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Bloc members, especially Brazil, have replaced the EU as Moscow’s top buyers, according to the fertilizer producers’ union Russian fertilizer exports to BRICS nations have surged over 60% in the past three years and the country is ready to further expand production to meet growing demand across the bloc, Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers (RAFP), told the BRICS Business Forum in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.Until 2022, the European Union was Russia’s top fertilizer buyer, accounting for about 28% of its exports. But following the escalation in Ukraine and the resulting wave of EU and…

The country produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the secretary-general has said Russia’s military production is dwarfing that of NATO, Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned, urging Western nations to ramp up defense spending.In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Rutte sounded the alarm about Russia’s military capabilities, noting that the country is “reconstituting itself at a pace and a speed which is unparalleled in recent history.”He said Moscow is “producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a…

Texas Man Killed After Ambushing Border Patrol Agents with Rifle and Tactical Gear (photos via Bill Melugin on X) A man was shot and killed this morning after he ambushed Border Patrol agents, armed with a rifle and tactical gear, outside of a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. This comes after a Texas police officer was shot and wounded in the neck late Friday night in an apparent ambush attack by an armed group outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, located just south of Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas Police Officer Shot and Wounded in Apparent Ambush Attack by Armed…

Poland has activated border controls at dozens of crossing points with Germany and Lithuania, apparently after being embarrassed by citizen vigilantes taking on border defence roles themselves where they said the government had failed. Polish border guard teams, reinforced by local police and soldiers, stood post at 52 crossing points along the German border and a further 13 with Lithuania in the early hours of Monday morning amid the enactment of temporary border controls. The controls are due to last 30 days, but the Polish government hasn’t ruled out extending them. The checks come amid a growing disagreement between Berlin…

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Saturday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” that President Donald Trump was implementing mass deportation in an attempt to “bleach America.” Wasserman Schultz said, “Again, more Trump lies, more people being thrown into a dire situation where many of them will ultimately die when they’re deported back to countries like Venezuela and Haiti, which clearly don’t have conditions in which it is safe or a place that has the environment to take people back. In Haiti, that is a country that is overrun by gangs and essentially is a failed state, and in Venezuela, you have…

A few weeks ago, my POLITICO colleague Nicholas Wu and NBC’s Sahil Kapur ran into D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in the Capitol. Like good congressional reporters, they jumped at the opportunity to pepper a lawmaker about the news of the day. In this case, one question concerned Norton herself, a civil rights icon who is now the oldest House member: Would she run for another term next year, by which point she would be 89 years old? “Yeah, sure,” Norton said. Coming on the heels of multiple stories about Norton’s alleged cognitive decline, the statement made news. But a…

The US president’s decision to increase the budget deficit instead of cutting costs was the last straw, the tech tycoon has said US President Donald Trump’s decision to increase the budget deficit instead of cutting costs has prompted Elon Musk to oppose Trump’s policies, the tech tycoon has said.Musk made the comments in a thread on X when asked by a user what prompted him to go from “loving” Trump “as much as a straight man can” to opposing the president and attacking his policies.“Increasing the deficit from an already insane $2 [trillion] under Biden to $2.5T. This will bankrupt…

The place where the Magic Seas was attacked, near Yemen’s largest port/ Image Credit UKMTO. For the first time since the US-Houthis deal was announced in May, a merchant vessel has been attacked in the Red Sea near the Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah. Yesterday (6), the Magic Seas, a Greek-operated bulk carrier, was first hit by small arms gunfire, then attacked with drones and missiles in the Red Sea. The vessel’s crew were forced to abandon the vessel and were rescued by a passing ship, maritime security firms said, in an attack confirmed by UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and…

The Irish government is reportedly set to reject demands from the European Union to implement hate speech legislation after Dublin abandoned plans to do so last year. In September of last year, the Irish government scrapped plans to criminalise so-called hate speech in its Criminal Justice Bill, which would have allowed the state to send someone to prison for up to five years for “incitement to hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics”. The move to abandon the controversial section of the bill came as Justice Minister Helen McEntee admitted that it did “not have a consensus” among…

ECAULT BEACH, France (AP) – Across the English Channel, the U.K.’s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and determination in their eyes can see the shoreline of what they believe will be a promised land as they attempt the perilous crossing clandestinely, ditching belongings to squeeze aboard flimsy inflatable boats that set to sea from northern France. In a flash, on one recent crossing attempt, French police swooped in with knives, wading into the water and slashing the boat’s thin rubber – literally deflating the migrants’ hopes and dreams. Some of the…