| 🇺🇳🇵🇸 South Africa welcomed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But SA’s expectation of the UNSC to enforce it will likely be met with disappointment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office slammed the US decision to abstain on the vote. |
| 🍊💰 Donald Trump has promised to cough up a much-reduced fraud trial bond of $175-million. The Monday decision reduced Trump’s original $454-million bond, and he has now vowed to pay within 10 days. Perhaps a new line of MAGA sneakers dropping in three, two, one… |
| 🇷🇺💀 Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged that the deadly Moscow concert hall attack was carried out by Islamic militants. Nonetheless, Russia’s dictator was still keen to imply that Ukraine had a role. France has echoed the US in stating that all intelligence suggests it was Islamic militants alone who carried out the attack. |
| 🏴📱 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned social media for all kids under 14. Meta and TikTok-related platforms are all off-limits, with 14 and 15-year-olds requiring parental permission, after the new bill. |
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