🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Azerbaijani President Aliyev about the plane downing: "For the first three days, all we heard nothing but nonsense from Russia."

Plenković live response

🇺🇸 - Musk asks X users to "post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform."

🇰🇷 - 179 confirmed dead in today's Jeju Air South Korean plane crash — NYT

🇵🇱 🇧🇾- Poland intends to seal off, entirely close border with Belarus

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Former Russian national football team player Alexey Bugayev killed in action in Ukraine.

My position on geopolitics is basically: We need to win the cold war with the US foreign adversaries, but WW3 cannot be won and should never be fought.

🇻🇦🇺🇦 - A member of the Ukrainian radical feminist organization FEMEN broke through the barriers and tried to steal the baby Christ statue from the Christmas installation at St Peter's Square in Vatican.

The evil plan failed, the statue was saved, Police arrested the criminal.

🇮🇱 - Surgery underway.

🇳🇴🇷🇺 - Norwegian vessel Oslo Carrier 3 owned by the Norwegian company Oslo Bulk, which was in close proximity of the exploded Russian ship Ursa Major in the Mediterranean, refused to take the fleeing Russian sailors aboard.

Its parent company Oboronlogistika claims, Ursa Major sank due to a terrorist attack. While some sailors perished, most crew members escaped on a small boat. Oslo Carrier 3 was close enough to tie that boat to their own vessel, however, they refused to rescue the Russians.

Its happening.

⚡️⚡️⚡️🇺🇸 - 13 prison guards and 1 prison nurse fired and under investigation for taking turns beating and torturing a 43yo inmate named Robert L. Brooks in Oneida County, New York.

The incident led to Mr. Brooks' death and was filmed. This is likely to be the next big story in the US media exposing police and security officers' overreach in the nation plagued by racial tensions.

Readers are invited to watch parts of the actual footage.

🇺🇸 - Time of death was approximately 3:40 PM local time today. Chip Carter, Jimmy Carter's son, reported on his death.

CNN with some great coverage of an NBA star getting burglared.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 - One might wonder why is that a big deal that a Norwegian ship didn't save the Russian sailors, even though it had to according to the international rules.

However, keep in mind that an insane number of airlines fly over Russia. Many fly from or to the US. Their passenger jets are full of the American citizens.

And the only thing that mandates Russia to let them land in case of emergency are the international rules.

Recent examples:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/passengers-stranded-russia-air-india-flight-emergency-landing-rcna88093

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-bound-air-india-plane-makes-emergency-landing-moscow-2024-09-04/

https://www.reuters.com/world/air-india-boeing-plane-bound-san-francisco-lands-russia-2024-07-18/