiments to something that feels usable is happening faster than expected. Tony Stark did his job here 🔥 Writer: Lucas t.co/c99rDODm9g

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Satellite images show Iran rebuilding its "Eagle 44" mountain airbase 100 miles from Hormuz after three rounds of US strikes... with a new taxiway already paved Planet Labs imagery from late September shows the runway cleared of obstacles, bombed equipment bulldozed off the pavement and fresh concrete leading into the ridge tunnels where Phantoms, drones and possibly cruise missiles are stored. The tunnel entrances look intact. The Pentagon has never named the base; Iran has never admitted it was hit. Hegseth said in April the air force was "wiped out" and the missile program "functionally destroyed." Both can be true about March and still miss what's happening now: 50 of 69 struck tunnel entrances were reportedly cleared by May, a Western official told Bloomberg this month Iran is "well-stocked" with missiles, and Tehran is spending scarce concrete on a base for a fleet Trump says no longer exists. Either the regime is building for show, or the strike plan for November is about to find out what's behind those doors. Source: The War Zone / Planet Labs / Writer: Daniel